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One Piece of Paper
By Jennifer McClure | August 19, 2008
Take a sheet of paper. Not the length or width, but observe the thickness of that paper. Now imagine the distance from the piece of paper and the next room, the street outside, the next city. The distance, as far as you can imagine, is like eternity, whereas our lifespan is like the thickness of that piece of paper. Joe Zickafoose would often use this illustration to teach the concept of eternity and how our lives truly are but a vapor. Today, many gathered to celebrate Joe’s thin sheet of paper.
It was only for a few short years I had the blessing of being involved in a Chi Alpha under Joe’s leadership. Joe amazed us weekly at XA with his ability to communicate in an easy-to-understand-way wonderfully deep spiritual and Scriptural truths. With all the seriousness that comes with addressing such issues, Joe balanced it all with a great sense of humor and a love to have fun and to laugh. With hundreds in attendance, today’s funeral only confirmed what I had previously believed to be true: Joe’s life — only 50 years long — was one well lived and one that impacted hundreds for Christ, inspiring many to pursue full-time, vocational ministry.
Most recently Joe was an Assemblies of God missionary to Scotland, working at a local church and on the campus of the University of Aberdeen. Before he answered God’s call to the foreign mission field, he was my Chi Alpha campus pastor. I’m so thankful for having had the privilege to know Joe and am so grateful for the impact he made on me and especially that which he had on my friends who came to know Christ because of him. Now in his absence, I pray the Holy Spirit comfort and bless his wife, Jayne, and their two sons.
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