Funeral Service Message

Hello Family and Friends,

We would like to thank everyone once again for their support, prayers, cards, and flowers during this time of mourning. This blog meant a lot to dad and its contents will remain up as long as they can.

Dad also requested that the funeral message and eulogies be posted. The link is below.

http://heritagereformed.org:81/sermonlibrary/content/index.asp?sort=&preacherfilter=all&locationfilter=Chilliwack%20CRC

Thank you,
Jeremy Van Woerden

Obituary and Funeral Details

Family and Friends,

We have finalized the details for Dad's funeral. They can be found in the obituary link below.

http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=%22John%22+Johannes-Van+Woerden&lc=3150&pid=166040747&mid=5613054&locale=en_CA

Dad's Request

Jeremy here again.

While dad was still able, he wrote a series of messages for his friends and family and requested that I post them following his passing. They are all posted below.

Thank you again for your love, prayers, and support.

Obituary

Johannes Cornelis (John) van Woerden

Born: November 15, 1953 in Lisse, The Netherlands

Passed away July 24, 2013 in Chilliwack, B.C. Canada

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18



At last, the Glory of the Lord shall be revealed.

And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. Isaiah 40:5

Dearly beloved readers, friends, family and loved ones and those who read my blog and preferred to remain anonymous. Thank you for your support, encouragements, prayers and visits and many other ways you showed your love during my time of illness and throughout my life. The time has come to say farewell, I prayed that we will meet again at resurrection morning, the day when Gods glory will be revealed in all splendor, beauty and majesty. Please continue to pray for my loved ones, Henrietta, our children and grandchildren. May the God of peace provide you with every good thing you need in order to do His will, and may He, through Jesus Christ, do in you what pleases Him. To Jesus Christ be all the glory forever and ever!
John

Philippians 1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 

 

 

Born Again to a Living Hope

 

1 Peter 1: 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 5 who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, 7 so that the tested genuineness of your faith--more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire--may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 8Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, 9 obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.   

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 JOHN NEWTON (1725-1807): Imagine a number of ships at different times and from different places, bound to the same port. There are some things in which all would agree—the compass steered by, the port in view, the general rules of navigation, would be the same for all. In other respects they would differ. Perhaps no two of them would meet with the same distribution of winds and weather. Some we see set out with a favourable wind; but when they almost think their passage secured, they are checked by adverse blasts. After enduring much hardship and danger, and frequent expectations of shipwreck, they barely escape and reach the desired haven. Others meet with the greatest difficulties at first. They put forth in a storm, and are often beaten back; at length their voyage proves favourable, and they enter the port with a rich and abundant entrance. Some are hard beset with cruisers and enemies, and obliged to fight their way through. Others meet with little remarkable in their passage.
Is it not thus in the spiritual life? All true believers walk by the same rule, and mind the same things: the Word of God is their compass; Jesus is both their polar star and their sun of righteousness; their hearts and their faces are all set Zion-ward. They are as one body, animated by one spirit; yet their experience, formed upon these common principles, is far from being uniform. The Lord in His first call, and His following dispensations, regards the situation, temper and talents of each, and the particular services and trials He has appointed for them. All are exercised at times, yet some pass through the voyage of life much more smoothly than others.
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The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you all.

Amen.

John Van Woerden

 

Dedicated to my dear wife Henrietta

The Way of Love

1 Corinthians 13:4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.  

 

With my deepest love to you, I leave you in God's care because He cares for you.

John

 

God will provide

 

Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. Psalm 37:5

 

Dedicated to my dear daugther Sophia and Damon

John 3:16"For God so loved the world,that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

 

With my deepest love.

Dad

 

 

Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. 1Peter 5:7

 

1. Days are filled with sorrow and care,
Hearts are lonely and drear.
Burdens are lifted at Calvary,
Jesus is very near.

CHORUS:
Burdens are lifted at Calvary, Calvary, Calvary;
Burdens are lifted at Calvary, Jesus is very near.

2. Cast your care on Jesus today,
Leave your worry and fear.
Burdens are lifted at Calvary,
Jesus is very near.

3. Troubled soul, the Savior can feel
Every heartache and tear.
Burdens are lifted at Calvary,
Jesus is very near.