[Oe List ...] Leith Fisher passing

[Len Hockley]

Sad news!  Especially for those who had assignments to Scotland.  Leith 
Fisher was killed in a tragic cycle accident.

You can send your condolences to Nonie at Nonie Fisher 
<m.fisher023 at btinternet.com>

Len

>The Community was stunned and saddened to hear the news of the sudden 
>death of Leith Fisher, on March 13. Leith Fisher was a Church of Scotland 
>minister, a hymn writer and author of Will You Follow Me?: Exploring the 
>Gospel of Mark, and The Widening Road ­ from Bethlehem to Emmaus: 
>Exploring the Gospel of Luke (Scottish Christian Press). He was a Member 
>of the Iona Community for over 40 years.
>
>David Lunan, Moderator of the Church of Scotland, wrote in his blog on the 
>Church of Scotland website:
>
>'
 Leith influenced me towards the ministry when I was a student in 
>Glasgow, he married us 35 years ago during the time Leith and I worked 
>together in Calton, and we have been close friends of Leith and Nonie all 
>our married lives. Leith was my minister and confidant when I was Clerk at 
>Glasgow Presbytery; he served on countless Church committees, wrote hymns 
>which are included in CH4, published commentaries on the gospels, and gave 
>his whole life to the service of God. No one was more highly regarded as a 
>parish minister; he was a wonderful preacher and the most caring of pastors.
>
>I will forever be grateful for what I learned from Leith, grateful that he 
>gave the charges at my ordination, and that we were friends and 
>soul-mates. He was universally liked and respected, in every sense a 
>minister's minister, a true servant of the Church, and a man of God.
>
>And he was very much a family man. Please hold Nonie and all the Fisher 
>family in your prayers as they come to terms with the passing of a 
>wonderful husband and father and grandfather, a brother and a friend and a 
>brother in Christ.'
>
>
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