Showing posts with label sonja kramers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sonja kramers. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Citizen-Times
Here is an article in today's Citizen-Times about Sonja's death:http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080429/NEWS01/80428081/1009
Monday, April 28, 2008
Sonja details
1) The funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 3rd, at St. Barnabas Catholic Church (109 Crescent View Drive in Arden ,off Hendersonville Hwy/U.S. 25, 1/2 mile south of Airport Rd.);
2) Additionally on Sunday evening, May 4th, at 8 p.m. there will be a more informal gathering, a bonfire and little memorial service, at Happy Tails , 1984 Cane Creek Road in Fletcher. Someone from Grace Community Church will be coming to speak;
3) In lieu of flowers the family has asked that donations be made to Young life because of Sonja’s love, dedication and involvement with the Roberson chapter of Young Life.
If you would like to make a donation to Asheville Young Life, please write in the memo line: NC20/Sonja Kramers.
You can send a donation to:
Young Life of Asheville
199-A Elkwood Avenue
Asheville, NC 28804
2) Additionally on Sunday evening, May 4th, at 8 p.m. there will be a more informal gathering, a bonfire and little memorial service, at Happy Tails , 1984 Cane Creek Road in Fletcher. Someone from Grace Community Church will be coming to speak;
3) In lieu of flowers the family has asked that donations be made to Young life because of Sonja’s love, dedication and involvement with the Roberson chapter of Young Life.
If you would like to make a donation to Asheville Young Life, please write in the memo line: NC20/Sonja Kramers.
You can send a donation to:
Young Life of Asheville
199-A Elkwood Avenue
Asheville, NC 28804
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Sonja
We still don't have many details about funeral arrangements for Sonja, but I would like to ask for prayers for our friends, high school and beyond that are having a hard time losing someone like Sonja from their life.
One of my friends, in particular; saw Sonja only moments before the accident. She was working in Sonja's business Happy Tails Country Club to open up the kennel and take care of the dogs in the morning.
She is devastated as Sonja was 1) her friend, 2) mentor 3) an adult who took a risk with her business to hire a high school student.
But that was just like Sonja. She always hired high school kids to help them raise money for camp, she hosted YL events on the property, she was a giver. We will miss her presence in our community because it is so rare to find someone who unfailingly believed in what we do in Young Life. She gave with her time, money and energy to bring people to feet of Christ, mostly through the way that she lived her life.
She was 39 years old.
She was hoping to get engaged to her boyfriend Jamie.
She is now in Heaven.
Matt continues to remind me and those around us that although we are sad, Sonja is not. Her life is an example of the love of Christ and the truth that you can not know the impact that you had on people's lives until you are gone. You can hope, you can persevere. But you just don't know how you touch people until they can no longer tell you.
I am hoping to get more details today on how Sonja's life and legacy will be celebrated. Thank you for praying and for keeping us and our friends in your thoughts.
One more request, Becca (who got married on Saturday) was VERY close with Sonja. She worked at Happy Tails several times a month. She still does not know that Sonja has died. Please pray for her and her heart because this will be very difficult to deal with, especially since Sonja died on her wedding day.
One of my friends, in particular; saw Sonja only moments before the accident. She was working in Sonja's business Happy Tails Country Club to open up the kennel and take care of the dogs in the morning.
She is devastated as Sonja was 1) her friend, 2) mentor 3) an adult who took a risk with her business to hire a high school student.
But that was just like Sonja. She always hired high school kids to help them raise money for camp, she hosted YL events on the property, she was a giver. We will miss her presence in our community because it is so rare to find someone who unfailingly believed in what we do in Young Life. She gave with her time, money and energy to bring people to feet of Christ, mostly through the way that she lived her life.
She was 39 years old.
She was hoping to get engaged to her boyfriend Jamie.
She is now in Heaven.
Matt continues to remind me and those around us that although we are sad, Sonja is not. Her life is an example of the love of Christ and the truth that you can not know the impact that you had on people's lives until you are gone. You can hope, you can persevere. But you just don't know how you touch people until they can no longer tell you.
I am hoping to get more details today on how Sonja's life and legacy will be celebrated. Thank you for praying and for keeping us and our friends in your thoughts.
One more request, Becca (who got married on Saturday) was VERY close with Sonja. She worked at Happy Tails several times a month. She still does not know that Sonja has died. Please pray for her and her heart because this will be very difficult to deal with, especially since Sonja died on her wedding day.
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