The Front Row Seat to Glory

I post this today in honor of my friends Stan and Gigi Horrell. Their lovely daughter Heidi moved into heaven three years ago today. I interviewed them at ACF a year after her death, and needless to say it rocked our church. Below is the blog I wrote about Heidi and the interview. There’s a link in it as well to the interview. God is good.

This past weekend at our church, I interviewed my good friends Stan and Gigi Horrell. Stan is a missionary with Mission Discovery, an organization on whose board I serve. Stan and Gigi buried their daughter Heidi a year ago on January 11th. She died of cancer. Stan and Gigi were kind enough to spend the weekend talking about sweet Heidi, her life and death, and God’s presence in both.

Heidi Horrell, at age 26, about a year before she was diagnosed with cancer

This was a weekend I won’t soon forget. Through the raw emotion have having only a year to process their loss, Stan and Gigi shared both courageously and beautifully about how they have seen God in their daughter’s passing. Stan called their journey a “divine nightmare” and a “front row seat to glory.”

Heidi, after she had started her chemo treatments, with her new friend Shaquille O’Neil, at a Houston area Starbucks

The interview is both moving and inspiring. You can listen to it or watch it HERE. Just click the January 30th message. My thanks to Stan and Gigi for their authenticity, obedience and faithfulness. You can learn more about Mission Discovery and our work at missiondiscovery.com.