May 15, 1954-October 19, 2005
Women In Touch Ministries is all about women helping women to be empowered through their personal relationship with Jesus Christ. If ever there was a woman who exemplified exactly that, it was Gail.
Ms. Gail was a woman of integrity, she was honest, loving and a woman of her word. She held you accountable for your words and your actions. She wasn’t about a lot of foolishness and unnecessary mess. Say what you mean, mean what you say, when you are right speak out and when your wrong say so, apologize, forgive, and move on. If you have a problem with someone or something, pray and ask God what you should do, and then do that. She didn’t believe in asking people for a lot of advice, when you could ask God and get the right answer. She believed God had a purpose and a plan when she was diagnosed with cancer. Her mission: seek God for his purpose, follow his plan, let her life be a witness to knowing God and make God known to others.
Gail said God wanted to use her so others can see a living testimony of no excuses: believe, trust, praise and glorify God in all you do, no matter what your condition of existence. Gail loved to laugh and have fun. She loved to eat and she loved to be with and around people. So when you combined praise and worship with food, fellowship and fun that would be her heaven on earth.
Gail had pain, suffering and changes in her body and mind because of the cancer and treatment. But she never let that keep her from serving or praising God with everything she had. She was always ready and willing to help whenever and wherever she could. And she was always ready for a road trip. If we couldn’t get our plans together fast enough she would make up her on travel plans. And if no one else could make plans to go well you know the song “I’ll go if I have to go by myself.”
Gail had so many children I have lost count. She raised more teenagers to adults and adults to be better adults than any of us could ever count. One of those children sent Rev. and Gail an anniversary card this past week to celebrate their 13th year of marriage. In her card she said that Rev. and Gail had taught her one more lesson about love. I really believe that we all could learn a lot from their relationship about real love. One, that Rev. and Gail both loved the Lord, two, that Jeffery loved him some Gail, and three, that Gail loved her some Jeffery. We witness this so much so that we often asked Rev. to give classes in being a good romantic, thoughtful, special dates remembering husband, affectionately named Husbandry 101. Rev. would just laugh it off and tell us we were funny. But later on, probably during a Women In Touch meeting Gail would tell us the secret to having such a wonderful, and romantic husband. If you want a loving, wonderfully, thoughtful, romantic husband, like Jeffery, you would have to be a wonderfully, romantic, giving wife, like Gail. And she would proceed to tell us in detail what to do. Usually the R-rated version. ( With fingers in ears : "2 much information, 2 much information" ). Gag, gag. We are women of God, and as women of God ….. we took notes, detailed notes and asked for graphics and diagrams. Gail loved to make us laugh, she enjoyed a good joke. We love you Gail.
Gail was talented and wrote many songs, poems, special writings for Dear Friends and Family members. We, Women In Touch Ministries, were honored by her love for us, individually and collectively, and she expressed this in the poem she wrote for us that is printed on the program. She also wrote our ministries theme song, Women In Touch. We, the WIT Wives, have learned many lessons through Wiley’s illness. The biggest one we learned is that we need to be together and together we do great, awesome, and miraculous things with God, for God.
Gail was an awesome teacher and as any good teacher will tell you at the end of a lesson there will be a test. Are you ready for your test?1)If you knew Gail raise your right hand (That’s the one that’s not your left hand ).2)If knowing Gail made a difference in your life raise your left hand. (That’s the one that’s not your right hand ).3)If you knew that Gail loved the Lord stand on your feet.4)If Gail’s life witnessed to you about the love of God and the importance of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ your Savior, shout halleluyah, shout glory.
Her mission: seek God for his purpose, follow his plan, let her life be a witness to knowing God and make God known to others. Gail mission accomplished. Amen. Amen. Amen.
Written by Teresa H ( WIT Wife )
This page is dedicated to a very special friend who fought a good fight even to the end. Gail I know you are in a better place and that you are smiling down on your WIT Wives. Thank you for the warmth and love you gave to us all while you were here with us on earth.
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