I have a heavy heart right now. I just found out a couple of hours ago that my dear, beloved youth minister, John Austin Smith, passed away unexpectedly. I am not sure of the details yet as it happened in the U.S. and I am at work in Korea, and all I can gather is information from Facebook, etc. but as I understand it he had been having some heart problems, went to sleep and had a heart attack in his sleep. He was only 43 years old. Please pray for his sweet mother, Elizabeth, and for the innumerable people who knew him and loved him. I have so much emotion within me right now and so many memories of John that I don't have time to put down at the moment, but I will write another post soon dedicated to him. Here is a great photo of John with two other dear friends in ministry, Toni and Laketa. I don't know if I have any photos of John and I together with me here in Korea, but I will look when I get home tonight. If any of you have some, would you be able to scan them and email them to me? Thanks, friends.~Leslie
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Amber emailed me the news. I was sad to learn of his passing. I know a lot of people will miss him. I am planning on pulling out the old photo albums while the kids are taking a nap today and reminiscing about some of the old youth group times together. I will try to email you some if I have some of you guys together.
I looked through my old albums. I hadn't looked at them in a long time! There are some group shots of us (we sure were dorky) and John. What church was he at now? I can't think of the name, but was't it another church in San Diego?
I was just wondering the other day if Seth was going to see him in a few weeks at Pepperdine, they have run into each other there before.
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