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| Lifting Up Military Families—CC Bangor, Maine |
Nine-year-old Michael Kervin was not himself. His mother, Lisa, had noticed that her son’s normally quiet, easygoing demeanor had been replaced by a short fuse, and he was lashing out at his little sister, Lizzy.
She suspected her husband’s recent deployment to Iraq was the reason. Serving in the Army Reserves on a helicopter Medevac unit, Staff Sgt. Matt Kervin had been overseas several times. Though every deployment was hard, the last time he came home, Matt had gotten sick and had to have a brain tumor removed. After he recovered and received deployment orders again, Matt and Lisa, who have been married for 14 years, were surprised but accepted it as God’s will.
Over the past few weeks, Michael had been asking questions about his father: what would happen if daddy’s helicopter crashed, if he was stranded in Iraq, or if he got sick? That night as the couple talked on the phone, Lisa related their son’s recent behavior and anxieties to her husband.
“Why don’t you ask the pastor to talk to him?” Matt suggested. The next day, Lisa called the office at CC Bangor, ME, and asked if Senior Pastor Ken Graves could speak to her son. That day, Ken walked to the elementary school classrooms on the church grounds and asked to see Michael. As he and the boy walked around the school building, Ken asked how he was doing.
You can find the complete article in the Fall 2008 issue of Calvary Chapel Magazine, which ship soon. To subscribe click here.
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