Dear Sister Jenny and family,
Please again accept my condolences for your loss, I cannot begin to comprehend the magnitude of your grief and sorrow.
I’ve had the privilege of knowing Bro. Steve as Pastor, brother and friend for 40 years. Whenever I needed counsel or advice, I went to Bro. Steve, knowing that he would seek the face of the Lord on my behalf, and relay God’s direction to me. Whenever I needed prayer regarding matters of serious concern, or seemingly impossible situations, I went to Bro. Steve, knowing that God would hear him, and He did, delivering me again and again out of difficult circumstances and blessing me in accordance with Bro Steve’s supplications; I probably owe all that I am and have to Bro. Steve’s prayers.
Not only did he love me dearly, as he expressed in many messages, he loved my family too and often enquired after their welfare – never have I known such a man, and nor am I likely too, truly he was one of a small handful of special God-men given to this generation.
The last message I received from Bro. Steve was on 16th June 2021:
“And a man that’s got the Spirit of God in him or a woman, lives that Word, lives right out of them. That’s the heartbeat, the predestinated, for the Word of the Lord comes to them, and they are the Word to the people…Could the Third Pull be on?” Souls in Prison par. 342-343. We are the heartbeat. How glorious. Have a blessed day. Love you.”
Truly Bro. Steve exemplified this quotation, he was God’s heartbeat, full of love for the Word, the Church and all humanity.
In closing, I would like to mention a scarce-found God-like characteristic he possessed and portrayed: no matter how badly any person had fallen, or “mess” they had gotten into, or disappointed him, Bro. Steve’s door and heart was always open to them, caring only for their reconciliation to God, without any judgement or recrimination – he was truly a man with the heart of God for the people!
I miss him sorely.
Bro. David Vagle
