The Roseville, California
Police Department recently
posted a plea on
Facebook asking
the public for help to locate a missing elderly woman. The police
explained that the woman, Glenneta Bedford, age 97, suffers from
dementia and is mostly non-verbal. “Recently she's been known to hide
or hunker down in a location,” was another point in the post.
Some children in Roseville learned about
the search and decided to conduct a search of their own.
Logan Hultman, Kashton Claiborne and
Makenna Rogers, who are all 10, and 11-year-old Hope Claiborne set
out in their surrounding neighborhoods searching for Bedford. They
eventually found her a few blocks away from their homes, hiding in some
bushes.
“She was right here and she was walking
and she was talking to herself. And then when we came, she said, ‘No,
no, no. Go away, go away, go away,'" Kashton told FOX40.
Hope reported their find. “I called 911
and I said that I found this missing woman,” she
told FOX40.
Thanks to these junior detectives, the
police were able to post an update just a little over two hours after
Bedord had been reported missing:
the
missing person has been located. She is safe and has been reunited with
her family. Many thanks to the public for their assistance in locating
her.”
Logan’s mother, Alyssa Hultman, asked her son why he and his friends
responded to the call to search for the missing woman. “He looked at me
like I was almost crazy and said, ‘Because somebody needed help, Mom.
And when people need help, you go and help them. That’s what we do,’”
Hultman told FOX40.
When
Jesus saw the multitudes, “He was moved with compassion for them,
because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd”
(Matthew 9:36). Jesus saw that people were lost and could not find
their way. That describes our condition in our sins: we are lost.
But
that’s why Jesus came to us. “For the Son of Man has come to seek and
to save that which was lost” (Luke 19:10). In order to save us, Jesus
had to give His life for our sins so that we might have forgiveness and
receive the gift of eternal life (John 3:16; 10:17-18).
God
will save and give eternal life to those who place their
faith
and trust in Jesus (Acts
16:30-31), turn from their sins in
repentance
(Acts 17:30-31),
confess
Jesus before men (Romans 10:9-10), and are
baptized
(immersed) into Christ for
the forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38). He will continue to cleanse from
sin those who continue to walk in the light of His Word (1 John 1:7-9).
When
we were lost in our sins, Jesus came to find us and save us. That’s
what love does.
Don’t
“miss” the opportunity to be “found” by Him. Surrender your life to the
Good Shepherd. He will lead you home.
-- David A. Sargent
* Information gleaned from “California
'team of junior detectives' help find missing 97-year-old woman with
dementia” by Travis Fedschun of Fox News, www.foxnews.com
David A. Sargent,
Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
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