Rex Trulove
I thought I’d include a picture of Pastor Chuck, our senior pastor, as a final image of this set. Prior to becoming a youth pastor, then associate pastor, and finally the senior pastor, Chuck was a bank manager for some time and also a reserve deputy for a time.
However, almost 20 years ago, he married a woman named Krista Sinclair. Krista’s father was Pastor Jim Sinclair, who was the senior pastor of Church on the Move here; our church. Jim was also a very big man, a muscular former timber faller who stood 6 foot 8 inches and weighed about 260, mostly muscle. Chuck was quite intimidated by Jim before he got to know Jim. Jim was the sweetest, kindest, gentlest, most God-fearing man you could hope to meet.
It was with Jim’s encouragement that Chuck started his walk in the ministry. Early in 2017, Jim retired from the ministry and Chuck was elevated to Senior Pastor. It was a tumultuous time for Chuck and he was tested early. In November 2017, shortly after Jim’s 62nd birthday, Jim passed away. There was profound sadness in our community, across the nation, and even the world by everyone who knew him. The loss was for ourselves, though, because Jim went home and that was something he had looked forward to with joyful anticipation.
It was under Pastor Jim’s loving guidance that I started the flower bed project and it is under Pastor Chuck’s that I continue.
Incidentally, Pastor Chuck is 44. He and Krista had their fourth child last year; a miracle baby. Doctors had told Krista that she couldn’t have any more kids, that it was an impossibility, and that she was too old to bear another, anyway. God clearly had other plans and fulfilled a promise he’d made to both Chuck and Krista; two girls and two boys. They only had two girls and a boy at the time, now they have two of each. Their eldest daughter is 18, if I’m not mistaken, so it is quite an age spread.
