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<center><font size="+2">'''Missionary surgeon served nearly 50 years in Africa'''</font></center> | |||
<font size="+1">Eshleman helped lay foundation of Tanzanian church</font> | |||
<span style="font-variant:small-caps">'''By Jewel Showalter'''</span> | |||
<font size="1">Eastern Mennonite Missions</font> | |||
LITITZ, Pa. — Friends and family gathered Feb. 14 at Landis Homes' West Bethany Chapel to celebrate the life of J. Lester Eshleman, a missionary, pastor and surgeon. | |||
Eshleman, who served over a span of nearly 50 years in Africa alongside his wife, Lois, died Jan. 18 at age 88. | |||
"We were constantly impressed by his capacity to love, and by his kindness," said Don Jacobs, a fellow missionary with Eastern Mennonite Missions in Tanzania. | |||
Jacobs spoke from Titus 3:4-7, a text Eshleman selected before his death. Eshleman was, as his daughter Charlotte noted at the memorial service, someone who always planned ahead and was an inveterate list maker. | |||
Jacobs said that although Eshleman was known for his training or urologic surgeons in seven African countries and "did more good deeds in a day than the rest of us do in a month," Eshleman knew he was saved not by his good works but by the work that Jesus did on the cross. | |||
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"He became a happy servant of the Love that appeared to him," Jacobs said. "He had binocular vision. With one eye he probed the body, with the other, the soul." | |||
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Revision as of 08:41, 1 September 2011
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2009 Mar 9 p. 7
Birth date: 1921
text of obituary:
Eshleman helped lay foundation of Tanzanian church
By Jewel Showalter
Eastern Mennonite Missions
LITITZ, Pa. — Friends and family gathered Feb. 14 at Landis Homes' West Bethany Chapel to celebrate the life of J. Lester Eshleman, a missionary, pastor and surgeon.
Eshleman, who served over a span of nearly 50 years in Africa alongside his wife, Lois, died Jan. 18 at age 88.
"We were constantly impressed by his capacity to love, and by his kindness," said Don Jacobs, a fellow missionary with Eastern Mennonite Missions in Tanzania.
Jacobs spoke from Titus 3:4-7, a text Eshleman selected before his death. Eshleman was, as his daughter Charlotte noted at the memorial service, someone who always planned ahead and was an inveterate list maker.
Jacobs said that although Eshleman was known for his training or urologic surgeons in seven African countries and "did more good deeds in a day than the rest of us do in a month," Eshleman knew he was saved not by his good works but by the work that Jesus did on the cross.
"He became a happy servant of the Love that appeared to him," Jacobs said. "He had binocular vision. With one eye he probed the body, with the other, the soul."