I regret that I cannot be with you in person today to be a part of this memorial service for such a highly honored handmaiden of the Lord! My schedule made attendance with you impossible. However, I do appreciate Dr. Harold Dalton reading this letter to you on my behalf personally and on behalf of the IPHC corporately. I wanted to write and express the great love and the deep, abiding appreciation of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church for this outstanding warrior who has at last laid down her sword and shield.
Sister Fannie Lowe was one of the few people I personally have known who literally became a legend in her own time! From 1958 when she responded to God's call and went to Hong Kong, her heart's desire has been to pour out her life as a drink offering sacrifice to the Lord on behalf of the Chinese people. This she has done and as a result could say to her Master before being summoned home, "I have fought a good fight, I have kept the faith, I have run with patience the race set before me; the time of my departure is at hand. I am ready now to be offered or "Poured Out!"
Sister Lowe did not leave here carrying anything with her, she poured it all out before she left. She, like Mary Magdalene and the alabaster box, gave the best that she had in her life of devotion to Jesus and its fragrance has filled the atmosphere both in America and in Hong Kong.
Rev. Fannie Lowe will always be remembered as a gracious, diligent, generous,
self-sacrificing, committed, dedicated, humble yet powerful servant of God. In the words of Jesus, she, out of the good treasures of her good heart hath brought forth good things!" This she has done in an unparallelled way!
Missionary par excel-lance, Fannie Lowe has earned the never-ending love, the undying devotion, and the heart-felt honor of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church. We salute her today and honor her memory. May she, like Sampson, accomplish even more in her death than she did in her life!
Sincerely,
Dr. Ronald W. Carpenter, Sr.
Presiding Bishop of the IPHC
Posted on
Thu, May 19, 2011
by Hugh Morgan