Condolences

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On behalf of the entire Bruce Family, I would just like to thank you very much for all your messages of sympathy and prayers of support. The thougts, the poems, the cards, the words, the encouragement has been tremendous.

To Bishop John Francis, Ruach Ministries, your help has been obtrusively undeniable. All I can say is...I'm glad I belong to one of best churches in the UK!!!! To Marcia Walder-Thomas, Lorna Rhomes (my childhood friend and prophetess) , to Min Nicky Brown, to Jonathon Beckford (our folks go back a looooong way), and to all the musicians and choir. You all were so great words are not enough...The hospitality team, and particularly Beryl Roberts, I salute you and give God praise for your committment, strength and wisdonm in dealing with everything the day threw at you!!

To the Aylesbury Assemblyand the abiding spiritual home of my father, thank you all for your efforts. It was noticeably a blessing.

To Bishop Wright and all those from First Born including Pastor Lavena and Pastor Francis in Walthamstow. Your love in life and in death has been immeasurable. Great shall your reward be.

BishopVaughan, thank you sir for you willingness to help in whatever way was necessary. You were there for my father in the good times and the bad times and we will never forget you. We may have lost a father but you have gained a son (in fact a whole new family!:o). Pastor Russell, Pastor Stapelton and all the saints from MCOGIC Bedford, Northampton, and Wellingborough and to your wonderful choir, thank you so much.

To so many many Pastors and ministers who came to pay their respects, Pastor Thomas (Slough), Pastor Williams COGIC, Bishop Blake COGIC, Elder Wallace COGIC, Pastor and Co-Pastor Crossfield (Southall), Pastor V. T Williams, the list goes on. To God be the glory for you all. Your presence was forceful, your praise magnaminous and your support admirable.

To our wonderful chef and family friend from our 2nd family Irene Campbell. We thank you so much for your cuisine. Sent from heaven to satisfy us with your soul food. Thank you my dear sister. May God continue to bless those hands of yours.

To all our guest artists who helped to lift spirits at the singspration, Nicole Crossfield, Claudette Stephenson, Voices with Soul (Campbells), Pastor Daniel Brown, Marcia Walder-Thomas, we salute you all. Thank you for lending us your voices and gifts that we might thank God for the gift he gave to us in the person of Overseer Bruce.

For everybody who helped, eveybody who prayed, everybody who came, everybody that left an encouraging word, we thank you.

Some were able to come others were unable but we thank you for all you have said and done on our behalf.

May God cause his face to shine upon you always and keep you in perfect peace till he comes.

THE MESSAGE LIVES ON

Blessings

Pastor Paul Bruce
for and on behalf of the entire BRUCE family.

Dear Paul, Yvonne & Family.

Sorry we can't be with you but our thoughts are with you at this time. We send our sincere condolences and we pray that God will continue to strenghthen you. It's never easy losing a Father, Grandfather and Great Grandfather but we know that he has passed on his wisdom and experiece, which will be prevalent through future generations. May God be with you and we will see you, when we get back.

p.s. your Godson sends his love and best thoughts for you.

Dear Paul and Yvonne,

Though death of a loved one leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal and while we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.

Our deepest condolonces to the Bruce family on the loss of an upstanding Patriarch Overseer R E Bruce, may the Love and Peace of God continue to console and strenghen you as you go through this season of mourning for we know he is in the arms of our Lord.

Courtland and Jackie

Dear Pastor Paul & family

Please accept our sincere condolences for the loss of your father. We pray that you find perfect peace in the arms of Jesus. Bruce your father has left a great legacy in you, a faithful man of God, evidence that he led a successful life. Here's a poem Jess wrote for you.
LOSING A DAD
CAN MAKE YOU WEEP,
TEARS ON YOUR PILLOW
HARD TO SLEEP.
BUT MEMORIES OVERCOME
THE SADENED NIGHTS,
AS THE JOY OF THE LORD
PUTS UP A FIGHT,
THAT KEEPS YOUR MIND
ON THE HEAVENLY CLAIM
THAT YOUR SAD LOSS
IS HEAVEN'S GAIN.
WEEP NO MORE
BE PATIENT PLEASE WAIT
FOR THE DAY YOU MEET AGAIN
AT HEAVENS GATES
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God bless and keep you!

We would like to express our deepest condolence and sympathy with the Bruce family at the passing of Overseer Bruce. Without doubt, he was a man who loved God and expressed this, firstly, through his devotion to his family, and to the ministry of the saints. May his memory and legacy live on in the lives of his family and through each of the lives his passion for Christ touched.

Overseer Bruce has achieved that which we all aspire to be - Safe in His arms.

Although we cannot be there in person at the Home Going and Graduation Service, our thoughts and prayers are with you.

Dear Pastor Bruce & Family,
So sorry for your loss. My thoughts and prayers are with you all at this time, and may God's peace that passess all understanding keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
Love Sam :)

Dear Paul,Yvonne and Family,
I would like to express my deepest sympathy to you all at this sad time. May you all be comforted,strengthened and uplifted by the everlasting arms of Jesus.
Love from Grace

Don't think of him as gone away
His journey has just begun
God saw he was getting tiredand
in pain and a cure was not to be
So he wrapped him in his arms
and wispered come to me

A golden heart stopped beating
Hard working hands at rest
God broke our hearts to prove to us
He only takes the best.

My thoughts and prayers are with you Paul, my dear friend Avery and all your family at this time. I have fond memories of your dear Dad, Pastor Bruce especially when he pastored the church in Aylesbury. May his soul rest in eternal peace.

Dear Pastor Bruce & Family

The sorrow of the faithful
is not that of permanent loss,
but the tender sense of sadness
that comes in saying good-bye for now
to someone we love.
May today's sorrow give way
to the peace and
comfort of God's love.

My prayer is with you.

Dear Pastor Bruce,
On behalf of my family I would like to express our deepest sympathy to you and all yours for your sad loss. We trust that the hope of a reunion in glory would comfort you at this time.
THE SWARAY'S

Sincere condolences to Pastor Paul Bruce and family at the passing of Overseer H E Bruce,
from colleagues in Faiths Together in Lambeth.

Hi Pastor Bruce & Minister Yvonne

My condolences goes out to you and your family. Pastor Bruce although I didnot know your father.....looking at you he has left behind a vessel that will continues what he has started.
I read a book about 5 years ago written by Theresa Cerullo and I can remembered she was giving a tesimony about a woman has a son that has been a missionary for many years. Labouring on the forieign field until his health broke broke. Not long he returned home, he died.

“Why, God? ” the mother asked. Why so many mean, rebellious people in the world, why did it have to be my son, who served You so faithfully, who died?

The Lord spoke these words to her heart: “When people here have worked long and hard for an earthly boss, when payday comes, they want to be paid.
After their work is over, they wouldn’t like to be put off and have to wait before they collected what was due them
Your son’s work was over. He has come Home to receive his pay check. Would you have had him have to wait? ” then the mother was comforted.
I believe this is what the Lord has laid on my heart for you and your family, that your father has completed the work which was assign to him, so he is gone home to recieve is payment.

Though it is natural to question seemingly adverse circumstances, the more intimately we walk with the Lord the more we know that His judgements are righteous and “…all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose” (Romans 8:28)

God bless you

Hi Pastor Bruce
Our condolences, much respect to you and the family. Keep that banner flying.
In Jesus Name
Love Jide & Natalie

God Bless Pastor Bruce & Minister Yvonne Bruce
Our prayers are with you and your famaily, may God strengthen you all
during this time.

Dear Pastor Paul and Miister Yvonne

My sincere condolences to you and your family at this sad time. I thank God for the life and legacy of your father, especially because through him came you. I thank God and encourage you to continue to be a blessing to so many of us in the body of Christ in your father's honor.

So, although I never met Overseer Bruce, I am eternally gratful to him for that which he has left behind. The Lord gives and the Lord takes away but Blessed be the name of the Lord

Sincere Love
Dion & Bianca Johnson

Hi Paul

It was lovely to hear from you again and sorry to hear of your loss. May the good Lord be your strong tower. Stay blessed. Jane

Hi Pst Bruce,

Sorry to hear about the loss of your father. my family and I will keep you all in prayer.

Blessings Shean

On behalf of Overseer Simpson and the entire Simpson family.

Your father has now gained the ultimate victory!

We send our sincere condolances to Mother Bruce and the entire Bruce family.

Let God be your shield and the lifter of your head in this solemn time (Psalm 3:3).

With Love
The Simpson Family.

R.I.P.
Overseer Bruce
there remains a rest for the people of God
COGIC Pastors are our heritage
loved the upright teaching
loved the conventions
loved the old time songs about going to heaven
'when we all get to heaven what a day of rejoicing that will be'
'Love ones in Glory are waiting for me,just inside the beautiful gates'
in that sweet by and by
this world is not my home
that will be the last move for we
He'll understand and say well done

God is well pleased with Overseer Bruce
may He continue to comfort the family

I do not believe this to be an easy time as you process this season, but may the little that i have to offer be of some embracement to you.

Elder and Missionary Beckford would like to also send there condolences over from Jamaica. As God is our designer from beginning to end, we acknowledge the remembrance of Overseer Bruce and his great work as a pioneer making a path for many others today.

To Pastor Paul Bruce and family; our prayers go out to you and with love continue to help embrace your time of process. May we all continue to celebrate with you in spirit and truth.

Blessings JB

Oversea Bruce was great, he will be great;y missed xxx

Overseer Bruce was a great man and a great Granddad to me. I remember when Granddad use to tell us his funny jokes, and would laugh before we could start laughing ourselves. Also Granddad would tell us are story's from when he was working in the church ministry. Granddad always use to pray about everything and he knew the bible from start to beginning it was amazing, one day I wish I can learn the bible like him. One thing I will never forget about Granddad is that he always used to sing, All good gifts around us come from heaven above ohh thank the lord ohh thank the lord for all he has done.

R.I.P Granddad

Dear Pastor Bruce,
How you resemble your Father! No doubt the legacy continues!
I wish to conveyto you and your entire family my heartfelt condolences, this cannot be an easy time but rest assured your father is in peace in the arms of the Lord.
I pray the Comforter will lift up your mum and encourage her during this moment of grief; "weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning."
This is a celebration of your father's lifetime achievements and the fact he accomplished his assignment, that which he was called to do on earth.
Be encouraged, be steadfast and be still and know that He is God!
Ann x

My Condolences to the Bruce family. Heaven rejoices for the homecoming of another General. May the Lord Garrison your hearts and spirits as you stand on his word. "Blessed are they that morn for they shall be comforted"
Love from Minister Pauline Doyley (formally Pauline Johnson daughter of The Late Elder Johnson of Brockley COGIC)

Will greatly miss the best father in law in the world. I will miss our chats, laughter and your endless stories. You have ran your race and finished your course.

Yvonne Bruce

To the Bruce Family, our thoughts and prayers are with you at this time.
Your father is at the feet of Jesus.

Be strong and of good courage.

God bless you all.

He was a great man of God. We will all miss him dearly.