Salina Presbyterian Manor
Chasing the Son
FEBRUARY 2023
A little song, some cards and a few laughs: Donna Haffner is loving life at Salina Presbyterian Manor Ask Donna Haffner about her family and she’ll immediately smile. A mother of seven, the Salina Presbyterian Manor resident is proud of each one of her now grown children. It was one of those children who helped her settle on moving to Salina from Gove County, Kansas in 2017.
By Dave Parker As you read this, I would like you to consider it in the larger context of John 13:1-20 and the lessons Jesus taught His disciples about the value of Dave Parker servant leadership. So please take a moment; open your bibles and read the entire passage yourself. For now though, having just washed each of His disciples’ feet in preparation for His final Passover meal with them, Jesus said to them in verses 12-16, “Do you understand what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. Truly, truly I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.”
“I lost my husband 12 years ago and it was time to make the move,” Donna recalled. “I love everyone here at The Manor, especially (Director of Sales and Marketing) Cathy Boos. We’re quite a pair.” As Haffner tells it she “didn’t know a soul” when she moved in, but that changed quickly. “I love to sing, I love to play cards Donna Haffner is known for her smile! and I love to joke around,” she said. “I’ll do anything that gets me out of my room.” Having made fast friends with so many fellow residents, Boos describes Haffner as the “life of the community.” Haffner doesn’t argue with that fact. “I’ve always been social,” she said. “I was on the school board for 11 years and ran my own business for 10.”
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The timing of this lesson is what sets it apart. It took place just before they shared the Last Supper. It was Jesus’s final lesson to His followers before He suffered those fatal moments of betrayal that led to His crucifixion. Everything in Jesus’ life was planned by His Father, so we can assume that this event wasn’t a random act that Jesus pulled off the top of his head at the last minute. We can also assume that because it was His final action before He would be given up by Judas, it was an imprint He intended to make on everyone in the room that would stick. How He wanted to be most remembered by His
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