Dear NDI Board, Alumni, Friends & Partners,
It is with both joy and sorrow that I send you the obituary below of “Coach” David Maynard. He went to be with the Lord this past Thursday – soon after Patt and I visited with him on Wednesday before we left town for a brief vacation with our children and grandchildren. I knew when I saw him at his home that it would not be long before he entered glory. I had gone by to see him just before I left on my recent trip to Kenya and Zimbabwe (which I will report on soon). He was so weak and frail at that time that I feared he would not live until I returned home from Africa. Thankfully he did. But when I visited him this past Wednesday at his home, he was almost comatose and non-responsive. His breathing was very shallow. I knew it would not be long until the Lord would take him home – and it wasn’t. On Thursday, he entered the “winner’s circle” as a victorious spiritual athlete!
Patt and I went by the visitation at First Baptist on Apple Street Monday night when we got back into town for the wake and funeral. I will help preach his funeral on Tuesday at St. Mark’s Church. Since it has the biggest sanctuary in town, it will take that capacity to meet the need of the large crowd of people who will attend from all over Burlington, Alamance County and North Carolina. He was truly the “Coach” for people from every walk of life – and dearly loved and respected by thousands of people of all ages.
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