“Our heavenly Father, whose voice causes the foundations of heaven to shake and sends forth the incensed smoke of imperceivable mystery to fill the sanctuary, we confess that our finite minds are unable to comprehend the breadth and depth of such tragedy that has touched our Dutch brothers and sisters at this time, and we can only weep with those who weep and pray for the comforting ministry of the Holy Spirit, and for divine power to be given to those Gospel preachers who, now, are called to conduct services across that beautiful and storied land of the Netherlands, so important in the founding of our our own nation—and in their many contributions to the world—so that they, depending on the One who is sovereign, omniscient, and omnipresent, might equip them with power from on high, to declare the unsearchable riches of Jesus Christ in the midst of their national tragedy—yea, this international tragedy—so that as poor broken-hearted mothers and fathers, grieving sons, daughters and sons, sisters and brothers, grief-stricken-loved ones, and soul-shocked-fellow-countrymen look to these pastors they will, indeed, discover that Word from another World bringing hope of the resurrected Savior into their world; and so praying for the people of the Netherlands, with their goodly King, Willem-Alexander, and his wife, Queen Maxima, and his mother, the retiring Princess Beatrix who reigned so well and so long as their queen, and all of those who govern, we remember the other nations who, likewise, mourn for meaning as they mourn for their losses, as well, not counting one above the other, but moved by the utter magnitude of the Dutch national impact, and so, we cry to Thee on their behalf, and make our prayer through the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, the Alpha and the Omega, the Redeemer and the Lord, who ever lives to save, and who reigns with Thee, O Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forevermore. Amen.”
– M.A.M.