11/19/2020
Thayer County Sheriff Department and State Patrol
The members of the Thayer County Ministerial Alliance wanted to publicly express our support for our local sheriff department and State Patrol. As ministers, we recognize humanity is broken. Not only are we prone to break God’s laws but we are prone to break whatever laws are over us. Laws and law enforcement are necessary to maintain a civil society. We thank our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for providing us with public servants who put their lives on the line to keep us safe. We recognize that God is at work through you to protect us. In this regard, we owe you our honor and respect. We pray He keeps you safe as you faithfully discharge your duties.
Doing your job isn’t always a glamorous task, upholding and enforcing laws you didn’t make and may not even personally agree with and yet your job requires you to uphold the law. So often you are seen as the threat even when you are not the one breaking the law. You are just trying to do your job.
These last few months have shed light on the intense stress that officers are under in the everyday exercise of their job, let alone the additional stress added in today’s social climate. You don’t know what the day of work has in store for you. You can’t predict whether it will be calm and quiet or chaotic and dangerous. You can’t promise your spouse “I’ll be home for lunch” or your kids “I’ll be there for your ball game,” you never know what might happen to you in the line of duty.
Each day you make sacrifices to keep the rest of the community safe – whether it’s driving through a blizzard, chasing cattle that got out in the middle of the night, showing up at the scene of an accident, removing tire shreds from the middle of the road, or the thousands of other everyday tasks you do to ensure our safety, while the rest of the world keeps on spinning, oblivious to the danger your job takes you to. Thank you.
We want to also express our thanks to your families. They too, experience the stresses of your job that the rest of us are seemingly unaware of. Every day you put on your uniform, there’s a very real potential you may not come home. Every senseless act of violence against police officers just because they are police officers could just as well have been you. You live with that stress, as does your family. We see it. We recognize it. We appreciate it. We thank you for your service. We pray for you. May God bless and keep you from all harm and danger as you serve Him by doing the same for us.
“Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13). On behalf of the Thayer County Ministerial Alliance, thank you.
