- Mr. Cheney was one of the elder members in the church. And I guess nobody else gave him a second look… except that us kids knew that he always had a pocket full of pecans. He had a pecan tree in his yard and he would scoop up a handful of pecans. He would crack them with his fingers and that would just amaze us kids. Whenever we walked into the foyer, all us kids would just mob him because he would pull pecans out of his pockets and crack them, and we’d get ourselves a little treat before church.
“I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love. To them I was like one who lifts a little child to the cheek, and I bent down to feed them.” — Hosea 11:4 NIV