I’ve known Jason Sampler since 2004 when I first moved to New Orleans for seminary. We were both a part of Edgewater Baptist Church in Gentilly (and students at NOBTS). It took the exile after Hurricane Katrina for us to connect, but since then I’ve considered him a great friend. After we moved back to New Orleans in 2006, he started dating Terah Jolene Fox. One cold and windy February morning he called me up and announced his intention to ask Terah to marry him.
So I found the flowers he’d dropped off at the church, hid them, and then positioned myself behind a box to play paparazzi for the afternoon. Twenty minutes later Jason and Terah arrived at Edgewater. The way Terah tells the story, she had a headache and was not particularly thrilled to be standing there under the tent in the bitter cold New Orleans wind, but she was a trooper. Good thing, too. Because Jason is easily the most long-winded brother I’ve ever known, and even though I’m sure it was only ten minutes, it seemed like he might take an hour to tell her how much he loved her.
She said yes, and they were married the following August. The tenth, actually. Of 2007. They live in Kansas now, and were kind enough to put me up for a night my way back to Fort Worth from Indiana over Christmas this past year. And a few months ago they announced that Peanut Sampler is on his way- coming in October. So here’s to you, Jason and Terah. Congratulations on two years of marriage. Congratulations on the forthcoming Peanut. Thanks for being my friends. See you soon.
by Joe Kennedy
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