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A TRIBUTE TO BOB ALLENDER

Throughout Bob Allender's destiny of his seventy plus years, he has tried to be a blessing to so many

other people in his faith walk with God. May you be blessed as I have from knowing him as well as

from reading his exhaustive collection of spiritual poems, stories, and wisdom that he has collected as

well as those he has written along his journey. Read and discover why I have decided to include this

wonderful man in the ending chapter of my near completed book titled: "God has my back so bring it

on!"

POEMS COLLECTED AND WRITTEN BY BOB ALLENDER

"A BLESSED PRAYER"

"Father, I ask you to bless my children, grandchildren, friends, relatives and email buddies reading

this right now. Show them a new revelation of your love and power. Holy Spirit, I ask you to minister to

their spirit at this very moment, where there is pain, give them your peace and mercy.

Being Blessed is Terrific... Being highly favored is the best!

Don't settle for anything less!

Rewritten by Bob Allender (Jan 20th 2006)

No Merry Christmas this year without Jesus

Their lives were so busy with their Christmas time things

No time to remember Jesus, the King.

There were presents to wrap and cookies to bake. How could they needed more time to "Shop till

they dropped!"

On to Wal-Mart! On K-Mart! On Target! On Penny's! On Hallmark! On Zales! A quick lunch at Dennys.

From the big stores downtown to the stores at the mall, they would dash away, and visit them all!

And up on the rook there rose such a clutter as Grandpa hung icicle lights up on his brand new step

ladder.

He hung lights up that would flash. He hung lights that would twirl. Yet, he never once prayer to

Jesus... Lights of the world.

Christ's Eyes...How they twinkle! Christ's Spirit...How Merry!

Christ's Love...How enormous! All our burdens...He'll carry!

So instead of being busy, overworked, and uptight let's put Christ back in to Christmas and enjoy

some good nights!

Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas to all my friends!

Note: Just pause for a moment and think what Christmas would be without Jesus, "Jesus My

Friend"

Bob Allender 11/17/06

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"Three things in life that,

once gone, never come back!"

1. Time

2. Words

3. Opportunity

Three things in life that can destroy a person

1. Anger

2. Pride

3. Unforgiveness

Three things in life that you should never lose

1. Hope

2. Peace

3. Honesty

Three things in life that are most valuable

1. Love

2. Family & Friends

3. Kindness

Three things in life that are never certain

1. Fortune

2. Success

3. Dreams

Three things that make a person

1. Commitment

2. Sincerity

3. Hard work

Three things that are truly constant

1. Father - Son - Holy Spirit

I ask the Lord to bless you, as I pray for you today;

to guide you and protect you,

as you go along your way,

God's promises are true.

And when you give God all your cares,

you know God will see you through.

Pass this along to people you want God to Bless -

I just did!

Bob Allender

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THE POWER OF PRAYER

A poorly dressed woman with a look of defeat on her face, walked into a grocery store.

She approached the owner of the store in a most humble manner and asked if he would let her

charge a few groceries.

She softly explained that her husband was very ill and unable to work, they had seven children and

they needed some food.

The grocer, scoffed at her and requested that she leave his store at once.

Visualizing the family needs, she said: “Please, Sir! I will bring you the money just soon as I can.”

Grocer, told her he would not give her credit, she did not have a charge account at his store.

Standing beside the counter was a customer who overheard the conversation between the two.

The customer walked forward and told the grocer that he would stand good for whatever she needed

for her family. The grocer said in a very reluctant voice, Do you have a grocery list?”

She replied, “Yes sir.” “O.K.” he said, “put your grocery list on the scales and what ever your grocery

list weighs, I will give you that amount in groceries.”

She hesitated a moment with a bowed head, Then she reached into her purse and took out a piece of

paper and scribbled something on it . She than laid the piece of paper on the scales carefully with her

head still bowed.

The eyes of the grocer and the customer showed amazement when the scales went down and stayed

down.

The grocer, staring at the scales, turned and slowly to the customer and said begrudgingly, “ I can’t

believe it.”

The customer smiled and the grocer started putting the groceries on the other side of the scales.

The scale did not balance so he continued to put more and more groceries on them until the scales

would hold no more.

The grocer stood there in utter disgust, Finally, he grabbed the piece of paper from the scales and

looked at it with greater amazement.

It not a grocery list, it a prayer, which said: Dear lord, You know my needs and I am leaving this in

your hands.”

The grocer gave her the groceries that he had gathered and stood there stunned and silence

The lady thanked him and left the store.

The customer handed a fifty dollar bill to the grocer and said: “It was worth every penny of it Only

God Knows how much a prayer weighs.”

The Power of Prayer: you never know how much it will

weigh till you do it.

So please when you receive this Stop WHATEVER YOU

ARE DOING OR WHEREVER YOU ARE and say a prayer.

Thank God that is all you have to do. Because no matter

where you are or what you are doing he will hear your

prayer he promises that he would.

I believe if you send this testimony out with a prayer in

faith, you will receive what you need God to do in your and

your families’ life.

So my friend trust God to heal the sick, provide food for the

hungry, clothes and shelter for those that don’t have as we

do..

Amen & Amen

Written by

Robert E Allender

February 9th 2007

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If I Knew

If I knew it would be the last time that I'd see you fall asleep,

I would tuck you in more tightly and pray the Lord, your soul to keep

If I knew it would be the last time I'd hear your voice lifted up in praise,

I would video tape each action and word so I could play it back day after day

If I knew it would be the last time! I could spare an extra minute to stop and say "I love you," instead

of assuming you would KNOW I do!

If i knew it would be the last time I would be there to share your day,

Well I'm sure you'll have so many more, so I can't let just this one slip away

For surely there's always tomorrow to make up for an oversight.

And we always get a second chance to make everything just right.

There will always be another day to say "I LOVE YOU,"

And certainly there's another chance to say our "Anything I can do?"

But just in case I might be wrong and today is all I get,

I'd like to say how much "I LOVE YOU" and hope we never forget.

Tomorrow is not promised to anyone, young or old alike,

And today may be the last chance you get to hold your loved one tight.

So if you're waiting for tomorrow, why not do it today?

For if tomorrow never comes. You'll surely regret the day.

That you didn't take that extra time for a smile, a hug, or a kiss and you were

too busy to grant someone, what turned out to be their last wish.

So hold your loved ones close today, and whisper in their ear,

Tell them how much you love them and that you will always hold them dear.

Take ttime to say "I'm sorry," "Please forgive me," "Thank you," or "It's okay."

And if tomorrow never comes, you'll have no regrets about today.

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To the Hernandez Family

My Maria, My Maria

We were all saddened by your leaving us on this Earth. As one of God's faithful children He called

you and you went home with Him. We have solace in knowing that you are in a much better place

there than you was on this Earth. We know as Christians that it is a much better place, it is much

prettier than any of us can imagine. We also know that when He took you, He took all your hurt and

pain away and forever you are Free from all hurt and pain. We also know that in the Holy Bible He

promised that all we had to do was believe and because our God told us if we believe in Him, we will

have everlasting life. I know that I believe in Him and He has shaped and molded me to His ways.

There are no sorrow in our hearts because it is time to rejoice and praise God for lifting you up

and inviting you to you new home with Him where we will meet again some day.

"Tis a gift to be simple,

"Tis a gift to be free.

"Tis a gift to come down

where we ought to be

And when we find ourselves

In the place that's right

"I will be in the Valley

Of love and delight.

With my Lord in heaven.

Rigoberto A Hernandez is a Dear friend, he and his wife went with us on many bowling tournaments

through out the state. No matter where we went we had a fun time. His wife Maria died on February 6,

2006. I wrote this for him personally and it came from my heart. Maria will be missed by many people.

Bob Allender 2/07/06

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"FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS!"

God looked around His garden

and found an empty place.

He then looked down on His earth

and saw your loving face.

He saw your path was difficult

and He closed your weary eyes.

He whispered to you "Peace be thine!"

and gave you wings to fly.

It's broke our hearts to lose you,

but you did not go alone.

For part of us went with you,

on the day God took you home.

Foot note; This is a must for all who believes in God and knows that we will have eternal life with Him.

For someday I will see you when He calls you home.

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(The story below is exactly the way it was handed to me by Bob Allender about his life)

                                 This is your life

                                                    Bob Allender

He was brought into this world in Council Bluffs, Iowa which is just across the Mississippi River from Omaha, Nebraska on May the 8^th at 4:30 Am in the year of 1931

He lived at 909 4^th street in a small house with his mother Evelyn Allender and his sisters and brothers.

His father was killed in a truck accident prior to his birth

He had two brothers and three sisters that lived there also. Brother name was Charles, Marlin and his sister was Marilyn, Mary and Jeanette.   Marlin was a step brother and Jeanette and Mary was is step sisters.

At the young age of 5 his mother decided that they would go to Denver, Colorado so they got on a train and moved there with grandma who had a house there.

He moved into another small apartment on East Colfax Bob started working at the service station across the street from where they lived, pumping gas and washing windshields. He would go to the bowling alley on Colorado Blvd and sometime sat pin for people that walked in he got so good at it he was asked to sit pin for the leagues they had and he got paid by the tip he made. He started to school in the winter of 1937 at Teller Elementary School and then in 1943 He Graduated to Gove Jr. high

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Then in 1948 he went to East Denver High and Graduated in 1950. Bob made money by selling news paper on the corner of 17^th and Stout Street in downtown Denver during the summer and selling Hot Dogs, Popcorn, Ice Cream at the Denver Bears baseball game on weekends and night games, he was a good hustler and he did very well as a hustler he made good money and always took and helped Mom out with some of the expense of raising the kids. 

Bob loved and played all the sports Baseball and Basketball and Football

In 1949 he joined the National Guard and then in 1950 He enlisted in the United States Navy and did his recruit training at the Navy recruit center and   Camp Pendleton, California Marine Depot, San Diego California.

When he completed his training he was station on a aircraft carrier Named The Bon Homme Richard CV 31 in Bremerton Washington where they put the ship in commission. He was on many aircraft carriers while in the service. He did a tour of duty on the Oriskanny, Essex, Boxer, and Princeton. And the Philippines Seas off the Korean shores. While on the aircraft carrier which all had a home port of Yokosuka, Japan. During shore leave he got to see many place in Japan. Like Sabo, Tokyo Yokohamma and many other places.

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When he returned to The United State and he was stationed at Terminal Inland, California, near San Francisco, Calif. awaiting his discharge.

He had many liberties in San Francisco and Oakland area. After finishing his tour of duty in the U.S Navy he was given an Honorable discharge in 1954.

. When he had received an Honorable Discharged he came back to Denver briefly and married his sweetheart and started his family. Bob moved back to California in 1954 and started a salvage business and opened a second hand store on Kinglerman St in El Monte, California. Gloria and Bob had four children three boys and I girl. There was Robert Duane, David Wayne, Richard Lee and Cheryl Rae.

Getting fed up with all the hassle in California He moved back to Colorado in 1962. He went to work for Plateau Supply company in Denver during the day and he got involved in the Lakeside, Colorado Police Department and was appointed to the department by the city council at a city council meeting, went from patrolman to sergeant,  was soon given a promotion to Lieutenant then to Captain and shortly there after to Chief. They had a speedway at the amusement park  in the City and one night one of the owner of a race car joking told the Chief why don’t you take and warm up the race car for me. Of course who could ever say no to something like that, Bob took him up on it and that how got Bob involved in racing? While working one night Bob wife just disappeared from the existence and was never ever heard from again. He bought a mobile home in Dacono, Colorado and he built an addition on to it.

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Bob really got involved in the community He joined the Volunteer Fire Dept gradually working up to Fire Marshall for the District. He joined the Weld County Sheriff Dept. there working night and selling Dodge Truck during the Day, He was the top Truck salesman for Dodge for two years. After hearing about a child that had waited, 45 minutes laying in the street for a ambulance that had to come from 16 miles away. He decided to try and form a volunteer ambulance service for the three towns in the area which many of the old timers said could never be done, they just didn’t know Bob and his determination.

With the help of the local newspaper called the Farmer Miner they called a meeting at a local IOOF lodge for people to attend. Bob explained to every one how he thought they should go about it, and people agreed. But the next concern was what are we going to do about getting an ambulance, Bob Stated that he knew a person that sold ambulances and he said he would work with the group. With the help of many others they formed the group but had no ambulance so off to the bank Bob goes, yes he got the Ambulance. After picking up the Ambulance in Denver and driving home, Bob wondered how he was going to let everyone in the three towns know that they had a ambulance so he turned on the Red Lights and siren and drove through all three town and everyone knew then. At the start the driver used to keep the ambulance parked in front of his house and when they got a call he would usually pick up his attendant that lived as close to him as possible. The Very first day that we were in service we receive two call one an accident on the highway and a heart attack of a local town person. They had a tow way radio system sat up using a Truck stop on highway 52 an interstate 25 as the base station the phone calls came to them and then they dispatch the ambulance.  From then on everyone knew that we had an ambulance and competence people to make it work. Since then they built a building, bought the land that it was built on to house it. It had living quarter for driver and attendant, and they could park their car inside out of the cold night, it is still going today. Incidentally that where he met his wife Eileen she was his attendant on the ambulance one night. The County of Weld took it over in 1984.

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While all this was going on he was voted on to the City of Dacono town board in 1975. He was appointed as the Police Commissioner, and was a Police Officer in the town on top of every thing else, and was a Deputy Sheriff at the same time.

Doing all of that he still sold truck and cars for Dodge at Northglen

Dodge on 104^th street in NorthGlen, Colorado. .

In 1977 He finally got his fill of all the problems and came back to Sunny California and landed in Santa Fe Springs where he went to work for a pipe company. Got tired of that and Started his own Handyman Service in 1977and has been involved in it every since and still is going strong. He started bowling in 1937 but really didn’t get into serious bowling till 1945, In 1962 he joined three leagues at Northglen Lanes. he moved back to California in 1977 he brought a house on Harvest St in Norwalk, California. By Keystone lanes and in 1977 he started bowling there three nights a week, which was only two blocks from his house. He suffered a very serious head injury in 1978 and was out of commission for almost 6 month. He Bowled in the first league at the new WonderBowl  Lanes in Downey  on Firestone Blvd which had 64 beautiful Lanes He had Joined the Elks Club and loved to work with the Handicapped Children League and really work hard for the Crippled Children and held tournaments for there benefits In 1980.

He was awarded the Elks of the year in 1981-1982. A Southeast District Bowling Association officer by the Name of Dick Varner ask him to join the Southeast District Bowling  Association and he walked Bob thru everything in 1980 and that how he become involved with A.B.C.

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He was elected the President of the Southeast District Bowling Association in 1992. He received the Joe Anderson awards for outstanding service to bowlers in 1990-1991 and again in 1995. He was inducted into the A.B.C. Hall of Fame in 1995 and when Long Beach Bowling Association merged with the Southeast District and it became The Southern Los Angeles County Bowling Association.

He was the inaugural President of that organization in 1997 when it was formed. Then as his journey in Bowling continued it took him further into it by being appointed to the board of the California State Seniors Bowling Association in 1989 of which he was elected President of that association in 2002. In 2005. He received his second Hall Of Fame awards from the Executive Director Mr. Pete Melton Fresno California He is still active on both boards. The Southern Los Angeles County Bowling Association and The California State Seniors Bowling Association some 25 years later. 

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He had the privilege of bowling in 20 National Bowing tournaments with his wife Eileen, a dear friend Paul Ringler and his wife Dorothy. In 2005 he received his 20 years pin from the ABC for tournament participation. He attended many A.B.C. conventions in many different cities through out the United States. He still is bowling some 67 years after he started; After a serious operation and the loss of 100 lbs, his average is going down but he is still hanging in there. After so many active years he has some health problems but he still running his business and works 6 days a week and bowls on Wednesday night. It has been said by many people that Bob live, dies and breathe  bowling he was known for his dedication and termination to get the job done and done right.

He Started the California State Mixed Doubles Championship, urged on by ABC and when they refused to give him a grant he bit the nail on the head and finance it completely out of his pocket. Then after $60,000.00 dollars he spent out of his pocket he decided to give it up. He attended the leadership workshop in June of 2005 in Greendale Wisconsin and he attended all the work shops and really learned in four days.

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In November 2005 Bob was approach by a friend Lee Ingram who was a field representative for the American Bowling Congress and asked Bob to sit up a new organization for the state of California. After much discussion Bob took action and started to work on which is now know as the California State Bowling Congress Inc it was quite a undertaking doing everything from scratch but he got it done.  The awards program was really the hardest thing to accomplish as trying to be fair to all and make sure everyone had a chance to get the awards, the low average bowler as well as the high average bowler, Getting all the patches designed and in place was really mind bogging.