“Eutychus” by Elizabeth Slovan 

Eutychus literally means “fortunate” in Greek, and if you do not remember who he was, you can read about him in the Bible:

And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer.  And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead.  (Acts 20:9, English Standard Version)

Eutychus, a.k.a. Les Bollinger, and his wife, Helen, live in Pennsylvania, where he serves as a bi-vocational pastor of Beaver Baptist Church.  When not performing his pastoral duties, Eutychus works as a decision support analyst at Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh.

Eutychus is truly fortunate-blessed, in fact-and he too has been known to get sleepy during sermons.  For that matter, people have been known to fall asleep during his sermons.