Tuesday, February 03, 2009
With Gratitude
On Sunday we had the joy of welcoming our new leaders for the coming year. Mike Solomon will serve as Administrator and Carla Purcella will serve as Secretary. I know these two will do an outstandng job, and I look forward - as I'm sure you do - to working with them in the coming year.
Let us not move forward too quickly without sharing a word of appreciation with Jerry Ripley and Carolyn McDonald for the outstanding job they did leading us this past year. Each went about his/her tasks with quiet resolve, determined to accomplish their goals with confidence and competence.
Jerry, thank you for all you did for our church this year. We can look to the tangible things - the parking lot, the sound system, the computer system - but I believe it is the things we do not see that speak best of how well you led us this year. Your non-anxious presence was more reassuring than you know. We all recognize how incredibly busy you are, and yet you took all the known and unknown aspects of this position in stride, never becoming frustrated with the unpredictable but inevitable stresses that accompany this job. We thank you, Jerry, for a job very well done.
Carolyn, thank you for all you did for our church this year. We know that with the help of others you have updated our member rolls - an incredibly necessary, but thankless task. Your reminders for the monthly food pantry collection might have seemed to be an insignificant task, but it's effects were seen each First Sunday. That's the way you worked among us this year, Carolyn - the contributions may have seemed small, but they weren't. You shored us up in ways that we might not have seen, and hardly even knew, but we all felt supported none the less. Your competence and calmness was a gift that we sincerely appreciate. We thank you, Carolyn, for a job very well done.
As our new year begins, let us come alongside Mike and Carla. They will need our help and our support. Like all our Administrators and Secretaries have done, they will find their own ways to accomplish the tasks we have placed before them. If they call upon you to help, do not hesitate to say "yes." If they forget to call, volunteer - in specific, concrete ways. There is much to be done - much more than two people can do. It will, as it always has, take all of us.
I look forward to this year with you because
I am proud to be your pastor,
Tracy
Let us not move forward too quickly without sharing a word of appreciation with Jerry Ripley and Carolyn McDonald for the outstanding job they did leading us this past year. Each went about his/her tasks with quiet resolve, determined to accomplish their goals with confidence and competence.
Jerry, thank you for all you did for our church this year. We can look to the tangible things - the parking lot, the sound system, the computer system - but I believe it is the things we do not see that speak best of how well you led us this year. Your non-anxious presence was more reassuring than you know. We all recognize how incredibly busy you are, and yet you took all the known and unknown aspects of this position in stride, never becoming frustrated with the unpredictable but inevitable stresses that accompany this job. We thank you, Jerry, for a job very well done.
Carolyn, thank you for all you did for our church this year. We know that with the help of others you have updated our member rolls - an incredibly necessary, but thankless task. Your reminders for the monthly food pantry collection might have seemed to be an insignificant task, but it's effects were seen each First Sunday. That's the way you worked among us this year, Carolyn - the contributions may have seemed small, but they weren't. You shored us up in ways that we might not have seen, and hardly even knew, but we all felt supported none the less. Your competence and calmness was a gift that we sincerely appreciate. We thank you, Carolyn, for a job very well done.
As our new year begins, let us come alongside Mike and Carla. They will need our help and our support. Like all our Administrators and Secretaries have done, they will find their own ways to accomplish the tasks we have placed before them. If they call upon you to help, do not hesitate to say "yes." If they forget to call, volunteer - in specific, concrete ways. There is much to be done - much more than two people can do. It will, as it always has, take all of us.
I look forward to this year with you because
I am proud to be your pastor,
Tracy
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