Reflecting on 40 years

In responding to the gracious words of Commissioners Floyd and Tracey Tidd in presenting our retirement certificates, here was our response: Wendy “Thank you, Commissioners Tidd, Floyd and Tracey, for your kind words. Thank you for the extraordinary effort to be with us as we mark 40 years of ministry and our retirement. We are…

Celebrating 40 years

Apart from birthdays and Christmas, we are not really good at celebrations. Even birthdays seem to pass by with only short reference to what it represents! So this week’s celebration of our retirement took on special meaning. It would have been easy to say that’s it, we are done, time to move on. But I…

Women in leadership

As I am listening to Barack Obama’s A Promised Land, now 31 hours into it out of 40 hours, he spends some time talking about the personal cost of serving as a staffer in the White House. He spells out the family separation, the long hours, the constant weight of the work, the consistent criticism…