“WHY I LOVE GOOD SHEPHERD” (February 2010)
This article is the third in a series presented by the 2010 Stewardship Committee. If you are interested in submitting an article for the series, please contact Father Matt, we’d love to print your submission! This month we continue the series with a note from Phil Levy:
I have been a member since 1952 – a long time to stay at one church. If you look at the service book from when we dedicated the building in 1954 you will see my name as an active member. I have 12 years of Sunday School pins. I was an acolyte, and I even sang in the choir: maybe not in 1954 but soon after. I took off from 1967 to about 1982 or so.
Once I came back I became part of the church’s inner workings. There are a few of us still here that have served the church in the vestry as voting and nonvoting members for many years. I loved being loved… who wouldn’t? Good Shepherd is a place where you can make a difference. Being in a leadership role here helped me get where I am today in the work place. We each have our ways of serving God and his family. I like knowing what is going on and being part of it all.
We may only see each other on Sundays, but we are a family in God. We each have our parts. I have never felt the need to look for a different church. Even through the hard times. I felt even more needed then to help hold it all together. Being on the vestry helped me learn what God meant when he said we are all one body. I would sometimes make suggestions to do something that I wanted to see done and done my way, but putting it out on the table would have everyone’s input and maybe my idea was not so good or there was a better way to do it. The point is that it takes all of us to keep God’s place of worship going. These are some of the reasons why I love the Good Shepherd.
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