Thank you! Thank you for calling me to be your minister. Thank you for your hospitality during my candidating week. Thank you for all of the good work you've done with Rev. Wanda Daniels during your interim period.
The future awaits us. It has worked out that during this chapter of your life as a congregation and during this chapter of my life (and my family's life), we've come together to see what kind of ministry we can create in partnership, in joy, and in hope and faith and love. I am thrilled to get on with the work of this ministry.
I am especially thrilled to work with Lori, Gia and Joy, a staff that you are rightly very proud of. I am thrilled that sometime this year, you as an organization will ordain Nathan into the Unitarian Universalist ministry.
If you want to check in on how things are coming along with my transition, you can read my blog at http://hpcuu.blogspot.com/. My schedule of services for the next few months can be found there. And possibilities for adult education offerings. And this quote about hope:
"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good." -- Vaclav Havel
In gratitude,
Rev. Roger
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