From the SEPTEMBER 2010 Newsletter:

         
WHAT I LEARNED ON MY SUMMER VACATION

— by Pastor Campbell   
         

     ...Pope John XXIII, who opened the paradigm-shifting Second Vatican Council, ...was a hard and dedicated worker...But despite his work ethic and consuming passion, he understood that the church was not his. As if to remind himself of this liberating truth, he ended all of his work days the same way. As he left his office to retire to his apartment, he would turn out the lights and say: “This is your church, Lord, not mine. Now I am going to sleep. I’ll see you in the morning.”
    

     ...This church belongs to the Lord of the Church. That doesn’t mean that there is nothing for us to do! We work hard and pray without ceasing and love without measure and serve without cost… but at the end of the day, we leave it all in God’s hands. And so I approach this Gathering Sunday, and the new program year, with a great deal of enthusiasm. It’s going to be a wonderful year. I just know it… because I am finally learning what saints in every generation have learned:  that the Hand of Providence is wonderfully kind and unfailingly faithful...

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