Saying Goodbye...
It's always hard to say goodbye, and it's especially hard to say goodbye to the wonderful pastor you've had for so long. Bob is retiring after 40 years in the ministry, so he and Carol are moving to Placerville. Bob's been the senior pastor of our church for ten years -- and I've only been going to it for eight, so he's the only senior pastor I've had here. Today was Bob's last sermon; next Sunday is his last Sunday here with us. A few weeks after that,
Doug Monroe shows up to become our new senior pastor.
My favorite memory of Bob is easy to come up with. It was four years ago, when Meredith and I got married. We were getting married in Tennessee, because my grandparents really couldn't travel. We were all set to be married in the Methodist church there that my mom had grown up in, and where my grandparents still attended, when the pastor there told us that he was going to be out of town the weekend of our wedding, so he'd try to find us another pastor who could marry us. We asked Bob if he and Carol would be willing to fly out all the way to Tennessee so he could marry us instead of us getting some random pastor we'd never met. To our surprised delight, Bob said yes! And so, 2500 miles from home, we were married by our own pastor. It was wonderful.
We'll miss Bob...
Posted by Mike at June 1, 2003 04:27 PM
