On this day we celebrate you and your years of faithful service here at Bethel as well as the years you spent in your first two pastoral calls. We recognize how God has blessed us through you, and we are grateful to God for sending you to us. As you begin your retirement, though your role will change, we nevertheless invite you to continue to receive and share God's wondrous gifts of grace and to work beside us as servants in God's kingdom. May God's richest blessings be upon you.