Giving Thanks

Richard C. Schutt, CEO of Providence Life Services

guest post by Richard C. Schutt, CEO

Giving thanks. I am in a unique position to do that this year.

I am standing at the close of a milestone year — our 50th anniversary — and I am grateful. It’s been a year of reviewing old documents, looking up old facts, pointing at faces in old photos, reliving old memories. It’s been a year of re-telling our ministry stories to new generations of people who weren’t around 50 years ago.

It’s been a year of giving God the glory.

You see, looking back over five decades, it becomes abundantly clear that He has led us every step of the way. He was there at the beginning, when those first churches gathered and prayed and planned. He was there at the groundbreaking ceremony, and the cornerstone ceremony, and the first Torchlight, and the first expansion.

He’s been at our board meetings and volunteer luncheons. He’s been in our hallways, at our bedsides, and around our dining room tables. He is present in the smiles as well as the tears of our residents, staff, and families. Looking back, I can see that clearly.

I thank God for His providence. And for His Providence — for this ministry is fully His.

I’m grateful for the part He has let me play in it. And I’m grateful that He has called you into this ministry as well. Together, with the Spirit’s leading and God’s blessing, we are extending compassionate care in the name of Jesus Christ.

For all this and more, I am giving thanks.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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