from Genia Dowdeswell
It has been my honor and privilege to serve with you in the last seven years. I will carry many happy memories away with me. It is now time for me to spend my remaining years enjoying my husband, children, grandchildren and friends.
People have asked me what I am going to do with my time. The good news is that I feel led by God to go outside to enjoy this beautiful earth and be God’s steward in the places that I live. So, I am going to be the keeper of the mountain bog that borders my backyard and contains one of the two places on earth where the bunched arrowhead plant lives. I hope to make sure it thrives.
On the Isle of Palms outside of Charleston, I will become a turtle lady to make sure that the endangered loggerhead turtle thrives. In my training for this position I have learned some wisdom from the turtle that I would like to leave you with:
Be well-traveled
Think long term
Age gracefully
Spend time at the beach
So, as I go to help plants and animals thrive I hope that you too will be people of action in making this wonderful community of All Souls thrive.
Faithfully,
Deacon Genia Dowdeswell