Gratitude
For twenty-seven years, Afton Travis has served each of us at Faith. For twenty-seven years she has given her time, her talents, and truly, her very self to us. And we are all blessed by her presence. By now you have no doubt read the first page, and seen that after twenty-seven years, and after a great deal of thought, many prayers, and I’m sure a fair bit of deliberation, Afton has decided to retire. I am extremely grateful for her! She has been an incredible blessing to me, and to us all. When I think of Afton’s twenty-seven years at Faith, I am reminded of the scene in the classic movie The Fiddler on the Roof, where the main character asks his wife if she loves him. She responds with a list of the ways she has served him, and a list of her commitment to him over a period of twenty-five years, and asks, “If that’s not love what is?” I love this picture, and see it displayed through Afton’s life. For twenty-seven years she has been there to help us worship through accompany