David, you are amazing! You have been Mr Welcome at Rising Brook for as long as I can remember. (October 1976) and your memory for faces and names has been a great ministry. Your wisdom as deacon and then elder has also been part of my experience here. It as been pertinent and practical. I still remember your advice to us as we conside ed our car park! Your participation in church life has always been relevant through some great times and through some difficult years of crisis… The best is yet to come – and the past has been remarkable. God is not finished with you yet - and indeed never will be. Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. 1 Corinthians 15:58