This Sunday, May 6, Village Covenant will be host to a very special guest: Gary Walter, President of the Evangelical Covenant Church! (That’s right, he’s not just Lauren Neely’s dad!) Gary will be here visiting for Mark Neely who is finally (finally!) graduating. However, Gary is also set to retire from his position soon, and as one of his final official acts before he retires, he specifically requested to be able to do a sermon at Village Covenant Church. It just so happened to work out rather serendipitously that way!
Gary has a long history with Village Covenant Church. He was a youth pastor here back when our own Kevin Leissner was in the youth group. He was actually Kevin’s very first youth pastor at that time! Beyond that, Gary has had a strong working relationship with Pastor Mario of our sister church, Vision de Garcia Covenant. Plus, of course, most recently, his daughter and son-in-law, Lauren and Mark, had been working here at Village for several years.
I think it’s probably safe to say this will feel a bit like a homecoming for Gary.
We hope you can make it out to see him!