Ok, so this PR Director of Care-A-Van Ministries has got to confess, she was so excited when she heard "Gopher" from the Love Boat was going to be at GCC.
I use to love Gopher on the Love Boat Show. It was a true pleasure getting to hear "Gopher" , Fred Grandy speak at the Sixth Annual Wolcott J. Humphrey III Symposium on Leadership and Community LIfe. The title of his message was "The Art of Change". Talk about change in one life, to hear of his life from Hollywood Acting, to being a member of US Congress, to the former CEO of Goodwill to having his own radio show was unbelievable.
The theatre was packed this evening. After the presentation, there was a reception held in the Forum area. This reception gave the companies , agencies and students from GCC an opportunity to mingle and get to know one another.
Sitting at our table was the Dean of Elim Bible Institute, Harry Vellekoop and Pastor Phil from the World Life Christian Fellowship of Henrietta. It was just amazing how even getting to network with these gentlemen was a blessing. Paul Ohlson, Founder of Care-A-Van enjoyed sharing of the minstry with them and offering to partner with them in any way that we could to help them with their missions of meeting the needs of others.
We at Care-A-Van know that times are changing and the needs within the community are changing. We are forever grateful for the partnering of agencies, churches and individuals that help with the misssion of serving those in need.
A special thank you to all who planned this wonderful event for the community.
I was going to go to this,
I was going to go to this, but just got swamped with stuff I needed to get done.
So what did Fred have to say?
He gave an awesome talk and
He gave an awesome talk and presentation. He had great humor. There were so many good points. Being that the talk was on the Art of Change, the biggest point he made I feel, is that change needs to begin with ourselves, within us as individuals.
He spoke about Public service and people coming together to serve the public along with other things.
I am hoping others that attended will hop in here and share what they took away from the evening.
There was also time for
There was also time for questions.
I posed the question of how to go about recruting volunteers to help with agencies. He gave some great pointers there and also gave some excellent ideas to me about public speaking,meaning depending on who your audience is be careful of the terminology that one uses.
Also, Paul and I would like
Also, Paul and I would like to thank the individual or agency that paid for our registation for the conference.
When I arrived to register and pay, they said it was taken care of, I thought.. hmm. Paul must have paid. When he arrived to register and pay, they said it was taken care of.. he went hmm and said did you do that? I said no.. I thought you had for me.. So we were both pleasantly surprised!
A big thank you to you, whoever you are! It was truly appreciated! There sure are awesome people here in Batavia!