Kiwanis acknowledges Pastor Appreciation Month

ALBANY — Some of us go to church every Sunday never taking the opportunity to thank the person in the pulpit.

An area civic club recently took time to do just that.

In honor of Pastor Appreciation Month, the Dougherty County Kiwanis Club gave acknowledgment to church representatives for their service to the community at the club’s Monday meeting.

“We want to honor you for the weekly task you have of lifting us up,” Larry Price, a club member, said during the program. “We want to continue to ask you to provide us (direction).

“We do appreciate you.”

Club members invited their respective ministers and introduced them. Churches from throughout the area were represented.

“The world teaches us to pile up treasures and we are led to believe that the more we have the more secure we are,” said Price, who is also president of Albany Winnelson Company, in his remarks. “Life changes, and these trinkets we put our trust in is a false trust.

“We want you (community ministers) to challenge us to realize that we don’t want to be entitled, but to be empowered. We want you to continue to challenge us each week. When you inspire us to do this it makes this community better.”

At the end of the program, the ministers were given Kiwanis mugs.

“It was excellent,” the Rev. Garrett Andrew, senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church, said of the program. “I felt like it was a sermon to ministers.”