At St. Mark’s in Monticello, I have taught religious education to the children of immigrants and am always impressed at their desire to learn and to share their culture with others as well as their language.

Our community that lacks the workers needed to accommodate the needs of an aging state population are blessed to integrate them into our area.

Bishop Taylor’s first pastoral letter, “I Was A Stranger And You Welcomed Me…”
and our study group in the parish have spurred me to join the immigration discussion in this nation and to do what I can to see that national policy does is established on fact and not fiction.