August 2026 Message from Your Board President, Kathy Harwood Long

Dear colleagues and friends.

The word of the month is REACH!

I'm encouraged that our board chose to invest in Joanne Burns Miller, ensuring that we are reaching to those ministries listed without a leader, or with a leader in the special dispensation program. FYI: this is a SLOW process. Invariably ministries have an email address, "Info@", maybe a phone number, but Joanne doesn't receive a reply. Again and again. AND, she often discovered, from whomever she speaks with, that they do not know about GLR, nor services and supports available.

Please. Reach out to each other, to other ministries. Rev. Diane has just met with and fanned the spark of another subregion in Minnesota. We care, we minister, we are not expecting folks to reach to us in our ministries, we reach to other. May it be so in our region!

"Behold! I am doing a new thing. It sprouts. Do you not perceive it?"

With love, Kathy