St Martin's Episcopal Church in New Bedford MA
St Martin’s people are very unique. You will always find one of St Martin’s helping someone out that is over loaded or just has too much to handle emotionally. The part that I like the most is that practically all of these helping hands never try to broadcast what they are doing, in fact most of them will go out of their way to make sure that whoever they have helped never gets embarrassed by putting the good deed that they received out in the public.
I have been with St Martin’s for XX years. It has been my pleasure to have served as an alter boy, a vestry member, a lay reader, a Eucharistic communion helper and probably a few other positions that I won’t bore you with. But the main thing, the way I see it is not what I have done but rather the fact that they thought that highly of me to allow me to help out in all those jobs.
My feelings about St Martin’s are very emotional. There are so many good people that try to make newcomers comfortable and give them the feelings of having a second home away from home. I hope St Martin’s continues what they do best and that is to let everyone know that this is a place where they are welcome and that they fit regardless of what has happened to them in the past. Thanks for letting me talk to you.
Let God come into your life and you will never regret it.
We would like you to meet “Pops” the Patriarch of St Martin’s.
Ken is the object of great attention and devotion and has been an inspiration to all of us at St Martin’s church.
He served in the Navy at the time when the attack on Perl Harbor was a reality. And Ken was a Petty Officer in the Pacific when the Normandy invasion better known as D-Day took place.
Ken has always been willing to pass on his thoughts about these two infamous days, and he has allowed us to show you what he thinks about when it gets near these two dates. We’ll let Ken tell you what his feelings are towards St Martin’ and then we’ll try to get him to write about those two historic days.
