Greg Kenney.....

What God Has Done For Me and My Life: When I think of God, I think of the Trinity, The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit. Each of these equally important entities has helped formed my adult life. I am certain that God loves me unconditionally. I am certain that Jesus Christ sacrificed his body, so that I may be forgiven of my sins. And I am certain that the Holy Spirit has allowed me to help evangelize The Word of God both to people inside my Parish, and out in this secular world we seem to live in.

Before I became a convert to Catholicism in 1988, I had little or no faith. I truly believe that God saved my soul from eternal damnation, using my wife, children, and Father Irvin Vandahey, to show me the way to salvation. God has given me enormous gifts, a loving family, a solid job with excellent benefits, The Knights of Columbus, my Parish, and many friends. I would be a lost soul without God. I love him with my whole Heart, Mind, and soul.

What St. Joseph the Worker Parish Means to Me: One word sums this question up…COMMUNITY! I look at St. Joseph’s as my “small town.” I feel comfortable here. As with any community, you have a wide, diverse, cross-section of people, a variety of races and cultures, as well as many different personalities. Like any community we have happy folks, sad folks, boisterous folks, angry folks, angelic folks, and folks struggling with their faith. I look at them all as my extended family. I believe that we, as a Parish community, stick together. For example, I would never leave my Parish because I did not “like” the Priest. Priests come and go over the years. But the community stays put. I would not follow a Priest once his is transferred to a new Parish. Not because I “do, or don’t like” them, but because, for me, the Parish community is the most important cog in the wheel of faith. The Parish community is here 24-7-365.

Our Parish has been Blessed with wonderful Priests since I joined the Parish in 1983, Father Irvin Vandahey, Father Jack Krall, and our current Pastor (and rap artist) Father John. Each of them has been instrumental to me in deepening my faith. My wife and my children and their families, have all made lasting friendships here, through Mass, CCD, The Knights, of Columbus, the Pastoral Council, and Parish events such as the spaghetti dinner. I feel honored to be part of such a wonderful, “real,” loving, and caring community, known as St. Joseph the Worker.

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