The Chapel Long Range Planning Committee recommended the following Vision Statement to the Governing Board.

Our vision is: To love, to learn, to worship, to witness in Christ.

* Each of us needs to be equipped to love our neighbors in community so that we may grow and build each other up in love.

* Each of us needs to be equipped to learn the truth of the Gospel so that we will not be blown here and there by every wind of teaching.

I could go on and describe all those I remember. There were no strangers in that church. Everyone knew everybody - or thought they did. We were a close-knit community. It was hard to have secrets in that small town. As hard as that was at times, it paid great dividends in the care and concern that was lavished on those in need of comfort and support. I can remember how the town turned out for funerals and looked out for one another when needed.

I could go on and describe all those I remember. There were no strangers in that church. Everyone knew everybody - or thought they did. We were a close-knit community. It was hard to have secrets in that small town. As hard as that was at times, it paid great dividends in the care and concern that was lavished on those in need of comfort and support. I can remember how the town turned out for funerals and looked out for one another when needed.

His mother died of cancer when Jack (as C. S. was nicknamed) was nine, and he and his brother Warnie were sent away to a brutal boarding school. When he finally escaped to begin his studies at Oxford University he was dispatched to the bloody battlefields of the First World War where his friend Paddy Moore died in the final months of the conflict.