Each year, the St. Matthew’s Sages Program gathers and shares stories from members with long and loving life experience. A volunteer team works with the Sages to learn about their backgrounds, conduct video interviews, and then write a short version of their life stories. Along with the joys of their family lives and careers, we hear stories about challenges, accomplishments, and lessons learned. We get many pearls of wisdom. While some of our senior members may appear to be quiet and unassuming, we always find tales of truly amazing character!
We feature several members of St. Matthew’s in each of our Sages Celebrations. On a Sunday afternoon we share printed copies of their stories, show small segments of the video interviews, and have the Sages display and describe significant photos and other interesting memorabilia. Views of the events we’ve held to date can be seen in the photo collection on this web site. After each celebration, DVDs with the full interviews of the featured Sages are placed in the St. Matthew’s library, where they can be checked out for viewing. We put extracts of their stories into the Monthly Word, and we place their full stories onto our web site for you to enjoy.
St. Matthew’s Sages we honored on May 2, 2010 were:
Click on their names to read an overview of their story.
B. J. Drenkhahn
Elaine and Ward Goessling
Mary Lou and Danny Henshaw
Madelaine and Reid Kirchem
Jim Newman
Rosie and John Nieman
Milt Williams
On November 14, 2010, we honored these Sages:
Pat Boon
Anna Maud Dodge
Joyce and Joe Evans
Harriet and David Houston
Chuck and Carolyn Huffman
Cornelia and Tom LeMond
Sherm Strance
On June 5, 2011, we honored these Sages:
Maddy Bergen
Joanne Cage
Ruth and George Herbert
Marjorie and Bert Hooper
Doris Norton
Louise Waddill
On November 6, 2011, we honored these Sages:
Sue and John Burton
Maly and Tony Hatheway
Andrea and Keith Miller
Bill (Billy) Smith