Meet the Blogger - Cheryl Whapham

Served as director, Lay Ministry and Adult Faith Formation, from 2004 until 2012

Has been with the department for five years.

"This is what we are about. We plant the seeds that one day will grow, we water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise. We lay foundations that will need further development. We provide yeast that produces effects far beyond our capabilities. We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord's grace to enter and do the rest. We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are the workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own. May that future be filled with grace, peace, and hope."

— martyred Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador