Liz Farquhar has served as our newsletter editor for about 20 years, faithfully and freely giving of her time and highly-skilled talents as a journalist and faithful, loving Christian believer.
Now she is retiring from the position for a well-deserved rest from those labors.
I know I speak for our whole community when I say, Thank you, Liz! Thank you for seeing to it that word of our ministries got out to our wider community regularly, clearly, and dependably. Thank you for keeping Esperanza members connected and informed and inspired. Thank you for making sure that invitations to Esperanza worship and events were sent far and wide. Thank you for giving your years of experience in the profession into Christ’s service. Thank you for your love for Christ’s church that went in to every article, every publication. Thank you for the gifts you shared.
Our whole community is the richer for it. We thank God for you!
Welcome, Lee!
Please join me in welcoming Lee Shappell! Lee will be serving as our interim newsletter editor for the next several months.
Lee is a career journalist and has lived in Ahwatukee since 1984. He was at The Arizona Republic for 39 years as a writer, copy editor, copy desk chief and content editor. He was a managing editor for three years at Times Media Group, which produces, among other publications, the Ahwatukee Foothills News, and is currently executive editor of Wrangler News, which serves South Tempe and West Chandler. He also owns a small public-relations agency, The Paragraph Factory.
Thank you, Lee, for helping us stay connected to each other and our wider community. Welcome!
— Pastor Annemarie