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Yesterday I got a letter from Sharon, a friend I met in the "Servant Leadership group" I mentioned in today's earlier Call to Commitment posting. She wrote to me of the news of the passing of Debra Campbell July 31st. She included a copy of a reflection Debra wrote. In looking at Google searches on Debra Campbell (and adding "Servant Leadership" to the search, I found this page which had the reflection and a picture of Debra and her husband, David).
"My work is the same as it has always been: hanging out with Jesus and growing in my relationships"
By DEBBY CAMPBELL
In September I had extensive surgery for a tumor that turned out to be malignant. Two months later, a doctor informed us, "Your cancer has metastasized to the liver. There is no cure. Your life is measured in months." This news and experience has caused me to reflect on the meaning of life and how I want to live the time I have, whether it is years or months. For me the bottom line of life has always been our relationship with God, others, self, and all creation. Life is about receiving love, being love, confessing broken relationships, and creating systems of healthy relationships. " | Click here to read the rest of the article
Debra was the reason there was a "Servant Leadership" group in Cincinnati. She worked for the West Ohio Conference (who host the page I link for the article by Debra). She was one who was touched in a life-changing way by the ministries of The Church of the Saviour. She writes in her reflection about working for a week in Christ House. She worked in Methodist circles to incorporate some of the insights from the COS model of discipleship into the structures of the Methodist Church. She hooked up with people in Cincinnati who found the Old St.George facility, which was very open and excited by the idea of hosting a group patterned in the "COS mode". MY friend Larry Bourgeois had visited COS while we were on the road at an Ecunet 95 conference in Baltimore, and were staying with the family of another friend, Bob Sabath (webmaster for Sojourners mag online) in D.C. Larry was (and still is) the director of Old St. George's, and we held the classes in the bookstore/coffeeshouse that was housed in Old St. George. Debra Campbell led a group of some 15 of us in a course patterned after COS' School of Christian Living and Servant Leadership School. |
