As March draws to a close, the RP Home bids farewell with much thanksgiving to Lorrie Meneely for her thirty-three years of faithful service. Lorrie has given much of her adult life to our ministry and kudos go to her husband, Tim, and their three kids, Jenna, Josh, and Jordan, for sharing wife and mom so unselfishly with us all these years. Lorrie is shifting gears to part-time work to which the Lord is leading her.
Lorrie’s service to the RP Home began as a member of the Board of Directors for sixteen years. Her finance and accounting skills were quickly recognized, and the Board elected her to the positions of Treasurer and Chair of the Finance Committee. Lorrie became employed by the RP Home first as an assistant to Executive Director Faith Martin, and then as the Assistant Executive Director. She shifted into the role of Controller in 2011 and assumed the position of Chief Financial Officer upon Bill Weir’s retirement in 2016.
God has blessed Lorrie with many abilities that she put to use throughout her years here. She is skilled at multi-tasking, a gift that is highly valued in this small health care and retirement community. The smaller the facility, the more “hats” you wear! Lorrie is also detail-oriented, able to see both the large picture and the small details of a task. She is able to analyze a project, identify the end goal, and establish steps to get there. (I believe her love for quilt-making highlights this same skill set!) Without question, Lorrie’s background in banking and accounting proved to be very valuable in all her roles while at the RP Home. As the dependence of staff on information technology has grown unbelievably during the past twenty five years, Lorrie has likewise grown and filled the critical role of IT “point person” during the advent of medical and financial software in the health care world. She fully embraced the rapidly growing use of technology, and her comfort level with computers was a real asset to all.
Lorrie is a wiz in using the former Pagemaker and now InDesign software programs for public relations publications of both the RP Home and its corporate organization, the Reformed Presbyterian Woman’s Association (RPWA). As our readers can attest, any finished product that Lorrie has worked on is professional in appearance and carefully worded. We will miss her knowledge and skill in this area!
The RP Home’s Mission statement states that it is “… a charitable, nonprofit organization that provides quality care and a supportive living environment to older adults in a manner consistent with the affection, honor, and care the Bible teaches us to give our parents.” As an employee, Lorrie embraced this mission wholeheartedly with honesty and integrity.
The RPWA and RP Home family are extremely grateful to Lorrie for her faithful and distinctive service in our mission to care for people in their senior years.
By Bill Weir