
- he didn't talk for too long, maybe 30 minutes;
- he told us a story about a famed US Vietnam pilot who 30 years after the fact met the guy who had packed his parachute every day. He used this story to tie his messages together;
- he talked about himself at a personal level ... told us a couple of stories about his childhood, and people who had a positive affect on him;
- he talked about some of the people he has met in our community, and told their story ... and how they arrived at a place where they needed help from organisations the United Way supports;
- and finally he tied it back to us and how lucky we are to be part of the "community of hope" as opposed to a "community of despair or even fear", because both of those "places" exist in all of our cities.