Celebration of New Ministry for the Rev. Colette Hammesfahr - The Rt. Rev. Frank S. Logue
The Rt. Rev. Frank S. Logue St. Thomas Isle of Hope Savannah, Georgia November 11, 2026 The training wheels are off. Let’s ride! Celebration of New Ministry for the Rev. Colette Hammesfahr Joshua 1:7-9, Romans 12:1-18, and John 15:9-16 As I was praying through this sermon, an image came to me of that moment when a child rides a bike for the first time with the training wheels off. You know this, right? The training wheels are off. The parent is running alongside the child peddling the bike, keeping the bike upright. As momentum builds, the child has got this. The parent lets go and watches. It takes a while for the child to notice that they have been riding on their own with neither training wheels nor parental support. There is nothing like that moment. This image seems unavoidable with the Reverend Colette Gernay Hammesfahr as the Rector of St. Thomas Isle of Hope. Colette’s dad, Nestor, is a native of Belgium, where cycling is a national obsession and race...