The RP Home bids farewell to Lorrie Meneely with much thanksgiving for her 33 years of faithful service. Lorrie has given much of her adult life to our ministry. Kudos also go to her husband, Tim, and their three children, 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 16 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 at the RP Home. She is skilled at multitasking, a gift that is highly valued in this small healthcare and retirement community. The smaller the facility, the more hats a person wears! 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 at the RP Home. As the dependence of staff on information technology has grown exponentially during the past 25 years, Lorrie has likewise grown and filled the critical role of IT point person during the advent of medical and financial software in the healthcare world. She fully embraced the rapidly growing use of technology, and her comfort level with computers was a great asset to all.

Lorrie is adept in using page layout software 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 says 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 wholeheartedly embraced this mission 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.

—Bill Weir