Father Ken Campbell, one of the three founding members along with Reverends Sally Norris and Wesley Williams, stepped down from a leadership role in NIA after 2 and a half decades of tirelessly guiding the organization.
Past President, Edgar Miranda, sharing remarks to thank Ken Campbell for years of dedicated service to our organization and to social justice on Cape Cod.
Longtime NIA member Tom Ryan shared the following remarks before presenting Ken with a Plaque of Appreciation from NIA. He said, “I first met Ken Campbell 57 years ago, when we were both seminarians in the Boston area. He was hosting us. His deliberate work to greet us and his huge smile were, always are, unforgettable.
He was ordained 55 years and two weeks ago here at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Orleans, a very unusual gathering for a bishop to come here for singling out for service. Ken has always been a man of holiness and justice, with the deepest and longest Of this place roots of us all.
Twenty four years ago, we met organizing a town wide memorial in the days after 9/11; he knew how to gather a town, and it signaled the start of NIA, the enduring local response to universal tragedy. We are witnesses to Ken’s more than two decades shaping and enabling this, of this very place living body of welcome , of justice.
The Cape rarely sees such a truly ‘of this place’ welcoming leader in justice. We are deeply gifted by God to stand with one, to be with Father Ken!”
Reverend Rod MacDonald announcing the return of an NIA sponsored student scholarship to be named in honor of Father Ken Campbell.