This book was commissioned by Deacon Baldwin Powell. Created to mark the retirement of the Most Reverend Bishop Burchell Alexander McPherson, Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Montego Bay, it is a gathering of images that tell the story of a life poured out in service.
Here is Bishop McPherson among his people: the poor, the young, the sick, the searching. Here is the warmth that filled every room he entered, the laughter he never suppressed, the hands he extended to sinners and saints alike. Here, too, are the formal occasions of his episcopate held alongside the candid, unhurried moments that reveal a pastor whose faith was not ceremonial but lived, daily and without reserve.
What began as a retirement gift has, in the providence of God, become something more: a lasting record of a shepherd who gave himself entirely. For those who loved him, these pages will bring him close again. For those who did not know him, they offer an encounter with a man whose life was its own kind of sermon.
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