Date: June 30, 2026
Summer at the Welcome Center has a different rhythm. As campus quiets, the slower pace creates space for me to step beyond my usual responsibilities and help out in other departments. I’m grateful for the chance to collaborate with others and support the work that keeps our community healthy and growing.
I’ve also been reflecting on Paul’s words: “Welcome one another, therefore, just as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God” (Romans 15:7). In Romans, welcome is not simply friendliness or good manners. It is the practice of receiving one another with the same grace we have received from Christ. To welcome someone is to make room for their presence, their story, their needs, and their gifts.
That kind of welcome is not confined to a physical building, like the Welcome Center, or a specific job. It is a practice we all get to be part of, wherever our work takes us. Whether through our professional lives, our studies, our conversations, or the small ways we notice and care for one another, each of us helps cultivate the welcome of this community. In every small interaction, we help make VTS more fully a place of belonging.
Renata Sachs
Guest Relations Coordinator