We re-affirm the words of our founding bishop, the Rt. Rev. Arthur Crawshay Alliston Hall, the Third Bishop of Vermont. Bishop Hall received Good Shepherd into parish status on the First Sunday of Lent, 1895.

"It is not mere duty we would press, but the joy of a life guided and supported through sorrows, difficulties, and temptations by the Christian faith, intelligently held and lovingly acted upon, with the devout use of the means of grace it affords. For these purposes we should exert a far more agressive ministry than has been our wont, not merely offering to others what we have, but urging on them the blessings we are seen to value and enjoy, winning others to the obedience of Christ, in which, and in which alone, is found true freedom - freedom from sin and ignorance, from bondage to Satan, to the world, and to self - the freedom of the newborn children of God, realized in the fellowship of His Church."

Bishop Arthur C.A. Hall

Address to Diocesan Convention

1919