[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 28 (Tuesday, February 23, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Page S1743]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           THE GUEST CHAPLAIN

  Mr. ALLARD. Mr. President, I should like to personally welcome the 
guest Chaplain today, Dr. James Olson, who is from my home State of 
Colorado. I wish to also thank Dr. Lloyd Ogilvie for his graciousness 
in welcoming him here to the Senate.
  My wife Joan and I are blessed that we have inspirational leaders 
both here in Washington and back in my home State of Colorado. Dr. 
Lloyd Ogilvie is somebody we really respect and value and look to for 
our spiritual leadership. Dr. James Olson is not only a spiritual 
leader for my wife and I in Colorado but of the family, and I just wish 
to state in a public manner how much we appreciate his leadership and 
how much as a family we appreciate what he does for us. He has not only 
personally served the Allard family, but he has personally served the 
community of Fort Collins, CO. He has taken an active part in that 
community as a religious leader, and in his sermons in the Faith 
Evangelical Free Church of Fort Collins he has been a leader of affairs 
before our country, and I think he has been a voice of reason for the 
congregation and one of balance. I have always appreciated his message 
on Sundays whenever we have attended his church, and I think that he 
has strengthened the spiritual community in Fort Collins, particularly 
the Christian community.
  I just want to recognize in a public way all his leadership in 
Colorado, particularly his community. I think he typifies the 
leadership throughout this country of many of our community pastors and 
religious leaders. Sometimes I don't think we recognize them as we 
should. They are an important part of what goes on in this country; 
they are an important part of what America is all about.
  So it is with a great deal of pleasure that I welcome Dr. James Olson 
to the Senate and let him know just how much we appreciate his prayer 
this morning and wish both his wife Carol and him our very best. We are 
happy that they could take time out of their religious lives to come to 
Washington and be a part of the Senate today.

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