[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15111]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




WELCOMING THE REVEREND TIMOTHY SMITH, CHAPLAIN, SUN HEALTH HOSPICE, SUN 
                             CITY, ARIZONA

  (Mr. FRANKS of Arizona asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FRANKS of Arizona. Mr. Speaker, our Founding Father, John Adams, 
told us, ``Our Constitution was made for moral and religious people and 
that it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.''
  Mr. Speaker, we are very privileged today to have among us a man, 
Reverend Timothy Smith. Reverend Smith reminds all of us of our 
spiritual heritage in this country, and we are greatly bettered because 
of his presence with us today.
  This gentleman has been offering spiritual counsel and leadership to 
Arizona residents for more than 30 years; and from children to senior 
citizens, thousands of Arizonians have benefited tremendously from the 
selfless ministry of this man.
  He has served as chaplain for the Arizona Department of Juvenile 
Corrections and has pastored congregations in Sun City and Glendale and 
is currently offering a very touching and much-needed type of 
compassion on a daily basis as chaplain of Sun Health Hospice in Sun 
City.
  Mr. Speaker, we are indeed blessed to have this man with us because 
he somehow helps us know in our mortality that there is a high and 
lofty One that inhabits eternity that watches over all of us, and we 
are the better for his presence here; and I thank him for his 
commitment to God, his commitment to his country and his commitment to 
his fellow man.

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