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Letter to Saint Luke Greetings from Pastor Richard to my beloved Saint Luke United Methodist Church in Augusta, GA. As I am away, I want to give thanks to God who has provided me the blessing of being your pastor, an experience I would have never imagined, and one that reminds me of William Cowper’s poem, “God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea,      And rides upon the storm.” This poem was inspired by John 13:7, “Jesus ans

February 8, 2026 Pastor Richard Camino Scripture: Matthew 5:13-16 "You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt loses its taste, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled under feet by men. You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before people that

Rev. Richard F Camino, M.D., M.A. The Gospel of John 3: 13-17, tells about the unimaginable love God has for us. The force question we should ask is: How is it that Christ gave his life for the salvation of All, and we built lives against them?  In Thomas Merton’s book, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, he provides some answers to this question: “The sin of bad theology has been precisely this - to set Christ up against man, and to regard all flesh and blood men as 'not-Chri