The year 2015 has come to us bearing 70-year anniversaries commemorating events of great import: VE Day, VJ Day, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the liberation of concentration camps in Germany and to the east. In April, my family and I traveled to Germany to attend the liberation anniversary remembrance at Bergen Belsen concentration camp in the north central part of the country.

Fun, sun, T-birds, California girls.

The Beach Boys.

And as I look out across this room, I see your faces. Hundreds of them. Faces lit up by the lights, by good food, by being with friends and meeting new friends, by the immeasurable possibilities open to us as we pursue our own journeys of becoming more and more a servant-leader.