STOCKTON – After decades of serving the community and touching the lives of countless families in Stockton, Alan Cook is retiring as director of Family Ministries at Central United Methodist Church.
Incredibly, says someone who’s had a hand in everything from educating children and arranging dinners for struggling families to ministering to families and helping build homes for the needy all over the world, the part of retirement he’s most looking forward to isn’t hitting the beach or settling into a recliner.
It’s giving back.
“When you ask about what I want to do is,” says Cook, 66, “I think I want to repay the community, because I have been so lucky. I have met amazing people.”