reporter: the church proclaims that everyone is welcome, and that's probably what attracted mark horriganharged with sodomizing, sexually abusing and intimidating an 11-year-old boy back in 1998. he pled guilty to a lesser charge, served time in prison and agreed not to serve as a leader in any church where he would have contact with children, but his probation is over. even if the sex offender registration will never end. >> but us as a society we can't forget. we can't move on, and i preach in this church to try to allow good to move you on. >> reporter: pastor randy meadows says the lord has touched his heart and he wants to become an ordained minister next sunday. >> if we show people that somebody with mark's past and background can become productive in society then who else could reach out to other people but christ's people. >> reporter: former church deacon kevin pickerel says the man was never straightforward about his past until he was confront sfld so i have, of course, my piece of paper that i done my research on and hand it had to him and said this is the problem, and his rea

remember one of vermont's greatest citizens, a dairy farmer, an american, my good friend harold horrigan. harold passed away at the age of 85 in his home in vermont. in september 2009. he was surrounded by his loving family, long aextended andextend extended and wonderful family. harold was a family man. this large extended family included his wife of 56 years, ann; three sons and two daughters, 12 grandchildren. he had an optimist outlook on life, a knack for storeytelling, he cast a spell over everyone in his presence. many of his stories were about growing up in a family with nine other siblings reared on a hillside farm in northern vermont. i could think of more than one occasion, mr. president, when marcel and i would be there, we'd be listening to one of these stories. i knew that we might be late for the next thing but i didn't want it to end. i wanted to hear what else he had to say. and harold was a man that seemed to accomplish more each year than most of us do in a lifetime. he built his fairfield, vermont farm to over 1,000 acres, including land that had been worked by his fa