Vestry and Wardens and Bylaws – Oh, My The vestry is working on changing our parish bylaws. As it stands, a person elected to the vestry is serving a one-year term and is eligible for re-election twice, three years in …
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Transformation and Ministry Even though it has been several years since I have been on an academic schedule, when August rolls around I still feel a sense of newness. While the calendar may change in January, for a long time …
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Ordinary Miracles As I write this, I can look out my office window and see the Easter lilies planted beside the parish hall. At least, I can see where they were. Don’t panic – they are still there, I just …
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Easter, Hope, and Redemption Here we are in the Great Fifty Days of Easter. Christ is risen, and we celebrate. We celebrate the hope that the Resurrection gives us; the hope that comes from knowing that God gives us eternal …
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Holy Week and Easter Spring is in the air, and the Great Fifty Days of Easter are almost here. But not yet. First there is Holy Week. Holy Week and its culmination in Easter Day make up the most important …
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What are We Doing for Lent? Once again, we are beginning the season of Lent. While Lent is usually associated with “giving up” things, it is also a time of taking on new things. If one’s attendance at services has …
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New Year, New People, Same Wonderful Church So we have started the new calendar year. (It has been the new Church year for months now.) New things are beginning and continuing things are, for lack of a better word, continuing. …
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It’s Bazaar The end of November at St. James’ is a pretty hectic and exciting time. Between our annual Harvest Bazaar and the Thanksgiving holiday, there is not much time for getting the newsletter together, especially because we do a …
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So What Can I do? There are many areas of ministry in the church. I have written before about our renewed efforts at “hands-on” outreach, for example. There are also many opportunities to serve “in house,” as it were. I …
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Something New (Don’t Panic) I am beginning my sixth month as the rector of St. James’. Before that, of course, I served for two years as the priest-in-charge. When making the transition from one to the other, the vestry and …
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