Each year our Sunday School children decorate mite boxes for our lenten donation to A is for Africa. Church members participate by picking up a box and collecting their loose change during lent and returning their full box at our ingathering on Easter Day. Our presentation was made to Rick and Mary Anne Smith, Directors of…
Rector – The Summer Day I’m away at the College for Congregational Development this week, and so instead of an article I offer you a poem for prayer and reflection. Yours in God’s peace, Kristin+ “The Summer Day” by Mary Oliver Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean-…
From the Rector – The Church Does Not Need Volunteers Over the summer at our Vestry meetings, we began taking a few minutes each month to reflect on a brief article or resource about congregational life. One that really struck a chord with all of us was an article written by Erin Wathen about volunteering…