Tiffany Poplawski, Bill Jones and Shelley Christensen did an amazing job cleaning, painting and setting up the nursery for our youngest members.  It is now a bright, sunny and inviting place for parents to leave their little ones.  Take a peek:

Nursery

 

 

 

 

Most importantly, our nursery moms have all taken the Diocesan “Safe Church” training, making sure that our nursery is a safe place for parents to leave their little ones.  You can read the Diocese’s safe church policies here.

The nursery is staffed during our 10:00 a.m. Sunday service.  Contact the office for more details.

written by admin

Our parish of Reconciliation exists primarily not to meet our own needs but rather to be a community that reaches out to transform the lives of all sorts and conditions of persons in our area from hopelessness and anxiety to peace and new life. What are your thoughts as to how best we may do this? Do we want to make our worship more attractive for persons who have never attended church before? Do we need music more familiar to young people? Do we provide relief services to those in need? Or do we go out and ring doorbells and let peoiple know God loves them? If you were going to select ONE THING that is most important to do to help the folk out there to come and be fed by God, what would you do? What do you think is the first thing we should do in order better to reach those outside? Where should we start? We can’t do everything in a small church but we can do something with God’s help.
P.A. Kingman+

written by Father Perry

After looking forward to it for several months, today we are joining with our resident Hispanic congregation (Iglesia Christiana casa del Alfarero). We have a strong sense that God will give us both some special blessings by listening to God’s Word and praying together even though we do it in very different styles. We hear these days that if our church wants to reach out to today’s seekers we will have to do some things differently in worship– like music. We would need a different service at a different time (such as Saturday evening) to reach out to young people who are seekers. Some of us have begun to think about what we could do for an alternative worship service such as Saturday evenings. Are you interested to help? Let us know what you think.

P.A. Kingman+

written by Father Perry

The Rev. Becca Stevens, an Episcopal priest in Nashville TN, founded a residential recovery program for women with history of addiction and prostitution called Magdalene. One of the things these women do while in the program is work for Thistle Farms. Another of Rev. Becca’s projects, Thistle Farms creates all natural, earth friendly skin products with Biblical names, like “Lot’s Wife Salt Scub.” Proceeds fund the Magdalene program, while the work itself gives the participants the chance to experience the dignity of legal employment. If you live in the Nashville area, you can host a “salon party.” Like a Tupperware party for a good cause, Thistle Farms parties involve friends, food, product demos and something extra: a visit from one of women being helped by Magdalene. Outside Nashville, you can have a party kit sent to you along with a video about the program. This would be a perfect activity for an ECW group to sponsor, if we had one, which we don’t. (hint hint!) Maybe the young women in our youth group would like to do something like this?

written by admin

God has a disturbing habit of calling eminently unqualified people to carry out the work of God’s Kingdom.

God Equips the Called by Nathan Humphrey

written by AmyGee

Audrey and Don Cronin from Heifer International came to speak with us about hunger this past Sunday, and we took up a collection to help the rebuilding at Overlook Farm in Rutland, which was hit by fire a few weeks ago. If you would like to help, donate online or drop an envelope in the collection plate with “Heifer” written on it. We’ll send it on its way.

written by AmyGee