Thank You (You’re Welcome)

Posted on February 18, 2011 by ginny

From this week’s newsletter:

Profound thanks to Ginny Gibbs, webmistress extraordinaire, for her tireless work on the St. Nicholas website.

Equally profound thanks to David Gibbs, for securing and donating our domain names and new email addresses.

You’re all very welcome – literally.

In addition to the main domain for St Nicholas, www.onebreadonebody.org, David and your webmistress are happy to host:

www.stnicholasepiscopal.org and .com
www.stnickepiscopal.org and .com

Also, your clergy and lay leaders have email addresses of their own:

pat AT stnicholasepiscopal.org

manny AT stnicholasepiscopal.org

douglas AT stnicholasepiscopal.org

There is also a general inbox:

info AT stnicholasepiscopal.org

More email addresses are available for various roles or tasks, just contact me at

ginny AT stnicholasepiscopal.org

Northwest LGBT Spirituality Group Saturday at 5:45pm

Posted on February 18, 2011 by ginny

The NW LGBT Spiritual Group is a weekly group that meets every Saturday @ 5:45pm in the sanctuary of St. Nicholas’. We explore spirituality, as well as other LGBT issues. Our goal is to explore how we can make our spirituality a bigger part of our entire lives. We discuss issues concerning identity, and how that impacts our overall spiritual selves. Through group discussion and friendly fellowship, we hope to continue to deepen our bonds, and then to eventually, reach out to the wider community. Sending out a message of tolerance and inclusion is something we want to be very vocal about. Our watchwords are exploration, reconciliation, and acceptance.

Bishop’s Committee News

Posted on February 18, 2011 by ginny

Canon Randall Warren met with the congregation Sunday and explained the transition process we will be going through in selecting our new vicar. He emphasized that we do not want to hurry the process, but be thoughtful, intentional, and prayerful. In the next few weeks, we will have an opportunity to take an online survey that will give us objective data that will provide us with a profile of St. Nicholas. In turn, the Search Team will use this profile to build a profile for what we are looking for in our next vicar. The survey will identify where our strengths lie and where we want our focus to be, so that we can continue to grow as a worship community.

This can be an exciting time for us to express our feelings and desires for what we want St. Nicholas to be and become. The survey will be completely anonymous. For those who do not have a computer, there will be hard copies of the survey; you’ll then put your unsigned survey into a box and someone will take them and enter them into the computer. I strongly encourage everyone to participate in the survey. Your voice counts!

In the meantime, Manny will continue to be our Transition Minister. He will be contracted to be here on a 75% time basis and is eligible to interview for the position of Vicar.

Please let me know any questions and/or concerns you have.

Pat Kalicki

pat AT stnicholasepiscopal.org