The Bishop’s Committee met with Canon Warren yesterday and we found him to be very helpful and pleasant to work with. He and the Diocese want to meet our needs and want to work with us to determine and achieve our goals. Please be here next Sunday to discuss the transition process with Canon Warren. I think you will find him very helpful.

Marty O’Rourke has resigned as our general maintenance and cleaning person. He will be going to services at St. John’s with Mary Anne, which is understandable. A big thank you to Marty for all of the work he has done over the years for St. Nicholas. If you feel you can help with any one of the tasks, even occasionally, that were previously taken care of by Marty, please let one of the Bishop’s Committee members know.

Another big thank you goes to Douglas VanHouten for stepping up to the plate and taking over this weekly newsletter. As you can see, Douglas has given our newsletter a new look and there will be more changes coming to the newsletter in the near future. If you have suggestions for items you would like to see in the newsletter, please let either Douglas or me know.

Pat

pat AT stnicholasepiscopal.org
(please note new email address – editor)

Sunday, February 13, immediately following the 10am service

Canon Randall Warren of the diocesan staff will be at St. Nicholas on Sunday, February 13 to discuss with the parish the next steps toward assuring ongoing ordained leadership for St. Nicholas. He wants to hear from everyone in the parish about their hopes and desires for future leadership of St. Nicholas and so all are encouraged to join him in conversation immediately following worship that day.

In order for everyone to be able to meet with Canon Warren, there will be no Saturday liturgy Saturday, February 12.

Back in the day Episcopal Church congregations used to organize themselves into Foyers groups small dinner groups to find ways to get to know each other, and maybe to invite someone new into the congregation. These days congregations are looking for new ways to connect. In Hamilton-Wenham Mass. two priests are leveraging their interest in home brewing into a way to build community:

“[The priests] both began the Home Brew Ministry around the premise that a Reverend should build their ministry around what they enjoy, in this case the hobby of home brewing. D’Angelo has been an avid home brewer since his college years.About 25 people gathered at Christ Church in Hamilton on Saturday, Jan. 29 to learn the fine art of home brewing. And it wasn’t all men either – there were women in attendance that enjoyed participating in the process of how to cook the beer and then sampled different brews.‘My wife Naomi was one of the women in attendance,’ Gray said. ‘We had a great time. It was almost like a date afternoon.’”

via The Lead.