Rector’s Blog

Our first ministry training is this Sunday! Following both services, we will be talking about what it means to be an acolyte. All are welcome, whether you are a current acolyte, interested in becoming an acolyte, or just curious. We will pass out new guides for acolyting as well as discussing the way you contribute

Next Saturday (February 7) at 10 AM, we are scrubbing and polishing the pews! Come in your work clothes and make the pews shine with our care and love. Thank you to a parishioner donation that bought the cleaning supplies. Our “snow check” Bingo is also on February 7 from 3-5 PM. It will be

We have all kinds of fellowship opportunities coming up. Our next one is our Card Game Night on January 31 from 3-5 p.m. Bring a deck of cards and come ready to have fun. Snacks will be provided, so just bring your favorite non-alcoholic beverage, and any ideas for a favorite card game. The next

Life at St. Mary’s continues to hum along. The Welcome Team is hosting a Card Game night at St. Mary’s on January 31 from 3-5 p.m. Free popcorn will be provided, so just bring your favorite non-alcoholic beverage, and any ideas for a favorite card game. Or, just bring yourself. I have decks of cards

What is Holy Baptism? Holy Baptism is the sacrament by which God adopts us as his children and makes us members of Christ’s Body, the Church, and inheritors of the kingdom of God. – BCP 858 This Sunday is the Baptism of Our Lord, the feast day when we mark Jesus’ baptism by John. Matthew,

Happy New Year! Sunday is the 11th Day of Christmas (eleven pipers piping), and I hope you are feeling the warmth of the incarnation in your life (if not outside). Sunday is also our first trial of a “Potluck Coffee Hour.” Thank you to people for your feedback about the importance of food at Coffee

Today (December 21) is the start of our Christmas services. We will have Advent IV at the 8 a.m. service. At 10 a.m. we will have a spontaneous (no-rehearsal) Christmas Pageant. At 4 p.m. we will have our Longest Night service in the Chapel. Please invite your family and friends to our Christmas Eve services.

We are collecting funds to provide four local families with Christmas dinner. We had so much fun at Thanksgiving, collecting, shopping and delivering, that we thought we’d try it at Christmas, too. We’ll collect funds through December 21, and go shopping December 22 to get the families their Christmas groceries. There will be a wooden

Happy Second Sunday of Advent – the Sunday of Peace. Today we begin our Advent Adult Formation Class examining the meaning of the incarnation through the lens of “Justice.” Please join us in the Library at 9 a.m. After the 10 a.m. service we are having Advent Crafts. Make a nativity scene, Christmas ornaments and

It’s Advent! I adore the cyclical seasonal changes, but I have a particularly soft spot for Advent. It combines the hope in God’s promises, and a defiance against the increasingly shorter and colder days. May you have a happy and blessed Advent! We have several options for Advent formation. On Wednesdays (December 3, 10, and