Recent Vestry Notes
Vestry Notes
Vestry Notes (week of 3-01-26)
Last week, we experienced the Liturgy of the Word with Deacon Erik joining us to lead it and preach. It was a new paradigm that took us into the world of live streaming and back to booklets rather than a PPT on the screens. As Deacon Erik re-worked the liturgy, he put “… a season to dream, explore and recommit to faith in action!” on the cover of the bulletin.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the “season to dream, to explore, and to recommit”. On the one hand, I think to myself, Redeemer has been doing that for two years now only to realize that what we have been doing is surviving, managing, juggling, and hoping. Don’t get me wrong, we have managed a LOT! From boilers to broken pipes to electrical issues to tree challenges to maintaining our beautiful liturgies and sooooooooooo much more. My hope is with Rev. Willie and Deacon Erik here with us, working with us, helping us explore our dreams and where we hope they might lead us, there will be a renewed sense of energy and hope. I see beauty rising from the cracks… I see progress with the sound system, engagement with our building usage, and lots of the nitty gritty little things that just seem to never get done, are now being done. I see new faces in the pews. I see engagement and it all gives me hope.
Anyone who knows me, knows how much I admire Bishop Steven Charleston. His wisdom and grace touch my heart and my soul in so many ways. I want to share with you something he wrote which I think is meant for Redeemer. “There is no going back. The past for which we may be nostalgic will not return. Our task is to take what we have now and transform it into something that will take us to a hopeful future. We are in the process of recreating ourselves. Let us do it with faith and imagination.”
Join me in hope this Holy Lent,
Colleen Hintz for the Vestry
Brian Malcolm, Paulette Bellew, Wardens
Vestry Members: Melissa Allman, Paul Cecala, Agnes Clyne, Leslie Harden, Colleen Hintz, and Barbara Shannon.
