Dear fellow Pilgrims,
Those of you who heard my “I Have This Dream” sermon on June 19 will remember that I talked about some of the distinctive aspects of being Episcopalian, and some of the characteristics that I hope will remain and grow about St. Peter’s. One of those is that we intentionally and enthusiastically welcome all people to journey with us at St. Peter’s (remember the mission statement?: “We believe that Christian life is a journey, and we invite God’s people to journey with us”)
Sometimes our worship doesn’t feel totally accessible to guests (stand up, sit down, juggle books, say this – sing this…), and it is a constant challenge to try to make our liturgy open while not watering it down.
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Fr. George Young opened the meeting at 6:05 p.m. Present: The Rev. Elizabeth Tappe, Toby Atkinson, Jeri Kolke, Bill Dickson, Gary Bong, John Dyal, Early McCall, Vann Simmons, Ben Stephens, and guest Joe Crim. Absent: Cheryl Smith, April Davis, Ginger Mock and Bert Jenkins.
Toby Atkinson offered “Centering” meditation following which John Dyal shared spiritual reflections.
NEXT MEETING: August 8, 2005 @ 6 pm
DEVOTIONAL: Early McCall
REMINDERS: NO JULY Vestry meeting; Strategic Planning/Retreat commences June 24 with dinner @ 6p.m. in the Parish Hall and will conclude by 4p.m. the following day.
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Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
As I’m sure most of you know, the Convention of the Diocese of Florida met on Saturday, May 21 at Camp Weed. At this time, probably most of the information you have about that has come either from newspaper articles or talking to delegates or maybe you’ve been searching the web and gotten information from various sources. The Diocese has not yet provided new information, though you may log on to the website (www.diocesefl.org) and read the resolutions that were brought to the Convention.
I want to tell you how thankful and encouraged I am at the actions taken by this Convention. The best of those has to be the courage and strong leadership that Bishop John Howard has offered to the Diocese of Florida. Much lesser is the fact that I was elected to a 3 year term to the Standing Committee, as well as a Deputy to General Convention 2006 (and I am honored and privileged at both!).
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In addition to the schedules on each ministry page, all schedules of those who serve at the liturgy (and others) now appear on one page accessed on the pull-down menu under “Worship.” It is our hope that this will make it easier for members to check their assignments.
To make it easier to print out the schedules, a printer-friendly version can be accessed from the Schedules page. It lacks the header and footer information, and the titles are a little smaller. It will also work in Netscape and Firefox browsers which have a bug that, at some web sites including ours, prevents the printing of multiple pages when the information on a web page will not fit on one page of paper.
Your comments and suggestions would be appreciated. There is an e-mail link on the About page
Bill Hayes
