Church News

Thanksgiving and Christmas Baskets Churches in the community donate funds to create holiday baskets for those in need. Christmas Friends Pproviding Christmas gifts for local children, sponsored by ECW Roe-Jan Food Pantry Food and monetary donations to the Roe-Jan Food Pantry, the community food pantry for those in need. United Thank Offering Monetary donations to United Thank Offering, the Episcopal ministry which funds charities worldwide (sponsored by ECW). Episcopal Relief and Development A premiere relief and development organization, an international ministry of the Episcopal Church. WIC (Women, Infants & Children) … Read more

We have returned to church and Zoom Church is ended. Our service will be streamed in real time on Facebook Live. Read all the details in Fr John’s invitation. Choir starts up 30 May! Organist Edee Hedrick asks all singers to come at 9 am to review hymns and service music.

Internet Church, 9am With expert advice, sanitizer, masks, and distance, we are now meeting in the church. Read Fr John’s invitation. Service may be streamed from YouTube! Edee Hedrick will return to her organ, although it is too soon for singing. Flowers tended by Louise, Lucy, Mibs, Wendy, Dale, Stuart, and all church gardeners have emerged into the light. A wonderful summer of immunity awaits us! Sunday, 18 April, we celebrated Kent and Marilyn Kay, faithful congregants and choristers, who move to Minnesota in April. Longtime church members said goodbye … Read more

Edee Hedrick will return to her organ, although it is too soon for singing. Flowers tended by Louise, Lucy, Mibs, Wendy, Dale, Stuart, and all church gardeners will emerge. Pandemic will ebb and, God willing, our peaceful life resume.

Jim and Patricia Wann have taken over publishing the Voice in the Wilderness, our parish newsletter, from Dale and Louise Peterson. This is a vital part of our church life and we are grateful to them. In the Easter Voice, Fr John leads us in hope for the end of the pandemic as more persons are vaccinated. Also as more White persons wake to the evils of pervasive racism, we can hope for progress in racial justice and reconciliation. He calls on us, this Easter, to be channels of God’s … Read more

Services this year will once again be over the Internet.28 March, Palm Sunday, 10 am via Zoom 1 April, Maundy Thursday,  7:30 pm 2 April, Good Friday, 7:30 pm 4 April, Easter SundaySunrise service CANCELLED for weatherInternet Church, 10 am

Episcopal Relief & Development (is our church’s global mission heal a hurting world. During Lent we will not forget the neediest among us. Louise and Dale Peterson have published a new Voice in the Wilderness. Fr John’s essay relates Plato’s story of the Cave to respect for reality, however challenging, and the dangers of denial. Elen Freeston, our new Senior Warden, writes with surprising enthusiasm of church management and the Zoom experience. Lucy Eldridge describes the pastoral ministry visiting the housebound with meals and the love of community. Also find … Read more

Sunday 17 January we held the Annual Meeting of the Church. Read the Annual Report. With this November issue, Dale and Louise Peterson begin to wind up ten years of Voice in the Wilderness. Jim and Patricia Wann have stepped up to take over the publication of our parish newsletter. This is a vital service to our community and we are grateful to have such capable editors! Zoom Book Club has finished discussion of So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo. Our 5 person, all White group found it painful in places, but resolved to become better partners in the fight against systemic … Read more