The Rev. Jon Egger, a past Deacon of the Church of the Resurrection, passed away after a long fight against systematic sarcoidosis on December 19.   Jon retired from the Kansas City Veterans Administration Medical Center, where he worked as an RN for 27 years.  Jon was ordained as a deacon in the Episcopal Church on February 1, 2003 and was initially assigned to the Church of the Resurrection and later to Trinity in Independence.  A memorial service will be held at 10:00 am on Saturday, December 30 at Grace Episcopal Church in Liberty.  Dress is casual. 

• Making additional charitable contributions to the parish in 2017
• Donating appreciated securities
• Creating a Donor-advised Fund with the Episcopal Church Foundation (ECF) to receive the full tax deduction in 2017, with the opportunity to make grants to your favorite charities

Senior Warden John Biggs and Joyce invite Resurrection members to share New Year's Eve with them beginning at 7:00 pm!

 

Please bring an hors d'oeuvre to share.  BYOB

The Finding Faith through Fiction Book Club will meet next at 7 pm in the undercroft on Tuesday, January 2.  This month's book is  These High, Green Hills by Jan Karon.  We're once again in Mitford, a southern village of local characters so heartwarming and hilarious you'll wish you lived right next door. At last, Mitford's rector and lifelong bachelor, Father Tim, has married his talented and vivacious neighbor, Cynthia. Now, of course, they must face some new challenges - like sleeping arrangements for Father Tim's sofa-sized dog,  Cynthia's urge to decorate the rectory and the growing pains of the thrown-away boy who's become like a son to the rector. Add a life-changing camping trip, the arrival of the town's first policewoman, and a new computer that requires the patience of a saint, and you know you're in for another engrossing visit to Mitford -- the little town that readers everywhere love to call home.

A favorite winter tradition returns to Resurrection in January!   Singles and couples are invited to participate in Dinner-Go-Round groups that will choose to either rotate dinner among the homes of those in each group or dine in a restaurant.  Each group makes their own rules and chooses their own times to meet.  Sign-up on the Narthex bulletin board and you will be placed in a group of six.  Each participant or couple will host only once.