August 17, 2016
Dear Friends:
Vestry member, Treasurer, Servant, Disciple and Faithful One, Scott Meyer shares this message following our Celebration of Ministry last Thursday...
I AM GRATEFUL
I am grateful and forever thankful to the Reverend Bill Reardon and those parishioners from Truro Church for planting The Church of the Epiphany in Franklin Middle school many years ago.
I am grateful and forever thankful to Gabe Paul and Elizabeth Tomlinson for having the courage to stand up in Vestry and congregational meetings to say that breaking away from the Episcopal Church was wrong.
I am grateful and forever thankful Gabe and his wife Gail for gathering up and offering a home to those faithful Episcopalians from Epiphany who were wandering without a church.
I am grateful and forever thankful that a few faithful decided to begin holding weekly Sunday services at Kinross Elementary school, to say to all that Epiphany Episcopal was alive, and to invite all to come and join them.
I am grateful and forever thankful to Jiji Park who started playing the keyboard during our services in the school over eight years ago and continues to provide beautiful music every Sunday.
I am grateful and forever thankful to our Bishops, especially Bishop Shannon Johnston, who came to the school every year to celebrate with us and who stood by us as we proclaimed, "God loves you. No exceptions."
I am grateful and forever thankful to the many priests who served Epiphany during our time in the school and as we returned to the building, especially Donna Foughty who served us faithful for many years in the school and Jennifer McKenzie who helped us transition into our current space.
I am grateful and forever thankful for all the new members who have joined Epiphany and brought new and exciting life to our parish.
I am grateful and forever thankful for our new Rector, the Reverend Hillary West. Her love of Jesus, her commitment to serve, and her "foolishness to believe that we can be all that God calls us to be" is an inspiration to us all.
But most of all I am grateful and forever thankful for God's inestimable love
in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ.
And now let us go forth into the world, joyfully proclaiming God's love, clothing the naked, feeding the hungry, and opening our hearts and the doors of our church to all, no exceptions. Amen.
