On
October 30, at 10:00 AM, we will gather to celebrate our shared life, and kick-off our capital campaign. We are glad to share with you the name of our campaign:
Growing in the Light. Our campaign is based in the values that have always guided our community.
- We began as a dream: a vision of a church that didn't have to be like any other church.
- We began as an idea: a place where all people could join in friendship with God.
- We began as a hope: that we could balance beauty, justice, and friendship in a single common life.
All of this began more than 40 years ago. In 1974, our Co-Founder, Rick Fabian, wrote these words when he began to imagine our congregation:
From the beginning, God made people to share his own life of love, and in living that life together to find their true selves and his purpose for them. This common life changes form with times and places, but it is one life because God wishes people of all times and places to become one in him. For this purpose, he made covenants, and called prophets, and sent his Son, at last, to draw the whole world to himself. For the same purpose, he charges his Church to gather out of every nation and language, filling her treasury with things new and old, because the variety of her common life makes her a sign to the peoples of the Day when God will be all in all.
Our founders, Rick Fabian, Donald and Ellen Schell led our community in building the magnificent space where we gather week after week to celebrate the love of God that draws us all in friendship. Because of the work of our founding generation, we have a place to gather. We can pray, sing and dance beneath the saints whose eternal dance bears witness to the unity of God's love for all peoples from all times and in all faiths. The saints light the way for us, just as surely as the sun that streams through our windows. We are reminded of God's presence with us in the symbol and presence of light in our building. Truly, the Light leads us forward. Now is our time to build on the legacy of those who gave their time, talent and money to provide our community its home.
Make plans now to join us at a special time:
10:00 AM
It will include singing and lunch, sharing bread and wine, and hearing stories from our founders and leaders of St. Gregory's.
We look forward to celebrating the vision of our next era with you on a special day:
October 30.
For the Capital Campaign Committee we are faithfully yours,
