Immediately following our 10:30 Mass we will gather in the undercroft for a delicious brunch and our annual meeting.
This is our opportunity to thank our fellow members who have given of themselves to serve on our behalf on the Vestry as their term concludes. It is also a time to elect new members to the Vestry to guide us through this crucial year of discernment as we search for our next rector.
Our senior warden, David Persson, will fill us in on the anticipated steps of the discernment process and our anticipated timeline.
Our treasurer, Gary Keyak, will present our preliminary budget for 2020. Many of our other ministry leaders will report on the work carried out by St. Martin's in 2019 and their plans for 2020.
And here's some more good news - many of you submitted a pledge of your financial commitment to St. Martin's this week. Thanks to you we turned the corner from wondering how we might possibly make our 2020 budget in a responsible way to being quite hopeful that we will be able to do just that if only the rest of our members also indicate their support. We are in the home stretch of this year's request for an indication of your support. During the coming week members of the Vestry will be reaching out to those from whom we have not yet received a pledge to ask if they would consider doing so. Of course, there are many ways a member can support one's parish, and we are grateful for all the ways the people of St. Martin's make this such a vibrant parish. Each one of you is precious to God; each of you matters to St. Martin's!