We are setting things in motion to get our Search Committee activated. Sunday at the 11 AM service we will commission most of the Search Committee members. A few who cannot be present at that time will be commissioned at the 9:15 service on August 18. Alda White and Karla Snellings, Search Committee co-chairs, and I will meet with Rev. Sarah Brockenbrough by telephone next week. The Search Committee will meet with Rev. Brockenbrough on August 18 as their first official meeting. From that point on, most of what they do will be confidential from other Trinitarians, including the Vestry. The idea is that they work independently from other church functions, though they will, of course, from time to time give us updates on the process, though not the names of people they are considering. Parishioners will have a chance to give input through a formal process into the kind of priest we want and more important, the kind of parish we want to be. Ultimately the Vestry will vote on the candidate, usually just one presented by the Search Committee, and the Bishop will then make the confirming decision. We have been advised to secure supply priests through the middle of September as the Diocese compiles names of priests eligible to be our Interim. We will keep you posted on that process, too.
Trinity will be (unplanned!) host to part of the Fredericksburg Water Slide festivities on Saturday, August 31. The actual slide will be on William Street from College Avenue to Littlepage. We have negotiated a fee for the use of the two parking lots – our lower one for staging the slide riders and our upper one for parking. We plan to use part of that fee to buy bottled water to hand out free to participants. The idea is that we will publicize Trinity quietly but publicly, doing what some call “Walking Evangelism”, in our turquoise Trinity t-shirts. We hope Trinitarians of various ages will volunteer to assist for an hour or so to demonstrate that we have parishioners of all ages in our church, hopefully interesting to other young families who may be seeking a church home. We’ll be giving more information on this and soliciting volunteer water-handlers later this month.
Claire Curcio, Senior Warden
