Dear Parish Family,
Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Like all months at Christ Church November has much going on, but two things particularly that I want to call to your attention:
First, Sunday November 7, All Saints Sunday, is Commitment Sunday for our Ministry of Annual Giving. Please put your Pledge Card, indicating the amount of your intended financial offering for 2022, in the offering.
In anticipation of that, I remind you of what I have written recently: there is something contemporaneous about giving. Is it not mere logic to conclude that those who are here now are so because they are experiencing in many and varied ways a good, godly, graceful, gospel value? And should not we who earnestly desire the continuance and thriving of such a place, both hope and expect that therefore each household for whom this is true would be precisely those who give generously for that continuance and thriving? If my meaning is unclear let me say it this way: let not one single household who is here now expect that this beloved church will be sustained now by those who used to be here or those who will one day be here. Look not to the past nor to the future but to the present: the gift that will sustain and strengthen is contemporaneous with the one who is here now to read these words - you and me. May it be so.
Second, Sunday November 14 is our Annual Parish Meeting. There will be one service at 10 a.m. in the church followed by the meeting in the Parish Hall. We will elect new vestry members and diocesan convention delegates and hear ministry news of the Parish. I encourage your attendance.
Faithfully,
Fr. Ted
