Dear Parish Family,

New Year is often a time of resolutions in our personal lives. We look at ourselves and wonder how we might get our lives more closely in line with our values and our dreams. This year at our annual meeting, our entire church family will be focusing on living out our common values and our common dreams.

From our prayerful discernment in 2006, your vestry heard that we value inclusion, education, spiritual growth, leadership, outreach and love. From that same discernment we identified dreams both large and small. We want to be more faithful stewards of our resources: pruning busywork to make room for growth, look how our building could more intentionally support our mission as well as our commitment to the environment, seek external audit help to assure our handling of money reflects our values. We want to grow and deepen our relationships: looking at communication (using technological resources available and encouraging human connections), supporting administration that enhances our ministries, becoming more aware of our welcoming face to the community. We want to focus more energy and time in the area of spiritual formation: using our library, introducing Godly Play, exploring middle school needs, hiring an education and formation director for the church.

Our budgeting process at the annual meeting after church on January 20 th will be a first step in committing resources to manifesting our values and dreams as lived reality. During the meeting our Convention Delegates will help us look at how we might commit resources of time and talent in order to enflesh the Spirit of God at work among us at Christ Church . Please bring your family to this very special 3rd Sunday Brunch and Annual meeting on January 20th .

Peace,

Mary

Sunday Morning Church School – Mary Keller
Sunday morning adult ed – wally
Sunday morning family ed – Mary Kelle