To the St. David's Parish Community;
The Vestry has established this blog to capture and channel the ideas and energy that are being generated through the Town Hall meetings being conducted at St. David's during the season of Easter in 2009. These meetings are an important part of reminding ourselves who we are, discussing the short-term challenges we face, and most important of all, creating a vision of our community in the future!
Please feel free to ask questions, articulate your ideas about anything that has come up in these meetings, and connect with other like-minded parishioners.
Connecting with others is important for two reasons. First, there seems to be a large group of people who have ideas and energy to take our parish forward, and it will be beneficial if their ideas can gather momentum! Second, these Town Hall meetings will be most effective, and gather the most momentum, if more people hear what is going on. It is our hope that this blog will become a "virtual" Town Hall meeting long after the real ones are over.
Thanks for reading and God Bless.
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Senior Warden Jim Landers led our first Town Hall Meeting. He moderated the Q & A session with grace and style. Turnout was very good and participation was outstanding. I urge everyone to attend one or more of the meetings in the days and weeks ahead.
George P. Burdell, a.k.a. Howard Cutter
This blog is a great tool for those of us interested in leading St. David's into a fiscally sound future, to post practical ideas and insights.
When the whole parish works together, as a family, in the name of Jesus Christ, we will prevail! Blessings, Connie
Please join the Men's Club for a fantastic BBQ dinner tonight from 6-8pm in Jeffords Fellowship Hall. In our Town Hall Meetings a common theme has been that we would all enjoy more St. David's social events!
Please come out and support this one!
As I mentioned at the last meeting, it seems to me the question we are asking about St. David's is " what type of community do we want to have."? Is it welcoming, inviting, nourishing and loving? As Father Paul has said on many occasions, how do we become the Holy people of God? What does that look like? Are we living as the holy people of God? It seems to me if that goal is accomplished, then the 3/4 of people who aren't regular church attendees or monetary contributors will feel the Holy Spirit working within their lives and they will feel more receptive to the message about pledging, financing, etc.
PS: The blog is very helpful.
Maybe we can start by inviting more people to the blog??
I am fairly new to the area and have lived all over the US. Every state, every city, every church I have attended always thinks they need to do more, that somehow because of this need they are somehow failing. What I see in this church and every church is a group of sincere, loving people always ready to step up and help as needed. Or just a group of people who are there week after week. I'm alone and miss my family and I get a great deal of pleasure out of just showing up on Sunday and seeing familiar faces - even though I hardly know anyone by name.
I have a grandson who was serving his first tour in Iraq when I got a call from him. He said "Gram I can't go to mass in the morning and I can't even pray any more and then put on my gun and go out and do what I have to do. Gram, what should I do. Do you think God is mad at me." I was able to tell him that is what his family and all of our church families are for. We often have times that we can't pray or feel close to God. But rest assured his family is praying every day for him. His name is on prayer lists across the country and literally thousands of people are praying for him. So he just do what he has to do and someday he will find his way back. He's been home now for about a year and on Easter he called to let me know that he "has found his way back".
This is only one of the ways that I see a church. You are there, you pray for a young soldier that you don't even know, and you make a place for me in your midst.
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