Dear Friends,

The Season of Easter goes 50 days, from Easter Sunday to the day of Pentecost. This year that is April 20 to June 8. A late Easter means a late Pentecost and a late Easter Season. We have many plans for the time in-between and for later this summer.

The Good News Garden will be up and needing assistance. Weeding and gathering produce will hopefully go well this year with our concerted efforts in the garden for a good harvest. If you want to help see Kathy Conlon. Arts Camp is in the planning stages with Marti Johnson at the lead. If you want to be involved see her. The front door to the parish will be getting fixed. We will be attempting to secure a loan to pay for it. No more banging as it slams shut. Yay! Plus, one door will have a button to open it, making accessibility into the parish easier for all. We will continue to have our summer outdoor services and potluck (what we call “Grillin’ with Guitars) the third Sunday of the month from June through August. We are exploring the replacement of the boiler so that we do not get caught on cold, winter days without heat. We have been saving up for this for two years now and we have been assured that our current boiler is on its last legs.

We say that we slow down in the summer, and to some extent we do, but not completely. The choir will take a break, and the Vestry will be off in July. I do not ever want to think that our church life, our community and worldly mission, or our spiritual formation ever slows down. We might need a break now and then, but we should never slow down on those endeavors which are so important to the church, and our spiritual welfare as well as the spiritual welfare of others. The church is alive and well and needed in this world. We must be examples of this, always.

Warmly and with many blessings,
Mother Lily+