FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE Volume 65 Number 12
FEBRUARY 2015
The Episcopal Church of Saint Michael Pacific View Drive at Marguerite
Corona del Mar
California 92625
...From the Desk of the Rector
BELOVEDS IN CHRIST, “Many great ideas and suggestions were presented for increasing revenue, community awareness, and attendance.” So wrote Karlene Miller in her fine minutes of our 47th Annual Parish Meeting. Sharing perspectives and opinions about how our Christian community can do more-and-more of God’s will better-and-better seems to me to be the purpose of Annual Parish Meetings here at Saint Michael & All Angels, and I trust this is what our 48th Annual Parish Meeting time together, 11:30am until no later than 1pm. on SOUPer Bowl Sunday, February 1, 2015, will bring. Yes, we will do necessary business. Annual Parish Reports, including our Program & Budget for 2015, will be accepted. We will elect new Vestry members and Delegates and Alternates to Diocesan Convention. This year we have a special challenge as our Diocese has asked us to have a thirteenmember Vestry. Our 2014 Vestry pondered possibilities for this new position of leadership and concluded that the best course of action is to elect a creative person who “thinks ‘outside the box’” and let that person create this 13th position with the 2015 Vestry. I am excited that Louise Stover has accepted this challenge. Anne Warmington has agreed to succeed Melinda Rader leading our Evangelism ministries. Teri Corbet has asked many parishioners to succeed her with our Fellowship Vestry position, but as of this writing that place on our ballot remains blank. Also open are two spots for Alternate Delegates to Diocesan Convention; this is an easy way to learn more about what our being an “Episcopal Church” means from those currently involved (Richard Zevnik, Rebecca Welch, Murry McClaren, Lynn Headley, Steve Dulson, Norris Battin, The Rev’d Dr. Barbara Stewart and me). Please prayerfully consider candidates for our Fellowship Vestry position and those of Alternate Delegates to Convention, talk with them, then speak with me our one of our Wardens, Myrna Ireland and Don Sheetz. Among the great ideas coming to our 48th Annual Parish Meeting are: having a state-of-the-art web site; the possibility of a pre-school here being explored by a group including Jim Palda, Susan Caldwell, Anne Conover, Melinda Rader, Barbara Black, Corinne and Louise Stover, and Myrna Ireland; a search underway to offer our property as a dispatch center to wireless providers in addition to Verizon (from whom we received $20,500 in 2014); replacing some of our grass areas with more drought resistant plantings to save water and maintenance expenses; revitalizing E-Script participation for increasing revenue; talking with caterers about renting our commercial kitchen facilities; leasing property, when we are not using it, to another faith community such as our successfully hosting our Armenian Apostolic brothers and sisters; discovering synergies of professional services with other congregations to
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ASH WEDNESDAY WORSHIP FEBRUARY 18
Worship services at 7:30am, noon and at 7:30pm with music A COLLECT FOR ASH WEDNESDAY
IN THE COMING MONTHS
Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing you have made and forgive the sins of all who are penitent: Create and make in us new and hearts, thatMONTHS we, worthily IN contrite THE COMING lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wickedness, may obtain of you, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. LENTEN SERIES 2015 “Vocation & Calling” Phil Johnson - 2/25 The Rev’d Lisa Rotchford- 3/4 Stephen Caldwell - 3/11 The Rev’d Brad Karelius - 3/18 The Rev’d Lynn Jay - 3/25 The Evening’s Program Evening Prayer - 5:30pm Sponsored Soup Supper - 6pm Presentation & Discussion - 7pm Compline - 8pm
Annual Parish Meeting Sunday February 1, 2014 11:30 am All Angels’ Court
FAITH: LO SERVING BUILDING OUR F AITH: L OVING CHRIST AND SER VING OUR COMMUNITY