Rector's Annual Report for
2014
"We thought that we had the answets, it was Ehe questions we had wrong."
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2014 beqan with our noontime cefebration of The Holy Eucharist with "a public Service of Heating" observrng the feast of The Hofy Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, a liturgicaf commemoration begun at the Council of Tours in 567 to counceract pagan festivities connected .Love of Mike: with the beginning of the new year. I w.rote in our "New Year's opportunities inc-lude asking inportant questions such as 'Who am I anyway' really?' and 'Why am I the way I am?' We are caffed to exanine our befiefs and ways they night tuEn
into action. Resolutions are fess inportant than resu-lts, and the calL of God is for us to go and do the work of the
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Here are some of the days in 2OL4 on which I arn confident we dj-d the work of God's kingdom: On January 11-, Ray Urwin, D.M.A., became our Minister of Musrc fo] Iowing rhe fine interim miniscry of Bob Glant to conE.inue our exemplary musical heritage wel] nurtured during my time here by Burton Karson, Tim Getz and Stephen Black. Ray is the composer of two popular hymns in The Hymnal 1982: 5169 - "My flesh is food indeed," and *6'1 9 - "SureJy it is God who saves me." On April 11, I ioined oLher Episcopalians at saint Andrew's Plesbyterian church ,' u..o"" the bay to hear Ray play their "second Friday Frenzy Ray is now one of fifteen national leaders appointed to a new a.1n.rrc.r^1- i ona I Sono Task Eorce of The Episcopal- Church. vvrrY!!Yee4v
on January 25 I was privileged both as Dean of our coasta] orange County area and as neighboring rector to be one of the leaders of worship as The Rev'd Philip Devau] was instituted as the rector of Saint John the Divine Episcopal Church in Costa Mesa'
2, brought our forty-seventy Annuaf Parish Meeting. we did necessary business and creative ideas were presented for increasing community awareness' attendance and SOUPeT/Super Bowl Sunday, February
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