the The Newsletter for Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church
May 2015
Vital Signs at Our Anniversary
the Family Breakfast
3
Barn Yard Bash
17
Sr. Recognition Sunday
24
Pentecost
Rector Transition Conversation
25
Memorial Day: Church Offices Closed
31
Rector Transition Conversation
Life at Saint Michael and All Angels is often like white water rafting. The current is swift, exhilarating, and hard to slow down. Ministry is never dull, occasionally hair-raising, sometimes scary, and always challenging. It has been so, as far as I can tell, since the days of the first buildings on the corner of Douglas and Colgate, when the property was little more than a quaint prairie neighborhood on the edge of the Park Cities. There has always been great variety, high energy, and a sense of mission. For nearly 70 years, that energy, like a fast-moving mountain river, has carved out a deep channel as part of the larger church. It has created twists and turns, quiet pools, rocky rapids, and places of rare beauty. We will celebrate our 70th Anniversary on Sunday, September 27 -- mark your calendar! An anniversary offers us a happy and holy time to frame, for a moment, the coursing and forming river which is Saint Michael’s. It invites us to remember our forebears, to look upstream, to remember, and to give thanks. We all have our heroes and heroines: Jesus, of course, St. Paul, Mother Mary, Martin Luther, Abraham Lincoln, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Winston Churchill, Mother Theresa. We have individuals who make up our cloud of witnesses -- leaders who have used
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Rector Search Program Moves Forward – Parish “Conversations” Scheduled The program to call a new Rector to Saint Michael and All Angels is gaining momentum. The chairs of the Search and Transition Committee, Diana Newton and Van Sheets, are finalizing their recommendations for parishioners to serve on the committee and are expected to submit the list to the Vestry at its May 13 meeting. cont. on page 5