Broadway Night is back! Tickets will be on sale this Sunday and next (May 21 and 28) after both the 9:00 and 11:00 am services. Support the St. Michael’s Music Program in their annual fundraiser AND be thoroughly entertained in the process! This year, the dates are coming right up: Friday and Saturday, June 2 and 3.
Cakes, pies and cookies, oh my! All are encouraged to attend the 2023 revival of the traditional St. Michael’s Cake Auction on Sunday, May 7, at 10:15 am in the Nativity Hall. The MOW/WOWs and Team L.I.F.E. are hosting the auction, featuring amazing and varied items from some of our best bakers.
All are invited to the Rev. Sherman Hesselgrave’s last Sunday, on April 30, as Interim Rector at St. Michael’s. He has been with us since February 2022 and taken on more and more responsibilities. His presence has been a true gift to our community!
[Drum roll, please.] Next Thursday, March 16, a separate eblast will be sent out which will include a letter of introduction from St Michael & All Angels’ new rector. I believe the plan is to notify both the St Michael’s congregation and the new rector’s current congregation at the same time.
Dear Friends, as I mentioned last week, we have renegotiated the Interim Rector Covenant of Ministry, which will increase my time commitment starting January 1st. I will continue to take Mondays off, and normally plan to be in the office Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. I’m adding Friday but will work from home that day or use it for pastoral visits.
One thing I learned writing a grant for the Lake Oswego Public Library for an Everybody Reads program: one hour of a volunteer’s time was valued at $17.65 – in 2007! Given the hundreds of volunteer hours donated by the St Michael’s community—including but not limited to choir members, bathroom remodelers, Vestry and Search/Profile Committee members, Wednesday volunteers, liturgical ministers, community meals—we are able to accomplish far more than what our budget alone can support.
Most of you are aware that the women’s bathroom downstairs has been in the process of remodel for several months. It’s been quietly used for the past few weeks, but it’s now officially completed – and it’s beautiful! We are very grateful first of all to Jan P., who donated ample funds for the project in memory of Mickey Harnage. Sheri O. also donated the profits from the Red Door Artisan Fair (around $1,000) to the bathroom fund.
This is an exceptional stewardship year, a year when we are living into our faith with hope and love as we go through a time of tumultuous change. As we consider what we will give of our treasure, let us also consider what we will give of our time.
Last week, Julia introduced Team LIFE’s 2022 stewardship education plan, with its theme, Rooted in Our Neighborhood, Branching Out in Love. This week we focus on L, for labor. One definition of stewardship is “everything we do with everything we have” – in other words, everything we do with our time, our gifts and our resources, including our work. Psalm 119 refers to the seven times a day that faithful Jews offered praise to God, and those in monastic communities often speak of their work as prayer, intentionally weaving work and spirituality.
What a year! You’ve seen so much in the last twelve months… the beginnings of tentative steps forward in the wake of the pandemic, the hard transition of two dear priests out of our parish, an interim period of reflection and new-knowing as we move toward our new rector, through a long listening season. It’s been a time of big change, big griefs and big hope. In January,
Sunday Services
7:30 – Rite I
9:00 & 11:00 – Rite II
1:00 pm – Misa en Español
9:00 am & 11:00 am
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