As we come down to our last 3 months together I am focusing on ending well and making a smooth transition to your new pastor. Plans are being made for my final worship services on June 19th and the scheduling of a time early in the following week for me to move out of the parsonage and then enough time for cleaning and preparing the house before the Baird’s to move in. Work has begun on developing a pictorial directory. Please submit a picture with good face recognition for people to be able to identify you in the directory. This will help the Bairds and other new members to get to know us, and for some of us to get to know some others of us!
I was amazed at how many people took the copies of the new Common English translation of the New Testament we have handed out and have begun to read them. We have had to order more! It will hopefully become a habit for many to read the Bible each day. Though the task of writing the daily blog has been a challenge I am enjoying the challenge and hope that some find my notes on the daily readings helpful. So far I have had no comments or questions posted back to me.
Up to a dozen of us from Trinity participated in the 6 joint sessions with the Episcopalians in an effort to help our denominations move forward towards full communion with one another. We finished the sessions with a joint communion service and a set of goals to look at ways we might do some joint ministries in the future. On Good Friday evening we have been invited to join them at St. Martin’s for a Good Friday service.
I have shared slides and stories of the pilgrimage to the Holy Land and now with the change of appointment I am pleased that your new pastor has given me permission to invite any people from Trinity wishing to go to the Holy Land with me in the spring of 2012 are free to do so. I will keep you informed once my new District Superintendent decides when he wants the district-wide group to go.
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