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Rector’s Update: Wed 7/14
Dear friends, One of the best things we do at St. Dunstan's is participating in the Family Promise program. We are one of 13 congregations that several times a year open our doors to become "home" for a week for families who don't have one. During the pandemic...
Rector’s Update: Fri 7/2
Dear friends, This Sunday, July 4, we will mark the founding of our country with a service including prayers for our nation, and music appropriate to the day. We'll also have a holiday-themed coffee hour. If you're in town we hope you will join us. For those who...
Rector’s Update: Sat 6/26
The service bulletin for tomorrow is attached. It should be a special service with guest musician, violinist Kerren Berz, and guest preacher and celebrant Deborah Silver. I'll be back next week. Pentecost-5-Proper-8-June-27-SPDownload
Rector’s Update: Tue 6/22
Dear friends, This may be a first. I'm recommending a piece that recently ran on (the national) Fox News. It is about my friend and fellow Episcopal priest, Kim Jackson, who has preached at St. Dunstan's many times. Kim is now the vicar of the Church of the Common...
Rector’s Update: Thur 6/10
Dear friends, In the spring of 2020, as normal life was coming to a halt because of the pandemic, St. Dunstan's did an amazing thing. We raised $55,000 to help people in our community who had crippling medical debt. Through the organization RIP Medical Debt, the money...
Rector’s Update: Sat 6/5
Dear friends, One of the hardest things about the pandemic was how it affected the way we cared for one another and our rituals of grief. I hated that I could not visit people in the hospital or rehab, or take communion to them at home. I hated that we had to postpone...
Rector’s Update: Wed 6/2
Dear friends, Several years ago I went to Montgomery, Alabama with several others from St. Dunstan's to visit the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, also known as the lynching memorial. The memorial is made up of long columns, many suspended from the ceiling (as...
Rector’s Update: Sat 5/29
Dear friends, Attached is the service sheet for tomorrow's worship. Remember that it is our first time together with most of the Covid protocols lifted. That means there will be choir and congregational singing and coffee hour! Masks are optional for those who have...
Rector’s Update: Wed 5/26
Dear friends, As I wrote earlier this week, this Sunday we will celebrate the lifting of most of our Covid restrictions. Among other things, it will mean we may have coffee hour for the first time in 14 months. We invite all of you to bring something to share. It will...
Rector’s Update: Mon 5/24
Dear friends, During the Easter season the blessing I used at the end of the service began "May the living God remove the suffocating shroud that lies upon our world." Slowly, but surely that shroud is lifting. Some parts of the world, such as India and Japan, are...