Your vestry met last Tuesday evening via Zoom. As part of a commitment to transparency and timely information, we are posting the summary of the vestry meeting and the July financial statements and Treasurer’s Report. August 2021 Vestry HighlightsDownload Balance-Sheet-2021-July-31Download...
Back to Back Marathons? Please, God no. One of my colleagues from the Diocese of Easton shared this blog post on his Facebook feed late last week and I have sent it to your vestry and asked them to expand the scope of what this piece has to say to all of us as we go about the work of regathering....
Since I went on sabbatical in 2012 in Ireland for three months, I have gained a deep and abiding fondness for the work of the British Broacasting Company (BBC) World Service. It is helpful to remember that not only is the United States not the center of the world, but that the variety of human...
5 Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. 3 And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings,...
Dear St. Thomas Community; As you will know, we have been on the cusp of resuming in person worship on a limited basis twice over the course of the past few months. In both instances, spikes in infection rates have resulted in delays in both instances. As you will also be aware, the rates of...
At the November 20th vestry meeting St. Thomas Leadership Team discussed the newest information on regathering protocols and direction from Bishop Haynes office. Here is the text of that message. Navigating the Pandemic: A Prayer for Wisdom At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by...
15 Now if you are unwilling to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served in the region beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” The Holy Bible: New Revised...
July 30, 2020 Dear St. Thomas Community, In an email from the Bishop’s Office yesterday (click here to view), Bishop Haynes, in conjunction with her advisory staff, have encouraged congregations who have begun regathering (in our region of the diocese) to consider another suspension of in...
Words from Warren—August 25, 2020 In our Old Testament readings for the past few weeks we have been working our way through Genesis, the first book of the Bible. Beginning with the story Adam and Eve, moving to Noah and the Ark, a pattern of Exile and Return begins to emerge as one of the central...
Celebrant: Will you strive for justice and peace among allpeople, and respect the dignity of every human being?People I will, with God’s help. (from the Baptismal Covenant, BCP p 305) Dear St. Thomas Community, At our vestry meeting this past Tuesday, your vestry and I spent a good deal of time...
A Sermon for Day of Pentecost May 31, 2020—The Rev. Warren Hicks Whitsunday Year A RCL Acts 2:1-21 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13 John 20:19-23 Psalm 104:25-35, 37 After not speaking to you from this space in some 12 weeks, or 84 days, or 2032 hours, and roughly 125,000 minutes, I’m back where I feel like...
Moving Forward with Worship at St. Thomas Saturday, May 23, 2020 Dear St. Thomas Community, Doubtless you have heard that during Phase I of resuming something like typical daily life, churches have been allowed to and, in some cases, encouraged to resume in person activities quickly. That houses...