From the Pastor

September already!  How does it come so quickly?  I hope your summer was everything you looked forward to and you are left with good memories to light the darker seasons ahead!  I am just returned from vacation an expert UNO player!  I’m hoping this skill will help with the mountain of opportunities and challenges that face us this year as North Church.  One never knows when knowing your colors and numbers and the skilled playing of Wild Cards will come in handy!

As we look forward, we know that we will be saying goodbye to Mary Ann, who has served faithfully as our Parish Life Director for four years.  Mary Ann’s last day with us will be October 3 and we will say an appropriate thanks and God Speed that day.  Mary Ann’s departure will mean that we will all need to rise to the occasion in this critical transition period.  I trust that you will volunteer or respond positively if asked for assistance. As seems perennially true, we still need Church School Teachers.  You do not need to have children in Church School to be a teacher.  Imagine the gifts you have to give and please talk with a Parish Life Board Member!

The year ahead offers us the opportunity to meet the need for strategic planning so that North Church can move into its future with a faithful vision.  You will hear more from the Cabinet about its hopes for the year to come!  Together, with the help of God, North Church can understand and meet the needs of a changing church and world and once again be the servant church of the servant Christ.  I am extending an invitation to all of you to read a book with me—Christianity for the Rest of Us by Diana Butler Bass—in the coming months.  Please speak with me about this mutual endeavor.

May the coming weeks and months be blessed as we squarely face the challenges before us as individuals and as the church.  

Grace and peace, 

Pastor Dawn