June 30, 2023

In Transition

I write this as I am airborne somewhere between Seattle and Garden Grove, California. I am also in between a rather delightful and positive annual meeting of our congregation this past Sunday, complete with approval of one new budget, four new members, and many signs of life and growth within our church family and our ministries, and the annual meetings of our Covenant’s Ministerium and Denomination. As I reported at our annual meeting, there are some questions hanging over both of those meetings, and as I am still getting to know the denomination we have become in the past few decades, I am keeping my eyes and ears open. By the time that you read this, many of those meetings will have already transpired. I am hopeful things will have gone well.

It is interesting that the prayer assigned for this week in the Book of Common Prayer reminds us to have confidence in God’s leadership of the faithful. I leave you this brief note with that prayer, as it has been helpful for me to see continuity of God’s care for all of our meetings. I invite you to offer this prayer on Friday and Saturday while we are still convened in California.

O Lord, make us have perpetual love and reverence for your holy Name, for you never fail to help and govern those whom you have set upon the sure foundation of your loving-kindness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

With thanks to God for the privilege of being called to serve you all,

~ Pastor Todd