As I write to you, we have just completed a wonderful Holy Week. It was certainly a great joy for me to experience this profound week with the St. Michael’s community for the first time. I am so thankful for all who came together to help make this such a beautiful week— the brass-polishers, flower-arrangers, leaflet-folders, music-singers, church-cleaners (to name a few), as well as those who had a formal role in the liturgies—the preachers, the celebrants, the liturgical ministers. I am really grateful for the many hands and voices that came together in one Body to observe this most special time in the life of our faith.

The day after Easter, the Vestry and the Building for the Future (BFF) Committee met to discuss the recommendation of the Committee regarding our upcoming building project. The Committee recommended we go with Ingram Construction Company and that we accept the full scope of the proposed project. After many questions and much prayerful consideration, the Vestry voted unanimously to accept the Committee’s recommendation.

Although this meeting was technically a business meeting of sorts, I can tell you that it was as filled with the Holy Spirit as the Holy Week services that preceded it. Both the BFF Committee and the Vestry felt led by the Spirit to move ahead in faith in order that we may realize our long-held dream for St. Michael's: to make our church more accessible to all people, to make our building more effcient and ready to embrace our growing community of faith, and to be as faithful to those who come after us as our predecessors have been to us in maintaining and improving our sacred places of worship, fellowship, and prayer.

I hope you all can join us on May 6 when we will not only celebrate the groundbreaking for this project, but also give thanks to God for God’s faithfulness in leading us to this exciting new chapter in our life together.

Yours in Christ

Mary