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| All Saints' Episcopal Community 84 Church Street Franklin, NC 28734 (828) 524-4910 (office) (828) 421-4884 (cell) revdorothypratt@gmail.com |
Last of the Fendrick/Berger Senior Warden's Musings
It has been our honor to be your senior wardens this year and we say, not good-bye,
but thank you for stepping up time and time again. We have accomplished so much
this year in the All Saints Community that we hesitate to list anything for fear of leaving
something or someone out. What a great problem!
As this Advent moves quietly (or not) to the Christmas feast, we see the new church
calendar as well as the new calendar year as a new set of squares with numbers; blank
dates to be filled not only with Sunday worship, but also with the many activities of the
various Ministry Teams. As you begin to fill in your appointments, parties, places to be
and places to go, be sure to keep open time to serve with one of these Ministry Teams:
Altar Guild, Christian Formation, Communication, Lay Servers, Outreach, Properties,
Sabbatical, Stewardship. While these are titles for the Teams, they are Teams for each
of us to decide where and how we can serve.
One unnamed but very necessary job occurs each Sunday and is probably unknown
outside of the Vestry. If you can count dollars, write check numbers on a piece of paper
and use a calculator, then we need you to help count the offering on Sunday after the
10:15 a.m. service. This is not just something that is a good business practice (which it
is), but is required. Please help your Vestries who are charged with this
responsibility and volunteer to help-not every Sunday but perhaps once a month?
In other tidbits to close out the year, five of the stained glass windows that were hanging
in the St. Agnes Parish Hall were sold for a profit of over $1000. Those who were so
fortunate to receive one now own a piece of history of the Episcopal Church in Franklin.
There still is the larger piece which will need to be uncrated before it can be displayed.
Then the Vestries will need to decide its future.
At the last Vestry meeting we also decided to try to be an Animal Friendly congregation.
This does not mean that we will have our pets at every service, but it does mean that
we will make a commitment to have The Blessing of the Animals service each year (we
do), and we will attempt to be meatless during Lent and to remember to offer more
vegetarian options at our gatherings.
Both Carl and Lee wish each of you the happiest of Christmas tidings, the joy in the
birth in Bethlehem, and the peace and quiet of the shepherds in the field. And if we
listen quietly, we will hear the songs of the angels as well as the jingles of sleigh bells.
And again, thank you for giving us the opportunity to serve you,
Carl Fendrick& Lee Berger
Your Senior Wardens
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