The Wardens’ Report: a brief summary of highlights from monthly Vestry meetings, designed to provide information about our growth, finances, priorities and progress towards our strategic plan. The vestry gathered for another socially distanced meeting on Tuesday, July 28th. Mary Breed led us in prayer for our congregation, our community and our staff, particularly Kathy […]
“God will send out his steadfast love and his faithfulness!” Psalm 57:3b Dear Restoration, We have been sharing with you our plans to […]
“Give glory to the God of Israel.” 1 Samuel 6:5 “Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.” Psalm 37:3 “Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to Him; bless His name!” Psalm 100:4 Dear Restoration, It grieves me to write and tell you of […]
Welcome! Limitations of Zoom- please don’t try and do something else. We will break into smaller rooms and we will ask you to talk. Limitations of 3 weeks- I am a white evangelical, which is not defined by party alliance but by submission to Scripture and the way I get treated in society because […]
“…I will feed them in justice.” Ezekiel 34: 16b Dear Restoration, Hope you are doing well! I am writing to remind you of 2 special things that are happening this week. A Zoom Discussion about Racial Injustice in the ChurchIt starts tonight at 7:30pm. We will keep it to a firm hour- so log on […]
The Wardens’ Report: highlights from monthly Vestry meetings, designed to provide information about our growth, finances, priorities, and progress in our strategic plan. The Vestry met remotely on June 30. Brad Jones opened us in prayer, and we received a report from Isaiah Brooms, our Director of Youth Ministries. We are grateful for his flexibility […]
Preamble Our last corporate worship service in our facility on N. Quincy Street was March 8, 2020. Since that time we have gathered almost daily by Zoom and YouTube Live. The Holy Spirit has been with us. He has not been restricted in His work of redemption, conviction, and hope. We have missed each other […]
“But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house.” (Ps. 5:7) Dear Restoration, We are delighted to announce that the Restoration Vestry has adopted, and our staff now is beginning to implement, a plan to bring us back together to worship, this summer. Our Reopening Team has been toiling since May, and the Vestry on Tuesday, after a […]
Dear Restoration, This week we finished our series on 1 John. We have been preaching through it since Easter and it has provided deep theology and rich vocabulary for what it means to know that we know the living God. The final verse in the letter is “Little children, keep yourselves from idols.” (1 John […]
Dear Restoration, It has been a full week. I am grateful for the words we prayed in morning prayer today from Psalm 100: ‘Know that the Lord, he is God! It is He who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.’ I am so grateful to be […]