Our 2021 vestry gathered virtually for our second meeting of the year, and immediately took care of the most serious business of the night first: singing happy birthday to our Sr. Warden. You might recall one of the reasons we moved our Sunday services from Zoom to YouTube Live was because of the former’s inability […]
The 2021 vestry met for the first time on January 26 as so many of us have done for more than nine months: virtually over Zoom. Despite the sadness and challenges associated with not being able to gather in-person for the usual vestry retreat earlier in the month or on Quincy Street, there was a […]
Dear Restoration, As we come to the end of 2020, I am grateful for our church’s faithfulness to God and to each other. We have been challenged in so many ways, yet we have sought the Kingdom and seen moments of redemption. We have built new platforms for worship like our Restoration YouTube Channel and our Zoom room for daily […]
Dear Restoration,“Therefore stay awake- for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning- lest he come suddenly and find you asleep.” (Mark 13:35-36) I have loved the special ‘Opening Sentences of Scripture’ that have welcomed us into morning […]
As we continue in our Advent series on Heaven, we want to let you know about…
The Wardens’ Report: highlights from monthly Vestry meetings. The Vestry met over Zoom (as we have since March) on December 1, for about four hours, by far our longest meeting of the year. After Adam Guzzo opened us in prayer, the main (but hardly only) matter was to consider whether Restoration should revise its “Phase Beta” […]
Dear Restoration, Last Friday, Governor Northam issued a “Phase Three Tightening” of his Executive Order 67 imposing restrictions to address Covid-19, responding to the rise in cases and hospitalizations. We have studied amended EO67 and received input from Bishop Guernsey. Restoration’s “Phase Beta” protocols, which the Vestry established in September, comply with it (apart from one minor change […]
