Good Morning Restoration! Blessed be our God. Now and for ever. Amen. Thus begins our liturgy each day during Holy Week. In this time of upheaval and loss, we declare in faith, the blessings of God: (right) now and (onward) for ever. I am writing to make sure you have everything you need for each of […]
A Quick Video for Easter Hey Restoration, As we finalize our preparations for remote Easter, our staff would like to invite your participation. Would you create a quick video (20-30 seconds) that answers this question: ‘Why is the resurrection important to me?’ Our staff are going to stitch these video snippets together into a corporate […]
Friends, I am reproducing the reflection I shared at the beginning of morning prayer last Sunday, March 29. Many of you have asked about the prayer of deprecation. Thank you for your interest! -David 29 March 2020 Good morning! This week, a friend sent me a reflection from a university president who, like all of […]
Friends, I decided to write you on a beautiful spring day. Your presence is weighty in my thoughts as I think about you working from home, caring for kids, passing the time, and trusting the Lord. God sees you. He cares for you. This is an update about opportunities to worship and serve as we […]
Visio divina is a spiritual practice that may help focus our distracted minds and engage in prayer with God. Like its cousin lectio divina, visio divina is a way of praying and being attentive to God. A simple definition from Adele Ahlberg Calhoun’s book, Spiritual Disciplines Handbook, Practices that Transform Us is this: “Visio divina, […]
Hi Restoration, We are coming to the end of week #2 of social distancing and significant disruptions to our corporate life together. I am again writing to tell you of new things we are creating and ways you can join us in responding to this crisis. Here is the executive summary: Remote Worship: Everything you need […]
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 via Zoom for our March 24th meeting given the importance of social distancing while concerns about COVID-19 remain high. It was a different meeting than […]
Interested in receiving After Service Prayer after our Morning Prayer service on Sundays? After Service Prayer begins right after the conclusion of the Morning Prayer service on Sunday (note: After Service Prayer is only offered after Morning Prayer on Sunday at this time). Look for a link to the After Service Prayer Zoom call at the end of the […]
We have decided that during this time of social distancing and self-quarantine, we will meet together every day for Morning and Evening Prayer via Zoom, a video conference call application. You can download Zoom here. We will meet every morning at 9am for Morning Prayer, and every evening at 5pm for Evening Prayer. Join the […]
Wednesday, March 19 Future Sundays on Quincy, Food Needs, Next… Dear Restoration, It has been good to see so many of you in various places of ‘socially distanced interaction’. Thank you for staying faithful to meeting and praying together. It has encouraged me and lifted each day. I am writing with an update for this […]