Playlist: Songs of Praise: Trisagion Come and Move Oh How I Need You Response: Your Labor is Not in Vain Offertory: Come Thou Long Expected Jesus Sanctus: Sanctus Holy – Wickham Eucharist: Your Great Name Pour Light Upon Us Procession Out: The Advent Herald
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. At our 28 November Vestry meeting, we enjoyed dinner together and prayer before starting the meeting. This month, our rector, David Hanke, led us through our prayer time […]
Restoration will be making its third official mission trip to Cochabamba in August 2018. Our role: We are taking a team to work with our friends at La Trinidad Anglican church, and to spend time with the children of Niños con Valor in Cochabamba, Bolivia. dates: August 3-12, 2018 Cost: Airfare + visas + $900 (includes accommodation, […]
Dear Restoration, It brings me great joy to write to you with the results of our 2017 Vestry Selection. It was an excellent process that was undergirded with faithful and overt prayer. The selection process began with over 35 nominees. The Vestry Discernment Team (VDT) was thrilled with the number of people who were offered as potential servant leaders for […]
Last week we handed out a simplified version of our Anglican Book of Common Prayer called Praying through the Year. We’ve loved hearing the ways many of you are integrating this booklet into your daily life. We will have more copies of this resource available on Sunday in the narthex, and we’d love for you […]
Hey Restos! It’s me again, that woman who can’t seem to make it to church on time and talks an awful lot about toast. I was overwhelmed by the response to my recent blog about running late for church. So many of you reached out and shared stories of how you, like me, are hungry […]
We are looking forward to walking this journey toward Christmas with you! Here are some ways you can join the Restoration community during this season. Morning Prayer – Join Morgan Reed in the sanctuary for morning prayer on Tuesdays (Dec 5, 12, 19) from 7am – 7:30 with the option of confession from 7:30 – 8. Adventy […]
The eight-year-old atheist Every Wednesday, when I was 8 years of age, I would leave school an hour early with about 10 other children to walk to a nearby home for time-release-bible-study. As the door to the house opened, our host would greet us with a smile and tins of butter cookies. After gorging ourselves on butter […]
Playlist: Songs of Praise: Before the Throne of God Above (slight swing) King of My Heart (slight swing) Eternal Weight of Glory Response: Jesus I Come Offertory: Hermoso Nombre Sanctus: Holy Holy Holy Lord (use C to D) Eucharist: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross You are my King Crown Him With Many Crowns
This past Sunday, I got the opportunity to preach my last sermon in our fall series out of the book of Jeremiah. Nathan will finish things up on Sunday as we transition into thinking about Advent and the coming of our Rescuer. At each service, as I approached the end of my message, I got […]