Dear Friends,

By now you would have received a Needs Assessment from St. Gregory’s. Please fill it out and send it back by May 21st. (If you have not received a survey in the mail, please click on this link for the survey:
 https://mcusercontent.com/80b2c87bbe203b9c68d52b021/files/b39843f9-a656-c786-2c79-019e47be50ae/Needs_Assessment_Survey.docx

This is your opportunity to weigh in regarding what this church needs in order to grow. Times have changed since the churches’ heyday in this country, and we must evolve to the emerging needs, if we are going to have a prominent place in the world today. Which I believe is vitally important to our existence as people of God. I hope you feel the same way I do. So, what would that look like? As church in the 21st century what will it take for us to understand the church’s needs? There are no right or wrong answers, only your opinion. Your opinion matters. The more information you provide regarding your thoughts, the better. We are at a point in our life as a church to make some major decisions and you need to be apart of this venture of looking forward and providing for not only our needs, but the spiritual needs of the community/country/world. I believe this to be a time when the Episcopal Church has a great deal to offer in its attempts to live into the Gospel fully. It is a time when Gospel living is needed. It is a time when Gospel living needs to be redefined and reclaimed.

On another note, I am going to be doing a virtual Book Study. We studied the inspiring words of Richard Rohr during our Advent and Lenten studies. There was so much enthusiasm around these studies that people wanted to continue. So, I am reading a book he put out a few years ago, which is very timely in regards to its message, The Tears of Things, Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage. If you are interested please add your name to the sign-up sheet on the Narthex table. And let me know what night of the week would work best for you.


Warmly and with many blessings,
Mother Lily+