What is Your Parish's Top Priority? - The Living Church Only 12 percent of Episcopal parishes say that making disciples is how we’ll grow the Church. What is your parish's top priority?

Only 12 percent of #Episcopal parishes say that making disciples is how we’ll grow the Church. What is your parish's top priority?
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A photo of a soft serve ice cream with sprinkles and strawberry sauce on it.

It's always a joy to be invited into the school and the year ones and two's who were out at the same time I was there were very excited about how cool it was to feed these magnificent animals!

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A thermometer amid bubbles of boiling sticky marmalade

Today has featured…
✝️ wedding prep with a couple
✝️ blessing a house
✝️ writing a sermon
✝️ calls checking in with people
& squeezed in making this year’s marmalade.

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I am about to grade 8 final projects in one go while also finalizing orders of service for all the holiday services: Solstice, Christmas Eve early and late, & Hanukkah.

Blessed Yuletide!

Pray for me. 😳

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Today in #ParishMinistry: delving into the Christmas Closet 😱

So. Many. Scraps of Cloth.

Were they costumes? Parts of costumes? Costumes-to-be? A place where fabric squirrels hid their treasures?

Unless my phone holds its charge or I find my way out again, we may never know!

Some days in ministry you think amazing things, and some you have wonderful conversations, and some you wash dishes…

…and some you go over 100+ years of board policies to attempt to clean everything up and start afresh with only the policies the congregation really needs. 😵‍💫

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If you want to talk more about having a funeral at St Mary's, get in touch with the Rector (rector@handsworthstmary.org).

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