I love the energy of regathering in September. As I write this on Wednesday morning, I am looking forward to seeing many of you at Midweek tonight and am looking back gratefully over the past two weeks.
The last two weeks began with a Rally Day gathering filled with people reconnecting, wonderful food from Bella Isla, conversation between old friends and people we had just met, and exuberant bouncy houses. Last Sunday saw the beginning of Church School: almost fifty children followed Miss Bryn out of the church and spread across the Chapel, Suter Room, and Upper Parish Hall before rejoining us to overflow the steps for the Children’s Sermon. Sunday ended with a wonderful Journey to Justice gathering. Thank you to everyone who put in the work to make all of this a reality!
September also gives us a bit of a ‘reset button.’ The Sunday service bulletin and the newsletter are full of opportunities to explore something new. Each represents new people to get to know, new ways to challenge ourselves, new ways to be involved in our community. As the relationships deepen and the vision evolves in these overlapping groups, our larger community changes, and we discover new journeys that Epiphany is being called to consider.
I love the sense of beginning in September and look forward to discovering what the coming year brings and walking that path together with each of you.
Nelia Newell, Co-Warden
