Annual Meeting, Vestry retreat, Fr. Ron's Last Day

Vestry Letter

Serving on the vestry is a unique and special ministry. Our vestry is comprised of servant leaders with a variety of skill sets and passions for ministry. The vestry is described by the Episcopal Church Foundation as “the body within the congregation that, with the clergy, leads the parish.”  Among vestry members’ duties are, with the rector:  to identify goals, to engage in short and long range planning, to ensure adequate resources and effective stewardship, to establish and monitor programs and services, and to communicate with the parish and the wider community. 

           

            The St Timothy’s vestry demonstrates and models Christian love and forbearance; serving as leaders and examples of what it means to be a healthy Spirit led Christian community. The St Timothy’s Vestry supports all of the decisions of the vestry, even if they are not the individual’s decision, trusting decisions by the vestry have been focused through, discernment, prayer and the leading of the Holy Spirit. We treat each other as beloved children of God.

             St Timothy’s vestry communicates, inspires, and lifts up the body of Christ. 

Serving as a parish leader a vestry member strives to create and maintain a healthy spiritual life though regular worship, study, prayer, and service.

            St Timothy’s Vestry is ministry centric and strives to accomplish through servant leadership the various tasks and responsibilities of the vestry. Vestry meetings are often inspiring as we, discern, learn and plan together.

            The vestry has spent their time since the beginning of 2015 as advocate leaders developing ways we can all participate as ministers to each other, and the positive, hopeful and spiritual life of the vestry has been instrumental in the development of the ministries and joyful experiences of St Timothy’s we are all encouraged to be part of.

Vestry leadership is actively engaged in the future of St Tims, as we transition from a staff led parish to a staff assisted parish. Since the middle part of last year, the vestry has become better organized for the future. As we apply discernment, dialogue, discussion and then decision in all of our adaptive leadership for the future community, anxiety has gone down and missional relationships have gone up, and more and more are finding a balance in their every day, spiritually. 

            The Mutual Ministry Review this past fall has given the vestry confidence that St. Timothy's, which was in stuck place is now in a more stable place moving from a maintenance to a missional community, trusting enough to be open to a ministry of presence. The Vestry has become more nimble in the last three years as we begin 2016. 

The Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America and in the Diocese of El Camino define the basic qualifications for Vestry.

·       Article II of the Canons of the diocese of El Camino Real states Vestry shall be confirmed or received, (or have completed the Confirmation, reception, conversations and waiting to be confirmed) Fr. Ron

·       adult communicants in good standing as defined by Canons of The Episcopal Church and registered in the Parish.

·       You are a baptized member.

·       Over 16 years old.

·       Faithful in worship attendance

·       Contributing to the church financially in such a way as can be noted

by the Treasurer (pledge, check, etc.).

What we need from you to share with the faith community, if you are willing to serve is...

1.     A digital picture suitable for publication.

2.     A short Bio, of your present involvement at St. Tims, and then complete these questions.

1. What attributes and skill sets will you bring to the Vestry?
2. What ministries have you participated in within the last three years at St Tims?
3. Which leadership area do you believe you could help grow, expand and be an advocate for?

Areas you might consider

Transition in Clergy leadership

Search

Profile and ministry Statement

Human Resources 

Stewardship     Time, Talents and Resource

Finance and Grants  

Communications

Facilities

Junior Warden

Senior Warden

Preschool

Delegates for convention

The Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the Diocese of El Camino Article II states Convention delegates shall be confirmed adult communicants in good standing as defined by Canons of The Episcopal Church and registered in the Parish. We will elect 5. 

Pledge In-gathering, Outreach opportunities

All Saints, Falling Back, Advent is almost here, Financial Wellness Nov 8

All Saints Day

It is believed by many scholars that the commemoration of all the saints on November first originated in Ireland, spread from there to England, and then to the continent of Europe. That it had reached Rome and had been adopted there early in the ninth century is attested by a letter of Pope Gregory the Fourth, who reigned from 828 to 844, to Emperor Louis “the Pious,” urging that such a festival be observed throughout the Holy Roman Empire.

However, the desire of Christian people to express the intercommunion of the living and the dead in the Body of Christ by a commemoration of those who, having professed faith in the living Christ in days past, had entered into the nearer presence of their Lord, and especially of those who had crowned their profession with heroic deaths, was far older than the early Middle Ages. Gregory Thaumaturgus (the “Wonder Worker”), writing before the year 270, refers to the observance of a festival of all martyrs, though he does not date it. A hundred years later, Ephrem the Deacon mentions such an observance in Edessa on May 13; and the patriarch John Chrysostom, who died in 407, says that a festival of All Saints was observed on the first Sunday after Pentecost in Constantinople at the time of his episcopate. The contemporary lectionary of the East Syrians set a commemoration of all the saints on Friday in Easter week. On May 13, in the year 610, the Pantheon in Rome—originally a pagan temple dedicated to “all the gods”—was dedicated as the Church of St. Mary and All Martyrs.

All Saints’ Day is classed, in the Prayer Book of 1979, as a Principal Feast, taking precedence of any other day or observance. Among the seven so classified, All Saints’ Day alone may be observed on the following Sunday, in addition to its observance on its fixed date. It is one of the four days recommended in the Prayer Book (page 312) for the administration of Holy Baptism

Men's Retreat, Quarterly Statements, Project Mercy,

Quarterly Statements, 2015 Deanery Concert 10/18

Smum Fiesta Dinner Fundraiser, St Tims Recycling Efforts, Vestry Meeting

The Feast of St Francis, Postulant for the Deaconate joins us, Fiesta Dinner Tickets available