Brush off the winter blues and come to the All-Church Potluck and Game Night. This will be a wonderful opportunity to kick back, relax, and have fun.

I hope everyone has enjoyed our first dose of snow and some crisp winter weather. For the most part, activity at the Parish Board was fairly quiet over the fall. However, in the coming months, the Parish Board will be focused on the important task of finding replacements for our current children's and youth directors.

     Charlotte Lehmann, after two years of valuable service as our Acting Director of Children's Religious Education, plans to move onto the next phase of her ministerial career. And after eight years, Julie Ennis will be stepping down as the Director of Youth Programs. We thank both of them for their service to the congregation, look forward to the remaining time we'll have with them, and hope to glean some the wealth of knowledge and wisdom they have developed before they depart.

     While it will be hard to replace Charlotte and Julie, this presents an opportunity for these programs to evolve, while also trying to maintain the quality of the programs they have helped to steward during their tenures. In the coming months, as the search for new staff to oversee these programs, we plan to keep the congregation apprised of our progress.

It may seem awfully early to be saying or thinking about this, but with the launching of the annual budget drive by the Stewardship Team and the delivery of David's annual stewardship sermon, it is important for me to remind the congregation that my service to you as Acting Director of Children's Religious Education (DCRE) will come to an end when the church year ends in June. That is five months from now, but time flies when we're having fun. And I have been having fun during my tenure at FCB ... { click here for more }