Community updates (3/8/23)
We Need Your Smiling Face! We need a congregational picture to help finalize our parish profile so it can be completed soon! Please come to church on Sunday (notice Daylight Savings) and we will take a picture in the sanctuary before we go down to coffee hour. We want as many people as can come!
The Transition Team is actively finishing our parish profile this month, it will then go to the vestry for their review and we hope to finalize and post for our new rector applications soon.
Music Director Search Update
The application deadline for the Music Director position closed on March 1 and we have fortunately received three applications. The Search Committee will interview these candidates soon and invite qualified applicants to audition with the choir and on the organ. The committee will then make a recommendation to the Wardens and Vestry.
The committee intends to move the process along expeditiously. Members of the Search Committee are Andy Kerr, Ruthanne Adams Martinez, Kimberly Axtell and Todd Axtell.
--Todd Axtell
Prayer Vine Kathleen Eagan in the new director of the Prayer Vine. If you have any prayer requests, please contact her.
PLEASE NOTE that the Midweek next week will be coming out on THURSDAY, 3/16 instead of Wednesday. Ruthanne is taking a well-deserved couple of days off to celebrate her anniversary and will return to the office on Thursday. She will put the Midweek out upon her arrival.
Maundy Thursday Service, April 6th Share a soup dinner starting at 5:30 in Fellowship Hall, followed by 6:30 pm service in the sanctuary with the handbells.
A Message from Margaret Allvey:
For all my friends at ECA.
The last couple of years has been a very difficult time for me healthwise, and then the loss of my good friend Tom, and also my grandson Paul. Add all that to the Covid problem and we decided that the time had come for me to sell my lovely home in The Villages where I had lived for nearly 20 years and move to Livermore to be nearer to my son and his wife. No sooner said than done…..my home sold so quickly, just by word of mouth and I was on my way!
My time with ECA was very rewarding and I remember with pleasure the many friends I met there.
I would like to say a sincere ‘goodbye’ to you all and if you are in the Livermore area….it’s full of beautiful vineyards, please do contact me and call in and say hello.
I hope your search for a new Rector goes well, there certainly are a lot of changes for ECA over the next year.
God bless, sincerely, Margaret Allvey
Collaborate in compassion with Jews, Christians, and Muslims
Join us at upcoming volunteering opportunities:
Thu., March 9, 3:30 pm
Poco Way Apartments
San Jose, Calif.
In partnership with Evergreen Islamic Center and Lincoln Glen Church, Congregation Shir Hadash is hosting our first meal service event to unhoused neighbors since lockdown! Join us!
Date: Sun., Mar. 12
Shift 1: 1:00–3:30 PM (meal prep only)
Both shifts: 1:00–6:00 PM (meal prep & service)
Location: Congregation Shir Hadash
20 Cherry Blossom Ln, Los Gatos, CA 95032
After preparing dinner at Congregation Shir Hadash, volunteers will convoy to the soup kitchen downtown to serve the meal, then enjoy dining together after all guests have eaten.
Sun., March 19, 1:00 am
Good Karma Bikes
San Jose, Calif.
Pastoral Care Committee will meet on Friday, March 10, 10am, in the Fellowship Hall. All who are interested in taking care of our parishioners are invited to attend. Everyone is invited to have lunch together after the meeting at Country Inn, 11:30 am. Betty Consorte and Marianne Schmidt
Roses
Dennis Widman has seen to the upkeep of the JV Rose Garden for many years, and he has finally decided to step down from this responsibility. The JV Board is looking at options for this, but we are asking for at least one volunteer from both churches to be on a “Rose Committee” to oversee the upkeep. These are not necessarily people who will be doing the work, but they are people who will see that it is getting done. If you are interested in being a part of this committee, please let Steve Wing know. Thank you!
And thanks to Dennis for his MANY MANY years of service to our Rose Garden. It is thriving under his care, and many of us have enjoyed it over the years.
ECA and UCC have joined together to help feed our community as Joint Venture.
The odd months we will donate food to Santa Maria Urban Mission and on the even months, we will donate to Mary Lou’s Pantry here in Almaden Valley.
Please continue to place non-perishable foods in the bin at Church and at the end of the month the food will be distributed to SMUM in the odd months and Mary Lou’s Pantry in the even months.
Thank you for your continued generosity.
Here is a direct link to our weekly “An Episcopal Sermon” podcast.
Each weekly podcast episode is a live recording of the Gospel reading followed by the sermon based on that reading from our Sunday services. A new episode is posted on our website every Monday (in case you missed it on Sunday). This podcast provides thought provoking messages that can be listened to anywhere at anytime.
Enjoy!
Link for this week:
https://www.churchinalmaden.org/news/mar5-2023-an-episcopal-sermon