What a Celebration!

Well, yesterday was Pastor Dan's installation celebration! What a great experience! The church was full and our band played too! I have to commend all the band members on a job well done! Joe, Edie, Bill, Lynn, and of course me too! The reception had some wonderful food and great music too. The crowd was up and dancing almost as soon as we got there! It was very nice to meet Dan's family as well. I personally was happy to see some folks that haven't been attending regularly. I hope to see them some more in the future! Unfortunatly I can't comment too much more on the reception because I had to leave early do to illness. I was very upset to have to leave and not enjoy myself there! I certainly was looking forward to it. So, if anyone else out there has anything to add please add it! Thank you!

Now joining the blog...

Thanks, Brenda - I'm in!

Flowers

Well, it is that time of the year. The annual flower sale is back! This is our only planned fund raiser so we really need to make it a good one. We will have the same plants as last year and I will be send the order forms to all members on the mailing list this week. I will also have more on the back table in the church. I hope that everyone will sell these plants to all their friends, family, and co-workers! Delviery will be the Sunday after Mother's Day. This is the same day that we used last year and it seemed to work alright. I understand that some people like to use these flowers for their Mother's Day gift but perhaps you could give your Mom an IOU and give it to her the week after. I am sure that if you tell her why they are a week late she will understand! Also, orders must be in by Mother's Day I will be turning them in to Hoeffner's on that Monday. Last year we made about $300 I would love to at least double that. Please, go to everyone you know and tell them about it! 6 days until the first Installation at St. Andrew's Chapel!!!!!!! Yipee.... Congrats to all of us!!!!!!!

Invites

To all that would like to add to this blog please let me know by sending an e-mail to Standrewschapel@aol.com and I will invite you. After that you will be able to post stuff on the blog page instead of just commenting. If you would like to comment you can or you could write your own entry. I think this is a perfect way to use this blog. Thank you a bunch Anne....

Just in case no one realizes it yet... we only have 1 week until the installation! I can't wait. I have been getting phone calls from the invities and they all sound very nice and are looking forward to a fun evening. I expect that we all will have a great and I know that I am excited to have Dan for our very own first Vicar! See you on Sunday!

Thank You!

Thank you Anne for jumping right in with me. For those of you who are not used to the blogging process. Anne has left a comment on this blog and you all can read it by clicking the commet. It area on the bottom of each post. Anne has suggested that we all just comment on this blog as it can get too confusing to have multiple blogs. This is a great idea! However if you do want to put out your own ideas feel free to start your own! Also, I do plan on sprucing up the page a bit with pictures but I need to get them from my husband. I also need to get with him to fix up the web page. I need to put the phone number and everything on there!

On another note, I can't believe that Dan's Installation is coming up in less then 2 weeks! All the plans seem to be coming together. We have all the gifts together that we need to present to him and the service is going to be just wonderful. There have been alot of responses and most of them are yeses! Also, the food should be great. We are having Eggplant rolitini, Green beans, Chicken, and Penne Alfredo, Bread and salad and some other stuff too! I can't wait to PARTY! I believe that Dan feels the same way as do the rest of the congregation! We are going to see if we can get it videotaped because it is such a grand event! As I was cleaning the back table of the church last Tuesday I came across the Cenntenial programs. The date the we celebrated that was April 27, 2003. Can you believe that was exactly 5 years ago! Look at was has happened in just 5 short years!

Last little bit. If anyone in the congregation has a coat rack that we could use for the installation we would really appreciate it. We need them for the clergy to hang their bags on while the get robed. We do have two but I would like to have at least one more! Thanks a bunch!

Brand New Blog

Hello All, this is my first time ever doing a blog but why not jump right in. My name is Brenda and I am a part of St. Andrew's Chapel in Montgomery. We have started a new venture with a new Vicar this past January and so far we are moving full steam ahead! It has been great to have such an enthusiastic person join us at our little green church. As of today we are working on a whole bunch of things. We just installed our first phone! WOW welcome to the 21st century! We are planning our priest's installation service. We are going to have an awesome party after to celebrate this great beginning! After that we are going to start building our church! We are excited to be looking into doing new things!

Today I went to the Diocese in NYC and went to a seminar called Doing Church. It was a great day! The first part of the day I spent in a class about financial planning and I got a few ideas about what we need to be doing! Then we had an awesome lunch! It was a bag lunch but it was pretty darn good! On top of that we ate our lunch IN the Cathedral! I never thought we could eat in church let alone the Cathedral! After that I went to a seminar about Health and Vitality in the Church. That is where I learned of this blog spot. I learned some other things in there too but I think this is a pretty good tool! So, I hope to see all in church on Sunday at 9AM! The more the merrier! Keep looking back here to see what else is happening in St. Andrew's Chapel. Thanks for reading!