Dear Extended St. Paul’s Family – Thank you for your patience as our renovation and improvement work continues. We’re off to a great start in putting in the necessary work to keep Marin Day School as a happy tenant and to put up our new solar panels. Work is on track to be done before…
Starting this week and going until Christmas the campus will be busy with major work on our campus. The two most significant projects are a new children’s bathroom in the education wing and solar panels on the roof of the education wing. This works represents many hours of careful deliberation by your vestry and other…
Hello – Just a quick reminder that this is the Sunday we gather the pledge cards and bless them. Thank you to all of you who have already let us know what we can expect from you financially in 2015. If you haven’t pledged yet, this Sunday is a great time to bring in your…
Hello – Thank you, St. Paul’s, for your generous and good humored support of the Harvest Bazaar this past week. Bravo! Your love and encouragement of the active members of the St. Anne’s Guild shined through. The active Guilders poured in a huge amount of effort throughout the last year to prepare for the sale.…
Hello – This week we celebrate two of our finest ministries. First, tomorrow night there’s a Come and See event about our ministry to San Quentin’s Death Row. This chapter of our ministry began 18 years ago when the mother of an inmate asked the Bishop of California to please find someone to visit her…
Hello – We have a lot going on right now. We are on a trajectory where the feel of life on our campus will shift in a healthy way through the next couple of months. Already, morale is high and it’s set to get even higher as things come together. But with all the moving…
Hello – Here are four quick things you ought to know, each of which are an essential part of our common life in the next three weeks. • We are one week into our pledge drive. This is where we are each encouraged to fill out a card with the amount of money we intend…
Hello – This Sunday, Chloe and I, on behalf of the Vestry, are hosting a party to express our gratitude for the St. Anne’s Guild. The party is from 4pm to 6pm. Our home is in San Anselmo, just above United Market on the Miracle Mile. The history and the essential work of the St.…
Hello – Tomorrow night, Wednesday, we are having an important community conversation in Duncan Hall starting at 6:30pm. It’s a conversation about making our campus safe, accessible and beautiful. We have been given an amazing opportunity to leave a great legacy for decades to come. Thanks to hard work from Jay, we have a new…
Hello – My spiritual director (who is also a Jungian analyst) believes that in life we go through times that are normal and then times when it feels like we’re going through a wormhole. The next ten days are likely to feel like a wormhole, at least behind the scenes. Here are three important things…