Clergy Notes – February 23rd, 2024
Dear Truro family, This Sunday, we’ll be commissioning the Rev. Steve Cannizzaro as a full-time Associate Rector. Alongside the other clergy and me, Steve will be responsible to help care for, disciple, and encourage the flock of God. His primary focus will be to provide pastoral care, encourage community life, and promote the young adult […]
Clergy Notes – February 16th, 2024
Dear Truro family, On Sunday, March 10, Bishop Warner will be with us. On the occasion of his yearly visit, our members are invited to make a public and personal profession of faith and to receive the laying on of hands by the bishop in one of these three Anglican expressions: Confirmation: For those who were baptized […]
Clergy Notes – February 9th, 2024
Dear Truro family, This coming Wednesday, February 14, we begin the season of Lent with our Ash Wednesday services at 12:00 P.M. (chapel) and 7:00 P.M. (sanctuary and online). You may be accustomed to the season of Lent, or if you didn’t grow up in a liturgical tradition, this may be very new (and somewhat […]
Clergy Notes – February 2nd, 2024
Dear Truro family, I’m delighted to announce that the Rev. Steve Cannizzaro has accepted my invitation to take on the role of full-time Associate Rector here at Truro, with the unanimous and enthusiastic consent of the vestry. After a six-month international search including 13 qualified candidates, I give thanks to God for answering our prayers […]
Clergy Notes – January 26th, 2024
Dear Truro family, Here we go again… it’s a presidential election year! I imagine most of us are dreading another 283 days (but who’s counting?) of divisive political discourse. Allow me to offer a pastoral word: As believers: we have one Lord, Jesus Christ (Phil. 2:9). We worship no other name, no other party, and […]
Clergy Notes – January 19th, 2024
Dear Truro family, The expression “the family that eats together stays together” isn’t only true for the nuclear family, it’s true for the spiritual family too. A church family that eats together gets to know one another, learn names, share joys and struggles, and share a table with people from different generations and different nations. […]
Clergy Notes – January 12th, 2024
Dear Truro family, So many of you have been praying for our search for a full-time Associate Rector, and I wanted to give you a brief update. From August to December 2023, we considered two waves of applicants, and concluded that God had not yet brought us the right person for the position. We decided […]
Clergy Notes – January 5th, 2024
Dear Truro family, One week ago today, I wrote to ask for your prayerful end-of-year giving, and you responded by giving $137,000 to the Lord. Because of you, we are thrilled to finish 2023 basically right-on-target. And we enter into a new year on solid financial footing. Praise God from whom all blessings flow! And […]
Clergy Notes – December 29th, 2023
Dear Truro family, I’d like to ask you to consider a special end-of-year financial offering to help us end 2023 deficit-free and to launch into 2024 on solid financial footing. But first, take a moment to look back with me on just a snapshot of our life together this past year, all enabled by your […]
Clergy Notes – December 22nd, 2023
Dear Truro family, I’m looking forward to celebrating Christmas with you all! It’s the most wonderful time of year, not because of holiday sentimentality, but because of the awesome reality that God has broken through into our world, into our darkness, and into our lives in the gift of his Son Jesus. We’ll have three […]