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 […]
Clergy Notes – December 15th, 2023
Dear Truro family, The gospel is the good news of what God has done for us in Jesus Christ. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:16). As a church that God has positioned right here in […]
Clergy Notes – December 8th, 2023
Dear Truro family, Last Sunday we sang these words from the hymn “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”: O come, desire of nations, bindIn one the hearts of all mankindBid thou our sad divisions ceaseAnd be Thyself our King of Peace All around us are signs of increased polarization and isolation, tensions and wars between nations, […]
Clergy Notes – December 1st, 2023
Dear Truro family, This Sunday marks the beginning of the season of Advent. The word “Advent” comes from the Latin word “adventus” and literally means “coming”. We proclaim the mystery of faith: Christ has died, Christ is risen, and Christ will come again. He came once as a baby, and he will come again (soon!) […]