Clergy Notes – November 25th, 2022
Dear Truro Family, Even though it’s the day after Thanksgiving, I wanted to take a moment just to say how thankful I am for you. You are an incredible church! So many of your faces and names come to my mind as I write this, remembering all of the ways you serve behind the scenes, […]
Clergy Notes – November 18th, 2022
Dear Truro Family, Two quick things about this coming Sunday: First: This weekend, we join the worldwide Church in celebrating Christ the King Sunday. This is more than just the end of the Church Year (before Advent begins the following Sunday), but this is the culmination of the Church Year! It’s all been building up […]
Clergy Notes – November 11th, 2022
Dear Truro family, This coming Sunday, November 13, Catherine and I would love to invite any newcomers who have started coming to Truro in the last year or so to a lunch after the 10 AM service. Kids are welcome too! We look forward to getting to know you, sharing some of what we love about […]
Clergy Notes – November 4th, 2022
Dear Truro family, In last week’s reading from Philippians, Paul remarked that he was sure he would be delivered from his suffering – in part because of the prayers of his brothers and sisters in Christ. We can never overstate the importance of praying for each other, and the importance of being prayed for. Here […]
Clergy Notes – October 28th, 2022
Dear Truro Family, In 2 Corinthians 9:7, we’re given a clear call to carefully consider our stewardship of the financial resources God has given us. Paul writes that “each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver”. A cheerfully […]
Clergy Notes – October 21st, 2022
Dear Truro Family, A little over 22 years ago, I came to Truro Anglican Church as a junior in high school. I walked into the 11:15 AM service, my first Sunday here, completely disoriented, considerably depressed, and quite unsure of why God had called my family here. It didn’t take long for me to begin to […]
Clergy Notes – October 14th, 2022
Dear Truro family, Tomorrow, October 15, 2022, our diocese will elect its next bishop. All of the clergy of the diocese, as well as lay delegates from every church, will meet to prayerfully discern the man whom God has chosen to lead us. Please be praying! The candidates are: · The Rev. David M. Hanke, […]
Clergy Notes – September 16th, 2022
Dear friends,I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring […]
Clergy Notes – September 9th, 2022
Dear friends, I just love baptisms! What a blessing it was this past Sunday to baptize four adult converts from China into the way of Jesus! I had the privilege to meet with each of them the week prior to talk about baptism. I asked each of them why they wanted to be baptized, and […]
Clergy Notes – September 2nd, 2022
Dear Truro Family, What a joy it was on Sunday when it was announced that Jamie Brown would be Truro’s new rector and the congregation erupted in applause and cheering! As you heard, the Search Committee unanimously voted to recommend, and the Vestry voted unanimously to call him as your new leader. Bishop Guernsey gave […]