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Senior Warden’s Report by Julia Trizzino As in all recent years, the Vestry focused in 2020 on furthering progress against the strategic goals established in 2016. In February, we engaged in a weekend retreat to revise the goals based on Vestry and staff inputs and establish 2020 priorities. Although many of the goals we identified have been accomplished, we adjusted and re-prioritized based on impact from the COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 stretched our creativity, and I believe the Vestry, staff, and congregation rose to the challenge of continuing to seek and serve Christ in all persons throughout the year.
countries, and monthly communion delivered to our doors. In 2020, thanks to partial utilization of a gift from the Ed and Gloria Snyder Estate, we purchased and installed the video equipment we need to achieve the longstanding goal of live streaming services. Although we were not able to achieve our goal of continuing to support The Table (our 5:30 service) throughout 2020, we did utilize some of the music and style from that service in our outdoor services at the end of the year.
Compassionate Service Our primary accomplishment in this area was to authorize increasing Dana Jean’s hours to full time using Vestry Discretionary Reserve funding, providing staff support for our Outreach efforts. Dana has been amazingly creative with the youth and we are so grateful to have more of her time. The Vestry and Mission and Ministry committee additionally sponsored an Outreach visioning workshop at the end of 2020 (via Zoom!).
Reverent Worship We discontinued in-person services starting in March, thinking we’d be in for a brief hiatus. Although we didn’t get back to in-person services until September, we developed good alternatives – recorded weekly services that maintained our liturgy and music traditions and allowed people to participate from different states and even different
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