To the Christians of Grace Church, an Episcopal Community in the Southern Berkshires, Greetings and Blessings! I am writing to you from a place of vision and what I see for our community in the future.
Why Grace?, because we are new, we are on the beginning of who and what we will become. The possibilities are only limited by our imagination—we can become anything we can envision, we can try new things, we can and should think outside the box. IF we have never done it that way….lets DO it that way. Be BOLD. We have been charged with a recreation of something that has been a part of the Berkshires for 250 years, the Episcopal Church. Do we have to do what we have been doing for 250 years, somewhat, should we move with the times … absolutely! We have seen that doing what we have always done, is no longer good enough or relevant to people today. Many still live with that God shaped hole in their lives, do we have what it takes to fill that hole—I think we do. The question I pose to you…how do we let the community know that we would be willing to help them find what they need to fill that hole. I don’t have that answer, but I do want us to think about, dream about, share with each other our thoughts and dreams. We did the visioning exercise earlier this year, lets visit those cards, lets dream a little.
Why pledge? This I could go one about for some time. Why will I pledge? Because I have much to be thankful for and pledgeing is the way we Christians show and practice our thankfulness. I want to be a founding member of Grace Church and I want you to join me. I and the other leaders of St. George’s made a commitment to our members—we will not let our dreams fade away, we will be part of an Episcopal Community, we will faithfully move into a future with our pledges and that commitment. I will stand by my commitment. I will increase my pledge. I invite you to do the same! Together we can make our dreams come true.
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