FEBRUARY 20, 2022
ANNUAL CONGREGATIONAL MEETING
11:30 A.M.
I. Call to Order and Opening Prayer
II. Appointment of Secretary (appoint Jennifer Murphy)
III. Adoption of Minutes for 2021 Meeting
IV. Rector’s Remarks Video
V. Reports from the Congregation:
A. Christian Formation Video
B. Outreach Video
C. Diocese of Ezo Video
D. Creche Preschool Video
E. Buildings & Grounds Report (in-person)
F. Treasurer’s Report (in-person)
VI. Questions from the Floor
VII. Announcement of New Vestry Class & Acclamation of Endowment Committee Candidate
VIII. Franciscan Icon Awards & Recognition
IX. Closing Prayer and Adjournment
NEW AND CONTINUING VESTRY: PLEASE STAY ON THIS (ZOOM) MEETING FOR AN
ORIENTATION.
St. Francis Episcopal Church Annual Meeting and Report for 2021-22
OPENING PRAYER:
A LITANY OF THANKSGIVING FOR ST. FRANCIS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Let us thank God whom we worship here in the beauty of holiness.
Eternal God, the heaven of heavens cannot contain you, much less the walls of temples made with hands.
Graciously receive our thanks for this place, and accept the work of our hands, offered to your honor and glory.
Rector: For the Church Universal, of which these visible buildings are a symbol,
People: We thank you, Lord.
Rector: For your presence whenever two or three have gathered together in your name,
People: We thank you Lord.
Rector: For making us your children through adoption and grace through baptism and for refreshing
us week by week with the sacramental body and blood of your Son.
People: We thank you, Lord.
Rector: For the knowledge of your will and the grace to perform it,
People: We thank you, Lord.
Rector: For the fulfilling of our desires and petitions as you see best for us,
People: We thank you, Lord.
Rector For the forgiveness of our sins and for restoring us to the company of the faithful,
People: We thank you, Lord.
Rector: For the blessing of our vows and for the crowning of our years with goodness,
People: We thank you, Lord.
Rector: For the faith of those who have gone before us and for our encouragement by their
perseverance,
People: We thank you, Lord.
Rector: Yours, O Lord, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty;
People: For everything in heaven and on earth is yours.
Rector: Yours, O Lord, is the kingdom;
People: And you are exalted as head over all. AMEN.
CLOSING PRAYER:
Lord, make us instruments of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let us sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there us discord, union;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
Grant that we may not so much seek to be consoled as
to console
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in the giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born into eternal life.
Amen.