Annual Parish Meeting & Pot Luck Supper Sunday Services: 8:00 a.m. .......Rite I 9:30 a.m. .......Rite II 9:30 a.m. .......Sunday School Sunday, January 28th at 5pm 11:00 a.m. ........Rite III 7:00 p.m. .......Rite III Parish Hall Wednesday Service: 10:00 a.m................... Rite II 11:00 a.m. ................. Bible Study ►Please join us to vote for new vestry members Head of Church Jesus Christ Bishop The Rt. Rev. Greg Brewer Rector The Rev. Tom Rutherford ►Pick up your copy of the annual report [321-945-3958] e-mail: [email protected] Asst. Rector The Rev. Tracy Dugger [407-201-0951] and 2018 budget e-mail: [email protected] Deacons The Rev. Tim Wetherington [407-342-4484] email: [email protected] The Rev. Julie Altenbach Please bring a dish [407-462-8001] email: [email protected] The Rev. Dr. Richard Gonzalez to share [239-777-0369] email: [email protected] Treasurer Rodger Watson [407-814-0303] Staff Barbara Ellerbe, Preschool Director [407-654-8415] Linda Ellison, Music Minister Angela Lopez, Children’s Minister Amy Paredes, Facilities Minister Janie Walton, Youth Minister LaVerne Woods, Parish Administrator Office Hours Monday through Friday 9am—5pm P A G E 2 the principal from that fund coming to was: it was December, and we We Prayed, our parish when he died. Tom died in needed only half capacity. The other late 2016, and in early 2017, that trust good news is: we placed our order gave us $345,000. for new fins in November, and it and God Provided! takes 2 months to get them. The As you can imagine, the Vestry was new fins are here and will be This time last year, at our Annual installed in the next couple of Parish Meeting, we approved an ECSTATIC! weeks, so we’ll have FULL A/C Operating Budget for 2017 that when hot weather rolls around would end the year with a $100,000 But, to their credit, they did NOT have ―visions of sugarplums dancing in again! deficit… IF giving continued at the same level as 2016, and IF God their heads‖ with God kept the didn’t provide the extra to cover plans to spend the stove and air the deficit. gift. conditioning Instead, we prayed working through We adopted that budget WITH the last 10 years THE PROMISE that we as a parish and thought and considered and when we could family would pray – and pray hard! NOT have – and trust God to provide. discussed and invested that money afforded new equipment. And As of November 30, 2017, giving had to gain some interest while we waited to gain a sense of what God might then, right before that machinery continued at the 2016 level, and we failed, He provided the resources to were looking at an Operating want us to do with it. replace it! deficit for the year of $102,783.60. Then the stove in our Parish Hall kitchen died, and that gift bought us a We prayed, and God provided! In December, I shared those numbers and urged us all to pray new commercial stove. In fact, God set things in motion MORE for God to provide. FIFTY YEARS AGO to provide Then the air conditioning in the Church building showed itself to be what we needed THIS YEAR – long We did. before we ever started praying! on its last legs, and that gift replaced that A/C. And God did! THANK YOU, JESUS! Then the cooling fins on the Parish Giving in December was enough to Hall air conditioner that have been The last part of this testimony is cover all our year end expenses and deteriorating for 5 years, showed the about that last $30,438 deficit in our wipe out all but $30,438 of that symptoms of failing soon, and that gift Operating Fund. deficit. allowed us to put in the order to replace them. We’ve been praying all year for God That’s GREAT! But what about to provide all our needs, while that last thirty thousand bucks? As it turned out, those failing fins saving the Britt gift until we got a failed completely in mid-December, sense of how God might want us to 50 years ago, Jane Britt, an active – and blew out half of our cooling use it. and generous – parishioner set up a capacity for the Parish Hall, offices, trust fund to support her son Tom Nursery, and Narthex. The good news for the rest of his life, with most of P A G E 3 From the Rector … continued We used some for a stove and air conditioning, and at the December Vestry meeting, the Vestry unanimously agreed to authorize Treasurer Rodger Watson to look at our income at the end of 2017, and move however much of the Britt gift for Women that it would take to make our Operating Fund break even for the year. Melanie Shankle explores how we can find God On January 3, Rodger moved $31,000 from the Britt Fund to ―Other Income‖ in the small every day to have us end the year in the black. things we do in our day. Please check her out at We prayed, and God provided! http:// Please KEEP PRAYING. thebigmamablog.com/ And as God prompts you to give, please be obedient. 6:30-7:30 But in the meantime, please THANK GOD for his provision! Wednesdays, January 3, 10, 17, 24 I love you all. February 7, 14 Meet in the Youth Hall Contact Deacon Julie Altenbach for more information at 407-462-8001 [email protected] P A G E 4 Who Ya Gonna Call? LOVING GOD ............................. Leader .............................................. Phone Acolytes .......................................................... Murph Borno............................................................ 407-347-7094 Altar Guild ..................................................... Trudie Carr & Betty Morgeson ....... 407-299-2081/407-293-6912 Building Maintenance ................................. Frank Chase ............................................................. 407-876-0308 Children’s Ministry ......................................... Angela Lopez ............................................................ 321-287-9089 Lay Weeders Landscapers ......................... Sarah Wolfe .............................................................. 407-656-4226 Music/Choirs/Band ...................................... Linda Ellison ............................................................ 407-417-4299 Prayer Chain .................................................. Elise Bradford ....................................................................... 407-876-2557 Prayer Intercessors....................................... Wally & Karen Stewart ........................................ 407-656-3956 Technical Team............................................. Lionel Williams..................................................... 407-905-9295 Ushers, Greeters, Lectors, Eucharistic Ministers and Visitors (Central Scheduling) .......................................................................... Mike & Bobbie Warren ........................................ 352-241-8703 LOVING OUR NEIGHBOR ............. Leader .............................................. Phone Christian Service Center ............................ Doreen Stachowski ................................................. 407-358-8039 Communications/Publicity ........................ Lionel Williams ....................................................... 407-905-9295 Habitat for Humanity ................................. Bob Tate .................................................................... 407-656-3239 Home at Last ................................................. Bill Criswell .............................................................. 407-876-2472 Outreach ......................................................... Doreen Stachowski ................................................. 407-358-8039 Pre-School ...................................................... Barbara Ellerbe ........................................................ 407-654-8415 Refugee Team ................................................ Murph Borno............................................................ 407-347-7094 LOVING EACH OTHER ................. Leader .............................................. Phone Casserole Patrol ............................................ Deacon Julie Altenbach ......................................... 407-462-8001 Coffee Hour ................................................... Kelley McRae ........................................................... 407-877-0463 Fun & Fellowship ........................................ Stacey Beck & Steve Borst ................... 702-521-4077/610-659-3902 Grief Groups.................................................. Jill Brown .................................................................. 407-656-5776 Hurricane/Disaster Response Team ........ Murph Borno............................................................ 407-347-7094 Kitchen Krewe .............................................. Lynn Somers ............................................................. 407-656-2504 Lay Eucharistic Visitors .............................. Deacon Julie Altenbach ......................................... 407-462-8001 Library ............................................................ Janie Walton ............................................................ 407-230-7913 Men’s Supper ................................................ Wally Stewart ......................................................... 407-656-3956 Messiah Academy ........................................ Terri Wetherington ................................................ 407-455-2832 Messiah’s Way .............................................. Doreen Stachowski ................................................. 407-358-8039 Name Tags ....................................................