Dear Friends,

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Times have changed and so has worship.  That’s true not only because of the pandemic, with the need to convert some of our in-person worship practices to on-line offerings, but also because churches may have several generations of newer members who are not familiar with why we do what we do.  The experienced people who would once have been the mentors and resource people may have become too old or ill to continue their service, or perhaps they retired and moved away. Do people know why we use seasonal colors?  Or what the symbols mean?  Do our altar guilds know the processes for caring for the “tools of the trade”?  Are there new members who might know of a better way to do something (gasp!!)?  In our eagerness to buy memorials or replace vestments, we often forget that what we are really doing is telling God’s Extraordinary Story.