New people have joined us, adults and children, adding to our vitality and ministry. Instead of Commissions, we now have ministry teams whose focus is to foster the ministry of the baptized in their arena of concern. A number of you have become more intentional in your prayer life, especially in the contemplative life, and there are four different times during the week when folks gather to meditate and pray together. More of you have participated in education and identification of gifts events. Our Great Hall kitchen is now used to feed the hungry on a weekly basis.
People gather monthly to feed the teens in the University District.
A refugee family from Africa is being housed in St. Stephen's Inn. We are about to send a fourth youth team on mission, this time to Appalachia. An adult team went to Honduras this past February. Numbers of you are signing up to build homes for Habitat for Humanity, and plans are being made to sponsor a house in the West Seattle Project. A Parish retreat brought us together in community and celebration.