Full Speed Ahead for a May 23 Launch!

Sorry that it’s been a week+ since my last posting – recent days have seen a flurry of activity (including at my day job!) and I have found myself a little behind schedule.

We’re still moving towards a startup of weekly worship on Pentecost, May 23, a mere 11 days from today! Various individuals and teams are getting everything in place that we’ll need to “launch.” It won’t be a noisy launch (no big ads in local periodicals, no “spot” on the TV news, no proclamation by the mayor), but we’re hoping that you’ll be able to join us on Sunday evening, May 23 at around 5:00 (the exact time to be announced next week) for a wonderful time of worship and celebration and fellowship.

As always, shoot me an email anytime to offer your input/advice or to respond to any of our requests for info and help!  The email address is:  MplsAnglican@aol.com

Our Music and Liturgy Teams are off and running – they have built a basic framework for our worship services and selected the music and the liturgical elements for the first couple weeks. These two teams will have a joint meeting this Saturday at 10:30 (after our general planning meeting). Let me know if you’d like to join either of these teams, or would just like to sit in on our meeting.

Decisions about recording our services or the sermons (for eventual podcasting or just for our archives) will be made this week. We also need to identify a rotating team of greeters and ushers for the 23rd and all future services (let me know if you’re interested personally or have recommendations). And we need “Altar Guild” help with preparation for our Eucharist (again, please speak up if you’d like to help that way).

Our Theology Team is meeting tonight to flesh-out a couple more things that we need before opening our doors.

We still have room for you on all of our focused planning teams – see the list of them in my May 3 blog posting.

We now have a checking account containing $370.00! We’ll need to spend about $100 on the license that will allow us to print copyrighted words and music in our worship bulletins for a year, but hey, it’s a start! I’m acting as Treasurer pro tem and will be posting contributions to our accounting system. Assuming that all our legal filings go as expected, all contributions made anytime this year will be tax deductible. So write a check anytime – make it payable to Anglican Church of the Trinity and bring it to a planning meeting or worship service.

Last week I was thrilled to be invited to participate in the Anglican Church in North America’s “Deanery Formation” meeting in Chicago this Thursday and Friday. I will give a full report at our planning meeting this Saturday, including (I hope) the name of the priest who will preside over our first Eucharist on the 23rd.

I plan to have a simple website up and running very soon – I know that it would be really useful to be able to refer folks to a website (rather than my blog, which is more about the planting process than about the church itself). So stay tuned.

As always, please join us this Saturday morning.

• 3501 Aldrich Ave. S., Minneapolis
• 8:30 coffee and informal conversation;
• 9:00 Morning Prayer;
• 9:15 general planning meeting;
• 10:15 Liturgy and Music Teams’ meeting (and perhaps some other team meetings).