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"Unity in the Spirit; Unity of Effort"
Senior Warden’s Letter

Greetings to the St. Peter’s family from your new senior warden. I was much honored to accept Mother Paige’s invitation to become a warden and assist in building our community and ministries. I would also like to introduce our newly elected Junior Warden, Geoffrey Schiering.  Geoff, who many will recognize as our thurifer during the monthly Evensong service, is also a church lector, third-year EFM participant, and very active in the prayer ministries of St. Peter’s. Geoff is a San Diego Realtor and former attorney, and a most capable and welcome addition to the leadership team of the church.

Let me first acknowledge the tremendous job and legacy of our former Senior Warden, Dan Donoghue. We have come through a transition period and calling of our new rector largely due to Dan’s faithful and steady hand on the wheel. We were fortunate to have dedicated vestry, clergy, and staff during this potentially tumultuous time, but the burden of oversight and leadership fell upon the Senior warden. His service was exemplary and I offer him my thanks and a resounding, “Bravo Zulu!”
 
During my tenure as senior warden, I will emphasize unity in the Spirit and unity of effort. In this regard, we will build on the work of the calling committee, now transformed into the strategic planning committee, who prepared the parish profile and the four overarching goals:
  1. Attract, welcome, and sustain families and youth
  2. Pastor and nurture our diverse spiritual paths
  3. Improve financial stability through increased stewardship/balanced budget
  4. Make Christ known through witness, worship, and works.
The vestry and ministry liaisons will be focused on making these goals come alive each year with achievable objectives that our teams and volunteers can use as waypoints in our journey into the work God has called us to do. Look for additional insight and encouragement from Mother Paige about her vision for St. Peter’s.
For the remainder of the year, your vestry will work with the finance committee and treasurer to prepare the budget for 2010.
 
We have been blessed with a generous spirit of giving this year and are on track to finish the year in good financial health as reflected in the treasurer’s report. To repare ourselves for the year ahead, Mother Paige has been leading the vestry in “Studies in Stewardship.” This seminar and workshop is conducted during regular vestry meetings, beginning in September, and will unify and empower the vestry to become the nucleus of the stewardship campaign throughout the year.

Finally, I welcome your comments, suggestions, and observations. We will make every effort to post the vestry agenda and minutes on the bulletin board as soon as we can and parishioners are welcome to attend vestry meetings which are held at 7:00 PM in the library on the second Tuesday of each month.

Yours in Christ,
Peter M. Iverson, Senior Warden

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