A Grateful Parish Community
An Update on the Fire at Emmanuel on Tuesday Evening 1.23.18
We are so grateful to the first responders who quickly swung into action to contain the fire that broke out in the attic of our rectory on January 23rd. While there is damage to that isolated wing of the property, the buildings housing our offices, education wing, and worship space were not affected other than the smell of smoke. While that is being remediated, we are cancelling Daily Offices until Monday Jan 29th. However, the weekend's other scheduled events (a visitation on Friday, funeral on Saturday, Annual Meeting at 9am Sunday and 1662 Choral Evensong at 4pm Sunday) will go on as scheduled.
The church is open normal office hours as of now. Many of our members have already given many hours to help, and we are grateful too for the many local people and community partners who have been in touch to offer support, as well as for the fact that our parish has the fortitude to face an experience like this one by the grace we have known in Jesus Christ.
Life sends us all pain, challenges, and awful turns of events. But as St. Paul writes in 2 Corinthians, "We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.... So we do not lose heart."
We at Emmanuel, too, will not lose heart. We have a new challenge to face, and the resurrection life of Jesus to face it with. Come and see!
We are so grateful to the first responders who quickly swung into action to contain the fire that broke out in the attic of our rectory on January 23rd. While there is damage to that isolated wing of the property, the buildings housing our offices, education wing, and worship space were not affected other than the smell of smoke. While that is being remediated, we are cancelling Daily Offices until Monday Jan 29th. However, the weekend's other scheduled events (a visitation on Friday, funeral on Saturday, Annual Meeting at 9am Sunday and 1662 Choral Evensong at 4pm Sunday) will go on as scheduled.
The church is open normal office hours as of now. Many of our members have already given many hours to help, and we are grateful too for the many local people and community partners who have been in touch to offer support, as well as for the fact that our parish has the fortitude to face an experience like this one by the grace we have known in Jesus Christ.
Life sends us all pain, challenges, and awful turns of events. But as St. Paul writes in 2 Corinthians, "We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.... So we do not lose heart."
We at Emmanuel, too, will not lose heart. We have a new challenge to face, and the resurrection life of Jesus to face it with. Come and see!