Weekly News | 3.28.25

Dear Church,

Lately I have found myself returning again and again to the song “New Every Morning” by The Porter’s Gate.

You are new every morning

Each day a resurrection waiting to break through

It is a bit taboo to speak of resurrection while in the thick of Lent, but I love the simple way it weaves together realities captured in beloved passages.

Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed,

for his compassions never fail.

They are new every morning;

great is your faithfulness. (Lamentations 3:22-23)

If anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! (2 Corinthians 5:17)

One of the gifts of getting to be your rector is not just the newness ahead, but the way in which I have had the privilege of knowing you - of hearing your stories, of walking with you, of praying for you. Your names - as well as your griefs and joys - are on my lips, are in my thoughts. Your losses, your trials, your gains (however “small”), and your outright victories, are meaningful to me.

Your “resurrection waiting to break through” is not a hope I hold ignorant of the challenges, but a hope I hold in fact because I know you, because I have seen Jesus at work in your and in this community by God’s grace.

I want to echo what Fr. Peter was so fond of saying regarding his own leadership: “I will disappoint you.” Friends, we will, given enough time and proximity, disappoint each other! 

AND I am confident that in the hands of the God who makes us new every morning our love for Him and one another will deepen even amidst disappointments. They may even become catalysts-in-disguise for resurrection to break through.

To me, you are known and new every morning. I am eager to deepen my knowledge, and eager to bear witness to - to wait with you, to contend for, to name and celebrate - the new life in you, in us as a community, and in our city.

Yours in Christ, known and new, 

Sarah+