Happy Birthday To Us

As noted in today's bulletin, Thursday marked 28 years since the formation and first service of St. Bartholomew's. I wish I had had a tape recorder running when Mary Ellen talked about the early days of our parish; it would be nice to have a written record of it with all sorts of interesting details, such as how we came to acquire the property.

(From memory of Thursday evening: The parish had been looking at the property and talking with the owner, but the talks kept going nowhere because although he'd sell the land cheap the deal would include his doing the construction -- and the numbers were never forthcoming. Then he ran into some legal problem and was $20k short of what he needed to settle it. St. Bartholomew's had accumulated $20k by then and extended an outright purchase offer. The report was that when they made the offer, in person, he just sat there dumbfounded, saying, "I need $20,000, and here you are with an offer in just that amount...")

The School supplies for native American students project went very well. Rhonda was reportedly very delighted with the contributions. This was almost a last-minute deal and she (nor the rest of us) had any idea what the response would be. Next year there will be more planning and advance notice.

While preparing this post, I noted that at the very tail of the bulletin is this curious little note. I wonder what's up?