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Parish Life

(Originally published in the February 2012 Newsletter)

Have you heard?

We recently began sending out a short weekly e-mail compilation that we hope will be a useful tool for keeping you informed about the activities and opportunities at St. C’s. If you are not yet receiving this e-mail and would like to, please click Member Login at the top right corner of any page on our website and update your contact information, including a preferred e-mail address. Please also add news@columba.org to your address book to ensure that our e-mails make it safely to your inbox instead of getting flagged as junk mail.

You are also invited to participate in a contest to name the weekly e-newsletter. Go to Current News at Columba.org for a sample of the e-newsletter and a link to the contest. And while you’re filling in your entry, we’re also interested in hearing about what’s working well in the new weekly e-mail, what’s not and what else you might like to see. Please take the time to answer our quick survey and help us better serve you.

Going green, one newsletter at a time

With the launch of our new weekly e-mail, we now have an easy way to let you know when the monthly newsletter has been posted on our website. If you’d like to help us save on paper, printing and mailing costs, why not skip the print newsletter and download the PDF or read it online instead? To opt out of paper copies, please contact Geoff Greene (202-363-4119, ext. 200; ggreene@columba.org).

Annual Meeting results

Congratulations to all elected at the annual meeting: John Nolan, Senior Warden; Jennifer Turner, Junior Warden; Alan Beal, Courtney Hundley, Elizabeth Taylor and John Wickham, Vestry; Krishna Singho, Diocesan Delegate; and Mark Lindblom and Sylvana Sandoz, Diocesan Alternates. We offer our thanks to Suzanne Burrows and Adrienne Clamp for their willingness to stand for election. And thanks also to outgoing members of the vestry Lance Elliott and David Hawkings for their service. Finally, congratulations to those honored with this year’s Outstanding
Lay Person awards: Peter Clamp, Prentiss Lay and Lisa Whelan. The by-laws revisions passed by a vote of 256 to 17.

Lent booklets for children and adults

Our annual booklet of Lent reflections is now available at Columba.org. Being mindful of the Earth’s precious resources, we encourage you to access the booklet online, either as a PDF
or as weekly pages posted to our site. We have also printed a limited number of copies for those who have difficulty accessing the Internet or who for other reasons need a hard copy.

Booklets to help children ages 3 to 10 and their families focus on themes of Lent, Holy Week and Easter are now available in the Common and Great Hall. Mite boxes are also offered in these locations and will be distributed in Sunday School. The money collected this year will go to the Bishop Walker School.