.SEARCH TEAM NEWS:
Continuing with St. Francis Parish 30 Days of Prayer,
The Discernment set: Day 16
Dear brothers and sisters of Saint Francis parish,In recalling us to prayers of discernment for the Rector Search, this notice has some urgency to it, as there will be the first of several interviews taking place in the upcoming weeks.
This was announced at the St Francis celebration Holy Eucharist yesterday, with a second interview in a couple of weeks. A further call to this concluding section of discernment prayer will be in tomorrow's Day 17 email.
May the Lord bless you in every way as you call upon His Name with praise and thanksgiving during this time of dedicated prayer.
Fr. Rob Eaton, Interim Minister
Saint Francis Parish, Pauma Valley, CA
Monday, October 7, the second 15 days of the 30 days of discernment, and continuing from where we left off on August 21, 2024.
Begin your daily prayer with praise to God. The "Glory to God in the highest" canticle in the Book of Common Prayer (pg 356) would be a good start. If you don't have a BCP at home, just do a web search for it, and you'll find it.
Pray also:
The mercy of the Lord is everlasting; O come, let us adore Him.
Pray:
ALMIGHTY GOD, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which Your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen.
Read: Luke 21:25-36 , The Big Picture
Reflection and notetaking -- as you read scripture, especially in this context of informing your discernment for the search process, make use of the powerful tool of journaling or notetaking
Pray:
Lord, Heavenly Father, be with us all as we continue our calling process for a rector for this parish. Keep the candidates, their families and parishes in your grace. Give this parish the strength and enthusiasm needed in the next weeks and perhaps months to watch for and then celebrate the events of the life of Your Son and Your love for us. May our spiritual journeys here at St. Francis be enriched by this experience, and may the people of the parishes of the candidates continue in their journey together.
Especially today with the understanding that a "Zoom" interview will be taking place, guide our Search Team members, and the candidate, through questions and answers and conversation, in their listening and speaking and observing, with the grace of your Holy Spirit; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with You and the Holy Spirit, reign One God, now and for ever. Amen.
End your Daily Prayer
Say the Lord’s Prayer, and St Francis’ prayer before the cross:
Most high glorious God, enlighten the darkness of our hearts; give us, Lord, a correct faith, a certain hope and a perfect charity, sense and knowledge, so that we - beginning with me - may carry out your Holy and True command. Amen.
Previous Search Committee News
The Parish Profile for St. Francis Episcopal Church has been approved by Bishop Susan Snook and Canon Gywnn.
St. Francis Pauma Valley is now at the search stage of accepting candidates.
Interested candidates should apply by sending their OTM portfolio, résumé, and cover letter (directed to St. Francis) to:
The Rev. Canon Gwynn Lynch
Diocese of San Diego, CA
Canon to the Ordinary
email: [email protected]
Phone: 619-481-5457
Rector Search progress - more news week of July 7
Good news! The first of the advertisements for the Rector Search have elicited a couple of applications. Fr. Eaton says we would be doing very well with 10 to 15 applications. This is not only about “advertising” and “marketing.” It is also – and should be primarily – a matter of prayer. So be praying that more potential candidates will respond by whatever means (database posting, advertising, word of mouth, direct invitations). That means YOU being engaged in this phase! So please be praying daily for the news to get out, and applications to get in.
Rector Search progress - more news week of July 14
Good news! The Rector Search Team will be meeting to pray, to review applications, and begin their evaluations; their first meeting in that mode was this past week.
As a parish we have come full circle from last summer's invitation to a 30-Days of Prayer to reacquaint ourselves with the voice of Jesus (with lots of precedent from the life of St. Francis!) and now there will be a new invitation to daily prayer as we beseech the Lord for very specific discernment. Our prayers must also include our Search Team and the Vestry. You will have a copy of that daily prayer discipline shortly.
If you do think of the name of a priest that you’d like to see come to St. Francis, contact them, and ask them to consider and pray about it, and to get their resume, etc., to our Diocesan office, care of the Rev. Canon Gwynn Lynch. She will let our Search Team leader, Sam Dreyer, know of the reception of the application.
Rector Search progress - more news
The Rector Search Team has begun their initial review of a few has a few applicants. Advertising through nation-wide Episcopal media is now in place to attract more applicants. YOUR job is to pray for more, which will include (by deduction) the person who will be your new Rector.
The next 30-days of prayer schedule will begin on Tuesday, August 6. A service of Evening Prayer, with a Litany for discernment, will be held on that evening, at 6 pm. The parish is invited to attend and use that event as inspiration for beginning the first segment of 15 days of prayer out of the 30. Materials for the daily prayer, written by Fr. Eaton, will be provided before next weekend. Watch for that.
Please continue to pray for the search process. you may also add the following Litany to your prayers. This is an important moment in our "season of discernment." Click below to find the Litany.
Litany for Discernment for congregation seeking new ordained leadership
If you have any questions regarding our search for a new Rector for St. Francis,
speak to Search Team leader Sam Dreyer, Senior Warden Dave Winebarger or Fr. Eaton for more information.
Click here to read our St. Francis Parish Profile.
Drone footage of the beautiful grounds of St. Francis Pauma Valley. Click here.
Rector Search progress - more news
The Rector Search Team has begun their initial review of a few has a few applicants. Advertising through nation-wide Episcopal media is now in place to attract more applicants. YOUR job is to pray for more, which will include (by deduction) the person who will be your new Rector.
The next 30-days of prayer schedule will begin on Tuesday, August 6. A service of Evening Prayer, with a Litany for discernment, will be held on that evening, at 6 pm. The parish is invited to attend and use that event as inspiration for beginning the first segment of 15 days of prayer out of the 30. Materials for the daily prayer, written by Fr. Eaton, will be provided before next weekend. Watch for that.
Continuing with St. Francis Parish 30 Days of Prayer,
The Discernment set: Day 16
Dear brothers and sisters of Saint Francis parish,In recalling us to prayers of discernment for the Rector Search, this notice has some urgency to it, as there will be the first of several interviews taking place in the upcoming weeks.
This was announced at the St Francis celebration Holy Eucharist yesterday, with a second interview in a couple of weeks. A further call to this concluding section of discernment prayer will be in tomorrow's Day 17 email.
May the Lord bless you in every way as you call upon His Name with praise and thanksgiving during this time of dedicated prayer.
Fr. Rob Eaton, Interim Minister
Saint Francis Parish, Pauma Valley, CA
Monday, October 7, the second 15 days of the 30 days of discernment, and continuing from where we left off on August 21, 2024.
Begin your daily prayer with praise to God. The "Glory to God in the highest" canticle in the Book of Common Prayer (pg 356) would be a good start. If you don't have a BCP at home, just do a web search for it, and you'll find it.
Pray also:
The mercy of the Lord is everlasting; O come, let us adore Him.
Pray:
ALMIGHTY GOD, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which Your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen.
Read: Luke 21:25-36 , The Big Picture
Reflection and notetaking -- as you read scripture, especially in this context of informing your discernment for the search process, make use of the powerful tool of journaling or notetaking
Pray:
Lord, Heavenly Father, be with us all as we continue our calling process for a rector for this parish. Keep the candidates, their families and parishes in your grace. Give this parish the strength and enthusiasm needed in the next weeks and perhaps months to watch for and then celebrate the events of the life of Your Son and Your love for us. May our spiritual journeys here at St. Francis be enriched by this experience, and may the people of the parishes of the candidates continue in their journey together.
Especially today with the understanding that a "Zoom" interview will be taking place, guide our Search Team members, and the candidate, through questions and answers and conversation, in their listening and speaking and observing, with the grace of your Holy Spirit; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with You and the Holy Spirit, reign One God, now and for ever. Amen.
End your Daily Prayer
Say the Lord’s Prayer, and St Francis’ prayer before the cross:
Most high glorious God, enlighten the darkness of our hearts; give us, Lord, a correct faith, a certain hope and a perfect charity, sense and knowledge, so that we - beginning with me - may carry out your Holy and True command. Amen.
Previous Search Committee News
The Parish Profile for St. Francis Episcopal Church has been approved by Bishop Susan Snook and Canon Gywnn.
St. Francis Pauma Valley is now at the search stage of accepting candidates.
Interested candidates should apply by sending their OTM portfolio, résumé, and cover letter (directed to St. Francis) to:
The Rev. Canon Gwynn Lynch
Diocese of San Diego, CA
Canon to the Ordinary
email: [email protected]
Phone: 619-481-5457
Rector Search progress - more news week of July 7
Good news! The first of the advertisements for the Rector Search have elicited a couple of applications. Fr. Eaton says we would be doing very well with 10 to 15 applications. This is not only about “advertising” and “marketing.” It is also – and should be primarily – a matter of prayer. So be praying that more potential candidates will respond by whatever means (database posting, advertising, word of mouth, direct invitations). That means YOU being engaged in this phase! So please be praying daily for the news to get out, and applications to get in.
Rector Search progress - more news week of July 14
Good news! The Rector Search Team will be meeting to pray, to review applications, and begin their evaluations; their first meeting in that mode was this past week.
As a parish we have come full circle from last summer's invitation to a 30-Days of Prayer to reacquaint ourselves with the voice of Jesus (with lots of precedent from the life of St. Francis!) and now there will be a new invitation to daily prayer as we beseech the Lord for very specific discernment. Our prayers must also include our Search Team and the Vestry. You will have a copy of that daily prayer discipline shortly.
If you do think of the name of a priest that you’d like to see come to St. Francis, contact them, and ask them to consider and pray about it, and to get their resume, etc., to our Diocesan office, care of the Rev. Canon Gwynn Lynch. She will let our Search Team leader, Sam Dreyer, know of the reception of the application.
Rector Search progress - more news
The Rector Search Team has begun their initial review of a few has a few applicants. Advertising through nation-wide Episcopal media is now in place to attract more applicants. YOUR job is to pray for more, which will include (by deduction) the person who will be your new Rector.
The next 30-days of prayer schedule will begin on Tuesday, August 6. A service of Evening Prayer, with a Litany for discernment, will be held on that evening, at 6 pm. The parish is invited to attend and use that event as inspiration for beginning the first segment of 15 days of prayer out of the 30. Materials for the daily prayer, written by Fr. Eaton, will be provided before next weekend. Watch for that.
Please continue to pray for the search process. you may also add the following Litany to your prayers. This is an important moment in our "season of discernment." Click below to find the Litany.
Litany for Discernment for congregation seeking new ordained leadership
If you have any questions regarding our search for a new Rector for St. Francis,
speak to Search Team leader Sam Dreyer, Senior Warden Dave Winebarger or Fr. Eaton for more information.
Click here to read our St. Francis Parish Profile.
Drone footage of the beautiful grounds of St. Francis Pauma Valley. Click here.
Rector Search progress - more news
The Rector Search Team has begun their initial review of a few has a few applicants. Advertising through nation-wide Episcopal media is now in place to attract more applicants. YOUR job is to pray for more, which will include (by deduction) the person who will be your new Rector.
The next 30-days of prayer schedule will begin on Tuesday, August 6. A service of Evening Prayer, with a Litany for discernment, will be held on that evening, at 6 pm. The parish is invited to attend and use that event as inspiration for beginning the first segment of 15 days of prayer out of the 30. Materials for the daily prayer, written by Fr. Eaton, will be provided before next weekend. Watch for that.
30 Days of Prayer and more...
At the start of the search process the parish was invited to join in 30 Days of Prayer. A prayer retreat was also held. At the Harvest Dinner, a timeline was on display and people were encouraged to add to the timeline to share events that they remembered from the church's history. Also included were times where people were fed spiritually and also when they felt challenged by events or feelings in the church community. The timeline stayed available until the annual meeting. The timeline contents are being compiled and will be included in church history files and will assist the Search Team.
At the start of the search process the parish was invited to join in 30 Days of Prayer. A prayer retreat was also held. At the Harvest Dinner, a timeline was on display and people were encouraged to add to the timeline to share events that they remembered from the church's history. Also included were times where people were fed spiritually and also when they felt challenged by events or feelings in the church community. The timeline stayed available until the annual meeting. The timeline contents are being compiled and will be included in church history files and will assist the Search Team.
