https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Y7ynE4mUWNcCa-6blT903HS_hxrX_8Gn\/view?usp=sharing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nFollowing worship we were blessed by the Women of the ELCA’s “church sandwiches” before our Annual meeting. Thank you, ladies, for another delicious luncheon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At 12:30 we held our annual meeting, at which we adopted the budget, elected members to council, and heard an update on our roof project. More will be shared as we get more information, but this promises to be a rather extensive project, covering the roof, the gutters, the groundwater, and possibly the foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those who were elected:
Lynda Knaggs for a second term
Rebecca DeSantis for a first term ever on council.
Nicole Smith for a fresh term, after previously serving on the council in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our thanks to those who served and are not returning:
Fran Gordon, who also served as our Vice President for the past two years
Sarah Johnston, and
JR Wesley<\/p>\n\n\n\n
May God bless our ministry as we head into this new year of Connecting People, Changing Lives, through Jesus Christ!
Pastor Karl Richard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Good afternoon, Church, Today we welcomed Faye Evangeline Hewitt into the family of faith through the Sacrament of Baptism. For those unable to participate in the service, here is a link to the recording:https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Y7ynE4mUWNcCa-6blT903HS_hxrX_8Gn\/view?usp=sharing Following worship we were blessed by the Women of the ELCA’s “church sandwiches” before our Annual meeting. Thank you, ladies, for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-worship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/012824.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9IoBI-14B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4130,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions\/4130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}