Home

THIS WEEK AT ST. ANNE’S

WELCOME If you are a guest and visiting us for the first time, please join us for Hospitality Hour following the service.  We are so grateful to have you here.

 ST. ANNE’S CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION PROCESS The actions St. Anne’s has taken to date in its process of Conflict Transformation have been: Listening Sessions moderated by our ECR consultant Bob Gross; a number of training/learning sessions in which Bob taught/refreshed for us the listening and communication behaviors that are most effective to transform conflict, and that facilitate communication across human differences; and finally a worship service on June 17, 2025, that ritualized our gratitude for shared ministry, laments about our failures with one another, and an articulation of our hopes for ourselves and our community of St. Anne’s going forward. With Vestry leadership and communal prayer, we will continue to integrate these practices into our lives and into our worship. Beginning with this weekend, and for the following six weeks until we observe the 75^th Anniversary of the founding of St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, we will integrate our conflict transformation process more particularly into our Sunday worship at all weekend Services in the following way. 

On each Sunday, we will incorporate a special prayer in our Prayers of the People related to our prayer to God to transform, in the power of Christ’s Spirit, whatever conflicts are assailing the members and the community of St. Anne’s. Each Sunday we will particularize our attention as follows on some aspect of conflict/failure/sin, and our choice to release whatever hurt is related to it into the heart of God’s mercy and grace:

August 3 – Our pre-occupations that effect inaction toward the needs of others and our community

August 10 – Our fears that drive our failures to love God, our neighbors, our selves

Each person will be invited to write on special “flash paper” their experiences of hurt, woundedness, failure related to the focal conflict/failure/sin (see dates below), and then to place that paper in the container at the front of the church.  Fire taken from the Easter Candle will then ignite the papers, flashing the release of these experiences from our hearts into the heart of God’s Forgiving-Love. Our prayer then will be that we will carry the flash-effect of God’s Forgiving-Love into our relationships with all whom we encounter. 

SEARCH COMMITTEE UPDATE The Search Committee will meet on August 3 to finalize the Parish Profile. We will also be working to finish our portion of the OTM “Office of Transitional Ministry” in preparation to send info to Diocese.

AUGUST OUTREACH OF THE MONTH – WCHS PANTRY During the school year, students can stop in for needs that come up throughout the day. Please donate nonperishable food items: cereal, bottled juice (no glass), canned vegetables/fruits, granola bars, snack foods, instant macaroni and cheese, instant flavored oatmeal, etc. Other items: deodorant, tooth brushes, tooth paste, feminine products. Nonfood items are most needed at this time. Monetary donations are welcome, please make checks payable to St. Anne’s and write WCHS Pantry on the memo line. 

ANNE’S SPIRITUAL GIFTS QUESTIONNAIRE Due to the dedicated and talented work of Julie Kuhn, all members of St. Anne’s now have access to a Spiritual Gifts Questionnaire that will be used to help all our members identify their God-given talents and interests to better engage God’s call/vocation to each baptized person. St. Anne’s members can go to our website: http://www.stanneswarsaw.org, search the opening banner across the top of the webpage and click on the hyperlink “Spiritual Gifts and Ministry Guide.” On this webpage, after an initial definition of “Spiritual Gifts,” you will find an option to access the “Digital Spiritual Gifts Questionnaire.” If you prefer to take use the Questionnaire in hard copy form, these are provided for you on the “store” countertop in Rose Hall. Instructions for how to complete the Questionnaire, and how to learn more about your spiritual gifts and where you might best lend your gifts in ministry at St. Anne’s are provided on the webpage and on the hard copies in Rose Hall. In preparation for welcoming St. Anne’s new Rector when chosen, all adult members (16 years old and older) are asked to complete the Spiritual Gifts Questionnaire and identify where your God-given talents can best be utilized in the ministries of St. Anne’s. If you have questions or concerns about your spiritual gifts, the Questionnaire, how to score your results, please contact Pastor Joe (847-363-7572), Julie Kuhn (574-453-6327), or Brenda Rigdon (574-268-8259). Thank You!

MID-YEAR SUMMARY OF ST. ANNES’ FINANCIAL STATUS: At its last meeting, the Finance Committee received our Treasurer, Gary Proietti’s, mid-year review of St. Anne’s financial status.  Total Pledge and Plate Income at the end of June of $72,732.00, while ahead of this year’s budget forecast by $5,431.00, IS BEHIND last year’s mid-year gifts by $101,558.00.  Total Operating Expenses of $178,164.00 at the end of June, IS SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER than last year’s mid-year level by $35,198.00.  Higher than budgeted costs for Office Supplies/Printing, Maintenance of our Buildings and Grounds (cost of replacing an old, failed AC unit is prominent), and retaining an Interim Priest-in-Charge rather than Supply Priests account for most of the higher increased operating expenses.  St. Anne’s Operating Expenses for this year to date ($178,164.00), have outpaced our Pledge and Plate income ($72,732.00), leaving us with a mid-year shortfall of $105,432.  We’ve been forced to use most of our General Operations Money Market account to pay our bills, significantly depleting this operating resource.

On an encouraging note, St. Anne’s Pledge fulfillment activity, since the beginning of July, saw the addition of a couple of Pledge fulfillments that have significantly benefited our cash flow.  Will you follow the example set by these generous and concerned St. Anne’s members, to increase your 2025 Pledge and/or fulfill it prior to the end of this Stewardship year? Such gifts will benefit St. Anne’s in a number of particular ways.  As our Search Committee’s moves toward receiving Rector candidate applications and conducts interviews this Summer, the demonstration of St. Anne’s members to provide the needed financial support to operate with its personnel and building resources, will be an affirming and attractive statement to prospective Rector candidates. Stewardship Pledges and their fulfillment will also allow our Vestry and Search Committee to confidently offer a compensation package to gain the interest of qualified candidates capable of leading St. Anne’s into its next era of ministry.  Such gifts also demonstrate St. Anne’s ability and commitment to sustain a higher level of resource stewardship over a number of years.  In these ways, you can contribute to make pivotal differences toward a successful and rewarding new Rector call. 

EMAIL SCAMS AND ST. ANNE’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH Over the last month, there’s been an increasing number of members of St. Anne’s asking me if I’ve sent them an email asking for help with money, or to purchase “gift cards” for one or another “worthy cause.” These requests, purportedly from me as “Rector, St. Anne’s” or “Priest-in-Charge,” do NOT come from me. A scammer or hacker is “phishing” to take advantage of us as a charitable organization. Please double check any email request for money or gift cards by placing your phone or computer cursor OVER the name or “address” of the person sending it. Unless it indicates it is coming from rector@stanneswarsaw.org or from Czolgosz.jt@gmail.com the email is a Felonious attempt to extort money or other resources from you. Please do not respond to such emails as if they are from me. Please leave a voicemail or send an email to Carol and me at the office; please provide us with the email address of the sender and if they leave a phone number in the text of the email. We are gathering this data to identify the email sources from which these “phishing scams” originate. We will share this information with the police in a criminal complaint for investigation. Thank you for your help to end this unfortunate scheme to get money.

MORNING PRAYER Is held on Monday and Tuesday mornings at 9 a.m.

EVENING PRAYER Is held on Monday evenings at 5:30 p.m. in the Chapel.

MID WEEK HOLY EUCHARIST Is held on Tuesday evenings at 5:30 p.m. in the Chapel.

VISITS WITH FR. JOE If you would like to schedule a meeting with him, you can call the office or may also Fr. Joe directly at 847-363-7572. Blessings and thank you!

ON-GOING EVENTS – REFLECTIONS BIBLE STUDY Meets on Tuesday morning at 10 a.m. in the parlor to study the readings for the upcoming Sunday.

UPCOMING EVENTS – ST. ANNE’S DAY on Sunday August 10 at 9 a.m. for a Celebration of Holy Eucharist followed by Hospitality Hour.

ANNE’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH CELEBRATES 75 YEARS OF MINISTRY Join us as we celebrate on Saturday, September 27 beginning at 4:30 p.m. followed by dinner. “The Church’s one Foundation is Jesus Christ Her Lord”. Please save the date and plan to attend. If you would like to make contributions toward this wonderful celebration, please mail or place your checks in the offering plate with 75^th Anniversary on the memo line. Donors will be listed under Memorials and Thanksgivings in the bulletin/program for that evening.

THE BEACON July 23 celebrates second anniversary of the blessing of the Beacon Food Pantry Ministry! These two years have been full of gifts of food and hygiene items that have made life a little easier for our neighbors on Warsaw’s West Side. Thank you all for your support of this important outreach ministry. Folks are fed daily, thanks to your generous offerings.

2025 FLOWER CHART To sponsor altar flowers, please sign up on the chart in Rose Hall. Flowers are $40 per arrangement, there are two per Sunday. Flowers may be given in memory, celebration or in thanksgiving. An envelope will be sent to you to fill out the information. The new chart is posted on the bulletin board in Rose Hall.

Please note-in trying to keep the prayer list updated, names have been removed.  If you would like names to reappear on the list, email office@stanneswarsaw.org. Thank you!   

The Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana and the Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis  For more information about the Episcopal Indiana Reunification Discernment Discussions please go to this link: https://www.episcopalindiana.org/