Welcome to St. Michael's Parish!
Grace and peace to you. Welcome to the St. Michael’s website and its windows into our parish life. We hope you’ll find what you seek and that after a virtual tour you’ll join us for the real thing. We look forward to your presence among us as we worship and serve God and practice the art of Christian living in fullness of life with thanksgiving.
Parish Planning
New Mission Statement
St. Michael's Revitalization Committee has been meeting to formulate the basis of a 2-3 year plan for St. Michael's, and began with recommending to the Vestry a new Mission Statement, which the Vestry adopted during their March meeting. You can read about the origin of this new Mission Statement in the April Messenger newsletter.
St. Michael’s is called to live and proclaim the
transforming
love of God.
Draft Parish Plan
The Revitalization Committee developed the basis of a long-term (3-year) plan, which was presented to our parishioners at the Parish Meeting on April 29. The plan was updated following that meeting, and the current Parish Plan can be downloaded here. If you have any comments or suggestions, please be sure to send them to Bevan at priestincharge@stmichaels-litchfield.org.New Director of Christian Formation
We are delighted to announce that we have hired Stephanie Mota-Thurston to be our new Director of Christian Formation. She will begin working for us on May 15 and her first Sunday will be May 19, which happens to be Pentecost. She will be on site on Sundays from 9:30 a.m. until noon. Stephanie comes to us with considerable experience teaching and volunteering with youth, and is currently a student at Yale Divinity School. We are pleased to have Stephanie on board with us.
Stay Up To Date!
Mark Your Calender
- St. Michael's will be hosting another free organ recital on Sunday May 5, 4:00pm, featuring Daniel Scifo
- St. Michael's will hold a fun summer picnic on Saturday, June 1 from 10am-2pm at Black Rock Park in Watertown
St. Michael's Messenger Newsletter
The May 2013 Messenger is available for download here.
ROTAs
ROTAs for the church and for the Soup Kitchen are on the Calendar
page beneath the Calendar.
Planned Giving
Planned Giving is a wonderful way to ensure your legacy with St.
Michael's endures for years to come, and you have the joy and
satisfaction of knowing you have contributed to the long-term welfare
of St. Michael's Parish. Please read more about Planned
Giving and the Legacy Society of St. Michael the Archangel.
Altar Flower Requests
Please note that we are revising our practice for flowers on the altar and ask, if you wish to have flowers for a special event or memorial, that you please read this letter about flower requests and use this request form for altar flowers.
Thank you!
Also of Note
Find us on Facebook
Be sure to visit regularly and be sure you "Like" us. When you "Like" St. Michael's Facebook page, you will get prayers, information, great stories, and more in your regular Facebook Newsfeed.
Meet Your Vestry
Click here to find out who we are (scroll down to find the Vestry).
Have you signed up to get our Blog posts sent to your email?
If you see the green "SML's Blog" button here, you know we have a blog (web log). We hope you have visited our blog already! We invite you to be sure not to miss a single blog post, by signing up to get the posts delivered to your email when they are made available on the blog. To do that, click the green button to go to our blog, then scroll down until you see "Subscribe" in the right-hand column and enter your email address there. An email will be sent to you so that you can confirm your subscription. That is all you need to do!
Please read the Blog FAQ if you are new to blogs and need help with anything.
Our posts range for musings on the Lesser Feasts and Fasts, to updates on events, to various community activities, to information about the church and grounds that might be new to you... You name it, if it pertains to our St. Michael's community, we just might blog about it!
St. Michael’s is called to live and proclaim the transforming love of God.
