December 29, 2024

 

Dear Members, Associate Members, and Friends of the Waterford Congregational Church,

 

 It is hard to believe 2024 is soon coming to its close. We will be holding our Annual Meeting on January 26, 2025, following our Sunday service to which you are all invited and encouraged to attend. In addition to the traditional potluck brunch, sharing of Committee highlights and vision for the future, and election of Officers, we will be placing a motion before you to approve a number of changes to our By-Laws. In full transparency, we want to invite you to examine the changes and have an opportunity to speak with the Council well in advance of the meeting to clarify our purpose and assure we have the best wording going forward.

 

Quite simply, times have changed and our needs have evolved. As a smaller parish than we once were, we find the need to consolidate roles, streamline our committee structure and document current best practices that will allow us to thrive. None of our proposed edits changes the substance of our beliefs or the manner in which we practice our faith.

 

We invite you to join members of the Council in a gathering at the Wilkins Community House after our Sunday service on January 5, 2025. Attached, please find your copy of the proposed changes; we offer them for clarification, discussion, and suggested word edits. By working with our congregants early in the process, it is our hope to engender support for the modifications such that we may present a single motion at the Annual Meeting to encompass and approve all of the By-Law wording changes simultaneously.

 

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Please consider joining us after our Sunday service, January 5, 2025. If you are unable to attend in person, but wish to suggest edits or ask questions regarding the proposed changes, please email your request to the church email, waterfordcongregationalchurch@gmail.com and you will receive a personal reply.

 

Doretta Colburn, Pastor

Al Struck, Moderator