After many months of onsite work, we have nearly completed refurbishing the Monks' Rooms in the Commons Building at St Christopher’s Episcopal Mission near Bluff, Utah! Twelve parishioners from St Mark’s have scraped, repaired, and painted the walls. We have resurfaced the floors, obtained some lightly used, sturdy furniture, and purchased and installed new beds. After many days of pouring cement, laying tile, assembling beds, now the remaining tasks are to place some colorful rugs on the floors, polish some of the furniture, and put out the welcoming door mats.
Our work teams have consisted of members who have been college faculty, a jet pilot, business people, school teachers, and construction workers, all of whom possess helpful hands and big hearts. We have groaned at times during a wide variety of bending and reaching. We have freely discussed how best to improve these historic stone rooms, gotten to know each other over picnic lunches, laughed at each other’s foibles, and reflected about the memories we were making each day of our ministry. We have met people who have become out friends, among them Vicar Kay, Sr. Warden Bill Lincoln,, Margaret Benally (who among other things, looks after these rooms when visitors come) and Walter Shorty, who has been the ever present Dine’ anchor each step of the way. These months have truly been a worldly and spiritual journey, not to be soon forgotten.
Please celebrate with us the completion of a worthy community project, propelled by the prayers, skills, and resources of many persons, visible and behind the scenes. Many, many thanks to all!
Our work teams have consisted of members who have been college faculty, a jet pilot, business people, school teachers, and construction workers, all of whom possess helpful hands and big hearts. We have groaned at times during a wide variety of bending and reaching. We have freely discussed how best to improve these historic stone rooms, gotten to know each other over picnic lunches, laughed at each other’s foibles, and reflected about the memories we were making each day of our ministry. We have met people who have become out friends, among them Vicar Kay, Sr. Warden Bill Lincoln,, Margaret Benally (who among other things, looks after these rooms when visitors come) and Walter Shorty, who has been the ever present Dine’ anchor each step of the way. These months have truly been a worldly and spiritual journey, not to be soon forgotten.
Please celebrate with us the completion of a worthy community project, propelled by the prayers, skills, and resources of many persons, visible and behind the scenes. Many, many thanks to all!
