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year. During “Thy Kingdom Come,” we spent intentional time in prayer with those who
came to the food distribution. In addition, several people took lunch to the trailer park for
the children one summer day in July. We provided the food for the Port Royal Tree
Lighting in December and several people from St Peter’s helped serve the food, along with
Memorial Baptist Church and Shiloh Baptist Church.

Thanks to the generosity of the people of St Peter’s, the Discretionary Fund continues to
provide emergency assistance to those in need of help with rent, electrical bills, water bills
and other financial crises.

In May, Andrea arranged for Shred It to come to St Peter’s. This service to the community
is greatly appreciated and proceeds help fund the St Peter’s outreach projects.

The ECM worked with Caroline County Social Services to provide help to local families both
at Thanksgiving and Christmas. People also donated money to Episcopal Relief and
Development to help those affected by flooding from major storms that swept the eastern
United States.

Boyd Wisdom serves the St Peter’s representative to CERV, a coalition of churches in
Caroline County who work to meet the needs of those in crisis. In September, Boyd, Johnny
Davis and I attended a meeting of CERV to learn more about food insecurity in Caroline
County and to coordinate with the other churches in the county to best address the needs
of those who suffer from hunger in our communities.

In November we welcomed Melanie Karpinos, from Heifer International, to speak with us
about the work of Heifer International. In addition to the other donations made to Heifer
during the Season of Giving, Mary Peterman donated three watercolors of “charming cows”
which we raffled off and in doing so raised almost $200 additional dollars for Heifer
International.

Both the ECW and the Vestry donated outreach funds to support God’s work through local,
national and international groups at their last meetings of the year.

Thank you to Ben Hicks. Ben supports me in my ministry to St Peter’s in ways too
numerous to count. Most of you know that he formats the bulletin each week, shapes the
monthly newsletter and runs our more than comprehensive website, churchsp.org as well
as our Facebook page. This year he created an Advent course based on the canticles found
in Luke which is posted on our website. Ben has the gift of looking and planning far ahead,
which balances my “in the moment” mode of existence. I am so grateful for his support
and for all he does for all of us. And we all know that St Peter’s is truly at this point the
most photographed church in America.

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