Page 2 - Annual Meeting, 2022

About the Cover

The cover focuses on St Peter’s ministries which continued and grew during 2021, despite
the ongoing pandemic. We regathered in person for worship on Palm Sunday after having
met almost exclusively on Zoom for most of 2020.
By the summer of 2021, we were doing most of our work together in person again. We’ve
learned to adapt quickly to the constantly changing challenges of the pandemic. The Village
Dinner returned in 2021 as take out only. The in-house dining option has resumed in those
months when the virus rate has decreased. The Village Harvest food distribution went
from a market style distribution to one in which already packed bags are delivered to the
client’s vehicles. Worship services have both in church participants as well as those who
attend on Zoom.

Both the ECW and the ECM came up with new ministries. The ECW did a day of soup
deliveries in March and held a plant sale in the fall as part of our observance of The Season
of Creation. The ECM sent out Thanksgiving cards. Sacred Ground, the group working on
racial reconciliation and healing, continued learning about the effects of racism in our
nation by reading three books, and then coming up with action plans focused on continued
work to promote racial reconciliation in the community.

The most audacious act of the year was certainly the Jamaican mission trip. Andrea Pogue
inspired St Peter’s and friends to raise $3,000 for the Victoria School in Jamaica. St Peter’s
provided and shipped school supplies to Jamaica and seven people from St Peter’s went to
Jamaica to meet the faculty and the students of the Victoria School and to hand out the book
bags in person. Both the ECW and the Vestry provided additional funds for the school at the
end of the year from their outreach budgets. The 2021 event has become a launch pad for
additional support we can provide to that community.

In 2021, St Peter’s contributed over $12,000 to the local community, the nation and the
world.
1. The church collected 292 bottles of hand sanitizer for Caroline’s Promise for their school
supplies distribution for Caroline County Schools on July 31, 2021.
2. The ECM raised $2,300 and worked with Caroline County Social Services to provide
Thanksgiving and Christmas help to various families.
3. Giving Tuesday raised $900 for the Village Harvest. Our food distribution celebrated its
7th anniversary in November, 2021.
4. The Vestry contributed $3,000 to various charities.
5. ECW donated $3,000 to various charities – locally, nationally and internally. These funds
were raised from the monthly Village Dinners.

The website describes 35 events in text and picture that told the story in 2021

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