Thank you!
from Erin Cox-Holmes
What a wonderful surprise! At the February Gathering, the presbytery celebrated my 10 years of service as Executive Presbyter here in Donegal! I was presented with amazing art – a flower-festooned window box by my favorite photographer, previous presbytery Moderator and Administration Committee Chair Doug Good. Just to look at it brightens my day and transforms my soul.

There is now an imposing Peace Plant gracing my living room, and myriads of cards, notes and letters dwelling in my heart. Thank you all so much! My favorite motto for us is: “It is Never Dull in Donegal!” And it never is. It is also a presbytery filled with the genuine saints of God, and churches doing amazing things for God’s Reign on Earth and I am so privileged to be part of this amazing work.

With Gratitude,
Erin C-H
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From Michael Wilson:
If you or your session did not yet have the opportunity to send a card or letter for Erin, there is still time! Please CLICK HERE for the Celebration Letter for ways to send personal greetings to Erin. Emails are fine too: [email protected] .
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What Happened at the
February Presbytery Gathering?

For one thing, an amazing time with Chris Clark, Youth Director of Westminster Presbyterian Church, who led us in a time considering “Empathy: Journey Inward, Journey Outward.”

In addition to the 10 Year Anniversary Celebration of the Executive Presbyter, we also celebrated the retirements of Pastor Charlie Gross and Pastor Jane DeFord, approved the installation of the Rev. Daniel Snyder as the Lead Pastor of First Presbyterian, Lancaster, received the preliminary year-end Financial Report of the Presbytery, and looked ahead to the mission priorities of the Presbytery for 2020-2022.

We are gathering materials for the presentations and will send a full synopsis next week.
Prayers for a Blessed and Holy Lent
As we embark, yet again, once again, on this journey we call Lent, our prayers are for each of you: pastors, leaders in churches, that you may enter into the far reaches of your souls, discover Holy Ground, and meet God there. May you see the Face of Christ in all you serve. As we begin, part of a favorite poem, from Four Quartets, by TS Eliot (who borrows from the generous Julian of Norwich)

If you came this way,
Taking any route, starting from anywhere,
At any time or at any season,
It would always be the same: you would have to put off
Sense and notion. You are not here to verify,
Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity
Or carry report. You are here to kneel
Where prayer has been valid. And prayer is more
Than an order of words, the conscious occupation
Of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying.
With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Quick now, here, now, always--
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flames are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.

Blessings to Each and All,
Erin Cox-Holmes and Michael Wilson

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