The Parish and the Web

Today St. Augustine's launches its long-awaited Website. I hope you'll visit it, at: http://www.staugustine-ecc.org/

Many, many parish members were involved in brainstorming the website over several years. We were blessed with a handful of technical wizards as well as with the creative types, imagining layouts and colors and such. And yet, for all our enthusiasm, we lagged, and the project languished.

Then we received a robust kick in the pants, primarily from our Parish Council leaders, who said in one voice: "Get off the pot." And at that time, Bill Hanzel (Holy Family parish) appeared from the ether and offered his services to us. Bill is the ECC Webmaster and has created websites for a number of our sister parishes. In fairness, he'd been doggedly offering to help us for well over a year. But he reappeared and this time, we bit.

Please let us know what you think of the website. Suggestions are HEARTILY welcomed. Any offerings, grand or modest, are eagerly sought.

We are, after all, in the 21st century. Thus the website. Thus this blog. Thus all the marvelous contraptions and devices reputed to "simplify" our lives. But in the end, none of it matters a whit, if it doesn't truly, in a genuine and enduring way, help to draw us closer to one another.

Thanks to Bill Hanzel and all those in the parish who lent creative hands to this work.

Blessings, one and all.