Below you can find a message from the Very Rev. Pamela. These are sent out most Fridays in our newsletter. Published February 27, 2026.

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Message from the Very Rev. Pamela from February 27, 2026:

Dear Ones,

This weekend is our annual Vestry Retreat. We’ll be at the Mercy Center in Auburn to get to know one another better and plan and organize our work for the coming year. It is always a time full of laughter and learning, worship, and work, and I come away from these weekends full of hope and gratitude for St. Martin’s and the dedicated lay leaders who serve with such faithfulness, creativity, and courage.

I am delighted that Maria Acuna-Feldman has agreed to continue as Senior Warden in 2026. Most of you probably know Maria, but if you don’t, you have certainly seen her in her role as Eucharistic Minister or helping between services for her work with the Altar Guild. You will often find her leading up the hospitality team at church events, including her ministry of organizing funeral receptions. She is a person of deep prayer and kindness, and brings both organizational skills and management experience from her years of working for Mercy Housing. The Senior Warden is sometimes called “the rector’s warden,” and I could not ask for a better partner in ministry.

The Vestry also wisely voted in Elise Keddie as your Junior Warden. Elise has done it all in the Episcopal Church! Here at St. Martin’s, she is probably best known for lending her beautiful voice to the choir week after week, as well as often serving as a delegate to Diocesan Convention. Elise helped lead our capital needs discernment process last year and has a keen understanding of the way things work at our parish as well as in the wider church. I am confident that she will hit the ground running and bring to the role her usual standards of excellence as well as her deep faith. St. Martin’s should be proud to have such a “people’s warden” in our corner.

Please pray for your Vestry (including myself and Gabe Avila, Director of Operations, who serves as Clerk of the Vestry) this weekend while we are away on retreat. My prayer is that we will come back even more equipped to do the work that God would have us do here at St. Martin’s and on behalf of the world God so loves.

Blessings,

Pamela+

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