In Life and in Death We Belong to God.
  - A Brief Statement of Faith

Historically November is the month that this congregation has set aside to make a formal commitment to the life and ministry of the church for the year ahead.  It is the time when we bring our bounty before the Lord.  In a technical sense, this commitment helps the elders prepare the budget for the coming year. In a spiritual sense it gives us the opportunity to consider all that God has given to us.

This month you will receive a packet with information concerning our operating budget for the coming year 2012.  Please take time to carefully review the information.  If you have questions, call the Church Office or one of the elders, and then sit down with your family or in the quiet of your own home and think about what you can do in the year ahead.  In conversation with God, pray about the commitment that you can make financially and about the commitment that you will make with your time and talents.

Covenant Presbyterian Church has been a vital congregation since 1951 . . . that’s sixty years!  For six decades we have ministered with our gifts to the needs of those in our church family, in the community of Palo Alto, and throughout the world.  God continues to work through our hands and hearts. 

I have been energized by the vitality and excitement of all that we are doing here at Covenant.  We are busy and faithful in ways that are visible and vibrant, and we are busy and faithful in quiet, “behind the scene” ways.  All of this is possible because of the community of faith that God has called together in this time and place.  I am grateful for the gifts you bring and look forward to what God might have in store for this congregation as we move forward into the next six decades.

Come, ye thankful people, come, raise the song of harvest home;
All is safely gathered in, ere the winter storms begin.
God our Maker doth provide for our wants to be supplied;
Come to God’s own temple, come, raise the song of harvest home.
  - Henry Alford 1844

See you in church!
Margaret