Truth to Power and to Us

Truth to Power and to Us

Truth to Power and to Us We are reflecting together in this brief, intense Advent season on the poignant Advent Sunday Collects.  So constitutive, so incisive, so formative for our spiritual (and not so spiritual for that matter) walk though Advent.  The Collects...
Setting Up Advent Shop

Setting Up Advent Shop

To properly enter into the Advent season, I want to re-visit an earlier Lenten devotion about a home chapel, worship space or prayer corner.  I asked then, and ask again now, that you reserve some modest space as sacred space in which you pray, read scripture,...
Trunk or Treat 2020 A Success!

Trunk or Treat 2020 A Success!

Many thanks to all the volunteers and candy preparers for this very successful Halloween celebration at ECOT!  Nearly 30 children ages birth to 18 years dressed as super hero, princesses, ghosts and ghouls, pirates, dragons, and more visited our first annual...
March 15: Time

March 15: Time

In every family, in every generation, I believe God provides one curator, one intrepid soul willing to endure the slings and arrows of familial scorn to courageously preserve cherished heirlooms of master craftsmen, woodworkers, artists, and seamstresses.  I remember...

Father Brooks Keith Appears on TV8 in Vail

Father Brooks Keith survived the snowstorm on March 13 to appear on Vail’s own TV8 with Rick Messmer in support of the Trotter and Mutter families, each of whom will be celebrating the lives of loved ones this Friday, March 15. The Trotter memorial service takes...
Youth Ministry Vestry – What, Who and Why

Youth Ministry Vestry – What, Who and Why

ECOT Now Has a Youth Ministry Vestry! by Rebecca Cotton, Youth Minister I am thrilled to share that we have formed our first ever Youth Ministry Vestry (YMV) to provide a sustainable structure and support to our youth ministry program. Please join me in thanking Holly...
Commissioning of the U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford

Commissioning of the U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford

The Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration in Vail, CO and the Vail Valley in general, was represented by our own Father Brooks Keith and Deacon Steve Baird at the commissioning of the U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford on Saturday, July 22, 2017. READ FULL STORY IN THE VAIL...