Springlike Salutations, my fratres and sorores!    Soon we will have the pleasure of performing the highly symbolic New Year ritual, initiating two new officers and starting new activities for our new Rosicrucian year.  I will announce our teams and committees at that time.   Our ATTENDING membership is growing rapidly (we’ve always had a mailing list of nearly 300 members, but many live too far away to participate and attend)   Because of this delightful number of new attending members, we can now offer a few more activities: IF YOU WANT THEM, YOU SHALL HAVE THEM!   Respond to this email if you are interested in serving in one or more of these roles. Respond also if you’d like to attend and participate, but not serve. Judging from your responses and your desires for certain activities, I’ll amend the year’s schedule accordingly. To have these activities we want:   Hugely and immediately! 4 members to join our Regional Communications Team.  There are six Rosicrucian groups in our Rocky Mountain, Pacific NW region that have events and rely on the Regional Communications Team members to post a variety of communications. The people who volunteer for this will become official volunteers with Grand Lodge with access to sites and abilities that will help the region post events, fascinating stories, and news online on Rosicrucian places, Facebook, and elsewhere.  We have all sorts of training for these positions.  It’s about 5 hours of volunteering a month at most, and the more of these volunteers we have, the lighter the load for all. 4 members who’ll be part of the team I call Greet and Teach (they can rename it later to something more scintillating ).  Greet and Teach members will be trained by me in the four most important things to show new visitors and members, and also in the temple fundamentals: proper behaviors in the temple, the skill of AMORC apron tying, proper salutations (both Atrium and Pronaos) and proper temple walking.   Once trained, they’ll make newcomers feel welcomed and at ease in our meetings. 2 members who are past the 9th degree in their studies, who would be trained by me to lead the monograph reviews and discussions that are called Degree Forums.  Recently I’ve had a couple of members worriedly tell me that they got behind in their monograph studies, and these Degree Forums could help such members.  In them, we will review Neophyte and early degree monographs.   I share, as someone who twice got really far behind on my studies, all is not lost. When I told my class master how I got far behind, she suggested that I double up on my monographs for a while, until I caught up.  Another benefit of Degree Forums is that you’ll get to ask questions and receive answers from long-time member/students. And those who attend our meetings can verify this;  you will learn things in our discourses and ritual experiments that sometimes jump you forward in your studies.   Also, those who serve the Order often start receiving unexpected benefits in their lives. I would love to have one or two volunteers to work with me and resume the monthly Zoom broadcasts which allowed our members who couldn’t attend to join us in discussions online. And I’d welcome any number of people who like planning fun events for us to have at either of our locations, or to go to.   Please let me know what you want this new year to be like! Your very fond Master/Servant, Anjala

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