Dear Church Family,
As I write this Decembers Towers article, I have good news—November isn’t over yet. This coming week is Thanksgiving. I want to challenge you to look back over the blessings of this year. Consider all that God has done for you and be thankful. As we prepare to enter into the last month of 2014, I enjoy looking back at the blessings and looking forward to my hopes for the coming year. As a church, we certainly have a great deal to be thankful for. Perhaps even more exciting is that we have great hopes for what God has in store for our future in 2015.
Speaking of Thanksgiving, we will be joining the Milton Union Council of Churches for a Thanksgiving service hosted by Good Shepherd Lutheran Church on Wednesday, November 26th at 7 PM. Hoffman is always has one of the largest represented churches at these services. We hope that you will join us for that special evening as we worship with our brother and sisters from many of the churches in our community.
As we finish up our Treasure series where we have looked at how you can invest your treasure in the things you treasure, we enter in to our Advent series entitled The Journey to the Manger. For those of you who were with us during Lent, this series will be similar in that it will give me the opportunity to share some images and stories with you from my trip to the Holy Land this past February. We had the opportunity to travel to the several of the locations mentioned in the Christmas story, like Bethlehem and Nazareth. I hope to be able to bring new light to this familiar story as we look at it through the lens of the Holy Land. I hope that you will join us for this series that will begin on November 30th and culminate on Christmas Eve.
Speaking of Christmas Eve, Christmas is right around the corner, which means we have some exciting events on the calendar. I have been invited to participate in the David Wion and Friends Holiday Concert this year. The concert will be held at the Dayton Art Institute on Sunday, November 30 at 2 PM. Our Church Christmas Party will be on December 6th at 6 PM. Come with a covered dish to share. On December 14th at 12:30, the Future Seekers class will be hosting a Pasta Luncheon with a dessert/gift auction to raise money for Helping Hands. On December 21st, the children’s choir will be doing their Christmas performance during the Sunday School hour at 10:15.
We will also be having two services on Christmas Eve. Our 7 o’clock service provides the opportunity for families with children to worship and be home early. Our 7 o’clock service will also feature our Praise Team from the Open Door Service. Our 10 o’clock candlelight service is a traditional service with the choir providing a musical Christmas celebration. Then, we will finish up the Christmas Season with our Service of Lessons and Carols on Sunday, December, 28th.
This month we talked about the importance of generosity. As we move into the month of December, we enter into the season where we remember God’s generosity to us. He gave us the gift of Jesus. God became one of us to show us his love. May we respond to that generosity by continuing to be generous to God and others this Christmas season. Find a way this month to share your time, energy and money in a way that glorifies God and shares with others.
Yours in Christ’s Service,
Pastor Justin
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment