Christmas Services
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Christmas Eve - 5 pm, Family Worship |
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WHAT IS ADVENT?
Advent is the first season of the church year - so, Happy New Year!
This year Advent starts on November 28 and ends on Christmas Eve.
The word "advent" comes from a Latin word that means "coming" or "arrival".
Advent is a season of preparation:
Preparing our hearts and our community to celebrate the birth(day) of Jesus on Christmas.
Preparing our faith and our church to watch and be ready for Jesus the Christ to come again with godly power.
Preparing our lives to be present to God at work in the world every day, every moment.
Advent is the first season of the church year - so, Happy New Year!
This year Advent starts on November 28 and ends on Christmas Eve.
The word "advent" comes from a Latin word that means "coming" or "arrival".
Advent is a season of preparation:
Preparing our hearts and our community to celebrate the birth(day) of Jesus on Christmas.
Preparing our faith and our church to watch and be ready for Jesus the Christ to come again with godly power.
Preparing our lives to be present to God at work in the world every day, every moment.
Advent 2021 Theme at WLLC:
TAKE TIME TO PRAY
What an appropriate Advent Theme for a Church in transition! Chosen by your Worship and Music Committee, “Take Time to Pray” is also an appropriate spiritual focus in the midst of the hustle and bustle that ramps up to a frenzied craziness and even debilitating anxiety during the holiday season! “Take Time to Pray”.
The four Sundays in Advent we'll explore ways to pray and each Sunday we'll examine a different by-product of prayer:
“Hope” (Nov 28)
“Faith” (Dec 5)
“Joy” (Dec 12)
“Peace” (Dec 19)
And on Christmas Eve we'll embrace the greatest gift, “Love”, as we are embraced by Divine Love “made flesh” (John 1:14) in the birth of the baby “in a manger” (Luke 2:7). As a beautiful Advent carol with music from Cameroon, words by a Scottish theologian and poet, and found in our Lutheran hymnal puts it: “Christ came down that we may have love” . . . and “peace”, and “joy”, and “faith” and “hope”.
(From ELW # 253, arranged by John Bell).
We hope that you will take “Take Time to Pray” with us on Sunday mornings during Advent at 9am (in-person or on zoom) and on Christmas Eve at 5 or 7pm.Looking forward to sharing the season with you , and sharing the Divine Love,
Scott Dunfee and Christine Core,
Your Interim Pastors
In Light and Darkness Advent Resource
In Light and Darkness: An Illustrated Devotional” gives you the opportunity to read short devotions and contemplate key questions throughout the season of Advent. You also can color, doodle, and draw on it! A dozen copies along with packages of crayons and colored pencils are available at the Prayer Walk along the sanctuary window for anyone who needs to pick up a printed copy. Otherwise, download and print for yourself. Contact the church office if you have questions.
The four Sundays in Advent we'll explore ways to pray and each Sunday we'll examine a different by-product of prayer:
“Hope” (Nov 28)
“Faith” (Dec 5)
“Joy” (Dec 12)
“Peace” (Dec 19)
And on Christmas Eve we'll embrace the greatest gift, “Love”, as we are embraced by Divine Love “made flesh” (John 1:14) in the birth of the baby “in a manger” (Luke 2:7). As a beautiful Advent carol with music from Cameroon, words by a Scottish theologian and poet, and found in our Lutheran hymnal puts it: “Christ came down that we may have love” . . . and “peace”, and “joy”, and “faith” and “hope”.
(From ELW # 253, arranged by John Bell).
We hope that you will take “Take Time to Pray” with us on Sunday mornings during Advent at 9am (in-person or on zoom) and on Christmas Eve at 5 or 7pm.Looking forward to sharing the season with you , and sharing the Divine Love,
Scott Dunfee and Christine Core,
Your Interim Pastors
In Light and Darkness Advent Resource
In Light and Darkness: An Illustrated Devotional” gives you the opportunity to read short devotions and contemplate key questions throughout the season of Advent. You also can color, doodle, and draw on it! A dozen copies along with packages of crayons and colored pencils are available at the Prayer Walk along the sanctuary window for anyone who needs to pick up a printed copy. Otherwise, download and print for yourself. Contact the church office if you have questions.
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"Blue Christmas" in Advent
Christmas can be a painful time when you recently lost someone you love, or your job is tough or your family is struggling. This year has surely weighed all of us down. "Blue Christmas" describes not only this feeling and struggle, but a special worship time when people can come and rest.
The Blue Christmas service this year will be a Zoom AND In-Person gathering on December 16 at 6:00 p.m. The gathering will include poetry, music, and prayers for people in many different kinds of suffering. Come and rest your spirit in the care of the community. More details to come.
The Blue Christmas service this year will be a Zoom AND In-Person gathering on December 16 at 6:00 p.m. The gathering will include poetry, music, and prayers for people in many different kinds of suffering. Come and rest your spirit in the care of the community. More details to come.
"Into This Silent Night" by Ann Weems
Into this silent night
As we make our weary way
We know not where;
Just when the night becomes its darkest
and we cannot see our path just then is when the angels rush in,
their hands full of stars.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen."
Madeleine L'Engle