This Sunday (December 31st) there will be one liturgy at 10:30 AM. Church School and Adult Education will be on vacation.
A Vigil for the New Year (a 45 minute service of scripture readings and prayer to consecrate the new secular year to Christ) takes place at 7:00 PM this [...]
Isaiah 61:1-62:3 - link to NRSV text
Psalm 147 - link to NRSV text
Galatians 3:23-25, 4:4-7 - link to NRSV text
John 1:1-18 - link to NRSV text
As of Thursday, December 21, 2006, the shelter was still without power. Gracie Karp has made alternative arrangements for delivery on Tuesday the 26th of December. If you have any questions, please contact Gracie Karp.
Read full post...Our Choirmaster and Organist shares her reflections on the music that she’s chosen for Christmas Eve at the Redeemer Arts and Music blog:
While the weather is beyond my control, I’m pleased to have finally finished planning music for the 9:00 pm Eucharist on Christmas Eve. It’s a complicated convergence: a very public service which commemorates [...]
Because December 24th is also the fourth Sunday in Advent, the schedule of services will be a little different this year!
Morning Prayer - 10:00 AM
Morning worship will consist of a single Morning Prayer service at 10:00 AM.
Work Party
Following the Morning Prayer service, we’ll be working hard to get the Christmas presents to the Kenmore Family [...]
Fourth Sunday of Advent
Morning Prayer (10:00 AM)
Micah 5:2-4 - link to NRSV text
Psalm 80 - link to NRSV text
Luke 1:39-49 (50-56) - link to NRSV text
Christmas Festival Eucharist (9:00 PM)
Isaiah 9:2-4, 6-7 - link to NRSV text
Psalm 96 - link to NRSV text
Titus 2:11-14 - link to NRSV text
Luke 2:1-14 (15-20) - link to NRSV [...]
Sometime on Thursday night, the wind blew down the 70-foot pine tree next to the parking lot. Thank God it blew our way, instead of onto the house next to it.
Chris Clewell and our neighbor Mike have been slowly cutting it into manageable pieces, but anyone who’d like some free Christmas boughs is more than [...]
Read full post...Sunday, December 17th, is your chance to provide a personally wished-for and requested gift for a family-member at the Kenmore Shelter. Sign up downstairs, and you will have a whole week to shop and wrap your presents! Some food items also remain to be claimed today.
We will be organizing all the gifts and food items on [...]
The Ecclesiastical Arts Committee is having a work party on Saturday, December 16th at 9:00 A.M. to get ready for Christmas. They could use your help! They’ll be:
Getting the Christmas decorations out of storage
Painting the altarpiece
Creating the frontal
Helpers are especially needed to carry the decorations down from storage and cut out stencils for the frontal.
Read full post...We’ll be decorating the undercroft for Christmas this Sunday after the 10:30 service - hanging wreaths and swags, and decorating the Christmas tree.
Bring Christmas treats for those greening the church and to include for the Christmas baskets for the shelter.