[ December 13, 2008; 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. ] The Annual Christmas Shelter Shopping Trip is scheduled for Saturday, December 13th starting at 10:00 AM. We need volunteers to drive the families to the Lake City Fred Meyer and wait while they shop. We also need volunteers to provide craft projects for the children while the parents are shopping. Volunteers must [...]
Read full post...[ January 5, 2008; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] At 6:00 PM on Saturday, January 5th, we will be holding a Twelfth Night Dinner at Redeemer. As befits such an occasion, a roast beef dinner will be served, accompanied by wassailing, and musical “entertainments”. Please join us, and perhaps you will be crowned as King or Queen of the Feast! There are signup sheets [...]
Read full post...God doesn’t want to punish or frighten us. He is not the God you hear about from our culture and our media, the God that wants to tell you how bad you are. And so He comes to us as a baby, and His power and presence is in the bread and wine that we [...]
From Episcopal Life Online.
Christmas message – 2007
Eyes to see
Finding Immanuel as immigrant, wanderer, child
In what form will you find the Christ child this year? The fact of the Incarnation in a weak and helpless babe says something significant about where we focus our search. I am convinced that it is part of our call to [...]
We have posted a schedule of the liturgical responsibilities (sacristan, lector, usher, etc.) for Advent and Christmas on our Resources page.
Click here to open the Microsoft Word document directly.
Christmas Eve:
4:00 PM – Children’s Eucharist
8:30 PM – Carol Sing
9:00 PM – Festival Eucharist with Music by the Church of Redeemer Choir and soloists.
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 [...]
