Advent Greetings!
With joy, this month I invite each of us (myself included)— to just take a breath, or at least a few minutes’ worth of them. The follow are a little pile of questions, and updates for this fun, but packed month:
Did you get the recent emails from me? I’ve started a semi-regular email newsletter, and the last one had links to a handful of excellent Advent devotionals and details on Advent Wednesdays at my place. If you’re not getting the emails, check and make sure I’m in your address book: InternPastorSam@gmail.com. Also, check your spam folder. It might be in there.
We’re doing things differently this Christmas, and I hope that I’ll see you there at one or both services. The details for both are below:
- Pay special attention to the December 24 service. Janice and I have been working on a fun surprise—- let’s just say… Comfort Ye, my friends. There are Good Tidings potentially being Tellest to The People That Walk In Darkness, and truly if this all shakes out there will be much Rejoicing Greatly in the end! Hallelujah! 🙂
- The December 25 evening service will be simple, but warm and full of carol singing. I know many people prefer to stay in with their families on Christmas Day, and if you are one of those people, do not feel obligated to show up. However, if you feel like closing out Christmas Day with a simple service might be up your alley, I hope you’ll be there.
Last but not least– the paraments for Advent, like our Advent worship aid covers, will shift and change throughout the season of Advent and into Christmas. I offer either a very quality bag of chocolate treats to the first three people who stop by and give me theological reasoning for why I would design these to grow and play off one another through the Advent season and into Christmas rather than just change to an entirely new set of paraments once Christmas arrives.
Happy December, Faith Lutheran! I’m so grateful to be blessed by your presence in my life and can’t wait to see what we do together and learn from one another in the coming month.
-Intern Pastor Sam