Greetings from church! This will be our last set of announcements for 2024. Please join us for worship, fellowship, and Christian Education this Sunday, December 22, The Fourth Sunday of Advent. We’ll have a service of Holy Communion at 8am, followed by fellowship at 9, Sunday School at 9:15, and a second Service of Holy Communion at 10:30, in the sanctuary and online. It’s the last Sunday before Christmas – on the Fourth Sunday of Advent, we explore the theme of God’s love. It promises to be a lovely morning at church!
Cradle and cross are inextricably connected on the fourth Sunday of Advent. Between a lovely tribute to the little town of Bethlehem and Mary’s magnificent song of praise, the letter to the Hebrews reminds us in no uncertain terms that Christ’s advent is for “the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” It is the kind of tension in which the church always lives as when in holy communion—with high delight—“we proclaim the Lord’s death.”
Follow this link to the online bulletin for Sunday, December 22.
Join us on Tuesday, December 24, for worship on Christmas Eve! Our services are at 7 and 9:30pm. Details are below.
Follow this link to the online bulletin for the livestreamed 9:30pm service on Christmas Eve.
Finally, please join us on the First Sunday of Christmas, December 29. We’ll have one service at 9am, in the Sanctuary and online.
Follow this link for the online bulletin for the livestreamed 9am service on Sunday, December 29.
Christmas Eve @ Trinity: Join us for our Christmas Eve Celebrations on Tuesday, December 24!
At 7pm, we’ll have our Christmas Eve service suitable for families with small children (and anyone else who prefers this time for the service). There will be a children’s sermon, Holy Communion, Candlelighting, and all your favorite Christmas Carols.
At 9:30pm, we’ll have our Festival Christmas Eve service, with a guest trumpeter, The Handbell Choir, the Festival Choir, and a celebratory liturgy with Holy Communion and Candlelighting. Christmas Eve at Trinity comes with many beloved and treasured traditions – we’d love to see you and your family at one of our services!
Thank you! Lots of gratitude to share this week. Thanks to our Christmas Decorators, who have the Sanctuary looking marvelous as we approach the time of Christmas. We’ll be setting up poinsettias next on this Sunday, following the 10:30 Service. The work involved in preparing the Sanctuary for Christmas is laborious – we’re very grateful. Next, big shout-outs to April Phares, the Sunday School Staff, and our Sunday School Students for their fabulous Christmas Program, offered at the 10:30 Service, this past Sunday. We had animals, angels, regents, and readers, the Holy Family, and much, much more. What a delight to see so many of our little ones participating! Thanks to Courtney Matthews for arranging for our annual Gingerbread Decorating – the houses are on display in front of the parlor. Thanks also to Pam Kalapay for joining us with her guitar and whistle at the 10:30 Service – providing tuneful and lovely accompaniment, as always! We’ve got pics and some videos up on the Facebook Page if you’d like to see all that’s been going on!
Christmas Concert @ Trinity: Our friends in the Mainstreet Brass (who joined us for our 250th Anniversary Service in 2013, and at our Reformation Celebration in 2017) will be offering a free concert on Saturday, December 21, beginning at 7pm, here at Trinity! We will receive a free-will offering to benefit Lutheran Disaster Response, and a reception will follow. The church will be decorated for Christmas – what could be better than a beautiful brass concert of music for the season?
All of the rest of this week’s announcements can be found in our Weekly Email, including details about Breakfast with Santa, Youth Gingerbread Decorating, The Mainstreet Brass Christmas Concert here at Trinity, and more. Please follow this link for the most recent message and an archive of past installments. The Weekly is published on Thursdays, by noon.
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