Dear friends and members of Resurrection,
Thank you so much for your generosity and spirit of love and joy throughout Harvest Sunday/HarvestFaire. It was a marvelous day of giving and prayer and laughter: our partners in Milwaukee and Tanzania will be blessed through our efforts. I especially want to thank this year’s chair of the Outreach Task Force, Ron Reichert. He, and all who helped him, allowed us to do good ministry together that day. Thank you again.
This month we will spend some time reflecting on how we give thanks to God for the blessings that have been given to us. These reflections will be framed around the gift of “Blessed Partnerships” with God, with one another, and with our partners at Reformation and Kikwe. Watch your mail for a letter from our Stewardship chair, June Gumm, in the upcoming days; it will explain this theme more fully as a backdrop for our preparation of our 2012 pledges of time, talent and treasure.
“Thanksgiving” will also be the theme of worship on November 20th; we will be anticipating the national holiday that morning, singing traditional thanksgiving hymns and having an opportunity for some of you to share what you are thankful for this year. Worship will be followed by a pie social.
The following Sunday is the first Sunday in Advent (can you believe it?!); a good deal of the worship service will be led through dance that morning. Invite your friends and relatives to come to this special service!
Wednesday, November 30th, at 7:00p.m. will be the first of our Advent Holden Evening Prayer services. Give yourself the gift of this half hour service of candlelight and singing during the four weeks leading up to Christmas. It is truly a time of reflection and refreshment. The service will be followed by an hour-long bible study from 7:30-8:30p.m. for all who would like to stay.
Early in December we have two events that you won’t want to miss. On Saturday, December 3rd, Resurrection Lutheran will be marching in the New Berlin Christmas parade. Several of our partners from Reformation will be joining us and we will be carrying a banner that reads, “Resurrection Lutheran Church; a Reconciling in Christ Congregation.” We hope to have a large group of us participate and give the larger community a glimpse of who we are here at RLC!
The next morning, we will celebrate Kikwe Sunday in worship. Following the service, our friends, Jim and Tim, from Bella Café will be here with coffee treats and soups from the Soup Market. In addition, we hope to have some African dancing and to see slides from our delegation’s recent trip to Tanzania. Mark your calendars now: they fill up so quickly during December!
As the apostle Paul wrote to the Philippians: every time I think of you, I give thanks to God. It’s true: thanks for who you are and what you do!
Peace and Joy,
Pastor Mary
Thank you so much for your generosity and spirit of love and joy throughout Harvest Sunday/HarvestFaire. It was a marvelous day of giving and prayer and laughter: our partners in Milwaukee and Tanzania will be blessed through our efforts. I especially want to thank this year’s chair of the Outreach Task Force, Ron Reichert. He, and all who helped him, allowed us to do good ministry together that day. Thank you again.
This month we will spend some time reflecting on how we give thanks to God for the blessings that have been given to us. These reflections will be framed around the gift of “Blessed Partnerships” with God, with one another, and with our partners at Reformation and Kikwe. Watch your mail for a letter from our Stewardship chair, June Gumm, in the upcoming days; it will explain this theme more fully as a backdrop for our preparation of our 2012 pledges of time, talent and treasure.
“Thanksgiving” will also be the theme of worship on November 20th; we will be anticipating the national holiday that morning, singing traditional thanksgiving hymns and having an opportunity for some of you to share what you are thankful for this year. Worship will be followed by a pie social.
The following Sunday is the first Sunday in Advent (can you believe it?!); a good deal of the worship service will be led through dance that morning. Invite your friends and relatives to come to this special service!
Wednesday, November 30th, at 7:00p.m. will be the first of our Advent Holden Evening Prayer services. Give yourself the gift of this half hour service of candlelight and singing during the four weeks leading up to Christmas. It is truly a time of reflection and refreshment. The service will be followed by an hour-long bible study from 7:30-8:30p.m. for all who would like to stay.
Early in December we have two events that you won’t want to miss. On Saturday, December 3rd, Resurrection Lutheran will be marching in the New Berlin Christmas parade. Several of our partners from Reformation will be joining us and we will be carrying a banner that reads, “Resurrection Lutheran Church; a Reconciling in Christ Congregation.” We hope to have a large group of us participate and give the larger community a glimpse of who we are here at RLC!
The next morning, we will celebrate Kikwe Sunday in worship. Following the service, our friends, Jim and Tim, from Bella Café will be here with coffee treats and soups from the Soup Market. In addition, we hope to have some African dancing and to see slides from our delegation’s recent trip to Tanzania. Mark your calendars now: they fill up so quickly during December!
As the apostle Paul wrote to the Philippians: every time I think of you, I give thanks to God. It’s true: thanks for who you are and what you do!
Peace and Joy,
Pastor Mary
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