Advent Week One – Peace
The Community Gathers: Experience God’s presence in the assembly. Please greet one another with joy and welcome new friends into our community of love.
A Time of Gratitude and Grace
Focus: I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G.K. Chesterton
Infinite Possibilities
Focus: “We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our
exploring will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the
first time.”
T. S. Elliot
Remembering With Love
Focus: “Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
October 30th, 2022 Service
Focus: “Our children are our greatest treasure. There can be no keen-er revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its chil-dren.”
— Nelson Mandela, Former President of South Africa
Other People
Focus: “None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.”
– Mother Teresa
October 16th, 2022 Service
Focus: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller
October 9th, 2022 Service
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” Matthew 5:4
World Communion Sunday 2022
Focus: Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you. L.R. Knost
September 25th Service 2022
Focus: Heavenly Rays, As summer into autumn slips,
O give me grace today, To rise and turn as summer’s leaves
Draw life and strength from heavenly rays. Emily Dickinson