11/27/22 Weekly Congregational Update

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Dear Members and Friends of Holy Trinity,

 

With tomorrow being Thanksgiving (and my usual day to send out these updates) I am sending them one day early.  Here are this week’s congregational updates:

 

  • It goes without saying, but please take time tomorrow as you get ready to eat your Thanksgiving feast(s), to give thanks to the Lord for His abundant blessings – the food, your family, your health, and His love for us.

  • Sunday we begin the season of Advent and there are several new opportunities for gathering and worship.

  • If you did not yet pick up your families’ copy of the new Advent devotional, from the narthex, please do so.

  • Sunday, I will be preaching on both the Second Lesson (Romans 13:11-14) and the Gospel (Matthew 24:36-44) as the Lord encourages up to “Keep awake!”

  • Sunday afternoon, we are offering an Advent Event for the Congregation at 3:00 p.m. in Fellowship Hall.  We will have crafts to kick off the Advent season.  There is a signup sheet in the narthex to help us plan for the materials.

  • Then a week from tonight, November 30, we will begin the first of three of our Midweek Advent meals and Worship services.  Each week a different group from the congregation will be preparing a meal and it will be served at 6:00 p.m. in Fellowship Hall.  A free-will offering will be received for this.  Then, after a 3-year hiatus, we will be returning to the Holden Evening Prayer service for our Mid-week Advent Worship service.   This service begins each week at 7:00 p.m. and will last about 35 minutes.

 

In Thanksgiving,

Pastor Fischer