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Southminster This Week

 

Friends,

I am looking forward to our 4th Sunday of Advent! We will celebrate with our Lessons and Carols service during the 11AM service. This is our biggest music Sunday of the year- complete with Bells, Choir, String Quartet and more! I hope you will join us either in person or online. 

We have decided to postpone the planned reception due to a sharp uptick in covid cases. This is a good time to remind everyone to continue to wear your mask at church and to watch online if you are experiencing any symptoms or have been exposed. 

As you continue to dig deeper this Advent season, I thought I might share with you the poem I used in last Sunday's service.

Advent poetry reading — A poem by J. Barrie Shepherd

An invitation to go deeper,
to penetrate the hard-worn surface
of our habitual this-and-that, permit entry
to images, suggestions, even fears
that normally are held up at the gate.
A summons to release your grip, filter beneath
the spoken words, and let your mind be led
far past the hard and fast and on toward
the soft and slow, the tender and the wise.
A passport to an unacquainted realm
where stables shelter royalty,
sheep and oxen kneel,
shepherds join the heavenly chorus,
and the secret of the ages is disclosed
within the midnight-piercing cry
of an infant newly born.

Peace,

Pastor Caitlin

This week we are praying for...

- The family and friends of Ann Pais who passed away yesterday 

- Terry Liendecker, moved to a rehab center

- Jean Derrenbacker, briefly hospitalized with a vision problem

- Rick Abbot's brother John, hospitalized

- Tracey William's cousin Kenny, hospitalized with complications post heart surgery

- Jeanne Coryell's mother Mary, hospitalized with pneumonia

- The family and friends of Martha Harris after her recent death

- Tammy McDonald's Aunt Carolyn, in hospice 

- Cancer: Terry Liendecker, Betty Smith, Jan Belote's brother Harvey, Ryan Witcher, Nancy Fundinger, Tracey Koogler, and Candace Young's daughter Elizabeth, Donna Medicus' sister in law Marcy

- Long Term Prayers: John Paulson, Ivy Sanders, Emily Cruciata

Blue Christmas Service

Sunday, Dec 19th at 4pm
Bon Air Presbyterian Church

Lessons and Carols Sunday

December 19th at 11 AM

In-Person and Online

5pm Family Service
8pm Communion Service

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