Village Weekly
December 30, 2020

Please join us in celebrating the life and ministry of Dago Flores, Assistant Director of Worship Development, on Thursday, December 31, 2020 at 10am.
You can watch the livestream of the service from the Village YouTube channel.
Link directly to the live stream: https://youtu.be/-xLoVCiVZwI

Due to Covid safety precautions, the number of people in attendance will be capped and have been individually invited. There will be an opportunity for the public to view the casket from noon to 1pm.

Please wear a mask and enter from the cafe entrance of the Sanctuary, and exit through the parking lot double doors. Please follow our Covid safety guidelines and stay home if you have flu-like symptoms or have been exposed to Covid within the past 14 days. While we know so many would want to honor Dago by attending the service, we ask that we all honor him by keeping everyone safe.

Cards for the Flores Family can be dropped off at our Front Office lock box, or brought to the viewing. 

Thank you for your generosity to and partnership with our Village ministries this year. Take a look at this slide show of the extravagant love of our community.

To make Village's ministry goals possible, we invite you to give generously until Dec. 31. We have giving two goals, which you can see represented in the pie charts below. If we end the year with $2.7M in giving, we’ll be in a position to pursue our ministries' opportunities. Any amount helps! And if 400 households participate each month, we believe our giving goal will be achieved.

Our online giving is safe, secure, and the best way to give, but if you prefer to mail a check, please ensure it is postmarked by December 31. You can also put checks in the drop-box outside the church office which will be checked today and December 31. If you have questions about giving stock or other transactions, please email our Finance Manager, Patty.

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2020 has been a chaotic and difficult year. We fight feelings of unhappiness, loneliness and hopelessness. So how do we begin 2021? Only when we fix our eyes on the Creator and Sustainer of all things do we find the peace we desperately desire. God alone will heal our broken hearts, sustain us through the low points in life and light our path.

This week we invite you to join in a walk-through experience in the sanctuary for prayer, reflection and scripture reading, January 4-9, Monday through Saturday, 7am to 2pm. As a church family, may we call to mind the never-ending love of God and His faithfulness to us as we step into 2021.

Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord’s great love, we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.”
Lamentations 3:21-24

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We will close our campus on Wednesday, December 23 and reopen on Monday, January 4. All external doors will be locked, including the Worship Center. If you have a previously scheduled event, a ministry leader or custodian will be there to unlock for you. During the closure, postal mail will be held on most days, but delivered on December 29-31. Phone lines will be turned off, but our answering service will be available for emergencies. May you have a blessed, restful holiday!

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We are blessed to be able to highlight a couple life groups! Please contact the leaders for more information.

James Study
The Women’s evening Bible study will be moving to Monday nights. Beginning on January 11 at 6:45 the next study will focus on the book of James and will be a self-study approach without a standard teaching curriculum. The study will run for about 12 weeks with short passages to read and discuss each week. We are excited to dive into God’s word and to learn together how to read for understanding and application. There will be no cost for this study. The current plan is to meet in person in the Columbia B Room in a group of 10-12 women. We will observe recommended social distance guidelines and wear masks. For questions, or to sign up, email Betsy Adams. We look forward to welcoming new women to the group! 

Tapestry
You are invited to a weaving together of English speaking women from various cultures and life stages. Beginning January 12, meeting every other Tuesday evening 7-8:30 pm via Zoom, we discuss Scripture and focus on how God is speaking into our lives through it. Our mission outreach varies as we become aware of opportunities to bless others both locally and overseas.
Leader: Poppy Smith, assisted by various women in the group.
Study: Exodus—Learning to Trust God.