Join us beginning Thursday, November 30, for our 4 week Advent Study.  We will be using the book by Matt Rawle entitled Experiencing Christmas: Christ in the Sights and Sounds of Advent.  This study will be held on Thursdays at 10:00 am in-person in our church library, or online via Zoom at 6:00 pm.  If you are interested in participating, please contact Pastor Leslie.  

Everything seems different at the end of the year. We put lights on our houses to dispel the growing darkness, Christmas music floods local radio stations, apple cider and cranberry sauce are again on the menu, and wrapping paper and tape are always ready. Things just look, smell, and taste differently during the Advent and Christmas season, and these differences are a sign to us that God is about to do something radical and different. Christmas is when God surrounded the divine with senses of his own. That first noel was when God had eyes to see suffering, ears to hear our cries, and hands to hold those in need, and all of these senses were bundled in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. “This will be a sign to you,” the angel told the shepherds, and they traveled to Bethlehem and found a child. What signs do you see during the Advent and Christmas season that point you to the divine?