Archives for December 2012

December brings Christmas music, holiday shopping, and our annual planning for the year ahead. In preparation for our all-congregation deliberation on that topic, the Proposed Budget and Budget Policy for 2013 are attached.  Printed copies will be available in the vestibule on Sunday or in the church office. Here’s the Brief: Funds Are Critically Short… Read more.

Friends, Berea College’s Willis D. Weatherford Campus Christian Center has prepared the service bulletin for December 9.  In this service we will also recognise mid-year graduates and hear from Rev. John G. Fee. What follows is the Advent Wreath-lighting wording and our usual Sunday announcements. Advent Candle Lighting: PEACE The Advent Wreath tradition reaches back… Read more.

Advent is one of my favorite seasons! It is the season of promised hope, and of expectations beginning to be fulfilled. How apropos that our construction phase is drawing to a close at exactly this time of year. Truly, “the hopes and fears of all the years” are about to be met as we finish… Read more.

First Christmas Pageant Rehearsal is Wednesday, December 5, after Wednesday Nite Live Supper!! Berea College Christmas Concert is 7:30 pm December 7 & 8 in our very own Sanctuary. December 9 – We are Home for the Holidays!! First worship service back in our Sanctuary! 10:30 am as usual! Poinsettias Needed for Christmas! If you would… Read more.

For this week’s prayer, we borrowed from an old favorite, the Prayer of St. Francis.  May God be with you all this week.  — Rev. Rachel   God who is constantly calling us toward your redemption, open our ears this Advent season.  Help us to hear your joy, your love, your call to serve: Make… Read more.