It is our turn to host the joint Thanksgiving worship service with our sisters and brothers in Christ from First United Presbyterian Church in De Pere!
We will gather here on Monday, November 25th at 6:30pm in the sanctuary. Choir members from both churches will join to be directed by our Music Director, Michael Raught.
A homemade pie and hot apple cider reception will follow the service in the Fellowship Room. Come give thanks with us!
We are excited to be ‘adopting’ three families from nearby Lincoln Elementary School to bless with our love, prayers and Christmas gifts and a meal. This will be our first Christmas adopting families from Lincoln School as the District closed Tank School last year who previously participated in our Christmas Prayer Basket outreach.
We will obtain wish lists for the children and adults in each family and those wishes will be in three separate baskets on the table in the back of the Sanctuary.
Members should take a tag or tags from the baskets and return gifts to the church unwrapped by December 12th. Our Youth Group will wrap the presents at their annual lock-in that weekend. Monetary contributions are also welcome.
Thank you for your support!
In the Presbyterian tradition, young people confirm the faith their parents chose for them when they were baptized as infants.
Five students from our congregation have been working for more than a year on topics including scripture review, worship, beliefs, church history, and much more. They have contributed to the design of a Sunday morning service for November 24th and will share their personal statements of faith with the Session prior to that date.
Please join them in celebrating faith as well as doubt in the journey on Sunday, November 24th.
Hello Church! It’s Mike Melton again with another word regarding books. Last year I recommended a good book in our church library, Hostage Bound Hostage Free by Ben & Carol Weir. Well now, I would like to offer Church members a modest challenge. Read the Gospel of Mark all the way through in one day. You can do it fairly easily; the book is less than 30 pages long in most translations which is only a couple of hours. Because of the structure of traditional worship, we chop the biblical books into sound bites and we may lose the context, the big picture, the vision of the biblical author. Read it in one day because there are messages in the flow itself.
So why Mark?
Mark is the first and shortest of a new form of writing; a Gospel! Matthew and Luke admired it enough to it use as the template for their Gospels. The book rushes along, the word “immediately” shows up a lot and it sweeps you up to the crescendo of the cross. You can feel Jesus sadness and frustration build as His disciples never seem to “Get it.” So pick a date and take the “Mark Challenge.” If you need extra motivation, may I suggest you check out this beautifully illuminated presentation in rich and easily readable calligraphy.
I’m making this book available in the Church Office. Before the printing press was invented there were Bibles!