Weekly Updates | St. John’s Lutheran Church December 2022
Church Events December 14
•Midweek
December 17
•Meal
December 18
Elf Party
Advent Worship
& Parents
and Porch Visits •Pageant Rehearsal •Elf Party & Parents Day Out •Staff & Council Christmas 4th Sunday of Advent Christmas Pageant Ugly Christmas Sweater
December 20
•Homeless
Memorial Service
December 21
•Caroling
December 24
Christmas Eve •4:00 pm Family Christmas Eve Worship with Candlelight and Communion •5:30 pm Christmas Eve Festival Worship •8:30 pm Christmas Eve Festival Worship
December 25
Christmas Day •10:00 am ONE Worship ONLY
December 26
The church office will be closed.
December 27 thru 30
Office Holiday Hours
January 1
New Years Day 10:00 am ONE Worship ONLY
January 2
The church office will be closed.
Day Out
2:00-3:00
Rehearsal for the Christmas Pageant on Sunday, December 18 at 10:15 AM 3:00-3:30 Setting up our Elf party! 3:30-5:30 ELF!!!!!! 5:30-6:15 Eat like an Elf--spaghetti dinner with candy corn on the side. 6:15 A Charlie Brown Christmas and some carols 7:00 Everyone picked up (Please be sure to join us Sunday, December 18 for worship at 9:00 or 11:00 and the pageant at 10:00!) Sign up for the Elf Party and Parents Day Out by following this QR code to the sign-up sheet! Midweek Advent Worship 6:30 pm December 14 Join us for the glow of candlelight and gentle music of Holden Evening Prayer. Following the service, TLC will provide warm beverages and tasty treats
This year’s Children’s Christmas Pageant is called “A Story of Love" Mark your calendar for Sunday, December 18 at 10:10 AM in the Sparks Fellowship Hall. Please plan to join us for the following Sundays for planning and presentation: Saturday, December 17 at 2:00 pm —Rehearsal for the Christmas Pageant with Elf party to follow Sunday, December 18— Christmas Pageant with refreshments Mission Trip to Guatemala to visit our friends from ILAG! Interest and Information Meeting to be held this Sunday, December 18th, at 3:00 pm via ZOOM. For the zoom link, contact Nancy Friedrich—Hope you can join us… nancy.o.friedrich@gmail.com TRIP DETAILS: WHAT:A trip to our companion synod, ILAG WHEN: Early March 2023 WHERE: Guatemala City Guatemala Lutheran Center WHY: Experience how God is at work in Quatemals; Be transformed for ministry at home. WHO: Trip let by: Pastor Stephen Friedrich, Peace Lutheran, Knoxville TN A Few Details… Approximate cost: $1500(depending upon # of participants and airline costs) Max number of guests is 15. Worship, Bible Study, with Pastoral Team, Music with young women from MILAGRO, Spend time at CLAG (ILAG’s elementary school, experience Guatemalan Culture, Visit Lake Atitlan (Mayan beekeeping, cloth making, coffee fields) accompany our brothers and sisters in Christ, and more.
St John’s members are invited and encouraged to attend the Memorial Service... We start in front of VMC at 6:00 and take a candle light walk down to the Bridge and back to SJLC. There will be lovely Midweek Advent Worship music, thanks to our wonderful Debbie 6:30 pm TONIGHT Sousa and Pastor John Tirro. There will be a reading of theDecember initials (not names due to 7 confidentiality) of the1490+ homeless December individuals who died during 2022 in Join County. us for the Many of our Knoxville/Knox glow be of candlelight and neighbors will in attendance and will gentle music of Holden Evening appreciate your presence andPrayer support.