Before and after each service  Sunday, Jan. 22nd and Jan. 29th ~ tables with sign up sheets will be set up at the church entrance.

Please stop and set your appointment date/time for the February photo shoot time slots for our BAY Directory.   The photo shoots will be held Feb. 14th through 16th. We need 100% involvement ~ please!

Before and after each service beginning this Sunday, Jan.15th ~ we’ll havesign up sheets for the February photo shoot time slots for our BAY Directory. Tables with sign up sheets will be set up at the church entrance. The process will be repeated on Jan. 22nd and again on Jan. 29th. The photo shoots will be held Feb. 14th through 16th. 

for our 10:00 a.m. service.

A great way to kick-off a new year!

“A Sky Full of Children” by Madeleine L’Engle

“A sky full of God’s children!  Each galaxy, each star, each living creature, every particle and sub-atomic particle with a life span of a few seconds, to a galaxy with a life span of billions of years, to us human creatures somewhere in the middle in size and age, we are made in God’s image, male and female, and we are, as Christ promised us, God’s children by adoption and grace.

Children of God, made in God’s image.  How?  Genesis gives no explanations, but we do know instinctively that it is not a physical image.  God’s explanation is to send Jesus, the incarnate One, God enfleshed.  Don’t try to explain the Incarnation to me!  It is further from being explainable than the furthest star in the furthest galaxy.  It is love, God’s limitless love enfleshing that love into the form of a human being, Jesus, the Christ, fully human and fully divine.

Was there a moment, known only to God, when all the stars held their breath, when the galaxies paused in their dance for a fraction of a second, and the Word, who had called it all into being, went with all his love into the womb of a young girl, and the universe started to breathe again, and the ancient harmonies resumed their song, and the angels clapped their hands for joy?

Power.  Greater power than we can imagine, abandoned, as the Word knew the powerlessness of the unborn child, still unformed, taking up almost no space in the great ocean of amniotic fluid, unseeing, unhearing, unknowing.  Slowly growing, as any human embryo grows, arms and legs and a head, eyes, mouth, nose, slowly swimming into life until the ocean in the womb is no longer large enough, and it is time for birth.

Christ, the Second Person of the Trinity, Christ, the Maker of the universe or perhaps many universes, willingly and lovingly leaving all that power and coming to this poor, sin-filled planet to live with us for a few years to show us what we ought to be and could be.  Christ came to us as Jesus of Nazareth, wholly human and wholly divine, to show us what it means to be made in God’s image.”

“O Come Let Us Adore Him

Saturday, December 24, 2011 at 6:00 p.m.

Today in the town of David,    a Savior has been born to you; He is Christ the Lord!

Meet at Bay to wrap cookies at 3 p.m.

Caroling at Emeritus begins at  5 p.m.  Pizza, salad and drinks provided. 

PLEASE donate cookies to take to the residents. You may drop them off at the Church Sunday morning, December 18, or bring them by the church office.