

1st Sunday in Christmas Celebration of Thanksgiving and Hope for 2020
First Sunday in Christmas - December 29 ** Please Note: ONLY ONE SERVICE this day! ** 9:30 am Lessons & Carols with Holy Eucharist: A Celebration of Thanksgiving and Hope for the New Year Champagne and croissants as the Eucharistic meal mark the special joy and privilege of standing at the threshold of another year, followed by New Year’s toasts in the narthex. ** Note: No Nursery or Church School this day.** Second Sunday in Christmas - January 5 8:00 am Holy Eucharist
A Joyful Choice
Christmas Eve & Christmas Morning - 2019 Isaiah 9:2-7; Psalm 96; Titus 2:11-14; Luke 2:1-14 (15-20) I begin by wishing you all a very merry and blessed Christmas! And saying: I am delighted to be celebrating here with you! But I have to ask – just to be clear: what is it that we have come here to celebrate? After all, at its heart, Christmas is not an event. Christmas is not a holiday. Christmas is not a season. Christmas is not a church service. Christmas is not a set of fam


Advent & Christmas Worship Opportunities
Fourth Sunday of Advent - December 22 8:00 am Advent Festival of Lessons and Canticles 9:30 am Advent Festival of Lessons and Carols followed by our Annual Church School Christmas Pageant and a light lunch in the Parish Hall Christmas Eve 4:30pm Family Christmas Celebration A high-energy, joyous (and usually boisterous!) beginning to the Christmas season: familiar carols, the Nativity story and building of the crèche, ‘kid-friendly’ prayers, and a somewhat shorter liturgy 7


Choosing the Holy Way
A highway shall be there,
and it shall be called the Holy Way; the unclean shall not travel on it,
but it shall be for God's people; (and) no traveler, not even fools, shall go astray. (Isaiah 35:8-10) Advent 3/A 15 December 2019 Isaiah 35:1-10; James 5:7-10; Matthew 11:2-11 The earlier verses of this beautiful and poetic chapter from the Hebrew prophet, Isaiah, are much more familiar than the few lines I quoted just now. The opening of blind eyes, the unstopping of de


Re-Created for the Kingdom to Come
Advent 2 / A December 8, 2019 Isaiah 11:1-10; Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19; Romans 15:4-13; Matthew 3:1-12 “The lion shall eat straw like the ox.” For centuries, the ancient prophet Isaiah’s description of the peaceable kingdom to come has offered faithful people a hope-filled vision of a future world without conflict or oppression. Now, his prediction is certainly good news – no! make that, great news! - for the ox, but we have to ask: What about the lion? Is it really such good news


Share The Warmth - Join us on 12/8 as we distribute to those in need
ANNUAL SHARE THE WARMTH CAMPAIGN concludes this coming Sunday 12/8 with hand out day in Philadelphia This coming Sunday, December 8th is our Share The Warmth service day. We will be taking all of our winter apparel donations down to Philadelphia to be handed out as part of our service project. We will meet in the Parish Hall following the 9:30 service. We will gather our donations and head over to the North Wales train station to catch the 11:44 am train to Center City. We p

Dine & Donate @ Bertucci's Dec 2nd - 5th
ALL DAY from Open to Close! Take a break from your holiday shopping and cooking to enjoy a relaxing lunch or dinner! Eat in, Take Out, and Catering orders! Up to 25% is donated back to the church and includes all pre-tax food, alcoholic beverages. Don't forget to purchase tickets for the awesome raffle basket too! You must present a copy of the flyer Click here to download a copy or get a flyer at the church office


Our time as God’s time
Advent 1 / A Isaiah 2:1-5; Psalm 122; Romans 13:11-14; Matthew 24:36-44 1 December 2019 With Thanksgiving behind us for another year, here’s a question that just may strike some fear and trepidation in your heart: What does your time look like between now and Christmas? Is your calendar for the next four weeks a jumble of “must do’s”? A growing list of “have to get done’s”? There is no argument that Advent – these four weeks that precede Christmas – Advent is a hectic season!