Each month on the first Sunday you’re encouraged to take home a re-usable yellow grocery bag, put some non-perishable items in it, and bring it back the next week, or soon thereafter. In January our contributions go to the food pantry at the Center Church. This is the building that used to be Mt. Vernon Presbyterian. The Center Church continues to operate the food pantry. Consider bringing canned fruits and meats.
Messy Church happens at 4:30 pm on January 12. Invite your neighbors and friends to this fun, interactive hands-on ministry. Dinner is served at 5:30 pm.
This is our chance as a congregation to make a heart connection with our kids and families who may be new to our church or even new to Christian faith. Passing on our story means that every believer gets the opportunity to share the ways in which God has rescued them. Life is Messy, why should our faith be any different?
This fall in worship we started in the book of Genesis and traveled through the Old Testament together. Along with hundreds of other congregations we are using the Narrative Lectionary. The Narrative Lectionary seeks to create an arc of the story of scripture by selecting stories for us to focus on each week.
In January we enter the book of Mark, and we stay in Mark through Easter Sunday. Mark is the shortest of the four gospels and the oldest. Together we explore God’s story as told through Mark. We meet Jesus in the stories, consider how the scripture is our story as a church, and how it is the story that we may each claim as individuals.
In January we enter the book of Mark. As we encounter Jesus and explore what the stories in Mark mean for us today, we also ask the question, “Why Church?” More and more Americans choose not to make church part of their lives. There’s little cultural pressure to be part of a church. Instead there’s something more, much more actually, that draws us to worship and life as a church. As we explore Mark, we consider how to answer the question, “Why Church?”
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