ADVENT WEEKLY ANNOUNCEMENTS

FEBRUARY 5TH  – FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY

  9:45 a.m. Sunday School

10:00 a.m. Worship in person and online

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NEW MEMBERS will be received in Worship this Sunday, February 5th. We will recognize members who joined in 2020 through 2022. If you have been attending worship and would like to become a member of Advent, please contact the church office so we can send you a Parish Record form to fill out if you haven’t already done so.

 

FIRST CALL FOR PALMS - locate any palms you may have from previous Palm Sundays and bring them to church to be burned for the ashes used on Ash Wednesday (February 22nd ).               

 

ASH WEDNESDAY SERVICES - We will offer Imposition of Ashes and Holy Communion at two times on Wednesday, February 22nd:  12:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.

 

ADVENT WEBSITE: If you haven’t had a chance, check out the updated Advent website at  www.Adventolathe.org The update looks great! A BIG thank you to Cindy Cherry for all her work on the site.

 

NEW POSITION AT ADVENT – If you or someone you know may be interested in the new Director of Intergenerational Ministries position please contact Jim Feret, a member of the personnel committee at pappajamesferet@gmail.com.

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OPPORTUNITIES TO SERVE: There are a variety of areas we need your help! Please consider signing up to serve your Advent family.

• Wednesday Evening Programming starts with dinner at 6:00 p.m. We still have openings for volunteers to sign-up to provide dinner for our youth and adult volunteers. You pick what you would like to serve. Some dinner ideas are pizza, soup/chili, grilled cheese & chips; mac and cheese bar, spaghetti, sandwiches, tacos or any other ideas you have. Please indicate in the comments section what you will be serving when you sign-up and plan on preparing for around 20 youth/adults. The youth enjoy dinners, so we want to continue them. Thank you for signing up and supporting our Youth and Family Ministry. Click on the following link to sign-up. Wednesday Night Dinners

• Worship Assistants Needed - If you would like to serve on Sunday morning as a Communion Assistant, Lector, Livestream video operator or Acolyte (Confirmation Youth), please click this link and select a date. It’s wonderful to have Advent members participate in worship!

 

SERMON ON THE MOUNT BOOK STUDY starting Feb 16th - In Matthew’s Gospel, the Sermon on the Mount is Jesus’ keynote address previewing his entire ministry. What does it mean to be blessed? Think you know the "Our Father" prayer? What does it mean to live into, and live out of, the Kingdom of Heaven? We’ll focus on those questions and many more when Advent’s Thursday evening book study returns on Feb. 16. We’ll see and hear brief comments from internationally renowned Biblical scholar Amy-Jill Levine, then reflect on the pertinent chapters in her book, The Sermon on the Mount. Buy the book if you like, but it’s not essential; our primary text will be the Bible itself, especially Matthew, chapters 5-7. Our instructor is Bishop Emeritus Roger Gustafson, and the Zoom link to the group is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83577113043

 

LADIES NIGHT SIGN PAINTING CLASS – Join the fun and come for a sign painting class at Advent. Several painting options to choose from!

Date: Saturday, February 25th, 2023

Time: 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location: Advent Fellowship Hall - Enter in the far WEST doors.

Click this link:  https://forms.gle/SR1njbNptThysnWy6  for the sign-up form and more details! Forms and are due no later than Sunday, February 19th. 

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