This Sunday Advent begins, and this Advent we will experience some changes to our Sunday morning worship.  

Advent is a season of anticipation and wonder.  To enhance those qualities of Advent we will take these four weeks to turn our hearts to how the Holy Spirit of God is speaking to us.

     We will put special emphasis on the Person, the Power, the Gifting, and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. After Church Bishop Roger and Gretsie Ames will lead us in discussions about these topics and answer questions you may have about the Holy Spirit.

     We will take time to listen to the leading of the holy spirit and respond with practical applications in our worship each Sunday during Advent. 

     We will use the structure of Morning prayer to learn a Daily Practice that could be used by each of us in our own lives as a devotional tool in our personal rule of life.  Corporately we will use morning prayer as way of mixing up the routine a bit so the Lord can speak to us through a new cadence of anticipation and wonder.

     Having the space to try a new liturgy and to listen to the holy spirit corporately and pray into what He might be telling us are the reasons we will refrain from having communion during advent.  Furthermore, refraining from Communion will aid in building an anticipation for the true meaning of Christmas in the incarnation of Jesus.

     Let’s seek His heart together as we wait and pray.  We will then return to regularly celebrating Communion on Christmas Eve.

     With childlike Joy, let’s be watchful, and filled with wonder as we await the coming of Jesus!

Dan

“I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.”

During the Advent season, St. Luke’s will have a prayer wall in the Sanctuary filled with names of people and places connected to the St Luke’s family.  Throughout advent we will be praying and asking Jesus to fulfill every promise he has spoken over each name. 

Please feel free to grab a marker and add the names of family, friends, places, etc. to the wall! Let’s fill the wall with every person and place connected to the St Lukes family.  

Also, please take some time to read over the wall and pray asking God to make the fullness of life known over each name.  As you come and go from the church during this season come a few minutes early or stay a bit late and spend some time at the wall praying.

Reach out to Tim Ghrist with any questions and please share testimonies of how God is answering these prayers. 

This Sunday, December 3, there will be a meeting of the St. Luke’s Greeter’s Ministry.

Everyone is invited to be part of this ministry to our visitors and newcomers as the hands and feet of Jesus. The meeting will take place in the Sanctuary after the service and fellowship in the Cafe.

If you have any questions, contact Rev. John Wagner.