12/17/04

Advent and Christmas Greetings to you and yours this Friday afternoon.

We continue in these days to ask for your prayers for these folks:

Tim Lovett – recovering at home from hip replacement surgery –
Cliff Stout – recovering and in therapy at Hurstbounre Rehab center –
Jeannie Koerber – who had a heart cath on Thursday, and was glad to hear good news that her heart, though weakened over all, is in good shape, and her prior by-pass procedures continue to work well.
Clay Ryan – recovering from a broken ankle
Rosemary Reynolds – recovering from a sprained ankle
Kelsey Blake – recovering from knee surgery and will be facing more in the future
(lots of broken and hurt joints here!!)
Susan Rock – struggling with MS
Brook Seymour – recovering from pneumonia
Jim Williams – recovering at home from lung surgery
John Throgmorton – brother-in-law to Carol Daugherty, struggling with cancer
Doug Jones – who is set for a tonsillectomy on December 20.
And an addition – a step mom to Bill Dunham (married to Amy Lombard Dunham) – who is Zella LeCompte. Zella went home from the hospital yesterday, and arrangements with Hospice are in process.

Remember too this Sunday is 4th Advent (8:30 and 10:40) - and that evening the Choir Music Tapestry performance – at 7:00 PM.

Christmas Eve is at 5:00 and 10:00 PM, with child care at the 5:00

December 26 – One service only at 10:40 – will be a traditional Lessons and Carols Service with readings and lots of singing of Christmas carols!

January 2, 2005 (oh my) – also one service only at 10:40 –

And January 9, 2005 – back to the regular schedule, and the Baptism of the Lord Sunday – and a reaffirmation of our baptism!

Schools are out for the next two weeks, as well as Monday, January 3, 200 5. Many of you will be traveling for the holidays. The Hockenberry’s are going to Toronto (Ken’s sister and family) on Dec 28. So let us keep one another in prayer for safe travel and fun and renewing times with family and friends in this holy time of the year!

Grace and Peace,

Pastor Ken Hockenberry