Happening This Sunday

Who's Preaching Where on Sunday?

• Traditional Services | 9 am & 11:15 am in the Church – Bishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon
• Awesome Worship Service for Families | 9:15 am in the Hall Life Center – The Rev. Louise Samuelson
• Modern Worship | 11:15 am in the Hall Life Center – The Rev. John Sundara
• Traditional Service | 8 am & 5 pm in the Chapel – Bishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon (8 am) & The Rev. Reagan Cocke  (5 pm)

Worship Online

• Traditional Service in the Church (9 am - with Order of Service & Announcements)
• Modern Worship in the HLC (11:15 am - with Announcements) 
  

All-Ages Education Hour — 
10:15 am Administration Building

All are invited to Sumners Hall to make Advent Wreaths and celebrate Bishop Josiah's ministry. Sunday School returns next Sunday, December 7.

Nursery
2 months - age 2: First floor nursery Rm 104 (8:30 am — 12:30 pm)
2-year-olds | First floor: Rm 110 & 112

Happening Today

Discover Chrismon Ornaments
This Advent you are invited, at the atrium near the front desk, to discover some of the beautiful Chrismon ornaments created by the women of St. John the Divine. Each Sunday, four pictures will be displayed on a poster for you to find on the Chrismon tree. Download a guide to the 16 ornaments featured this Advent.

Celebrating Bishop Josiah This Sunday
It has been a joy to have Bishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon in ministry with us! We will celebrate and honor him at a reception at 10:15 am in Sumners Hall. Please consider giving financially to a purse as an expression of gratitude for his ministry.

Advent Wreath Making
Begin your observance of Advent by making Advent wreaths with your church family on Sunday, November 30 at 10:15 am in Sumners Hall. Alternatively, you can purchase a kit to make at home. Advent wreath kits are $25 and include fresh greenery, ribbon, wreath form with attached candle holders, dripless taper candles, and an Advent guide to use at home. Order early before we sell out!

Singing While We Wait
Singing While We Wait is a modern Advent series that invites us to discover hope, peace, joy, and love in the sacred space of waiting. Through ancient Scriptures and original songs written each week by Sarah Gividen, we explore how God meets us in anticipation, transforming our longing into praise. Join us at 11:15 am in the HLC as we journey with Isaiah, Mary, and the psalmists, learning to sing even before the dawn breaks.

The Collect of the Day

Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Matthew 24:36-44

24:36 “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. 37 For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, 39 and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left. 41 Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left. 42 Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. 43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

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