Text Box: Fellowship Hour…..The second Sunday of each month we have a “fellowship hour” after worship and service donuts, coffee, and punch. If you are willing to pay for the donuts & punch for one month, please call the church office. ($70.00) You may purchase them in Memory or in Honor of someone and we will publish it in the morning worship bulletin. Text Box: Dear God, It happens every year at this time. I call it the blue-funk. I feel it coming on the first of December and after a few weeks it passes. It is that feeling when I realize that Christmas is 4 weeks away and there is so much to do. I know better. Christmas is not baking cookies, or how many decorations I can put up. It is not shopping and having the perfect Christmas dinner. I do know that. But never the less, the blue-funk comes even though I know what Christmas is about. I am looking forward to tonight. Some of us are going to attend a Taize’ worship service. I went to one last month at Fairmount Presbyterian Church in Shaker Heights. It was uplifting and calming as we spent time in scripture, chants from the Psalm's and silence. Last month 4 of us attended the Taize’ service at Fields United Methodist Church and left there with the same feeling of peace. I need the quiet time to worship. A time of listening to You, surrounded by candles and singing Psalms. It restored my soul. When I started looking on the internet for information about this service, there were 473,000 sites. Services were led by Baptist, Catholic, Mennonite, Unitarian and every other denomination. If this was something that all denominations participated in, it appealed to my Disciple background of unity . The services were all over the world, from England to New Zealand and every country in between. I need this time tonight, a time to focus on what is important this Christmas season. I need to worship with others from our church and the Episcopal Church we are attending tonight; to meditate, be silent and listen for Your voice. Especially this month, when the blue-funk hits me. "May you have joy in the mad rush of preparation; may you know peace in the tiny margins of time around the busy days; may you have star-shine in clear night skies for looking at; may you have silence now and then; and above all— beyond all else, may you have love to give and to receive. Love, Judy Text Box: CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE December 24, at 7:00 p.m. (Monday evening) The Christmas Eve service will be a time when we can celebrate the real meaning of Christmas by singing Christian carols, hearing God’s Word contained in scripture, special music, and the musical presentations of our awesome choir. The power point presentation will enhance the message that is so dear to us during this wonderful season. Leave the secular Christmas at home for the evening and get in touch with the spiritual celebration of the birth of the Savior.