We welcome guests and newcomers to Resurrection. We hope you will join us, not only for this worship service, but also for the fellowship of coffee hour downstairs afterwards. Thank you to Vanessa Neely for hosting coffee hour this morning.
Be thoughtful, be silent, be reverent; for this is the House of God. Before the service speak to the Lord; during the service let the Lord speak to you; after the service speak to one another.
About receiving Holy Communion: Those who have been baptized with water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, and are in a state of love and charity with their neighbors, are welcome to receive Holy Communion here at the Church of the Resurrection.
Women's Prayer Group December meeting will be held tomorrow evening, Dec. 17 at 7:00 p.m. at Mary Crisman's house. All women are welcome! Please call Mary at 226-8079 if you need directions. This will be the only December meeting.
Because Fr. Mic will be away on Dec. 30, we are changing our 4th and 5th Sunday services for December. On Dec. 23 there will be no Sunday School - to allow the Sunday School teachers and students to participate fully in the service. Dec. 30 will not be a Youth Sunday since we will have a supply priest - so there will be Sunday School that morning.
On Sun., Dec. 23, we will be going Christmas caroling at our shut-ins´ houses following the 9:30 service. Join us and help give our shut-ins some Christmas cheer!
More details about our Christmas services: at our Family service on Christmas Eve at 5:30 P.M. we will have the blessing of the Creche where the children will carry the Creche pieces as part of the procession. If you would like the Baby Jesus from your own family Nativity set to be blessed we will be doing this at all 3 services. Bring yours and place it on the altar. Our 10:30 P.M. midnight service will include music with the Resurrection choir. And our Chrismas morning service will be at 9:30 A.M. All 3 services will have traditional Christmas carols.
The holiday season is upon us and, as usual, this creates a crisis in supplies in our local Blood Banks. Will you please help? The next regular Ecumenical Blood Drive is scheduled at the First Reformed Church of Fishkill on Tues., Jan. 8 from 2 - 7:30 P.M. An alternative site is at the Hopewell Reformed Church on Fri., Jan. 4 from 3 - 8:30 P.M. If you can donate at either site, please sign up on the sheets on the narthex bulletin board - thank you!
Tues., vestry meeting 7 P.M.
Wed., Holy Eucharist with Unction 7 P.M.
Thurs., Choir Rehearsal 7:30 P.M.
Sun., Dec. 23, Christmas caroling
Sun., Dec. 23, His Kidz youth group 4:30 P.M.
Mon., Dec. 24, Christmas Eve Family Mass 5:30 P.M.
Mon., Dec. 24, Christmas Eve Midnight Mass 10:30 P.M.
Tues., Dec. 25, Christmas Morning Mass 9:30 A.M.