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Looking for opportunities to connect with Bishop Hazelwood? Check out these upcoming events:
Sunday, January 13th
8:30 and 10:30 a.m.
Emanuel Lutheran Church, Manchester CT.- Services
2:00 - 4:00p.m.
Concordia Lutheran Church, Manchester CT. - coffee and conversation
Wednesday, January 16th
5:30 p.m.
Lutheran Church of Framingham, MA - potluck supper and presentation
Tuesday, January 22nd
10:00 - 12:00 a.m.
Salem Lutheran Church, Bridgeport, CT - Conference meeting
Thursday, January 24th
10:00 - 12:00 a.m.
First Lutheran Church, Waltham, MA - Conference meeting
6:30 p.m.
Gethsemane Lutheran Church, Manchester NH - potluck supper and conversation
Friday, January 25th
9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Messiah Lutheran Church, Amherst NH - coffee and conversation
2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Advent Lutheran Church, Rindge NH -light snacks and conversation
Sunday, January 27th
8:00 and 10:30 a.m.
Tabor Lutheran Church, Branford, CT - Services
Wednesday, January 30th
6:30 p.m.
Immanuel Lutheran Church, Attleboro, MA - Leaders Vision Circle
Saturday, February 2nd
9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Faith Lutheran Church, Middletown, CT - Doing What Matters
Sunday, February 3rd
9:00 a.m. Adult Ed
10:00 a.m. Service
Christ Lutheran Church, Natick, MA
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Greetings!
A new year always brings hope and eager anticipation that something is coming. We enter 2013 with New Year resolutions or maybe simply commitments to lose weight, get our finances in order, learn a new hobby, add a skill to our resume, spend more time with the kids. My brother and his wife engage in a practice of purging their belongings every year at this time. They take a day and sift through all their belongings. If they have not used something in the last twelve months...they toss it.
That's a kind of 21st century consumerist act of repentance. Perhaps we could add a brief order of sifting and tossing to our weekly, monthly or annual liturgy - not the liturgy on Sunday in worship, the liturgy of life. The work of the people includes a sifting and tossing, a purging, a letting go and a giving over, a confession and forgiveness.
What needs sifting and purging in your life? What are you hoping God will do to lead you along that path?
It's a new year, a new time, a new opportunity to be enriched, blessed and, of course, forgiven.
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Upcoming Events of Interest |
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 Phyllis Tickle
noted author on Emergent Christianity will be leading a workshop on Feb 1 at Andover-Newton Seminary
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Last Call for the Synod
Communication Workshop
Saturday, January 12th, 10 am to 3 pm.
We still have room at the Sanctuary Marshfield and Camp Calumet Locations.
Click here for the Sanctuary, Marshfield location.
Click here for the Camp Calumet Location
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Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land |
 Christmas Greetings from Bishop Dr. Munib A. Younan As I sit down to write my Christmas message during this Advent season, there are no words that touch me more deeply than these words from Isaiah chapter 40, "Comfort, O Comfort my people, says your God." During this time I have been moved by the emotions associated with the beginning of life and the end of life, of birth and death. And I am very much aware that life begins and ends with a need for comfort. And in between, there is enough pain and suffering to go around, for people to cry out, "We are all like grass that withers, and flowers that fade." Continue Reading Bishop Younan's message here |
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