Congregational E-News ~ Nov. 15, 2018
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Our God is so much bigger than anything our finite minds can conceive---an awesome thought! The nightly news certainly doesn’t consist of the “stuff that dreams are made of”---unless we’re looking for nightmares. It is then that I have to remind myself that God is there, that God knows and understands, that God loves what God has made. Yes, our God is a God of Other, God of More!
God of Other, God of More

poled apart
like axis through the heart of Earth,
our mother
racked and wrecked with pain,
a world where fear breeds hate
yet yearns for milk from out the heart of
hope…
a world where stark survival pitches camp,
where living battles giving
and the dream of being other,
being more,
begins to dim. . .

but in the chaos and the fear
our God still lives..
our gentle God,
our God of Other,
God of More,
whose heart still throbs with love
whose breast still nurtures
with the milk of
hope
and calms with mother’s kiss
the fears of Earth.

Ann Marie Slavin, OSF

Interfaith Thanksgiving Prayer Service

All are welcome to join in an interfaith Thanksgiving Prayer Service. The following individuals will be our prayer guides for the day: Rabbi Helen Plotkin – Congregation Beth Israel, Imam Numaan Cheema – Zubaida Foundation, and Rev. Kristine Peterson – St. Timothy Lutheran Church.

When:
November 18, 2018
7 P.M.

Where:
Aston Presbyterian Church
2401 Baldwin Run Drive
Aston, PA 19014
A Lifetime of Ministry: Stories from Assisi House
Sr. Patricia Kidd was born in Dublin, Ireland. She entered the congregation in 1957 and was professed in 1960. Her ministry has taken her all over the United States, up to Alaska, and back to her homeland, Ireland, Listen to her story and hear what stands out in her ministry history as memorable and how she has changed people’s lives for the better.
Christmas Card Inserts
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