Poinsettia Orders Due Sunday; Do You Have Three Friends?

Poinsettia Orders Due Sunday

Greetings!

Help beautify our worship space for Christmas Eve with the purchase of a poinsettia in honor or memory of a loved one.

The selections are as follows:

6” pot size (4+ blooms) - $9.95

8” pot size (10+ blooms) - $19.75

Place your check made payable to St. Augustine’s in the collection plate Sunday. We'll have order forms available, or, you can click here and print the form to bring on Sunday.

Our Christmas service will be on Monday, December 24th, at 5:30. This is a high holy day in our faith, filled with candlelight, beautiful music, and God's Word. The service is scheduled so that you will have time after for your family gatherings before evening closes.

Do you have a friend or family member who needs to hear the Christmas Message, to feel the closeness of our church family. Then, make a call - write a note (see below) - and bring someone you care about to St. Augustine's, where we are changed by God to make a difference for God. And, we have fun following Jesus, so spread the word.

Do You Have Three Friends?

Do you have three friends you love enough to share your faith? Christmas Eve will bring us all the perfect opportunity to tell the Good News about Jesus. In the next two weeks, we will give each church member (children, too) three stamped postcards of invitation to our Christmas Eve service. Your job is to write a short note and each friend's address f or mailing by December17th. For parents, this can be a fine Advent activity for the family. And, remember, even if you are out of town on Christmas Eve, you can still invite three friends to join this fun-loving, Lord-serving congregation for the celebration of Christ's birth!

Advent/Christmas Schedule

The four Sundays of Advent and their preaching themes are as follows:

1st Sunday - December 2nd - Death

2nd Sunday - December 9th - Judgment

3rd Sunday - December 16th - Heaven

4th Sunday - December 23rd - Hell

Our Christmas service will be on Monday, December 24th, at 5:30. .

The service of Lessons and Carols will be on Sunday, December 30th, at 10am. Plan to join us to sing the songs of the season and to hear the story of Christ's birth through scripture.

Do you want to know more about Advent? Click here for a brief summary in layman's terms.

Blessing of the mite boxes in 2014

To strengthen your devotion and focus during your Advent journey, the church is providing two tools:

Each family will receive a mite box on Sunday for storing monetary donations. Every penny counts! We will send our gifts to the Anglican Relief and Development Fund after Christmas. Plan to bring your filled mite boxes to be blessed on Sunday, December 30th .
The second tool is a booklet of Advent devotions to guide you to think and pray during this Christian journey. The devotions are written by staff and students at Trinity School for Ministry. If you did not receive your family's booklet, see Fr. Kevin Sunday.

Have you purchased your St. Augustine's Christmas ornament yet??

Thanks to a generous offering from the Winklers, the parish is selling custom-designed St. Augustine's 2018 Christmas ornaments to support the building fund. The ornaments are $10.00 apiece . Make checks payable to the church, and designate the building fund in the memo line. Thank you, Winklers for this gift to the future home of St. Augustine's!

Sharon M. has put out an all-points bulletin for bakers (and grocery shoppers) to provide snakes - I mean - SNACKS for Sunday fellowship. Can you help? Please let her know Sunday and she will sign you up!

Thank you to all who work behind the scenes to make our fellowship time special. There are several men and women making coffee and providing goodies, and they do it quietly, with no expectation of thanks. God bless you all.