Friends,

This holy season of preparation is filled with change. There is excitement and joy in our hearts as we prepare for Christmas and a new year. I want you to know about some upcoming celebrations in our church’s life.

Sunday December 18th will be Mak Percival’s last Sunday morning at Parkway. She is preaching that day and a farewell reception will be held following worship. She has served here faithfully as a Director of Student Ministries and then Associate Pastor for the past 8 years. We are grateful for her dedication and love that has benefitted the church and community. We pray for God’s hand to continue guiding her as she moves to East Bernard and continues ministry with the First United Methodist Church there. It is a growing church with an exciting future, and she is well gifted to lead them.

December 24th: We provide three candlelight Christmas Eve services to celebrate Christ’s birth into our world and into our lives.

5:00PM (Children and Family Focused), 7:00PM, and 11:00PM

December 25th: Christmas Day we will have a prerecorded worship devotional online so you can experience the joy of Christmas Day at home with your loved ones. There will be two ways to access the Christmas devotional: one option is that the video will stream on Facebook at 10:30AM, and the second option will be a YouTube link that will be sent via an e-mail from Parkway.

January 1, 8, and 15: 

January 1st: We will have one worship service at 10:30AM on New Year’s Day. Kat Britton will be preaching that morning. 

January 8th: Our new Senior Pastor, Justin Mikulencak, will start January 1st and his first Sunday to preach here will be January 8th. 

January 15th: A Welcome Reception for Justin, his wife, Courtney, and their children, Ellis, and Maggie, is being planned for Sunday, January 15. He has met with the staff, visited with the Church Council, toured our facilities, and is preparing to lead you into the exciting future God has planned for you. I know you are praying for him and his family and they are praying for you!

There are many blessings ahead for Parkway UMC! Praying the hope, love, joy, and peace of the Advent Season prepares us for the promise of God’s presence in our lives and in our world.

Pastor Marlin