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REMINDER
Due to the Covid-19 virus (Coronavirus), in-person worship services are canceled until further notice. The Reopening Task Force is anticipating that COVID-19 concerns will last well into 2021. Our primary concern remains to keep everyone healthy. We will continue to offer Zoom services regardless. 
Volunteers Needed
Each week while we are worshiping via Zoom, we need an assisting minister and lector to help out - please consider volunteering! We also need readers for our midweek Advent services, and an Assisting Minister and Lector for Christmas Eve.
Zoom Worship Service Details Sunday, November 29, at 10 am
Join us on Sunday at 10 am via Zoom. Please take a few minutes before the service to download the bulletin and the insert so you can follow along with the order of service.

Feel free to stop by Schaeffer Memorial Chapel and pick up a hymnal if you would like one for use as we worship remotely.
The Word This Sunday November 29, 2020
First Sunday of Advent
Stir up your power, and come! The psalmist’s plea in Psalm 80:2 has become familiar to us in the Advent prayers. Isaiah wants God to rip the heavens open. Both cry out for an apparently distant, angry God to show up, to save, to restore. When we hear Jesus describing the coming of the Son of Man with stars falling from heaven, it can sound dire and horrible, not like anything we would ever hope for. But when we really look at the suffering of people God loves, we can share the hope that God would tear open the heavens and come.

Prayer that God would come with power and compassion

Let your face shine upon us, and we shall be saved. (Ps. 80:7) 

Gifts of grace sustain those who wait for the end

The sudden coming of the Son of Man
Advent and Christmas Worship Services
Please join us via Zoom (click the links below) for our Midweek Advent Services on Wednesdays at 7 pm:


And we invite you, your friends and family to join us for Christmas Eve worship service at 6 pm.

December ELCA Prayers
For the month of December, take a moment each day to intentionally pray the ELCA prayer of the day.

Toiletries for Veterans
November 2020
Social Ministries Project
In November, Epiphany members will be collecting much-needed toiletries for veterans - these will be donated to the Alpha Omega Veterans Services organization. Alpha Omega Veterans Services is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee that assists military veterans to reintegrate into society, often after achieving recovery and rehabilitation from debilitating mental and physical conditions. We are collecting (125) full-size tubes of toothpaste and Men's 3-in-1 shower gel (check your local Dollar Tree or Dollar General for great prices!). Items can be dropped off between 3-5 pm on Sunday, November 8 at the Epiphany Harvest Celebration being held at Epiphany Home Place (corner of Bray Station Rd. and Wolf River Blvd. in Collierville) or at the home of John Garner in Germantown any time during the month of November. Thank you for supporting this project! Please contact Lois Ketcham with any questions.
Save the Date!
The annual congregational meeting will take place immediately following our Zoom worship service on Sunday, December 13, 2020 (around 11:30 am). Please watch for upcoming e-mails with more information!
ELCA Stories of Faith in Action

Stories are the foundation of our faith. They teach us how to serve God with humility. They remind us of our identity as God’s beloved children. They bring us together and give us hope for the future. The ELCA's annual "Stories of Faith in Action" project illustrates how God is at work across the ELCA through your generosity. We will be highlighting a different story video each week!

Nurturing the song of the church (2018-2019)
ELCA Deacon Ryan Hostler sees his life’s calling as empowering others to make music and worship God.
Electronic Giving

You may donate via PayPal (clicking on the button at the right will take you to the home page - please donate using the "Donate" button there), mail a check (address below) or give via bank draft (instructions below.

Epiphany Lutheran Church
P.O. Box 1805
Collierville, TN 38027

Using our PayPal button on the website, you can choose various categories for your donation: tithes and offerings; property fund; food pantry fund; God's Work, Our Hands project; MOE mission project; and wildfire disaster fund.
Prayer Requests
Please e-mail your prayer concerns to Pastor TroyAnn or Carol Webster. You may also submit a prayer request online here. Thank you!