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First Church News 2013 First Congregational Church Vol December First Church News 2013 First Congregational Church Vol. 161, United Church of Christ No. 12 Columbus, Ohio “Enter to Worship – Depart to Serve’’ Genealogy of Grace: How Our Christian Story Actually Holiday and Worship Begins Schedule for the By The Rev. Timothy C. Ahrens, Senior Minister Advent/Christmas ([email protected]) Season at On Sunday, December 1st, we enter a First Church new year of Christian faith. The year changes. The seasons change. The Sunday, December 1, 9 & 11 a.m. colors change. The music changes. Worship services for Advent I The message changes as Isaiah gets 9 am – Noon - Hanging of the Greens (pg. 6) clear and declares - Immanuel, “God With Us,” is Coming Soon! Sunday, December 8, 9 & 11 a.m. Worship services for Advent II But, what are missing the first chapter of the new Cookie Mission – Large Conference Room (pg. 5) covenant. We cannot find the Genealogy of Matthew’s gospel anywhere in our readings. I have always found Sunday, December 8, 4 p.m. this odd. Where are the 17 verses of the 42 generations A Festival of Lessons and Carols (pg. 5) that proceed the Messiah’s arrival? Prelude begins promptly at 3:30 p.m. In the Hebrew Bible, genealogies are everywhere to be Sunday, December 15, 9 & 11 a.m. found. We track generations, families, and faith through Worship services for Advent III genealogies. In the practice of Jewish faith, the 6-7:30 p.m. - Children’s Christmas Play and Dinner genealogical readings from the Torah are not hidden, left (pg. 15) behind or forgotten. They are embraced. They are read. They are studied. They are claimed. Sunday, December 22, 9 & 11 a.m. Worship services for Advent IV What can be found – or not found – in Matthew 1 that 12:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. – Christmas Caroling (pg. 6) will teach us more about our faith? Tuesday, December 24 Here are all the names we seem to skip over every year 3:00 p.m. – Family Christmas Eve Service – Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah and his brothers (who 7:30 p.m. – Christmas Eve Service including are unnamed), Perez, Zerah, whose mother was Tamar, the Drama of the Nativity (pg. Hezron, Ram, Amminadab, Nahshon, Salmon, Boaz, 10:30 p.m. – Nativity Concert for Oboe, Harp and Rahab, Obed, Ruth, Jesse, King David, Solomon (whose Choir mother had been Uriah’s wife), Rehoboam, Abijah, Asa, 11:00 p.m. – Candlelight Christmas Eve Service Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon, Josiah, Jeconiah Sunday, December 29, 9 & 11 a.m. The First Sunday of Christmas A Community Festival of Lessons and Carols at 11 Inside From the Pastors – 1-6 Birthdays – 16 Sunday, January 5, 9 & 11 a.m. News – 5-18 Anniversaries – 16 Worship services for the Second Sunday of Christian Ed – 8-9 Calendar - 17 Christmas Music – 10-12 Prayers - 18 From the Pastors God’s saving grace does matter. Remember Matthew 1. and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon, Here you will find the genealogical grace of God alive Shealtiel, Zerubbabel, Abihud, Eliakim, Azor, Zadok, and well. Akim, Elihud, Eleazar, Matthan, Jacob, Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus Blessings to you during Advent and Christmas. who is called the Messiah. Maybe we skip them because By Rev. Tim Ahrens the pastors and lay liturgists of every Christian church are too frightened to stumble through each name and First Church has a new Office their relationships to all the other names. Manager! Behind each name is a story. As with any genealogy, Rev. Tim Ahrens and Rev. Dr. Janine Wilson there are strong and weak branches on this family tree. There are poets, warriors, dreamers and deliverers as Ms. Jaclyn Hamilton is our new office manager. She will well as scoundrels, murderers, thieves, and adulterers – begin December 2, 2013. She is not a stranger to First some of these names carry both the darkness and light Church. Jaclyn and her parents attended First of human nature – King David embodies all these traits. Congregational Church during the ministry of The Rev. Dr. Chalmers Coe. As a toddler, she attended preschool In the tongue twisting genealogy of Jesus, we have a in the Downtown Preschool. Following her studies at message of salvation by grace. “There but by the grace the Kansas City School of Art and Design, she worked at of God, go I,” we sometimes say in these 42 names we Columbus College of Art and Design. While there, she have all the makings of sin and salvation; of judgment attended the CCAD Freshman Convocation at First and forgiveness, of the mighty Grace of God at work in Church as an Admissions Officer. We are excited that this world. One of the mysteries of Matthew’s genealogy she has more than ten years of progressive experience are the missing and the present women of faith. Missing in the arts administration field, in addition to serving as are Sarah, Rebekah, and Rachel, but present are Social Media Manager, designing promotional materials, Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and Bathsheba and of course managing social media sites, creating flyers and Mary. The missing are rocks of faith. The present are postcards, working with graphics files and possessing a prostitutes, seducers, outsiders and a teenage girl. Why gentle sense of faith and joy in life. We are excited to one list and not the other? Is this Matthew’s way of welcome Jaclyn to our Church staff. identifying Jesus with sinners as well as saints? Absolutely! We want to say thank you to Jennifer Forsberg. Jennifer in currently serving as our Temporary Office Manager. This is a genealogy of Grace. While it is important to She will stay with us a little while longer, to assist in a see the men and women in the line of faith from which smooth transition for Jaclyn. Thank you Jennifer for Jesus came, it is also important to connect all the bringing your welcoming spirit and presence to First generations since his birth to this present day. What do I Church! We are grateful you will be with us a little while mean? Years ago, I was in Rome at Santa Sabina, the longer as we move into our next transition. church of St. Dominic. On the walls of the offices, there were photos and drawings of all the Dominican Priors During our search process, we were delighted to receive from Dominic to the year of our Lord, 2004. Then, there 84 resumes for the position of Office Manager of First was a mirror. Under the mirror was the question, “will Church. Many of the applicants were excellent you be the next Prior of the Dominican Order?” As only candidates. We have been truly blessed in this God would have it, I was standing next to Sr. Margaret process. Working with our Moderator, Administration Ormond when looking in that mirror. It was her face I Commissioner, and in consultation with the Personnel saw beside mine. Today, she is the prioress of the Committee, we read each application and were able to Dominican Sisters of Peace, based in Columbus, Ohio – move through this process with purpose and focus. We with whom I am an Associate. She is my prioress. spoke with multiple candidates and our church staff engaged in part of the interview process with the four As you step into Advent 2013, take a look at Matthew 1 finalists. Thank you to all of you who brought forward and take a look in the mirror. Look up the people in great names and candidates. Thanks also go to Sharon OUR genealogical line. They are sisters and brothers in Leidheiser who posted our job opening on Monster.com faith. We are connected to ALL of them through Christ through The Columbus Dispatch. Jesus our Lord. Take a look in the mirror. God wants to know who you are and how you will live this magnificent As Jaclyn begins, we hope you will make time to faith in the name of our Savior Jesus Christ. Your welcome her to the staff of First Church. pedigree doesn’t matter to God. But, how you live into 2 From the Pastors Capital Campaign – “The Future’s Some other highlights from recent months include the installation of new carpeting on the 1st floor of the Broadening Way” Approaches Education Wing, irrigation of the west lawns, installation of a new fence, and new paint throughout the church December 2013 end date… by Rev. Tim Ahrens – [email protected] interior. After three years of giving, our Capital Campaign is We are currently in contract with Centennial nearing its conclusion. There are four more weeks Preservation to re-point the masonry around the exterior remaining in our three year campaign. We need of the chancel, which began earlier this month. This re- everyone to step up and meet their projected giving pointing project represents the beginning of a commitments by December 31, 2013. If you have comprehensive, long-term plan to repair masonry joints already finished your gift, “thank you!” If you would like all over the exterior of the building. to give more, GREAT! We will gladly receive gifts beyond your goals. If you never made a pledge to the Upcoming projects include sound system upgrades in Capital Campaign but would like to contribute the sanctuary, steam trap replacements related to the something, we are open to your great giving! If you boiler system and ongoing restoration of plastered and project falling short of your giving goal by December 31, painted surfaces throughout.
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