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Our Goals: • to Engage • to Enrich • to Educate • To OUR GOALS: TO ENGAGE TO ENRICH TO EDUCATE TO ENTERTAIN O u r People Up To Something: Where Being Active Is Our Way Of Life DECEMBER 2020 Grace Lutheran Church of La Grange, 200 North Catherine Avenue, La Grange, IL 60525, 708-352-0730-www.gracelg.org Dear OPUS Friends, In a year marked by so much tumult and challenge, Advent comes as a welcome invitation to hope. Though God’s saving promise has not yet been fully realized in our weary world, it is clear that God has not given up on us. We await the promise of light – the promise of Jesus – who will again come into the world as vulnerably as we once did, and who will show us what it means to live in love. Alongside the hope of Advent, I know that many of you are also feeling deep grief as the coronavirus impacts our ability to gather as God’s people during this season. I share that grief. (WOW, do I share that grief!) As we move through Advent and Christmas in such different ways this year, Grace’s Stewardship team and I want to encourage you to stay connected to God and to the Grace community during this time. Here are some ways we might do that: Connect to God through online worship. We know that worshipping from home feels so very different than worshipping in the Sanctuary. And yet, God longs to meet you in Word and Sacrament - there is no lockdown on these gifts of grace. Connect to each other and to the wider community. Hope is sustained in relationship with others. Reach out to Alice Oscarson or Karen Janik for ways to be connected to others in this time and for ways you might offer your gifts to those in need beyond Grace. Connect to God’s generous purpose for your lives. Your financial gifts to Grace help God’s love continue to transform lives in body and in spirit. Please consider pledging for the 2021 year or take the leap into online giving. May your generosity be a blessing to your lives of faith, just as it is a blessing to the world. There’s no getting around it. it will be painful to not be gathered in our Sanctuary this Advent and Christmas. But we also know that the sanctuary of God’s grace is more than just a building. Thank you for being part of a community of believers so deeply committed to broadening the gospel’s reach. I thank God for you. Waiting in hope, Pastor Heidi Exploring Grace All are welcome to join our community of faith as we grow together. We invite you to join us via Zoom to get a feel for the Grace community. We’re not perfect, but there is life here! We’d love to have you join us as we journey together in faith. New Member Orientation Tuesday, December 8 7:00 pm Register at www.gracelg.org/events or contact Karen Janik at [email protected] The True Light Online Christmas Worship The www.gracelg.org/live True Light Nativity December 21 Blue Christmas 7:00 pm Walk A service of healing via Zoom (see page 5) December 24 Visit the Catherine Lawn this Christmas Eve Services Advent for a special lighted Good News of Great Joy 4:30 pm Family Worship led by Grace Place Kids Nativity Walk. This beautiful, Traditional Worship 7:30 pm interactive space is available to December 25 help us engage in this Advent Christmas Day Service 10:00 am season that is so different for many of us. Sounds of the Season Enjoy this free musical celebration of the holidays from the comfort of your own home. A Virtual Event, Directed by KC Congdon Saturday, December 12 4:00 pm CST www.agaperingers.org What did Adam say on the day before Christmas? It's Christmas, Eve! 2 Grace’s Generosity Secret Santa Thank you for continuing to Grace families sponsored over reach out into the community 60 children through the Secret Balls and world to share God’s love! Santa program, supporting Books Your generous giving of time, children in need in our Hats & Gloves talents and dollars have touched community. In addition many Pajamas Sweatshirts the lives of many this fall. gifts for the “Empty Shelves” have also been donated. Veteran’s Event– Genesis Teens and their families Secret Santa Empty Shelves gifts joined the Prayer Shawl team to benefit Pillars Community Health pack toiletry bags for homeless Children. Gifts can be dropped veterans in November. Genesis in the Grace Parking Lot Collec- families packed over 120 bags tion Tote by Dec. 15. knitted by the Prayer Shawl team. Toothpaste, a pair of socks and a wash cloth—the bags were Encouraging imagination, packed with items most of take exploration and creativity, for granted, but mean so much where children can learn and to those being served by the Vet- grow in a Christian eran’s Homeless Department at environment . Hines VA Hospital. Social work- Giving Thanks ers at Hines share that they help Priority registration for the Dear Friends of BEDS Plus, process new 4-5 Vets per day. Fall 2021 school year Preschool During this year of uncertainty & PreK programs begins A Christmas Blessing– Hundreds my appreciation for our faithful of Christmas Cards will be December 1, 2020. community of supporters has delivered to Grace members this Open enrollment begins in deepened. Advent Season. January. Contact Preschool Backpack Buddies Thank you for all the ways you Director Heather Grant or visit The Backpack Buddies team have continued to support the continues to reach out in www.gracelg.org/preschool for BEDS mission during this chal- support of local school children more information. lenging time. facing food insecurity. This is especially critical during this Enjoy the moments with your time when many children are family, however you celebrate this Thanksgiving and year-end not able to be in person for learning. holidays. I look forward to a time when we Binging Warmth can gather and serve together Nearly 300 children's scarves very soon. were knit by the Prayer Shawl team this season! Scarves were Designated 2020 Christmas Gratefully, delivered to children in the Back Offerings will support the work Tina Rounds Pack Buddies Program, of the ELCA at both the local Executive Director Constance Morris House and and international levels. BEDS Plus Secret Santa program children. What do snowmen eat for breakfast? Snowflakes 3 Leland Albright 2 Dorothy Lamour 10 Betty Grable, 18 Carol Zboril 20 Patrick Lynch 2 Emily Dickinson, 10 Ty Cobb 18 Mary Shore 22 Robert Klonowski 4 Cheryl Schultz 12 Jeff Moore 18 Kathryn Von Drasek 24 Linda Edens 5 Phyllis Meyer 13 Gail Morris 18 Betty Lundy 26 David Lepper 6 Susan Palmer 13 Tom Peterson 18 Keith Meyer 26 Sammy Davis Jr 8 Richard Zboril 13 Mary Klonowski 19 Joseph Feely 28 Sharon Deavens 9 Terry Andel 14 Leonid Brezhnev 19 Carol Berg 29 Martha Schultz 9 Carolyn Havens 18 Sir William Parry 19 James Granger 30 Ladies and Gentlemen; you are invited to join a ZOOM Bible study Beginning Tuesday, January 12 at 10:00 am The book being studied is “Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible” By E. Randolph Richards, Brandon J. O'Brien hat was clear to the original readers of Scripture is not always clear to W us. Because of the cultural distance between the biblical world and our contemporary setting, we often bring modern Western biases to the text. Biblical scholars Brandon O'Brien and Randy Richards shed light on the ways that Western readers often misunderstand the cultural dynamics of the Bible. They identify nine key areas where modern Westerners have significantly dif- ferent assumptions about what might be going on in a text. Drawing on their own crosscultural experience in global mission, O'Brien and Richards show how better self-awareness and understanding of cultural differences in lan- guage, time and social mores allow us to see the Bible in fresh and unexpected ways. Getting beyond our own cultural assumptions is increasingly important for being Christians in our interconnected and globalized world. Learn to read Scripture as a member of the global body of Christ. Source: Goodreads.com Green Team & Village of Western Springs STYROFOAM RECYCLING will be available in December A specific date and time is currently unknown Please visit the village website, www.wsprings.com/calendar, Facebook/Instagram, ‘Village of Western Springs’ or ‘First Congregational Church Green Team’ for updates from month to month. Thank you for your continued support. 4 What is Santa's favorite kind of candy? Jolly ranchers. Prayer Concerns Prayers of Consolation for the friends and family who mourn the recent deaths of Jack Lund, John (Kay) Johnson, Charlita (Dennis) With Blessings from Parish Nurse, Ann Gornik Cole and Lloyd (Elizabeth) Squires. Homebound Members: Lois Angstadt, Nadine Carlson, Marj Jung, Martha Karlovic, Shirley Kozak, Grace Law- son, Betty Lundy, Grace Pierson, Virginia Riedel, Heidi Svoboda, Mary Beth Webster. Strength & Healing Concerns Cards & Notes of friendship & support are appreciated by those experiencing concerns Blue Christmas Worship Service Current as of 11/26/2020 Annette Arkema David Anthony Kopp hristmas can often be a difficult time for persons experiencing loss and grief Sarah Bloecks Helen Kwiatkowski C especially this year amidst a pandemic. The festivities surrounding Christmas Jim Bornhoeft Riley Maggette (or lack of festivities this year) can evoke feelings of loneliness and sadness, bringing David Brown Jacqueline Moline up memories of past experiences and sorrows.
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