Sunday Worship 1st Sunday of Christmas 9:00 AM & 10:45 AM Announcements 10 minutes before worship Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church Please join us in the Celebration of Life for Jeanne Foster's husband, Bob on Saturday, December 27 at 2:00 PM. Internet Access? Church directory access right on your computer! Go to: Church directory link where you will put in your email address that you gave us and create a password. You will receive an email link confirmation that takes you back to the webpage. Put in your email again and your password. Now you will be able to access an updated directory. Or click here and access it on your smart phone. Instant Church Directory App December 28, 2014 This Week's Events Sunday, Dec. 28 Worship Services 9 AM & 10:45 AM Lessons 2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16 Luke 1:46b-55 Psalm 89:1-4, 19-26 Romans 16:25-27 Luke 1:26-38 Monday, Dec. 29 Quilting for Others Fellowship Hall 9 AM Still spots available to be a Worship Assistant for 2015! Tuesday, Dec. 30 You can pick from Greeters, Ushers, Altar Guild, Communion Assistants, Bread Baker, Lay Reader, Acolyte and/or Assisting Ministers. Church Envelopes Are you receiving church envelopes -- do you use them? Would you like to continue? We want to make sure that you have what you need; but don't want to give you something that you don't use. Please see Sharoll Blodgett at the table in the back of the church and Outreach Banquet Hall 8 AM Wed., Dec. 31 Men's Breakfast Fellowship Hall 7 AM Next Sun., Jan. 4 9 AM & 10:45 AM Confirmation Class let her know if you want those envelopes or information about using our Simply Giving program. Click here: Simply Giving Form Rally in the Valley Transition time from rush and worry to Grace and Mercy at this Lutheran Assembly for those men and women in the 3rd Chapter of their lives. (Held Feb. 16-17 at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 3641 N. 56 St., Phoenix - cost is $65 or $50 in groups of 10 or more.) Registration is limited to 500. Applications are on the Info cart at church. Worship Assistants for December 28 Music Director/Planner: Harriet Stubbs Altar Guild: Carol Sears; Margie Neumann/Carole Helland Communion Bread Bakers: John Wagner Assisting Minister 1st: Sandy Wagner Lector: Rich Carlson Ushers 1st: Rich & Elaine Carlson Dick & Joy Schroeder Communion Assistant: Cris Capelli Greeters 1st: Tom & Rosemary Reynolds Greeters 2nd: Ron & Beata Nawrocki Fellowship: Tuesday Bible Study Accompanists: Harriet Stubbs, Bill Michaelis Joe Burmeister, Elizabeth Banta, Darrel Bjornson, Judy Ridgway, Judy Wandler, Stevie Henderson Pastor: Jeff Gallen We lift up in Prayer 10:30 AM Lessons Jeremiah 31:7-14 Psalm 147:12-20 Ephesians 1:3-14 John 1:1-18 Click for CELC calendar ******** Benedictine Evenings Prayers (Grey Robes) meets the 1st and 3rd Monday in Pastor's Office 6 PM Blood Pressure Readings 2nd Sunday after 1st service Book Club meets in classroom "C" in Bldg. B the 4th Thursday monthly at 2 PM Quilting for Others Every Other Monday Aluminum Can Collection Anytime! Outreach Food Collection Bring to Banquet Hall any time! Looking Ahead New this week in bold Members: Floyd Behm, Daniel Butler, Mike Denny, Jeanne Foster, Mabe Foster, Vickie Hughes, Val Huber, Michael Jack, Paula Johnson, Chuck Mast, Mary McDonald, Francia Mercado, Flo Riese, Roy Rood, Paula Royal, Mike Santel, Jay Stocker, Lura Stubbs, Mike Valabek, Bea Warmoth Home Bound Members: Jack Benston, Betty Kramer, Lou Rice Family & Friends: Scott (Voll), Manny, Dyke family, Marlene J., Vickie, Carson (Yost), Marion (N January 18 Annual Meeting ONE SERVICE January 25 Time, Talents & Opportunity Sunday ONE SERVICE Lenten Journey Series Feb. 1, 8; March 1, 8 5:30-7:00 PM Neumann), Karen, Ellie (Schroeder), Emily Madison, Wayne, Debi, Sergei, Phyl (Armstrong), Shannon, Stephen (D/J Miller), Peggy (Bruce/Sears), David (Crane), Nancy, Christine (Fildes), Steve, Marge (Wandler), Zury, Gardin Family, Wilkins Family (Cole), Tyler (Helland), Joseph (Semmler), Lavern (Johnson), Odie, Larry, Lou (Carlson), Erik (Capelli), Pastor Steve Bergeson; Rod, Marcinkowski family (Wagner), Nissy (Mercado), Nick (McGee), Alec Valdez (Haroldson), Sandy (DuRand), Tim (Jenson), Sonny (Henderson) Gatherings At CELC AA Meetings Fellowship Hall, Monday-Saturday, 6 PM Alzheimer Support Group Bldg. B, Classroom C, 1st & 3rd Mondays, 3 PM Eve's Place Bldg. B., Classroom C, Tuesdays 9 AM-Noon Parents preparing for birth: February: Ariana/Tristan van Hoorebeke March: Zach/Andrea Gjestvang, Jacque/Sandy DuRand Goodyear Food Bank Banquet Hall, MondayFriday, 9 AM - 1 PM All Cactus Conference Pastors & Churches Bishops: Steve Talmage, Elizabeth Eaton Seminary Student: Bill Miller Church: Spirit of Grace, Surprise Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Fellowship Hall, 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 9 AM Our Sevice men/women: John Buss, Kyle Stanford (Yost), Aaron, Devon, Mike, Andy, Ryan, Steffan Shoffner (D. Miller), Aaron Kramer, Adriana Van Wyk +serving overseas Hope Mental Illness Group Bldg. B, Classroom C, Mondays 5:30-7:30 PM Our Christian sympathies embrace Pastor Jeff and Renae family on the death of Renae's uncle, Tom. Weight Watchers Fellowship Hall, Thursday, 9:30 AM We rejoice in the baptisms December 21 of Edward Brian Lowe and Greyson Michael Jadin. River in the Desert Worship: Bldg. B, Sundays 1:00 PM Simeon's Prayer, Anna's Witness Many of us have sung some version of the song Simeon prays when he is holding the month-old Jesus in his arms. "Now, Lord, you let your servant go in peace" is a song we have sometimes sung after communion. In that context, "let your servant go in peace" seems to refer to leaving church as the service ends. We have seen your salvation, we sing. We have seen Christ, the longed-for Messiah, in the word, in the gathered community of his body, in the Living Covenant Fellowship Worship: Bldg. A, Sundays 10:30 AM Staff Listing Pastor Jeff Gallen Cell: 623-341-3712 [email protected] bread and wine. Indeed, like Simeon, we have had the amazing experience of cradling the body of Christ in our own hands, in the form of bread. Now let us go in peace. There are other levels to that request. It's also about dying, as we learn from Simeon's story. He has been told by the Spirit that he will not die before seeing the Messiah, who will enlighten the whole world. Now that he has seen Jesus, now that he has held him in his arms, Simeon says he is ready to die. In Simeon's context, the words "let your servant go in peace" conveyed yet another meaning, because they contained echoes of the formula for freeing a slave. So dying, here, is not ending and loss of hope, it is fulfillment of hope and liberation. Dying is being freed to a new life-a baptismal dying. Harriet Stubbs Worship & Music; 623-932-2394 [email protected] Sandy Wagner Administrator; 623-932-2394 [email protected] Charles Travis Facilities, 602-689-2951 [email protected] Lori Lermon [email protected] Sharoll Blodgett Treasurer; 623-932-2394 [email protected] Olga Blanchard What are we freed for? We are freed like Simeon to sing in the temple, to speak the Spirit's truth with those assembled here today, to share Christ among ourselves. Then, going out from this gathering, we are freed like the prophet Anna to speak about this Christ "to all who [are] looking for the redemption of Jerusalem" (Luke 2:38)-to all who long for God to come and heal the world's ills. Simeon's praise only shines for all nations if it learns from an old woman how to meet the longing in every heart. Christ Ev. Lutheran Church We are a Christian fellowship reaching out to all people so they might know God's LOVE for them! Worship 9:00 AM & 10:45 AM Parish Nurse [email protected] Jan Yost Information Manager, 623-932-2394 [email protected] Ways to help CELC Amazon.com Shopping CELC can benefit when you and your friends hop at Amazon.com and by going through our link on the church website! 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