Celebrating Advent 2020
Please go to this page on our St. John’s Website for ideas for celebrating Advent and Christmas both in your home and as a St. John’s Community. https://stjohnslutheran.net/celebrating-advent-2020/
Worship for Sunday, December 6
“Jesus: The Son of Abraham”
The Gospel of Matthew begins with the genealogy of Jesus. These opening verses are far more than a list of names: The family tree of Jesus points to His identity and to the nature of His mission. Our Advent Worship series focuses on this genealogy and the truths it reveals for our lives today.
People who research their ancestry often hope to discover that they are related to some great historical figure. The genealogy of Jesus, recorded in Matthew, goes back two thousand years to Abraham. Jesus is the fulfillment of the promise God made to Abraham that he would be the father of a great nation and that all peoples on earth would be blessed through him. “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” Romans 4:3. That same righteousness is ours as we believe in the Son of Abraham, and by faith are part of Abraham’s family tree.
Worship will be live stream at 9:30 AM. Please go to this page (https://stjohnslutheran.net/live-streaming-worship-at-st-johns/ to download the handout, and to link to the live stream itself. We will be streaming on our Facebook Page as well: https://www.facebook.com/sjlcnapa
Advent Midweek Worship
We will have Live Stream Advent Midweek services on Wednesday evenings at 7:00. These services will be streamed on our Youtube Channel and our Facebook page. Please go to this page to download the handout for each service: https://stjohnslutheran.net/live-streaming-worship-at-st-johns/
- December 9 – The ABCs of Christmas
Our annual trip through the alphabet, thinking of the words and phrases that make up the Christmas Story. People can participate in person or through the chat stream
- December 16 – Lessons and Carols
A service of Scripture readings and Christmas Carols led by our Sanctuary Choir. This traditional service of the season walks through the story of salvation, culminating in the birth of the Savior
- December 23 – Christmas Hymn Stories
We will focus on the stories and scripture behind several familiar Christmas Carols and Hymns. And we will sing them!
INGATHERING: Help for the Homeless
We (Pastor Mike and Teresa) have a personal contact in one of the homeless camps in Napa. Recently, I asked him how I/we as Christian family could help. He had several suggestions (below).
If you are interested in helping “the least of these,” please consider donating:
- Flashlights with batteries
- Headlamps with batteries
- Extra batteries, especially AA and AAA
- Drink mixes, for example:
Instant Coffee
Hot Chocolate
Tea bags
CoffeeMate (in small non-refrigerated containers)
Lemonade or Gatorade mix
Any Water Enhancers like MiO, Emergen-C Immune Support, etc.
- Socks: men’s and women’s sizes, including extended sizes, wool or blends
- Bars: Protein, Granola or Power, etc.
- Ramen cups, noodle bowls
Thrivent Financial is supporting our efforts to help those living on the edge this season.
Donations can be dropped off in the box marked Thrivent outside the church office by Thursday, December 10th, or contact Teresa Schmid @ 707.738.7554 or Janet Peterson @ 707.337.8018 for front porch pickup.
God bless you for your generosity.
Mission Farm Participates in NV Give!Guide ’20 Campaign
BREAKING NEWS! CanDo’s Napa Valley Give!Guide 2020 launched on Giving Tuesday, December 1. St. John’s Mission Farm will be one of 60 non-profit organizations serving the community participating in this fund-raising effort! The Give!Guide website (www.CanDoGiveGuide.org) provides information about the mission of each of these organizations. Furthermore, the website makes it easy to support any or many of these non-profits with supporting gifts, beginning with gifts as little as $10! Hopefully, our Mission Farm will be one you choose to support. Remember, many $10 gifts (just like many hands) makes great works possible!
St. John’s Facebook Group
Are you on Facebook? Have you joined the St. John’s Facebook Family Group? Please click here to join and participate in Facebook Live events, discussion and more. https://www.facebook.com/groups/stjohnsfamilynapa
Why join our Facebook Group? We are planning Live devotional events, prayer times, as well as other interactive events. Our group is a great place to encourage one another and walk together as a family of God. In this time when gathering in person is so difficult, this is an option to fellowship together.
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