Author: Gale Wright
Spread Joy While Honoring Your Friends and Family!
Donate by Dec 21
This month, sponsor a poinsettia plant to decorate the sanctuary for Christmas and honor your friends and family! Your $50 sponsorship of a holiday plant will have an additional benefit this year; all proceeds will be designated to help address food insecurity in Santa Fe.Read more
Christmas Eve Services
Worship, Dec 24, 5pm & 8pm
VIDEO. Join Pastor Andrew to celebrate the birth of the Christ child as we hold two services on Christmas Eve. Our 5:00 service embraces the families with candles, songs, bells, and youth participation. Our 8:00 service is a traditional worship service with candles, songs, and our trumpeter Jan McDonald.Read more
It Happened in This Way
Worship, Dec 21, 8:30 & 11am
VIDEO. Join the Rev. San Williams as he leads us in worship on this fourth Sunday in Advent, and we focus on Joseph and the scandal surrounding Jesus’ birth. Scriptures for the day are Isaiah 7:10-16 and Matthew 1:1-25. Our MorningSong service at 8:30 is in Pope Hall and our traditional service at 11:00 is in the sanctuary and via livestream.Read more
Children and Youth
Dec 21, 8:30 & 11am
This week, our youth and children will explore the Advent theme of love as they hear the story of Mary and Joseph welcoming baby Jesus. Through storytelling, discussion, and a simple hands-on activity, children will learn that God’s love came into the world as a gift for everyone.Read more
Christmas Carol Sing
Wednesdays, Dec 3, 10 & 17, 5pm
Join us as we sing our way through the season. Linda Raney leads us in songs from our hymnal, and perhaps a few secular favorites, December 3, 10 and 17, 5-5:30pm in our sanctuary. All ages welcomed and encouraged to celebrate the season together!Read more
What Are You Waiting For?
Morning Song Worship, Dec 14, 8:30am
Why does the Church honor a season of waiting and what lessons must we learn from Advent? How must we befriend the complex emotions that waiting stirs up? What do the Psalms, Jesus, and Martin Luther King, Jr, have to say in throes of waiting? Join Pastor Andrew in Pope Hall this Sunday to explore these questions.Read more
Lessons and Carols
Worship, Dec 14, 11am
VIDEO. On the Third Sunday in Advent, we light the third candle in the Advent wreath and delight in a worship service of Lessons and Carols. Our 11:00 service is in the sanctuary and via livestream. Pastor Andrew officiates this service, and Linda Raney directs our Chancel Choir.Read more
Social Advocacy and Our Church
Discussions Dec 7 & 8
What does it mean to be faithful to our values in today’s world? What role should our church play in advocating for policies that support what we believe are the teachings of Jesus? To attempt to answer these questions, we held a church-wide discussion over lunch. For those not able to attend we held another discussion via Zoom on Monday evening, December 8th. People were invited to bring their thoughts, concerns, fears, and convictions.Read more
What Time Is It?
Adult Ed, Dec 14, 9:45am
VIDEO. Diana Butler Bass writes, "Advent is more than waiting for Christmas presents and even more than waiting for the birth of baby Jesus. Advent is about longing for another world, groaning for justice, and aching for oppression to end. For Christians, Jesus’ birth marks the beginning of the end for the empires of the world.”Read morePage 22 of 113