First Sunday In

Advent

November 30, 2025

2026 ACNA LITURGICAL CALENDARS ARE IN!

Find in the fellowship hall or the entry of the church, the 2026 calendar for you daily devotional information.

Advent Wreath Scenes

HTAJ family gathered together to enjoy a night of exploring what the season of Advent preparation means.

Prepare for Advent with BIOLA

November 29, 2025

The Advent Project is a daily devotional series celebrating the beauty and meaning of the Advent season through art, music, poetry, prayer, Scripture, and a written devotion. The project starts on the first day of Advent and continues through Epiphany. Our goal is to help individuals quiet their hearts and enter into a daily routine of worship and anticipatory reflection during this meaningful but often hectic season. Our prayer is that the Advent Project will help ground you in the unsurpassable beauty, mystery and miracle of the Word made flesh.

PREPARE HERE

HTAJ ANNUAL CHRISTMAS PARTY

Buzzy & Nadia Allen will host the annual Christmas party at 4448 Ortega Forest Drive on Wednesday, December 17, at 5:30 p.m. Please RSVP with your appetizer!

RSVP HERE

CHRISTMAS PAGEANT:

Children are needed for the Christmas Pageant. Contact the church office at 904-524-8175 or office@htaj.org and let us know if your young ones are interested.

CONFIRMATION OR MEMBERSHIP

Are you interested in being either confirmed or received as a member of Holy Trinity? Contact Matt or the office to make sure you are on the list.

GAFCON COMMUNIQUE

Click here to read GAFCON.ORG Article

The Future Has Arrived - GAFCON Global Anglicans has released this important information. Please link below to read the full article.

MERE ANGLICANISM:

returns to Charleston on January 22–24, 2026! Join world-class theologians and scholars as they explore this year’s theme: “You Are Not Your Own: Gospel Identity in an Age of Expressive Individualism.” This conference is designed to help believers become more informed and equipped to “take theology home with them.”

If you are interested in attending, please contact Matt or Catie for more information.

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Youth Group does not meet on November 30th.

CHILDCARE

Available from 8:45 a.m. until noon on the first floor of the education building. At the Peace, children 18 months & younger should be picked up in the classroom, older children will be brought up to their parents.

2026 Lay Schedule Volunteers

The First Quarter (Jan to March 2026) schedule is NOW being prepared. Please use the link below to contact the office with any dates you are not available! Thank you for your help in organizing all the moving parts by December 12, 2025.

My Schdule Availibility

Holy Trinity’s 2025

Fourth Quarter Lay Schedule

Link Here to Preview

Wednesday Morning

10:00 a.m.

Women’s Bible Study on Colossians:

Led by Kitsy Wedekind

Recessed for Thanksgiving

Wednesday Noon

Come on Wednesdays from 12 to 12:45 p.m. to enjoy a teaching followed by the Eucharist.

HOT TOPIC WEDNESDAY EVENING

Real Questions. Honest Conversations.

Biblical Truth.

Join us at the home of Matt and Catie Rusch to talk about current events in the world. We want to ask the tough questions and explore Biblical answers. Have a question for Matt? Submit it ahead of time, and he will answer as time permits. The next gatherng is

December 3^rd, 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Thursday Evening

Holiday Recess

6:00-7:30 p.m.,

C.S. Lewis, led by Josh and Azin Cooksey.

Please call the church office for the address.

Ladies’ Third Thursday Sewing Group

We meet to make simple dresses and shorts for needy children. This year we will help with Samaritan’s Purse Christmas Boxes and OKOA-US refuge in Africa.

We gather to cut, sew, hem and do the finishing touches to make 300 dresses a year. Join us for fun and fellowship from

9-11:30 a.m. upstairs, in the education building.

No sewing skills necessary.

Does NOT MEET in December.

Friday Men’s Fellowship Group and Breakfast

Currently we are studying The Gospel of John

by Josh Moody. Come for breakfast and discussion at 8:00 a.m. each Friday in the fellowship hall.

Friday Young(ish) Men’s Lunch

Come join this lively men's community group, which meets at noon each Friday at The Falafel X Bar.

Sunday Morning

9:00 a.m. Prayer Group in the fellowship hall

Fellowship Groups

Recessed on November 30th.

1 Corinthians 9:15 a.m.

Led by Father Matt in the fellowship hall.

Followers of Christ 9 a.m.

Studying the Book of John,

led by Hayes Howard, in the room next to Father Matt's office in the education building.

COLLECT

Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

First Sunday In Advent

Scripture Readings

Psalm:

Second Lesson:

Gospel:

Sunday Live Stream

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Sermon

Romans 13:8-14

Reverend Matthew L. Rusch

The service starts at 10:15 a.m.

and will be broadcast on YouTube.

Please follow this link.

Watch Live

Print at Home Bulletin Copy & Music

If you would like to print your bulletin copy at home, please click the link below. We are using the hymnal during service and for live stream views please find this week's lyrics at the link below.