Below are updates and happenings at LCR!

Join us after church on Sunday, December 8th for the LCR Christmas Craft Brunch!

This will be a fun fellowship event for all! Join us for food, fellowship, and fun making Christmas gifts and décor. We will also be putting up the Christmas tree and decorating the sanctuary! Festivities will begin after worship at 10:30am.

There will be crafts for all ages to help you get into the Christmas spirit! We hope you can join us for a festive fellowship Sunday!

Once again the Pantry would like cookies, family size Oreos or Chip Ahoy for their Holiday Food collection. Please note no tins or homemade baked goods. They are also requesting 2 pound bags of white sugar. Thank you for helping to make Thanksgiving & Christmas a bit sweeter for our neighbors in need!

We will again be sponsoring Christmas gifts for children in need through the the Boys & Girls Club. This year, we are focusing our efforts on collecting toys.

Popular items on the children's wish lists are: 

Matchbox cars, remote control cars, super hero figures, Legos (pre K and ages 5-10) puzzles,Barbies, baby dolls, "kitchen sets"- play dishes, pots/pans. books to read, paint sets.

Our first Open Mic Night was so much fun! We had a great night of talent, laughs and good food! We hope to do another in the coming months. Get ready to share your gifts with us!

We have so many beautiful music offerings for the Christmas season that we will be celebrating a special “Music of the Season” on Sunday, December 22nd during our morning worship. Regular worship will still happen with readings, prayers, and communion but we will have extra music from our choir and other small groups. Join us for this wonderful Christmas preview. And thank you to Xiaojing and our many talented musicians for sharing their gifts.

Last week a few of us from the church attended a meeting with Carola Braco from Neighbor’s Link in Mount Kisco to educate ourselves and learn ways we can be most helpful to our immigrant neighbors in the coming days. The incoming presidential administration has talked about enacting new immigration policies that could drastically affect Mount Kisco, which has a large immigrant population. In addition, the rhetoric that has been employed to speak about immigrants has been dehumanizing and serves to embolden acts of violence and othering. No matter where you fall on the spectrum of immigration legalities this, at the very least, should be concerning to you. We are all called as followers of Christ to love our neighbors and to welcome the stranger. If you have concern for our immigrant neighbors and would like to both learn some of what we were told last week and also talk about how we can move forward most effectively please join us at the parsonage (42 McLain St) on Tuesday, December 17^th at 7pm. Please let Pr. Nicole know if you are can make it.  

Save the date for our congregational retreat to Koinonia on February 28 - March 2, 2025!

There were some conflicts with our traditional weekend for retreat this year, but the retreat is still happening. We will begin sign-up in January, but let us know if you are interested so that we can guesstimate how many rooms to reserve. Looking forward to a fun weekend together! 

The fours class lit the Advent calendar and read stories of the season.