December 24, 2025 l ISSUE 52





TODAY!


Wednesday

December 24

4:00 p.m.


All are welcome!




And come for Christmas Day worship


TOMORROW
Thursday, December 25 at 10:30 a.m.


Bring your family!


SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28


The First Sunday

after Christmas


Service at 10:30 a.m.


Isaiah 61:10-62:3

Psalm 147

Galatians 3:23-25; 4:4-7

John 1:1-18


There will be

no Adult Formation

on December 28

 or January 4

SERVERS


Reader

Maddie Nador


Prayer

Melissa Ketcherside


Chalice

Randy Wicks


Organist

William Sullivan


Celebrant & Preacher

The Rev. Jim Clark


A Note From Fr. Jeff

My dear friends,


A blessed and Holy Christmas to you and all those you love! May this holy season be a time of joy, and peace, and abundant love with family and friends, and most especially within yourself.


I offer you a Christmas Blessing, in the words of my favorite poet, Steven Garnass-Holmes.

Amid the bustle, may peace guide you.

Despite the noise, may silence speak to you.

Under the lights, may the darkness beckon.

When demands are made of you,

may you be sustained by the gift you are given.

When jolly words frame hidden loneliness,

may you know unshakable love.

When you are surrounded by what is trite and cheesy

and hounded by what is expected and irrelevant,

may you be arrested by wonder,

led by delight, and held with tender love.

When you wait for the surprise that never comes,

may the grace that has always been happening

catch up with you.


Not with earthquake or armies,

but tiny and fragile, quiet and easy to miss,

may the Child come to you. 


Christmas Blessings!  

MARK YOUR CALENDAR!


Our Annual Meeting

will be on

January 25

following our service.



It’s ALWAYS Peanut Butter and Jelly Time!

Our PBJ Ministry

on Sunday Mornings


Thanks to everyone who has been helping after church on Sundays to make a loaf of PBJ sandwiches for our Blessing Box. We put about 16 sandwiches out each week, and they are gone almost immediately. People really are in need of this small act of kindness - especially this time of year!


Swing by the kitchen any Sunday after church to see how you can help. If you’d like to provide supplies – we’ll welcome loaves of whole grain breads, jars of smooth peanut butter, and jelly.


‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

(Matthew 25:40)

Our sanctuary candle burns In loving memory of Angela Breeher’s grandmother, Emilie Hoehn Moeslein, whose birth was December 25, 1902. She died at the age of 93 in Altenburg, MO. May she rest in peace and rise in glory.

Our next meal is

January 1


Remember, hunger doesn't take a holiday. Let's continue to show our concern and generosity for our neighbors this holiday season. Sign up sheet on the table inside the front door.  



Items always needed!


Our Blessing Box is always in need of the following items;



  • Protein bars
  • Canned pasta, easy to open pull top
  • Single serve tuna packets
  • Fruit cups
  • Personal hygiene items: 
  • Toothpaste and Toothbrushes
  • Disposable razors
  • Sanitary products for women
  • Travel size toiletries - shampoo, lotion, & coffee packets


Place items in the basket at the back of church. Thank you for your kind generosity.




Our next Vestry Meeting

will be

Wednesday, January 21

at

6:30 p.m. Zoom Call.

 

New Year's Eve Taizé
at Christ Church Cathedral at 5:00 p.m.
Join us for prayers, scripture readings, and chants in the style of Taizé in Christ Church Cathedral, 1210 Locust Street, St. Louis. 
It is a deeply spiritual way to close 2025 and open our hearts to 2026.
Stay for refreshments and a toast to the New Year afterward.
  • This Taize service is offered by Confluence Spirituality St. Louis.  
  • We hope you can join us and bring friends and family. 
  • Secure parking is available at the Cathedral. 


  • Rev. Deacon Barbi Click, receiving treatment for colon cancer, and her wife Debbie Wheeler.
  • Charles Renshaw, for healing in his lungs.
  • Anita BreitensteinMaddie Nador's sister, suffering from Alzheimer's
  • Kay Reid
  • Erin Reid
  • Shep Adams-Shepherd
  • Kim Myles
  • Toni Dornseif
  • Joanne Samples
  • Carol Jackson
  • Ed Rahe as he recovers from a rib injury
  • Lyle Meadows, brother of Leanne Rahe, as he recovers through dental surgery
  • Jack Brown, husband of Deacon Loretta Go
  • Kathy & Gary Makely, dealing with major storm damage to their NC home
  • Elizabeth Goetz, an unknown health issue and caring for her aging mother.
  • Clyde Williams and Family on the passing of Clyde's sister, Mia Williams
  • Canon Doris Westfall and her husband, David
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