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View last week's Advent 4 Worship Experience:
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Join us on Facebook Live for our Christmas Eve Service, Thursday at 7:00PM
December 24, 2020
“What We Hold”
Click here to join Christmas Eve Service on FB Live.
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Spirit Cafe'
will be on break this week!
Merry Christmas!
December 23, 2020
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Let's Zoom!
Click here to register in advance for our Wednesday Zoom Meet Up
Enter the meeting ID: 816-8960-6902
(You only need to register once and you will be set for all the Wednesday Zoom Sessions)
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Sacred Saturdays
1st Saturday of each month @ 7:00 PM
Join us outside this Saturday, December 6th, for a fire service hosted by Trish Ashton on the Agape' Labyrinth.
This is a time for:
- setting intentions for the season
- letting go of things that no longer serve you
- discovering inner peace
- quiet reflection
- finding light in the dark places
- simply being
If you would like, you may bring a piece of paper to put in the fire with intentions and/or things to let go of written on it to offer up. This meeting will have an organic feel with little verbal communication. You are encouraged to come with an open heart and mind.
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Community Service
The hands and feet of Love...
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Thank you to our "Fantastic Four" (Michael, Diana, Victor and Tommy) who distributed sandwiches, handmade Christmas cards and the 100+ blankets that many of you donated to provide warmth during the cold nights to street dependent people in downtown Fort Worth.
We are the Church!
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Music, Music, Music
Christmas Concert Replays
for your Holidays!
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During these last days of Advent and the 12 Days of Christmas, enjoy the replay of these wonderful Christmas Concerts!
MCC Toronto (Ontario, Canada) produced a professionally filmed virtual program. Historically, they have held a major community event at the Roy Thompson Hall. This year, they continued their outreach and celebration with this virtual event. https://youtu.be/T6zyxYH_7k0
MCC of Greater St. Louis (Missouri, USA) also produced a virtual concert this past weekend. The link takes you to the Livestream page of their website. Scroll down to A Very Merry (Socially Distant) Christmas Concert! http://www.mccgsl.org/live
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2020 Christmas Reflection
Hope in a chaotic world. What does hope look like, feel like, sound like? It will be different for each one of us, depending on our circumstances. For me, seeing the first shoots poking through the soil in Spring and the buds appearing on the barren branches of trees always give me a burst of joy, a sense of hope and optimism for the year ahead. There is space for growth, for possibility, for beauty. There is the satisfaction of knowing that no matter how severe and long the winter has been, nature has prevailed and new life is bursting into being.
In the gospel according to Luke, we hear two parents proclaiming great hope. When Mary travels to visit her cousin, she greets Elizabeth with the defiant and joyful words of the praise prayer we now call the Magnificat. Those who have power and privilege have been swept away, those who are lowly and hungry are raised up. Mary’s personal experience of becoming pregnant has been transformed into a proclamation of hope for a new way of being, a new world order. Elizabeth too is pregnant. When her son John is born, his father Zechariah proclaims a message of hope, promising a mighty saviour who will bring light into the darkness and who will guide the people “into the way of peace”.
The birth of Jesus was a small event, witnessed by a few. Yet those who were part of the story realized that they were part of something much bigger, something yet to be fully revealed. Hope does not give us the whole picture, rather a sense of direction, a sense of purpose. It lifts our spirits and helps us to imagine better times.
As we continue to navigate our way through this pandemic, through the daily challenges that we face, the steadfast love of God remains constant. The promise of new life, a new way of being through the birth of Jesus gives us hope. Jesus, the Light of the World guides us into the way of peace.
PRAYER SUBMITTED BY:
REV. ELDER CECILIA EGGLESTON
Moderator of MCC
MCC Council of Elders
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Advent Season at Agape' MCC |
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The nights continue to get colder and the dark appears earlier and earlier these days. Amid this season that is more dark than light, Advent arrives right on time. If there has ever been a year to occupy the ritual of Advent, 2020 is it. Advent is what we call the four weeks that are preparing us for the return of the Light. The Winter Solstice, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Epiphany are all taking us to one place…new life.
Join us for our Advent series, “The Life We Did Not Choose.”
Advent 1, November 29 – Release: “Honey, whatever that is you’re doin’, you gotta put it down.”
Advent 2, December 6 – Hold: “Honey, whatever that is you’re doin’, you gotta put it down and come hold this baby.”
Advent 3, December 13 – Love: “And love the baby.”
Advent 4, December 20 – “And Pray…”
Christmas Eve, December 24 – “What We Hold” (Facebook Live @ 7:00PM)
If you would like, you may create your own Advent Wreath to light with us during this Advent Season. Share pictures of your Advent Wreath during our Facebook live service.
Join us on Facebook live every Sunday at 10:30 for our virtual service.
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DECEMBER BIRTHDAYS
11/25 Gail Gore
11/27 Jimmy Marshall
11/30 Zoie Edwards
12/03 - Carol Boutwell
12/05 - Jim Simmons
12/09 - Dan Leaver
12/10 - Jeremy Phillips
12/11 - Taylor Stephens
12/15 - Cassy Batts
12/15 - Trish Ashton
12/15 - Randall Roberts
12/20 - Linda Crear
12/24 - Johnny Price
12/26 - Pat Kaiser
12/27 - Val McMullan
12/29 - Jo Pierce
12/30 - Phyllis Sasser
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