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Surviving the Holidays offered resources and support to those who are experiencing a blue Christmas this season.

This Week

Monday - Pause and Pray

Wednesday - Bible Study 

Wine and Carols Community Christmas Gathering

Thursday - NO Choir Practice

This Sunday

Advent- Sailing Toward Bethlehem with 5 Words and 40 Prayers

Worship Information and Bulletin

Pastor Kim's Annual Open House

Advent and Christmas Opportunities

40 Days of Prayer Continues

Reverse Advent Calendar

Christmas Eve

Christmas Day

New Year's Day

Upcoming Events

Celebration of Life for Mary Bouas

Saturday, February 4 at 11 am

New Year, New Office Hours

Prayer Requests and Praise Reports

Surviving the Holidays offered resources and support to those who are experiencing a blue Christmas this season. 

Bible Study This Week!

We will discuss Luke 1:26-38a & Isaiah 43:1-7

All are welcome to join us in this Zoom Discussion.

To join us on Zoom click on this link: HERE

To join us on by telephone call: 

(669) 900-9128

Meeting ID: 608 966 196

Passcode: 5352176

Linda Newby is organizing a Christmas Gathering

on Wednesday, December 14.

All are invited to join her invited guests at 5:30 to enjoy a cup of mulled wine in the courtyard. Everyone will then move into the Sanctuary for some Christmas inspiration. Sam Miller will sing accompanied by Esther Fieldhouse on the piano, Pastor Kim will offer a short reflection on the season, and we will join in singing a few carols.



Then, those who wish may move onto Colony Wine Merchant at 6:30. Linda has reserved the whole place for an "all you can eat and drink party." If you wish to join in that portion of the evening, the cost will be $65 per person (including tax and tip) and you will need to RSVP to Linda at linda@gallerytravel.com.

This Sunday!

Sailing Toward Bethlehem with 5 Words and 40 Prayers

We will continue of voyage of discernment during Advent and Christmas through a focus on Five Words and Forty Prayers

This year, on our Advent journey to Christmas, we will reflect on five words inspired by the Angel's announcement to Mary that she would bear the Christ child: Delight, Perplexed, Bearings, Present, and Depart. These words will not only help us to better understand Mary's journey, but hopefully will help us understand our own call to allow God to be born into the world through us.

This Sunday Pastor Kim will preach on " Here I Am"

Scripture: Luke 1:26-38a & Isaiah 43:1-7

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Step 2:

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Our journey of 40 Days of Prayer continues. It is not too late to join us!



As part of our congregational discernment process, we will be using the scripture-based prayer prompts from Sailboat Church by Joan Gray. Devotional booklets with all the prayer prompts are available for those who prefer or who do not have a copy of the book to use. 

Click here to download a digital copy of the Devotional

Reverse Advent Calendar

An Advent calendar helps countdown the days until Christmas. Each day from December 1 until Christmas, a small door is opened to reveal a surprise. As kids our favorite calendars were the ones with a daily piece of candy. However, since it is more blessed to give than to receive, this year we invite you to flip that tradition and instead of receiving a gift each day, donate an item for the Pathways of Hope Food Bank.

Calendars in the form of reusable shopping bags are available at church. Each bag will have a suggested item to add for each day, but any item will do. The purpose is not to check off all the items on a list, but to prepare to welcome the birth of Christ with a small, daily act of generosity.

(If you wish to participate, but are unable to pick up a bag from church--no problem. You may download the list of suggestions HERE and collect them in any bag or box. After Christmas you may bring the items to church or donate them to a food bank of your choice.)

Sunday, December 25 at 10:30 AM

This year Christmas falls on a Sunday and you won't want to miss worship that morning! Come dressed for the rest of your day (pajamas are welcome!) and join us for a fun and participatory celebration of the Birth of Jesus. 

Sunday, January 1 at 10:30 AM

When Christmas falls on a Sunday, then New Year's Day does as well. To celebrate the first day of 2023 we will gather around the Lord's Table to review the past year and embrace the new year as we share in a Love Feast, from the Moravian Church tradition. This service will not only feed our souls-it will feed our bodies since Carolee Ramich is baking homemade breads that we will eat as part of the service.  

New Year, New Office Hours!

Beginning the first week of January our office hours will be changing to:

Tuesday-Friday. The time will remain the same with open at 8:00am and close at 2:00pm. Mondays will be open by appointment only.

We celebrate with John and Nikki Saylor the wonderful news that they are expecting a second child this summer.



Please pray for Harvey Taylor's brother, O.D. Taylor who has entered hospice care due to care.



Please pray for those in treatment for cancer: Catherine Morris, Rosemary Ford, Bill Anderson (Bruce Anderson's Brother).

Please pray for those on hospice: Patricia Carl, Dave Maresh (Glory's brother), O.D. Taylor (Harvey's brother)

Please continue to pray for the health of: Jeanine (Glory's former mother-in-law), Norma Leichtweis, Dave Maresh, Marilyn Worden, Clif Buchanan, William Thode (Ruth Dorman's brother in law), Jane Canfield (Glory's sister), Chris Coleman.

If you have a prayer request that you would like to add to our prayer list, 

please contact the church office: offices@anaheimfirstpres.org or 714.535.2176.