December

 

1st Thursday Connect

1st Thursday Connect is coming up as soon as you turn your calendar. It’s pizza and pajamas night—like a sleepover without the sleep! Come in your pajamas, a robe and slippers, or comfy clothes. Along with pizza and teaching from God’s Word, we will be doing two service projects—decorating cookies for Coffee Cart and preparing packs of socks for Love INC.

Throughout the month of November, we are collecting packages of children’s socks for Love INC. They are particularly in need of socks that will fit children in middle school. Put packages of socks in a bin near the church mailboxes by December 1 or bring them to December’s 1st Thursday Connect.

  • December 1, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

  • New Life Church West Linn, downstairs

  • Bring a package of children’s socks

  • RSVP for December’s 1st Thursday Connect on the church website

  • If you can’t make it in person, put on your pajamas and join us by livestream at 6:40 p.m.

We have been reading Judges in November and will read Psalms 1-41 in December. Pick up materials at 1st Thursday Connect, in the church foyer, or print them from the church website. Find or request a Side by Side Bible Reading partner and encourage each other with God’s truth in December.

 

Share the Joy

Share the Joy, a Christmas reflection and celebration for women, will be held December 11, 4:00-6:00 p.m., at New Life Church West Linn. Join us for festive treats, an optional craft, and space to quietly reflect upon the thrill of hope Jesus offers a weary world.

This special evening is designed to be a comfortable and meaningful pause in the busyness of the season for both you and your friends. Invite a friend and RSVP on the church website.

 

A Charge to My Sisters

(adapted from Deuteronomy 6:4-9 by Gay Haugen)

Hear my Sisters, listen, and respond to your Lord and Savior’s great, immeasurable love for you.

Let’s let our response be an all-in, every moment, completely whole-of-our-being response to Him.

Let’s write the words of Jesus, to love as He loved, on our hearts so that we live and breathe it.

Let’s reflect on and respond to His love when we wake up in the morning and when we lie down at night and when we walk and when we talk.

Let’s remember and respond to His love by sharing it with our family, our children, our friends, our neighbors.

Let’s keep it as the determiner of how we use our hands and the filter of how we see people and opportunities around us.

Let’s open our homes in a way that reflects who we serve and who we love.

 

Links

Below are links to articles, books, podcasts, and music that might be of interest or help on various topics. Resources are curated but may not always reflect the views of New Life Church. Enjoy!

Marcia ReavelyComment