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It’s hard to believe it’s time for Christmas Pageant rehearsals to start.  This year, Holy Trinity will be doing a new program titled “Follow the Star!” Children ages 3 years through fifth grade are invited to participate.  Regular children’s choir rehearsals on Thursdays from 6:00-6:25 pm will be dedicated to learning the music.  Sunday evening rehearsals from 5:30-6:30 pm (beginning November 25), as well as the dress rehearsal on Saturday, December 15, is when the rest of the program will be put together.  The pageant will take place onSunday, December 16 during the 10:30 worship service.  If your child would like to participate, please contact Minister of Music Josh Brodbeck at josh.brodbeck@engagedbygrace.org  for more information.

As Christians, we can, in Christ, share His love with others through our good acts.  God has chosen and equipped us to be God’s instruments of support, service, and compassion.  As C.S. Lewis wrote, “Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.”  In essence, God uses the small things that we do and multiplies them into something significant.  Paul wrote, “Now to God who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to God’s power that is at work within us(Ephesians 3:20).  For more information on stewardship, please contact Max Buban.

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The next installment of Holy Trinity’s concert series will be Sunday, December 2 at 4:00 pmfeaturing the Scioto Valley Brass and Percussion Band presenting their annual Christmas concert.  Plan to join us and invite a friend!

As winter nears, many sigh with regret.  We long for the budding of the trees, not the falling of leaves.  We yearn for warm breezes, not stinging winds.  Yet, we rely on God’s grace, for we know God will bring us again the warmth and life of spring.  We can also rely on God to provide all our needs, even as we go through the lean, cold periods of our lives.  God promises to make us “rich in every way so the [we] can be generous on every occasion….” (2 Corinthians 9:11).  For more information on stewardship, please contact Max Buban.

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Long ago the prophet Jeremiah wrote, The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure.  Who can understand it? (Jeremiah 17:9).  We only have to look within to acknowledge that Jeremiah’s statement is still true today.  Fortunately, we have one who does understand it.  Beyond that, we have one who sympathizes with us in our weaknesses (Hebrews 4:15).  So deeply does God sympathize with us that God came to us in human form in order to provide the cure for those weaknesses – our sins – in His body on the cross. As Christ gave Himself for us, let us give ourselves in service to God.  For more information on stewardship, please contact Max Buban.

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