You've been faithful! Through these icy, snowy, cold Sunday mornings you have come ahead to be with your church family. I know it is hard to get up, and maybe to get your family moving on a gloomy Sunday morning. I know those with limited mobility do not need to take chances by getting out on these winter mornings. But our worship and fellowship continue to be warm and inviting. Don't let the lack of sunshine slow you down. When you are not here you are missed! An activity is

Our new Youth Experience begins Sunday, February 2nd at 9:30. Our Youth Roomis slowly coming together. It will be good to have our youngsters on the first floor amid congregational activity. Activities for participants are being planned. There are openings for leaders to be a part of the process. This is our chance to get to know and serve the youth of our congregation. We need to know more of them than just their names and they need to know each of us as people of faith. Tog

I am excited about our new Youth Experience which begins February 2nd. This is not Sunday School; kids don't want to go to school on Sunday. This is not Youth Education; our youth have been in formal education for five days of the week just past and are not eager to just sit and listen passively on one of their days off. This will be a Youth Experience. It will be a time for youth and adults to get to know one another and to share with one another. This is an opportunity for

Change is in the air. Maybe not all-at-once, in-your-face, upset-my-routine kind of change but a bit here and a bit there. Some may not even notice the changes. If we do not change we continue to do the same thing over and over expecting new results, disappointed that nothing new happens. Those previous ways were great at their inception, but now they can seem meaningless because they have become rote, routine, and we may have come to observe them mindlessly. There are ideas

Dear friends, Our congregation was gifted again and again through Advent and Christmas! A jolly crew decorated our worship and fellowship areas for the season. A new tree lit our vestibule and provided light for all everyday of the season. We had a wonderful variety of special musical offerings: Nanette Felix a harpist, our own Bell Choir, our children in song and with chimes, our own Chancel Choir's Christmas Cantata, Christmas Eve soloist, Nicolai Janitzky, and trumpeter Ga