Dear Minooka UMC Found Family,It is well known that I am bad at math, but even I can count the days well enough to realize this is our last newsletter before Christmas. I’m sure many of you are, like my family, feeling the pressure of seemingly innumerable expectations this holiday season. So allow me just […]
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Dear Minooka UMC Found Family,This Christmas and holiday season, as pressure and responsibilities ratchet up, it can be quite difficult to respond well to God’s incredible gift of self-revelation that is the Incarnation in Jesus, Emmanuel, God-with-us. My hope for you this Christmas is that you will give yourself some gifts. Give yourself the gift
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Advent (the churchy name for the four weeks leading up to Christmas Eve) is the season of anticipation and longing as we await the incarnation of God in Jesus. Our theme for Advent this year is “What Do You Fear? Insisting on Hope this Advent.” This theme will permeate our Advent experiences in worship, Sunday
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Dear Minooka UMC Found Family, Everything feels different now, doesn’t it? Thanksgiving is in the rearview mirror, temperatures have plummeted, and snow blankets nearly all we see. Here in December, even this early in the month, everything just feels different somehow. I think it is part of the magic and the chaos of this month,
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Dear Minooka UMC Found Family,Have you noticed that there seems to be a special name for, like, every single day this week? Thanksgiving Thursday, Black Friday (aka Bears Game Day!), Small Business Saturday, First Sunday of Advent, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday…all we seem to be missing is Taco Tuesday, Wacky Wednesday, and Thank God it’s
Christmas Eve at Minooka UMC
Wednesday, Dec. 24
4:00PM featuring Pop-up Pageant
9:00PM featuring Communion
