Advent begins with anticipation—a season where we prepare our hearts for the coming of Christ. This year, as we light the candles and sing familiar carols, we’ll take a closer look at the people whose lives intersected with God’s extraordinary story. These were ordinary people, much like us, who found themselves swept into a narrative far greater than they could have imagined.
As we conclude our Generous Spirit worship series and the 2025 Annual Giving Campaign, we pause to give thanks for the faithfulness of this community. Your generosity reflects the abundance of God’s love, now written on our hearts through a new covenant. Together, we step into the future, trusting that God is at work in and through us to bring hope, healing, and renewal to the world.
This Sunday we’ll encounter the words of Jeremiah, our fourth prophet of this worship series, Generous Spirit. Through Jeremiah, God makes a profound promise to God’s people: “I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people” (31:33). This new covenant shifts the focus from external rules to an intimate, transformative relationship. It’s a promise of renewal, of fresh beginnings, and of God’s unwavering faithfulness even after failure and exile.
This Sunday, we turn our attentions to the ways God calls us to serve the mission we share, enabling God’s vision to be made tangibly real in this world. From a young age, I knew that I was called to use my time, energy, and talents in the restaurant industry. As I matured in my faith I came to understand that calling was God at work in and through me. Then, as I became more and more involved in the work of the church, I could sense that God was calling me ever deeper into ministry. So what’s your call story? How has God been at work through you?