The Christmas season is the 12 days from December 25th to January 6th. For many people, Christmas is over when we finally make it to December 25th, but in the Church, we’re just getting started. It is a wonderful season full of possibilities.
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Many of the congregational milestones focus on the Church year and ways to celebrate and observe it. The Church year contains the seasons and celebrations of the Church that are observed in our congregation. Each provides opportunities to explore them at home.
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Advent is a season of preparation that contains the four weeks before Christmas. It begins on the fourth Sunday before December 25th and continues to Christmas Day. Advent provides wonderful traditions and opportunities to observe them in individual households. Marking the Advent season helps us experience the rhythm of the Church year and God’s presence through the seasons of our life.
Continue reading “Advent Milestone”Mobile Food Pantry
Also known as a Food Truck, the Mobile Food Pantry provides additional food resources to anyone who has need. We offer a mobile pantry 8 times throughout the year during the months that we don’t have a commodities distribution.
Peace Lutheran is an equal opportunity provider and does not discriminate.
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Once every three months, Peace distributes Government Commodities through the TEFAP program. The Commodities include both non-perishable and frozen items. The program is open to everyone who has a stated need.
Peace Lutheran Church is an equal opportunity provider and does not discriminate.
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Our Food Pantry is open most week days to help households by providing dry-goods, frozen, and occasionally fresh food.
Continue reading “Food Pantry”Advent 2023
Advent is a time of preparation: we prepare to celebrate Jesus’ birth and we prepare to welcome Jesus when he comes again. During Advent we have an opportunity to pause during a very busy season and reflect on how God is present with us. There are several ways to observe this time.
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Milestones is a way of forming faith around the events in our lives. By drawing attention to those events, we remember how God is present in our life and find a deeper relationship with God. In short, Milestones is about creating disciples through deeper relationships. Peace partners with Milestones Ministry to offer our Milestones Faith Formation. In their own words, here is how Milestones Ministry describes how milestones work:
Morning & Evening Prayer
Begun in 2020 as a way to provide connection during the pandemic, we have continued a tradition of prayer offered twice daily at 9:00AM and 7:00PM on our Facebook pages. You can join live on the Koinonia page or watch it later on the Peace page.
During Advent and Lent, a special prayer book is provided to guide our prayers. At other times, a variety of different scripture readings and prayer liturgies are used.
While nothing is required to participate in daily prayer (just watch and pray), we regularly use a couple of resources. Scripture readings and a simple liturgy for prayer are often drawn from the annual devotional from Augsburg Fortress.
Another regularly used resource is Common Prayer by Shane Clairborne. It provides a morning prayer for every day of the year and a general liturgy for noon and evening prayer.
How Milestones Work
Milestone faith formation is based on the idea of marking both small and significant events in a person’s life. By acknowledging them and remembering them, we take note of how God is active in our lives. Some milestones are significant events in a person’s life. Some are smaller things that happen during our day. Some are occasions and events that happen in the Church year or within our congregation.
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