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From Pastor Jay At University Lutheran we just began lighting our Advent candles. We only have 3 colors - purple for 3 candles, pink for one, and a white candle to be lit on Christmas. Traditionally, the 3 purple candles and the 1 pink one have meanings as well.
First there is the Hope of just hoping that they make it. It seems almost unreal at this point. You know that it will happen, but the reality of it hasn't quite sunk in - it's still hope. Then there is Peace, a feeling that comes over you when you begin to realize "this is really going to happen!" but it's too early to celebrate too much. After peace, joy comes. You watch joy come across the face of child when they see a parent or a grandparent walk up the walk to their house right before they are in the door. And then...the door is opened. Then all bets are off. Lovers give hugs and kisses, children jump up and down. It's love taking form in our emotions. This Advent - I pray that you are able to spend each of these weeks feeling those emotions as Christ comes to us. In Christ, Pastor Jay Clear
Your Calendars! New and
Important
Calendar Items! Decemeber 7th - Second Sunday of Advent
Stop by University Lutheran between 9 and 11:30 in the morning and get breakfast before (or after) your finals, along with a quiet place to study and lots of free stuff to take home. Helping ULC Grow - Meeting this Sunday! Join us after worship this Sunday as we round out the end of Phase One (Hospitality) of the Helping ULC Grow program by talking about how we can become a more hospitable church. Spring Break in New Orleans! - "Out of the Ashes" Spring Break may seem like it's far away, but it's just around the corner. This Spring Break (March 8-14) we will be leaving Tallahassee and working at Camp Restore in New Orleans, LA. The theme for this service retreat will be "Out of the Ashes" as we will be considering how our lives come out of the ashes of Ash Wednesday, and focusing on helping New Orleans come out of the ashes of disaster. For more information visit our facebook event or contact Pastor Jay. Strategic Leadership Team - Your Books Are In The Strategic Leadership Team is not meeting in December, but you have a reading assignment, "Simple Church" by Thom S. Rainer and Eric Geiger. The books have come in. Stop by PJ's office and pick yours up. Advent Calendars Are Here Advent day to day calendars are here. Grab yours on the table by the glass doors! Looking for a Christmas Present? Hi Everyone, I'm sending you a website from my Godsister, who started a book business. Through her website, you can personalize books for children. Any support you can give her I would really appreciate. Her husband had a brain aneurysm last year on Christmas Eve. He is only 36 and is making a slow recovery. Because he can no longer work, she is the sole provider (which you can imagine is tough, in any situation, especially when you are a school teacher). http://www.booksjustforyou.com/ These books would make wonderful Christmas presents! There is even a personalized version of "the Christmas Story." http://www.booksjustforyou.com/products/show/20 Any and all support is appreciated. Thank you and happy holidays. Julia Landry Christmas Party Please clear some time in your afternoon on Sunday, December 14th beginning at 4pm as we will be celebrating at the Knickerbocker's house with the annual University Lutheran Christmas party. Please bring food to share – appetizer, snack, hors d'oeuvres, finger food, dessert, sweets, etc. Peter Mayer live at Epiphany Lutheran after the Christmas Party Peter Mayer and his band are returning to Tallahassee to perform a Christmas concert at Epiphany Lutheran Church, 8300 Deerlake Road W. (in the Killearn Lakes neighborhood) on Sunday, December 14, at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 per person, and can be purchased by contacting Cindy Hafner at Epiphany’s church office, 385-7373. We invite you to share in celebrating the joy of this Christmas season in music and song with Peter Mayer and his band. Peter is the lead guitarist for Jimmy Buffett's band, the Coral Reefers and was a Lutheran missionary kid in India for the first part of his life. For more information about Peter Mayer, you can visit his website: www.petermayer.com Advent and Christmas Schedule Please join us for our Advent and Christmas midweek worship services:
This Week's
"Pastor's Challenge" Every week, I try to live out my sermon in my life in some way. (I hear it's good to try to practice what you preach.) This week's sermon was about staying awake. Try getting up one hour earlier or staying up one hour later this week and see what you notice that you didn't notice before when you were sleeping. Send
a Card Consider sending a
card or celebrating with the following people in some way this week:
Good
Stuff 1) The partridge will be retained, but the pear tree, which never produced the cash crop forecasted, will be replaced by a plastic hanging plant, providing considerable savings in maintenance; 2) Two turtle doves represent a redundancy that is simply not cost effective. 3) The three French hens will remain intact due to management's anxiousness about turning this into an ethnic situation. 4) The four calling birds will be replaced by an automated voice mail system, with a call waiting option. 5) The five golden rings have been put on hold by the Board of Directors. 6) The six geese-a-laying constitutes a luxury which can no longer be afforded. Only geese-a-laying-more-than-one-egg-a-day will be retained. 7) The seven swans-a-swimming is obviously a number chosen in better times. Their function is primarily decorative. Mechanical swans are on order. 8) As you know, the eight maids-a-milking concept has been under heavy scrutiny. A male/female balance in the workforce is being sought. 9) Nine ladies dancing has always been an odd number. This function will be phased out as these individuals grow older and can no longer do the steps; 10) Ten Lords-a-leaping is overkill. The high cost of Lords, plus the expense of international air travel, prompted the Compensation Committee to suggest replacing this group with ten out-of-work congressmen. 11) Eleven pipers piping and 12) Twelve drummers drumming is a simple case of the band getting too big. A substitution with a string quartet, a cutback on new music, and no uniforms, will produce savings which will drop right to the bottom line.
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Are you sure you read your Bible this week? Then answer this question: In Mark 13, Jesus tells his disciples
to learn a lesson from what kind of a tree?
Forget Your Checkbook
Last Sunday?a.) Christmas tree b.) Olive tree c.) Fig tree d.) A grape branch See below, under "Visit us on the web" for the answer. Send in your offering via University Lutheran's web site. Prayer List (Please consider including the following in your
prayer life this week) Sylvia Culp, as she deals with pain and with Bob being away from her again. Our Helping ULC Grow group as they begin to implement ideas for hospitality. All students dealing with final tests and projects and all those who will be traveling this coming week. Every week we be pray for a few students. This week we pray for: Andrew M., Kelsey M., James G., Heather K., Krista J., Ashley G., Isaiah M., Eric H., Melinda L, and John T. We also pray for those whom we are reaching out to in our community: Nancy G., Amanda P., Hilda T., Margaret G., Nancy N., Jay D., Linda R., Nikki W., JC C., and Debra A. ...and that our prayers may be joined with the prayers of all God's saints here on earth. Weekly
Events Sunday @ 10:15am - Choir Sunday @ 11am -
WORSHIP Wednesday @ 6:30pm
- Dinner at ULC Wednesday @ 7pm
- Click
here for ULC's Calendar of Events Email
Links: Get This
In Your Email Box! LutherNOLE T-Shirts Peer
Minister Corner We had our last peer minister
meeting of the year. We discussed the past year and began to talk
about the upcoming year of peer ministry. Your Peer
Ministers are Adam
Douthwaite, Randee
Garrett,
and Crystal
Berner.
Last
Sunday In Perspective
Do you have a special event, concert, game, birthday, Something to say? Email the Editor Visit us on the web ULC Web Site ULC Calendar ULC E-News Archives Bible Trivia Answer The correct
answer is "c", a fig tree. You should have known this one, it was
the Gospel reading this past week. Click here to read
or listen to Mark 13.
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"A Jesus-Centered Community of Scripture, Faith, and Grace"
925 W. Jefferson St.
Tallahassee, FL 32304
850 224 6059
pastor@universitylutheranchurch.org