2020 Offering Envelopes You will find in your mailbox this morning your 2020 offering envelopes. Please check the number on your envelopes to ensure it is the correct number (same as your 2019 envelopes). If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the office. Welcome To The Family! This Sunday at the 10:30 service we welcome Emily Ella Frank, daughter of Thomas and Anna Frank to our Family of Faith. New Series Fully You! God says we have a new identity in Christ. But shaking off habits and mindsets ingrained in our human identity can be hard. This series will help us recognize some shame based patterns of living that keep us from walking in who Christ says we are. "If anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come." (2 Corinthians 5:17) HOMEWARD BOUND Upcoming Events | January 2020 | From the Board
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2020 Offering Envelopes You will find in your mailbox this morning your 2020 offering envelopes. Please check the number on your envelopes to ensure it is the correct number (same as your 2019 envelopes). If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the office.
Welcome To The Family! This Sunday at the 10:30 service we welcome Emily Ella Frank, daughter of Thomas and Anna Frank to our Family of Faith.
New Series
Fully You!
God says we have a new identity in Christ. But shaking off habits and mindsets ingrained in our human identity can be hard. This series will help us recognize some shame based patterns of living that keep us from walking in who Christ says we are. "If anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come." (2 Corinthians 5:17)
HOMEWARD BOUND Upcoming Events | January 2020 | From the Board
Small GroupsTheology Pub Night First Lutheran Book Club Women, Wine & Wisdom Tuesday, January 28 at 7:30pm Monday, January 13 at 10:00am Thursday, January 16 at 6:30pm
Crafter’s Club At Shipclarks Games Night Wednesday’s 6:30-8:00pm Friday, January 17 at 6:00pm Youth Kids’ Club and Jr & Sr Youth Kids’ Club (Grades 4-6), Jr Youth (Grades 7-9) and Sr Youth (Grades 10-12). Every Wednesday 6:30pm-8:00pm Kids Church Sunday’s 10:45am for ages 4 to Grade 6
Men Women Lutheran Hour MinistryMen’s Breakfast Study Women in Prayer Sunday, January 5Every Monday at 7:30am Tuesday, January 28, 10:00am “Mercy In This Dojo.” Rev. Dr. Michael Zeigler Men’s Bible Study Ladies Bible Study (Genesis 37) New Series Friday at 7:00am Every Thursday at 9:30am Sunday’s on 1150am at 7:30am
Food Bank Sunday Kelowna’s Gospel MissionFood Collection Food Preparation-Sign up & serve Sunday, January 5 Sunday, January 12 & 26, 3:15-6:00pm
GROW
CONNECT
SERVE
WILLOWSTONE ACADEMYKindergarten Open House Meet the teacher, explore the classroom, and learn why so many people are choosing Willowstone Academy for their child’s learning journey. Our Kindergarten Open House takes place on Wednesday, January 15th from 6:30 – 7:30pm. Every family who RSVPs receives a free gift. Click here to RSVP online today!
Before moving forward with the freshness and hope in the New Year ahead of us, I would like to take a moment to reflect on the advent season just finished. It was a wonderful season of anticipation and preparation within our church family. A special thank you to all in the congregation who participated in and organized our December 15, 2019 Intergenerational Service-God Made a Way in a Manger!
It was also an opportunity to reach out to our community. Pastor Keith shared the Christmas Eve message of love and hope with many and helped us all to remember that it is not necessarily the “most wonderful time of the year” for everyone but that the love and grace of the newborn Saviour is here for us all!
Welcome to 2020! It is at this time of year that we reflect over the past year and look forward to the excitement of what the New Year will bring! A New Year provides each of us with the opportunity to look back over the past year and assess our disappointments and successes. We then have a chance to set new goals and establish a new direction for the year ahead.
We have so much to celebrate together in our church family! As we support one another through our joy and grief, we remain optimistic about not only the New Year but a new decade! A new decade inspires a sense of new beginnings, change and movement forward!
“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” Isaiah 43:18-19
When we consider time we think of the past, the present, and the future. When God looks at us, he does not view all our past mistakes and failures, but rather looks at where we are now in the present, and where we hope to go in the future. In this New Year, I hope that you are all filled with optimism and excitement for the future of our congregation! An opportunity for new beginnings, change and movement forward!
May all the blessing of the Lord be yours in abundance in the New Year.
Respectfully submitted,
Angela Norman, Chair First Lutheran Church Board of Directors
9:00am: Traditional Worship 10:00am: Fellowship Time 10:30am: Contemporary Worship 10:45am: Kids Church
Monday January 6 7:30am: Men’s Breakfast Study
Tuesday January 7
Wednesday January 8 8:50am: WA Chapel 6:30pm: Crafter’s Club 6:30pm: Kids Club Gr 4-6 6:30pm: FLY Gr 7-9 & 10-12
Thursday January 9 9:30am: Ladies Bible Study
Friday January 10 7:00am: Men’s Bible Study
Saturday January 11
Sunday January 12 9:00am: Traditional Worship 10:00am: Fellowship Time 10:30am: Contemporary Worship 10:45am: Kids Church 3:15pm: Kelowna’s Gospel Mission
Senior Pastor: Keith Reisdorf
Director of Worship: Gary Brucker
Executive Director: Jess Kovatch
Youth & Family Life Director: Paul Mercier
Willowstone Academy Chief Learning Officer: Karine Veldhoen
