 | Newsletter If pastoral care is needed at any time, please contact Rev. Tanner at: Home: 570-586-8162 or Cell: 570-430-2793 Sue: 570-954-5846 Please always leave a complete message if no answer we may be on the other line or away from the desk and will return your call ASAP. Church directories are always available. If you would like one please see Sue or call the church office.
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Any organization that includes a financial and/or committee report in the end of the year booklet should have them into Sue by Sunday, January 19, 2025. They may be emailed to: dpcsecretary1@verizon.net The 2025 per capita is $46.10 per each active role member. Pledge cards are found in pew card holders and may be put into offering plate. If you would like a year-end statement for your records, please contact Connie Richards. The 2025 envelopes will be available in the front vestibule in the upcoming weeks. Please pick yours up and anyone else you may be able to deliver.
Christmas Choral Concert Asbury United Methodist Church Sunday, Dec. 15 at 4 PM
The Choir is under the direction of Corey Bartell Join a choir of local community singers as we celebrate the holiday season with our last Christmas Concert at Asbury United Methodist church. The concert will feature audience sing along favorites such was the 12 days of Christmas, Susie Snowflake, Parade of the Wooden Soldiers and sacred Christmas Hymns. A powerful rendition of Joy to the World featuring our mighty Pipe Organ will close out our concert. There will be a cookie reception immediately following the concert. Our church is handicap accessible and the concert is free and open to the public.
The Board of Deacons, along with Boy Scout Troop #66, are collecting non-perishable food and hygiene items to be given to the Veterans Food Pantry, Scranton. Items Needed: Cereal, pasta, canned vegetables and soups, tuna and toiletry items. There are bins on the stage in fellowship hall for any donations . Donations will be taken through December 15th.
The Reintgen family in North Carolina will always remember Christmas 2023. At 3 a.m. on December 25, their 3-year-old son woke them up, asking for scissors to open his new action-figure toy. “That’s when we realized something had gone terribly wrong,” said Scott, his dad. A quick trip downstairs revealed a mess of unwrapped gifts under the family’s Christmas tree. “There was not one thing that he left unscathed,” Scott said. The boy, in his defense, said he was just trying to help everyone know what they’d received. With only hours until their other children awoke, the Reintgens were determined to save Christmas. Mom Katie raced to rewrap gifts, even managing to get most nametags back on the correct packages. Instead of being angry, the parents found humor in the ordeal. Afterward, they explained to their son the joy that people experience from receiving — and opening — their own presents. Morals of the story? Remember this 3-year-old when you get overeager for certain parts of the holidays. Don’t rush through anything, and let others enjoy Christmas at their own pace too. When something goes wrong, don’t panic. Like the Reintgens, find joy in any unexpected glitches and grinches you encounter throughout the season. —Stephanie Martin
We find a delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.”
We trust in God and believe in our members and friends to support the church's ministry. Let us all show our faithfulness with good stewardship through our time, talents and treasures.
God’s Gift Of Music
Albert Schweitzer, a pastor, musicologist, physician and more, said, “Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter — to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.”
Redeeming ‘wasted’ time In Just Like Jesus, Max Lucado writes that the average American spends a total of six months waiting at stoplights, eight months opening junk mail, 18 months looking for items we’ve lost and five years standing in line. All the while, many of us grumble: “What a waste of time! I could be doing something much more important! Where are my keys?” But Lucado suggests that we give these moments to God. Rather than whispering to ourselves, we can speak to God in prayer. “Simple phrases such as ‘Thank you, Father,’
‘Be sovereign in this hour, O Lord,’ ‘You are my resting place, Jesus’ can turn a commute into a pilgrimage,” he writes. “You needn’t leave your office or kneel in your kitchen. Just pray where you are. Let the kitchen become a cathedral or the classroom a chapel. Give God your whispering thoughts.” When we do this, “the common becomes uncommon,” Lucado adds. What’s more, “wasted” time becomes valuable; boring waits become meditative; the lost — your time, if not also your keys — is redeemed.
GODWINKS During times of trouble, we should be on the lookout for Godwinks. That’s one way for God to communicate with us. In fact, one of the best things about Godwinks is that they are like a handrail along your way, giving you hope when answers are not forthcoming . . . assuring you that everything is going to be okay.
A POSITIVE PRAYER “Please help me with NOTS that are in my mind, my heart and my life. Remove the have nots, the can nots and the do nots… erase the will nots, may nots, might nots that may find a home in my heart. And most of all, Dear God, I ask that you remove from my mind, my heart and my life, all of the AM nots that I have allowed to hold me back… especially the thought that I am not good enough.” Author Unknown
Would you not agree that NOT is not a word we should choose to employ… unless utterly necessary? May every positive prayer be answered this week, Godwink, after Godwink, after Godwink!
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