Happy Thanksgiving! What are you most thankful for this year? Whatever it is, I hope you will pause and find a way to express gratitude for that blessing in your life. No matter what situation you find yourself in today, if you look beyond your circumstances, you will find something for which you can be grateful.
On Sunday we celebrate the season of Advent - the four Sundays before Christmas. We make plans with family and friends. We choose gifts for those we know well and gift cards for those we don't. We have obligations to keep and more parties than we can make. And somewhere along the way Christmas is over again....and the world is about the same.
Jesus came into the world so that the world might be changed. For that to keep happening we must come closer to the manger, close enough that we enter the Christmas story and help change our world. Christmas doesn't have to be what our culture has made it to be. We can stop spending money on ourselves and take that money and give it to others in need....in Jesus name!
We will be joining Advent Conspiracy again this year. Beginning this Sunday and going through Christmas, donations marked "AC" will be given to Living Water International. Our goal is $5,000 so we can dig another well to provide clean drinking water in Jesus name.
Now is the time to think about how you will celebrate the birth of Jesus....my prayer is you will join us in transforming our world. Just thinking about the global water crisis makes me even more grateful this Thanksgiving...for the gift of water.
Join us Sunday at 10:00 as we enter the ongoing story of God's love for all people.
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