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Heartwarming Christmas Services
Thank you to everyone for making the Christmas church services special and meaningful. Thank you to our musicians for leading us in song, to those who contributed to the beautiful decorations, to everyone who supported through greeting, ushering, operating the slideshow and sound system, and reading the Word. May the spirit of Christmas stay with us into the New Year!
This Sunday - The Wisdom in Searching for the Lord
This Sunday we'll conclude our series on the Christmas story by focusing on the story of the Magi searching for the young child, Jesus. We'll consider what we know about these historical figures, and we'll also ask how we can be like them in our own search for understanding the Lord.
Board Meeting After Church this Sunday
The Sunrise Chapel Board of Directors will meet again this Sunday. One of the current tasks is to approve a tentative budget for the next fiscal year starting July 1 2019. We are also discussing updates to our strategic plans. And we have another opportunity to write a grant request for special projects that are beyond our local budget.
Thank you to our Board for putting time, attention, and dedication to our fiscal obligations.
With affection and best wishes for the New Year,
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UPCOMING ACTIVITIES AT SUNRISE CHAPEL
All day Boy Scout Activity in Friendship Hall
SUNDAY 12/30/2018
10 am Music rehearsal
11 am Worship - The Wise Search for the Messiah
MONDAY 12/31/2018
HAPPY NEW YEAR'S EVE (no church service)
TUESDAY 1/1/2019
NEW YEAR'S DAY (no church service)
6:30 pm Bereavement Support Group
WEDNESDAY 1/2/2019
9:30 am Worship Team resumes today
1 pm Bible Study resumes today
11 am Tai Chi (Yang 24)
7 pm Women's Group
SUNDAY 1/6/2019
10 am Music rehearsal
11 am Worship
+ HOLY SUPPER
12 noon LUNCHEON
12:45 Benefit Planning Meeting
Join a new "Journey
of Spiritual Growth"
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Six-week program starts Sunday January 13
Each Sunday will feature one topic and spiritual growth task connected with the text, Love Over Ego
Join a weekly small group starting the week of January 13
Love Over Ego offers a 6-week program for people to come together and learn how to access their higher selves, even in challenging situations.
This program follows the biblical story of Daniel from his early days as a child captive in Babylon, to becoming one of the most respected leaders of the nation. Throughout each chapter, we witness the clash between the ego of the Babylonian rulers and the humble confidence of Daniel and his friends. As Daniel
and his friends boldly face the powerful Babylonian rulers, we glimpse ways that vanity, manipulation and desire to control never hold up to the grounding power of confidence, love, and true self-worth. In times when we find ourselves getting lost again in a self-focused mindset, Love Over Ego challenges us to remember what matters most.
The program workbook includes meditations, discussion questions, and daily readings to help participants bring the power of the story’s message into their own lives. The themes of Love Over Ego will also be featured in our youth programs with amazing array of projects and activities accompanying each of the
Biblical stories.
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Fundraising Gala Friday February 8, 2019 |
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Location: La Mariposa
Activity: Dinner + Musical Entertainment + Auction fundraising event!
NEW INFORMATION:
Just a little over a month away! Want to help?? Come to a planning meeting after church on Sunday, January 6. There are a lot of tasks to do to be fully prepared for this special event.
Our website is getting populated with additional information about this event. Check www.sunrisechapel.org for a growing list of items for the silent auction! Additional details will be posted as they develop.
Although the deadline for turning in your RSVP is January 15, the sooner we know of your interest and how many to plan for, the better! Thank you for your love and support!
The idea of this event is to provide a fun, social evening, including a meal, entertainment, and an auction of goods and services that a broad audience will bid on. This kind of event is not only fun,
but it can also be morale-boosting as we work together on a common project. It can also be an opportunity to welcome friends and others who appreciate Sunrise Chapel.
It will take collaboration and lots of planning to pull it off.
Put a big star on your calendar for Friday February 8, 2019. Consider it a big "date night" or some special event with family and friends. It's gonna be great! ~Nathan
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Thank you for supporting this spiritual home
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Sunrise Chapel means many things to many people. It is a place where people are fed spiritually and naturally. It is place where many people from our community find community. For many it is a long-time spiritual home, unique from any other. And the Lord keeps sending people for us to serve and to love.
We are SO CLOSE to meeting our current matching goal for the new Endowment Fund. Once we get the remaining $370, we will collect the additional funds from a remote donor that will bring our balance to $8,000! That's a very good start for the first year!!
And when you give to Sunrise Chapel's General Operating Fund, you are helping keep the doors open and the ministries thriving in our down-to-earth efforts to serve more people.
Thank you for considering Sunrise Chapel in your charitable giving
If you write a check, make it to Sunrise Chapel.
The PayPal button here takes you to an option for either a one-time or a monthly donation.
Thank you from our Treasurer, Bill Smith
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Readings for this
Sunday's Church Service
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The Wise Search for Jesus
Matthew 2:1-12
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”
When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Messiah was to be born. “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written:
“‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.’”
Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared. He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.”
After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country
by another route.
The Terms "Magi" & "Wise Men"
Secrets of Heaven §5223
The magi in Old Testament times had a knowledge of the kinds of things that belong to the spiritual world, and in their teaching about these they employed the correspondences and the representatives known to the Church. For this reason many of those magi also communicated with spirits and learned the arts of illusion which they used to perform miracles that involved magic.
But those who were called the wise men had no interest in anything like this. Instead they provided the answers to hard questions and taught about the causes lying behind natural things. It was primarily in arts such as these that the wisdom of those times consisted, and the ability to practice them was called wisdom.
The term 'magi' was applied to those who had a knowledge of spiritual realities, and who also for that reason received revelations.
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Your church home for partnering with the Lord and each other in the practice of cultivating spiritual growth and choosing heavenly joy www.sunrisechapel.org nathan@sunrisechapel.org Office 520-298-1245 |
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