Reminder: Christmas Service is online

Reminder: Christmas Service is online > Sunrise Chapel

Published: Thu, 12/24/20

Christmas Worship Service now online

This year please "join" me online for a beautiful and interactive celebration of Christmas!

This special service includes readings from young people in our congregation as well as music from our friend Diccon Lee and from the band at the New Church of Boulder Valley. The decorations are beautiful, including the poinsettias and all the angels on the Christmas tree.

Here is the link.

I hope you enjoy it! Elise and I miss you and are thinking of you on this Christmas Eve!

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Our Christmas celebrations are certainly different this year! And yet we can make room in our day, in our homes, and in our hearts to bring meaning to this very important spiritual experience - the birth of the Lord's love in our lives.

Tune in to our You Tube channel anytime after 5 pm Christmas Eve for a service of readings from the Word and Christmas music. The plan is for the readings to be done by various members and friends of Sunrise Chapel.

Consider settling into a comfortable chair. Have a copy of the Word handy to open during the service. Bring a candle to light. Make it as special as you can during this pandemic. After all, the Lord came into the world during a spiritual pandemic, to bring hope for healing by means of the love and truth He revealed throughout His life and ministry.

I love being your pastor, and I hope you are well. Elise and I wish you the best at this season, and we are always eager to talk with you. Please let us know what we can do for you, and let us know what you would like to do to help Sunrise Chapel help more people.

Blessings,

Nathan

Click the YouTube icon or HERE to watch our Sunday Livestream

Last Sunday's topic ~ this week's Task

Here is the task from our "fourth Sunday of Advent" theme - Choose joy! If you want the backstory, check out the service on our You Tube channel.

Community Angel Tree at Sunrise Chapel

Our Christmas Angel Tree looks beautiful on our chancel.

Thank you to each of you who has participated in this special Christmas activity!

It has been such a treat to decorate this very special Christmas tree with angels in memory and honor of many people in our lives who are either like angels to us or actually are angels in heaven.

Some of the angels are lovingly handmade, others are store bought. Each one adds special meaning because of the feelings and thoughts that it stirs for the people we love.

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Angels are a big part of the Christmas story. One of their main roles is to bring good news. Gabriel brought the happy news of Jesus’s birth, appearing to Mary, Joseph, Elizabeth, and the shepherds out in the fields. And there is nothing like the hope expressed by the heavenly host: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill to all people.”

During these difficult months of the pandemic it is good to be reminded of people and angels who are with us, thinking of us, supporting us, and giving us messages of hope.

Thank you to Elise Gladish for organizing this activity. She will have more information about the angels after Christmas. Feel free to contact her 520-820-1284 or elisegladish@gmail.com

Poinsettias decorating the Chancel

The beautiful poinsettias on the chancel for Christmas are in memory and honor of George Reynolds, Donna Wilder, Frank Rose, and Ann Ferganchick.

Thank you so much!

Your year-end financial support is greatly needed!

Please consider Sunrise Chapel in your year-end charitable giving
This year, our income for the operations of our church is about 35% less than normal.

If you haven't been giving because of not attending in person, please consider setting up a recurring gift through your banking preference.

Thank you to everyone who gives any amount!

Every church organization has many financial obligations, but the most important thing your gift supports is the opportunity to gather locally either in-person or online to develop meaningful relationships with the Lord and one another. Sunrise Chapel relies on the generosity and dedication of donors to keep the various uses and ministries going.
When you give an unrestricted gift to Sunrise Chapel's General Operating Fund, you are supporting this spiritual community as well as 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.

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Thank you from our Treasurer, Bill Smith

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