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Hi, Everybody: This Sunday, December 20, is the 4th Sunday of Advent, which means Christmas is dangerously tantalizingly close.  It is also traditionally our Sermon-in-Song Sunday, when the choir takes over the Sermon slot in the service with a short program of seasonal songs, usually linked (sometimes tenuously) by a theme.  Of course, with COVID restrictions preventing us from rehearsing and performing, […]

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Devotions from Tri-City ELCA Pastors – Pastor Tia Pelz of Christ the King, December 17, 2020

Devotion for December 17, 2020, from Pastor Tia Pelz of Christ the King: Mary was a perfectly normal girl, a perfectly normal woman, like you and me. Well, Josef wouldn’t agree with that, of course. After all, he fell in love with her and no other. Anna and Joachim would certainly see it differently, their

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Devotions from Tri-City ELCA Pastors – Pastor Tim Huff of Holy Trinity, December 15, 2020

Devotion for December 15, 2020 from Pastor Tim Huff of Holy Trinity: The Spirit of Justice and Joy  The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives,

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Check out what’s been happening at church

While we were hunkering down during the pandemic, a small crew worked on improvements at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. Let’s take a look at the improvements! We’ll begin with the gorgeous Christmas decorations that are up, then work through other projects. Send us your thoughts about what you see at plc@xti.xrd.mybluehost.me. Exterior shot Breezeway’s leaky

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Devotions from Tri-City ELCA Pastors – Pastor Barbara of Holy Redeemer, December 10, 2020

Devotion for December 10, 2020 from Pastor Barbara Caine of Holy Redeemer:  Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her  womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And why has this happened to

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Devotions from Tri-City ELCA Pastors – Vicar Anand Darla of Good Shepherd South Asian Ministries, December 08, 2020

Devotion for December 08, 2020 from Vicar Anand Darla of Good Shepherd South Asian Ministries: The God’s Family No Christian questions the origin of the family. The Bible lays it out before us in unambiguous terms. God created the family. But why? God answered that question in the Old Testament long before any New Testament writers took up

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Devotions from Tri-City ELCA Pastors – Pastor Tia of Christ the King, December 02, 2020

Devotion for December 2, 2020 from Pastor Tia of Christ the King: Today, I want to introduce you to Pastor Johann Hinrich Wichern and his wife Amanda. The two of them ran the Rauhe Haus in Hamburg, Germany, the city I lived in before coming to the States. There they took care of boys and

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