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You are cordially invited to our Christmas Eve and Christmas Sunday worship services: Christmas Eve, 4:00 p.m. — A traditional service of carols and readings, with music by our Children’s Choir and our Senior Choir, and a very special visit from the Holy Family Please mark your calendars for Tuesday, April 21, 7:00pm. Join us at Three Links Chapel for a service of inspirational and renewal designed for anyone in a care-giving role: family caregivers Following the service, there will be refreshments and time for fellowship. This service is sponsored by Northfield Retirement Community, Three Links, and Northfield Hospital. Please click here for a printable version [...] Please join us at 8:00 PM on Friday, April 11, for our Good Friday Service. Prayers and music will be the backdrop for the reading of the Passion according to St. Matthew. We will welcome and celebrate Easter at two services on Sunday morning: 8:30 am and 10:00 am. We hope you [...] It was an amazing day of Praise, Prayer and Powerful Music. Please enjoy the photos posted below. If you have an extra 5 minutes click on this LINK to see all the photos. For an instant slide show of all the photos click HERE. Last week the second and third grade students were our worship leaders, and they offered this prayer — one that is worth remembering and offering again … Dear God, You are always with us, even when bad things happen. You bless us with so many good things: Food, shelter, heat for our homes. Good schools [...] … from our 4th, 5th, and 6th graders, who wrote their own Christmas Pageant to share with the younger children in the Sunday School:
There has been much concern and discussion in recent months about substance abuse in Northfield. This Sunday we are going to mark “Recovery Sunday,” and my sermon will explore some of the spiritual questions — and unexpected spiritual gifts — that go along with addictions and recovery. Join us at 10 am, and learn [...] Each week a member or friend of our congregation volunteers to say a few words of welcome at the start of our worship service. These "Welcomes" are treasured sharing’s that are as diverse and unique as the people sharing them. Below is a sample from last Sunday. "Good Morning! Whatever has brought you to this [...] Not all our High School graduates could be present last Sunday, but we celebrated for them all! These six each told us about the most memorable experience they had had in the church, and we were all touched by their stories. God Speed to all of our grads! Don’t worry — I am not bragging about my own sermons. I just spent a week in Minneapolis at the “Festival of Homiletics” and learned about an easy way to hear to great sermons from Protestant ministers around the country. Day1 describes itself as “the voice of the mainline Protestant churches, on the radio [...] Last week it was African drums, this week it is the Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble from St. Olaf College. I’m delighted to welcome this talented group of musicians to our worship service on April 20. Led by St. Olaf faculty member Paul Niemisto, this group is unique in the upper Midwest — offering a special opportunity for tuba [...] Our April 13th service was energized by the Confirmation Class African Drum Choir. Bob Gregory-Bjorklund and Kathy Kanazawa taught the group some basic rhythms, and they played to accompany our opening and closing hymns. We also enjoyed our Spirit Voices Choir. Along with leading the opening and closing hymns (with the drums), they sang “The Canticle [...] We had a great morning on April 13, celebrating our 2008 Confirmation group. These bright and curious youth, mostly 9th graders, have been meeting with their adult leaders on Sunday evenings since October. But it hasn’t just been meetings — they have been on retreat (to Camp Omega, near Waterville), visited other churches and places of worship, [...] |
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