November 2024
I have so much to be thankful for. Perhaps we all do, when we take a moment to think about it. I know that I’m thankful for a family who loves me, friends who care, and a church that enables me to join in the mission of helping those less fortunate.
I am so grateful for all the time and love and coordination that went into accomplishing another Fall Dinner at Wyoming Church. I’m also grateful for all the people who stepped up and helped with hosting New Pathways families who are unhoused.
You are a generous congregation.
And your generosity doesn’t stop there.
Coming in early December we will once again have the Joy Bells program, this year coordinated by Karyla P. and Jeannine Q. Every year you give joyously to the Joy Bells program for those who are down on their luck this Christmas season. And you continue to give generously in big and small ways throughout the year.
This month we all have a lot to be thankful for. The first Sunday of the month we’ll be giving thanks for those lives which have touched ours, who we have lost to death in the last year or so. On our All-Saints’ Sunday we’ll give thanks for the blessing they were to us and to all who knew them.
We’ll have a three-sermon series this month called “Grateful,” as we study three of the many stories in the Bible where Jesus observes someone being generous or has people deeply grateful for what he has done for them. Whether it is physical healing, relational healing or simply the healing and heartfelt act of an anonymous woman being generous, the Gospel writers tell the stories of their lives and the joy that is brought to them through generosity.
In this month of thanksgiving, we’ll be giving thanks to God for all that God has given us—our lives, our abilities, our awareness that God is always with us, always for us. At the end of the month, we’ll celebrate Commitment Sunday as we commit to God the financial gifts we will give to God’s work through the church. We’ve all got plenty to be thankful for.
Have a blessed and gratitude-filled November!
“Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18)
– Pastor Holly