Happenings at Wawa First United

First United Church wishes you all a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.

 

Our Sunday Service will resume on Sunday January 7^th at 11 a.m.

 

Scripture Readings for Sunday:  Baptism of the Lord

• Genesis 1:1-5  The first days of creation.
• Acts 19: 1-7 Paul baptizes with the Spirit
• Mark 1:4-11 Jesus is baptized by John

 

At his baptism by John, we learn of Jesus’ own glimpsing of “the heavens torn apart”. And, indeed, in Jesus himself, we too experience that fabric is torn. (Note that Mark’s gospel also reports that the curtain of the temple is torn in two when Jesus dies.) Whatever boundary we imagine in which we are “here” and God is “out there somewhere” is revealed to us as torn apart in the person and work of Jesus – his coming, his life, his teaching and ministry, and his death, resurrection, ascension, and reign with God. It’s probably safe to say that the breech was always there, and that whatever barrier we humans presumed would keep God out has always been penetrated. But for us, who call ourselves Christians, Jesus is the One in whom we discover that we can’t hide the rip in the fabric anymore. When we turn to Jesus, we experience the heavens torn open. God can’t be kept out; in fact, God willingly enters our world, our pain, our joy, our life. There’s no going back. Where has God torn something open for you or in you, a rupture from which there is no going back, for which you are now grateful?    The Gathering page19,2024

Announcements:

The Prayer Shawl group will meet in the Family Room, on Sat. Jan. 6^th at 3-4:30 pm. All knitters and crocheters are most welcome.

Sunday, Jan. 7^th there will be a Blessing of the Prayer Shawls during the Service.

Monday, Jan. 8^Th  7 p.m. there will be a U.C.W. meeting in the Family Room

December 26 to January 5 – 12 Days of Christmas

January is Tamil Heritage Month

January 17 – Martin Luther King Jr. Day