{"id":64608,"date":"2024-01-06T08:06:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T13:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=64608"},"modified":"2024-01-08T08:07:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T13:07:49","slug":"happenings-at-wawa-first-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/06\/happenings-at-wawa-first-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Happenings at Wawa First United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First United Church wishes you all a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our Sunday Service will resume on Sunday January 7<sup>th<\/sup> at 11 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Scripture Readings for Sunday:\u00a0 Baptism of the Lord<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Genesis 1:1-5\u00a0 The first days of creation.<\/li>\n<li>Acts 19: 1-7 Paul baptizes with the Spirit<\/li>\n<li>Mark 1:4-11 Jesus is baptized by John<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At his baptism by John, we learn of Jesus\u2019 own glimpsing of \u201cthe heavens torn apart\u201d. And, indeed, in Jesus himself, we too experience that fabric is torn. (Note that Mark\u2019s gospel also reports that the curtain of the temple is torn in two when Jesus dies.) Whatever boundary we imagine in which we are \u201chere\u201d and God is \u201cout there somewhere\u201d is revealed to us as torn apart in the person and work of Jesus \u2013 his coming, his life, his teaching and ministry, and his death, resurrection, ascension, and reign with God. It\u2019s 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\u2019t hide the rip in the fabric anymore. When we turn to Jesus, we experience the heavens torn open. God can\u2019t be kept out; in fact, God <em>willingly <\/em>enters our world, our pain, our joy, our life. There\u2019s 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?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Gathering page19,2024<\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Prayer Shawl group will meet in the Family Room, on Sat. Jan. 6<sup>th<\/sup> at 3-4:30 pm. All knitters and crocheters are most welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, Jan. 7<sup>th<\/sup> there will be a Blessing of the Prayer Shawls during the Service.<\/p>\n<p>Monday, Jan. 8<sup>Th<\/sup>\u00a0 7 p.m. there will be a <strong>U.C.W. <\/strong>meeting in the Family Room<\/p>\n<p>December 26 to January 5 \u2013 12 Days of Christmas<\/p>\n<p><em>January is Tamil Heritage Month<\/em><\/p>\n<p>January 17 \u2013 Martin Luther King Jr. Day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First United Church wishes you all a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. &nbsp; Our Sunday Service will resume on Sunday January 7th at 11 a.m. &nbsp; Scripture Readings for Sunday:\u00a0 Baptism of the Lord Genesis 1:1-5\u00a0 The first days of creation. Acts 19: 1-7 Paul baptizes with the Spirit Mark 1:4-11 Jesus is baptized &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 05:15:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64609,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64608\/revisions\/64609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}