On Sunday, January 12th, the topic was the Baptism of the Lord (Luke 3:15-17, 21-22).<\/p>\n
How do you know whose family you are a part of? You might think it is sharing a home, a name or favourite activities; we have a chosen family; we have the same laugh; and so on.<\/p>\n
How do you know you are a part of God\u2019s family? Every person is created in God\u2019s image and is one of God\u2019s children.<\/p>\n
But it can be hard to tell if someone knows God as their parent or recognizes Jesus as their sibling. Baptism is something we do together as a church, to recognize that each person is a part of God\u2019s family. We pour water on their head to remember when John the Baptist dipped Jesus in the river. When John did that, a voice called out to tell all those watching that Jesus was God\u2019s child. When we baptize someone, we are loudly declaring the same thing, that this person is a child of God.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (The Gathering, used with permission Advent\/Christmas\/ Epiphany 2024)<\/p>\n
January 19 <\/strong>\u2013 Second after Epiphany<\/p>\n Scripture Readings:<\/strong><\/p>\n Isaiah 62:1-5\u00a0 No longer called Desolate but now named Delight<\/p>\n 1 Corinthians 12: 1-11\u00a0 Different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit<\/p>\n John 2:1-11\u00a0 The wedding in Cana<\/p>\n Creation Connection: God creates with intentionality. Just as every part of Earth\u2019s ecosystem has an important role in the flourishing of creation, so also does every individual person have unique gifts for the flourishing of our community.<\/em><\/p>\n Lay Leader: Kaireen, Reader:\u00a0 Lorna<\/p>\n The Thrift Shop is now taking donations, Please leave donations at the back entrance but please do not block the doorway.\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n This Month:<\/strong><\/p>\n January is Tamil Heritage Month<\/p>\n January 17 \u2013 Martin Luther King Jr. Day<\/p>\n January 24 \u2013 World Day for African and Afrodescendant Culture<\/p>\n January 27 \u2013 International Holocaust Remembrance Day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Sunday, January 12th, the topic was the Baptism of the Lord (Luke 3:15-17, 21-22). How do you know whose family you are a part of? You might think it …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 13:27:36","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\/71383","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\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71387,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71383\/revisions\/71387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}