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Dear one, this is Pastor Sherry and I am inviting you to join with others across our country commemorating those who have lost their lives to COVID-19. While we may not be able to attend a lighting ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, that does not mean that our lights are extinguished and our prayers silenced as we grieve together the losses and give thanksgiving for the advances toward conquering this virus. At 4:30 p.m., you are invited to stop, to be still in the presence of God, light a candle if you have one, and offer the prayer below or a prayer of your own. If 4:30 is not a doable time for you, I encourage you to choose a time that best suits your schedule.
I also invite you to email or text me directly the names of any you want to be lifted in prayer. While we may not be able to provide those for this time of prayer, I can certainly make them available at a later time. holloman.sherry@gmail.com or 214-463-9037.
As children of God, as brothers and sisters in Christ, Romans 23:15 reminds us to: Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. May we lift our tears and our thankful hearts to God:
God of consolation, surely you count in heaven, just as we count here on earth, in shock and in sorrow, the souls sent back to you, one-by-one, the dead from this COVID pandemic. As the ones become tens, the tens become hundreds, the hundreds become thousands, the thousands become ten-thousands and then hundred-thousands, each soul, a heartbreak.
God of wisdom, as we’ve struggled to cope with the souls taken too soon, whose funerals were lonely, who didn’t need to die, and who died alone, may we continue to tell their stories,
God of healing, we pray an end to this pandemic, and all illness and disease. Bless those who stand in service to humanity. Bless those who grieve. Bless the dead, so that their souls are bound up in the bond of life eternal. And grant those still afflicted with disease or trauma a completed and lasting healing, one-by-one, until suffering ceases, and we can stop counting the dead, even as we give thanksgiving for eternal life.
Amen
I also invite you to email or text me directly the names of any you want to be lifted in prayer. While we may not be able to provide those for this time of prayer, I can certainly make them available at a later time. holloman.sherry@gmail.com or 214-463-9037.
As children of God, as brothers and sisters in Christ, Romans 23:15 reminds us to: Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. May we lift our tears and our thankful hearts to God:
God of consolation, surely you count in heaven, just as we count here on earth, in shock and in sorrow, the souls sent back to you, one-by-one, the dead from this COVID pandemic. As the ones become tens, the tens become hundreds, the hundreds become thousands, the thousands become ten-thousands and then hundred-thousands, each soul, a heartbreak.
God of wisdom, as we’ve struggled to cope with the souls taken too soon, whose funerals were lonely, who didn’t need to die, and who died alone, may we continue to tell their stories,
God of healing, we pray an end to this pandemic, and all illness and disease. Bless those who stand in service to humanity. Bless those who grieve. Bless the dead, so that their souls are bound up in the bond of life eternal. And grant those still afflicted with disease or trauma a completed and lasting healing, one-by-one, until suffering ceases, and we can stop counting the dead, even as we give thanksgiving for eternal life.
Amen
Eastminster Christmas Village 2020
Of all the adjustments we’ve had to make this year because of Covid, by far the most difficult is the accommodation we’ve had to make in our relationships with others. And nowhere were those contacts more threatened than our beloved Christmas Village. So many things had to change this year – no indoor “shopping” by our guests, no shared hot meal and fellowship, no family pictures at the Christmas tree. It was touch-and-go for a bit as we wondered whether there would even BE a Christmas Village this year. But our God is amazing, and with His guidance and your ever-present generosity, the event did happen. And it was a thing of beauty.
On a glorious day bookended by nasty weather, fourteen families received the bounty of God’s people. Each family received boxes of food, presents of toys and books, personal pampering items, Bibles for each of the forty-two children, and even the hot meal materialized – in neatly-packaged “to go” boxes. An extra special addition this year was the partnership with the congregations at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian church in Dallas and First Presbyterian Church in Mesquite. St. Andrew’s folks adopted kids and bought for them. First Mesquite contributed a large portion of the food items and their youth were on hand to load cars and wish “Merry Christmas” to each family.
God provided the impetus to keep this outreach event alive, but you as a congregation did the leg work that made it happen. Thank you. Thank you for your generous care for others. Thank you for believing that this event should go on – albeit from behind masks and standing six feet apart. Thank you for mirroring the face of Christ to people who – like us – really needed a human touch. To God the Glory; to you all a big thumbs up.
On a glorious day bookended by nasty weather, fourteen families received the bounty of God’s people. Each family received boxes of food, presents of toys and books, personal pampering items, Bibles for each of the forty-two children, and even the hot meal materialized – in neatly-packaged “to go” boxes. An extra special addition this year was the partnership with the congregations at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian church in Dallas and First Presbyterian Church in Mesquite. St. Andrew’s folks adopted kids and bought for them. First Mesquite contributed a large portion of the food items and their youth were on hand to load cars and wish “Merry Christmas” to each family.
God provided the impetus to keep this outreach event alive, but you as a congregation did the leg work that made it happen. Thank you. Thank you for your generous care for others. Thank you for believing that this event should go on – albeit from behind masks and standing six feet apart. Thank you for mirroring the face of Christ to people who – like us – really needed a human touch. To God the Glory; to you all a big thumbs up.
Stewardship Campaign 2021
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And now, brothers and sisters, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the Macedonian churches. In the midst of a very severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity. For I testify that they gave as much as they were able, and even beyond their ability. Entirely on their own, they urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the Lord’s people. And they exceeded our expectations: They gave themselves first of all to the Lord, and then by the will of God also to us. So we urged Titus, just as he had earlier made a beginning, to bring also to completion this act of grace on your part. But since you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in the love we have kindled in you—see that you also excel in this grace of giving.
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Eastminster Presbyterian Church
6550 Samuell Blvd. Dallas, TX 75228 214-381-4693 officeadmin@eastminsterdallas .org Sunday Schedule (All activities are currently suspended due to the covid-19 pandemic.) Breakfast: 8:30am Church School: 9:30am Fellowship Time: 10:30am Worship: 11:00am |
