Hi EPC Friends and Members, 

Here's my "3-2-1" for this week...
 
3 EPC Happenings

1. Christmas Eve Service -- The Christmas Eve Service this year will be focused around the ABC's of Christmas! The service will be held at 5:00PM on the 24th and will feature candle lighting, familiar carols,  and a fun exciting way of sharing the Christmas Story. All are welcome, be sure to invite your friends and family! 

2. Christmas Day Service  -- Join us on Christmas Morning at 10:30AM for an informal time of worship and Unwrapping of the Christmas Story. All are welcome! 

3. Fill the Stable -- To honor the Holy Family this Advent season, please consider bringing a donation to Fill the Stable! We are especially looking for diapers and non perishable food items. All items can go in the stable inside of EPC. 

2 Interesting Links

1.  If you’re looking for a resource that will help you process 2022 and move forward in 2023, I recommend Susannah Conway’s UNRAVEL YOUR YEAR workbook which requires an email address to download. It’s very worth it. You also might consider making a vision board for the new year. Whatever you do, skip the resolutions. If you’d like to talk through your hopes and dreams for the new year, set up a time to talk! 

2. Another good end of the year piece is Seneca’s On the Shortness of Life. 

1 Thought 

The “O” in Hope
Hope has this lovely vowel at its throat.
Think how we cry “Oh!” as the sun’s circle
clears the ridge above us on the hill. 
O is the shape of a mouth singing, and of 
a cherry as it lends its sweetness 
to the tongue. “Oh!” say the open eyes at 
unexpected beauty and then, “Wow!”
O is endless as a wedding ring, a round 
pool, the shape of a drop’s widening on 
the water’s surface. O is the center of love, 
and O was in the invention of the wheel. 
It multiplies in the zoo, doubles in a door 
that opens, grows in the heart of a green wood, 
in the moon, and in the endless looping 
circuit of the planets. Mood carries it, 
and books and holy fools, cotton, a useful tool 
and knitting wool. I love the doubled O 
in good and cosmos, and how O revolves, 
solves, is in itself complete, unbroken, 
a circle enclosing us, holding us all together, 
every thing both in center and circumference
zeroing in on the Omega that finds 
its ultimate center in the name of God.

- Luci Shaw 

There you have it! Our 3-2-1 for the week. See you Sunday! 

It's not the same without you there, 

                      Check out these photos from Sunday's Christmas Pageant and worship service!                          

It's time to honor the Holy Family by Filling the Stable at EPC! We are collecting Diapers and Non Perishable food items through the month of December. Please consider contributing to this important mission! 

Join us on Christmas Eve at 5:00 for the ABCs of Christmas, a service with carols, candle lighting, and the Christmas story. All are welcome! 

Join us on Christmas Morning in person only at 10:30 AM as we unwrap the Christmas story together! 

10:30 Sunday Worship Livestream - Click Here!

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