Advent & Christmas Theme
The theme for this season is: Awake and waiting … salvation is near.
Poinsettias
Poinsettias will be displayed during the seasons of Advent and Christmas.
QC Studio Z
Did you know that QC Studio Z offers Zumba classes in the fellowship hall three times a week? The class schedule is Mondays & Wednesdays 5:45 – 6:45 pm and Saturdays 9:30 – 10:30 am.
For more information visit their website: https://www.qcstudioz.com/
Note: Class will not meet the following days during the holiday season: Saturday, December 23rd, Monday, December 25th, or Wednesday, December 27th.
Wednesday Bible Study
Join Pastor Pokora on Wednesday evenings for Bible Study at 7 pm (via Zoom). The focus will be the lessons for the following Sunday. Please e-mail Pastor Pokora (richpokora@yahoo.com) to request the meeting id and password that is needed to join.
Food Pantry & Clothing Closet
Saturdays
The food pantry & clothing closet serve 100+ families each and every week while they are open to the public from 11 am – 1 pm. Several volunteers are needed during this time as well as throughout the week to prepare.
Weekly Food Load
Volunteers are needed to help pick-up/load/unload/put away Friday, December 15th. The process begins at River Bend Food Bank at 8:30 am to pick up the order then unload and put away the order at church at 9:00 am.
Food Pantry & Clothing Closet Donations
Donations are accepted Fridays from 9 am – 12 pm and Saturdays from 9 am – 11 am.
Sunday School (Children’s and Adult)
Sunday school class will meet every Sunday at 9 am during the month except December 24th and December 31st. The children will meet for a lesson or activity and the adults will meet to delve into the scripture for the day.
Worship
All are welcome to join us on Sunday mornings for worship each week at 10 am.
Introduction for Sunday, December 17th
This Sunday is the Third Sunday of the church year.
“Rejoice always,” begins the reading from 1 Thessalonians. Isaiah and the psalmist make clear that God is turning our mourning into laughter and shouts of joy. “All God’s children got a robe,” go the words of a spiritual. It is not so much a stately, formal, pressed outfit as it is a set of party clothes, clothes we are happy to wear. We receive that robe in baptism, and in worship we gather for a foretaste of God’s party.
Scripture (two (2) read Sunday morning)
Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 Righteousness and praise flourish like a garden
Psalm 126 The Lord has done great things for us. (Ps. 126:3)
1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 Kept in faith until the coming of Christ
John 1:6-8, 19-28 A witness to the light
Fit4Mom
Fit4Mom holds an exercise class from 5:30 – 6:30 pm Tuesday evenings in the fellowship hall.
For more information visit their website: https://quadcities.fit4mom.com//
Council Meeting
The council will meet on Tuesday, December 19th at 6 pm in the church library.
Christmas Eve Worship
Since December 24th, Christmas Eve, falls on a Sunday this year, All Saints Lutheran Church will have the Christmas Eve Worship Service on Sunday morning at 10 am.
Lessons & Carols
Sunday, December 31st is the First Sunday of Christmas. Worship will be at 10 am and will include Lessons & Carols.