Updates

Upcoming Sunday Service Change: The Lock family is away on Sunday, December 28th, so we are invited to worship with Freshwater that Sunday or another one of our local churches.

Manitoulin Youth Group: The Grades 6-12 youth program will continue in the new year on Wednesday, January 7th, at the Freshwater Community Church. The first get-together in the new year will be a Nerf and Nachos event!

January Potluck: Mark your calendars for a potluck on Sunday, January 11th.

Elgin Street Mission: The next trips to the Elgin St. Mission are planned for Tuesday, Feb 3rd, March 3rd, April 7th, and May 12th in the new year.

+ Joining the World Council of Churches this week, praying forJapan, North Korea, South Korea; click here to see the WCC website for more info.

+Keep family and friends who have lost loved ones this week in our prayers. Praying for the families of Joanne Smith, Grace Turner, and Hugh Kirkland.

+Praying for ongoing recovery for Bea's great-granddaughter, Ainslie.

+Keep Keith Noble in our prayers this week (just recently given a cancer diagnosis).

+ Family and friends travelling over the Christmas Holidays.

Prayer:

Eternal God,

We say good morning to you.

Hallowed be your name.

Early in the morning, before we begin our work, we praise your glory.

Renew our bodies as fresh as the morning flowers.

Open our inner eyes, as the sun casts new light upon the darkness

which prevailed over the night.

Deliver us from all captivity.

Give us wings of freedom like the birds in the sky,

to begin a new journey.

Restore justice and freedom, as a mighty stream

running continuously as day follows day.

We thank you for the gift of this morning,

and a new day to work with you.

(Masao Takenaka, first president of the Asian Christian Art Association, Japan. BAE p.62.)

https://www.oikoumene.org/resources/prayer-cycle/japan-north-korea-south-korea