Category: Notes From Pastor Hedden
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April 9, 2017 — Palm Sunday, Choir Cantata ‘Alive,’ & Easter Egg Hunt
Dear Friends and Members of Emmanuel Church, It is a beautiful morning up on God’s hill!!! There’s lots of activity going on to get us moving toward Holy Week and Easter. Sunday at 10:15 is worship with Palm Sunday observance and the choir will be presenting the program “Alive!” about the power of Jesus. After…
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April 2017 Newsletter
Here is our April 2017 online newsletter. A few highlights of events going on this month: April 9th is Palm Sunday with a Bake Sale and Easter Egg Hunt after worship April 13th–Maundy Thursday soup, supper & worship at 6:30 p.m. Good Friday Worship–April 14 at 7:30 pm. Easter Sunday–April 16–3 services 6:30 a.m.…
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March 23, 2017 Messy Church — “Spring Paints in Many Colors”
On Thursday, March 23rd come on in and help celebrate the first few days of Spring with Messy Church. If you are not familiar with Messy Church, now is the time to get in on the ground floor of a new way to worship God and join a community of friends. But what’s Messy Church?…
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February 2, 2017 Update —
It’s a beautiful morning up on God’s Hill! And we are all getting ready for this weekend’s events. We are getting rid of the mid-winter/Groundhog Day blues by coming together for worship. Sunday morning’s message will be about Matthew 5–Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. We will sing praise to God (after all, Jesus talks a…
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January 18, 2017 Weekly Update — Jesus’ Inaugural Sermon
Dear Friends and Members of Emmanuel Church, Did you know that Jesus, too, preached an inaugural message? In Luke Chapter 4, we read that Jesus went to his hometown synagogue in Nazareth and proceeded to offer his first sermon–and it took Nazareth by storm! “Jesus’ inaugural sermon” will be the theme for our worship on…
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December 11, 2016 Sermon — What did Mary know ( & we don’t)?
Luke 1:39-56 39In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, 40where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. 41When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit 42and exclaimed with a loud cry,…
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November 13, 2016 — “Come on Home”
Ezra 1:1-4 In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, in order that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the Lord stirred up the spirit of King Cyrus of Persia so that he sent a herald throughout all his kingdom, and also in a written edict declared: 2 ‘Thus…
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Veterans Day — Weekly Update — November 11, 2016
Dear Friends and Members of Emmanuel Church, It’s a beautiful morning up on God’s hill!!!! Sunday Morning is our worship and we will be hearing about God’s people and their return to Jerusalem, as told in the Book of Ezra. Shawn Hanks and Pastor Joseph will be leading the worship & music. The theme: “Come…
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November 2016 Newsletter
Good morning friends! It’s a beautiful morning up on God’s hill! Click on the links below to see the schedule for November and to read the November Newsletter. november-2016-calendar november-2016-newsletter-scan
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“Babbling Babylonians”
Translation of the mother/child image from the German: Diakonie: Emergency Help. ‘The largest disaster is forgetting.’ Ezekiel 34:1-17 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 Mortal, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel: prophesy, and say to them—to the shepherds: Thus says the Lord God: Ah, you shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds…
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