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Brown Bag Bible Lunch Group: Each Tuesday beginning Aug. 6, Brown Bag Bible will be held at 12 noon in the Administration Building. Pastor Angela leads a dialogue on the Bible passages for the upcoming Sunday worship. Brown Bag Bible offers you a Spiritual Formation opportunity to discuss with and learn from other people of all ages. You will experience unpacking the scripture and its relevance to your everyday life. Bring your brown bag lunch and a Bible and expect to grow in your faith!

• Aug. 11 2 Sam. 18:5-9, 15, 31-33
• Eph. 4:25-5:2
• Aug. 18 I Kings 2:10-12, 3:3-14
• Eph. 5:15-20
• Aug. 25 I Kings 8:1, 6, 10-11, 22-30
• Eph. 6:10-20

View live document on CLC website: https://clc.pcusa.org/mdp/11026/view/

Welcome to Lent! Our options for a Lenten Bible Study this year are limited due to Covid and now Snowpocalyse 2021; however, here at the last minute, we have decided to offer a daily/weekly resource put out by Presbyterian Outlook called Praying with Scripture: 2021 Lenten Devotions. Attached, please find the materials for Ash Wednesday (that’s today!) through Week 1 ending Saturday, February 27th. You will see that there is a hymn for the week, a scriptural prayer focus, and an action each week and then a scripture and prayer focus for each day. In the opening pages, you will see reference to a resource called hymnary.org that you may choose to use to look up hymns if you don’t have a hymnal at home. Google will also be a good resource for looking up the hymns. 

These materials will come to you each week for the coming week. Additionally, I will be hosting a Zoom session for anyone who has found the week’s materials to be meaningful and would like the ability to discuss them in a small group. You may attend the Zoom session each week or you may decide to only attend particular ones, as the materials speak to your spirit. All who are interested in the Zoom call for each week will need to RSVP so we can send the link to you. Our first Zoom session will be this Sunday, 2/21, at 6:30 PM. Please call or text me (Brenda) at (325) 669-9904 by 5:00 pm Saturday to reserve your spot on this week’s Zoom call!

Please let me know if you have questions. I am so excited to be able to do this study with you!

God’s peace and blessings,
Brenda

This Christmas, we are providing gifts for the residents at the Housing Authority units just to the north of Granbury Square. We will fill gift bags for 25 families and 83 elderly or disabled residents. If you would like to donate a gift bag for a family with a cozy blanket, a family game, holiday hand soap, hot chocolate and popcorn, there is a tree in the narthex that has gift tags with the children’s ages. OR, if you would like to donate fleece lap blankets, holiday beverage mixes, holiday hand soap, or lip balm for the gift bags for the adult residents please bring them to the narthex or church office. Please bring all donations by Sunday, December 15th.

This week we sang a hymn titled “We Come to You for Healing, Lord.” The words, written in 2002 by a minister, speak so eloquently what we sometimes struggle to ask of God during our time of difficulty.

1. We come to you for healing, Lord,
   of body, mind, and soul,
   and pray that by, your Spirit’s touch,
   we may again be whole.
2. As once you walked through ancient streets
   and reached toward those in pain,
   come, risen Christ, among us still
   with power to heal again.
3. You touch us through physicians’ skills,
   through nurses’ gifts of care,
   and through the love of faithful friends
   who lift our lives in prayer.
4. When nights are long with wakefulness,
   through days when strength runs low,
   grant us your gift of patience, Lord,
   your calming peace to know.
5. We come to you, O loving Lord,
   in our distress and pain,
   in trust that through our nights and days
   your grace will heal, sustain.