Fr. Jason's Week in Review

December 14: Lunch with Bob Rothman (head of Dawn Unity); Dentist appointment

December 15: Day off

December 16: Sermon prep

December 17: Third Sunday of Lent

December 18: Met with city manager and clerk; prepared for memorial service.

December 19: Prepared for memorial service

December 20: Memorial Service for Ana Celega Vukanovic; it rained buckets that afternoon.

December 21: Worked from home; canceled pastoral appointments because I had a cough; prepared sermons for Advent IV, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day

December 22: Day off.

December 23: Prepared sermons for Advent IV, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day

December 24: Advent IV service in the morning; Christmas Eve and Pageant at 4PM; Christmas Concert at 8PM; Christmas Eve Service at 9PM

December 25: Christmas Day service in the chapel; left for San Diego afterward.

December 26 - 30: Christmas break in San Diego with Jennifer’s family; Rachel and Archie received bicycles for Christmas and both learned to ride them (Rachel was convinced she didn’t need training wheels anymore, but she needed to learn to brake before we set her loose).

December 31: Sunday services; dinner with parishioners.

January 1: New Year's Day! Dinner with parishioners.

January 2: Prepared for art camp; caught up on emails; started to prepare for this year; pastoral visit.

January 3: First day of Art Camp! Met with the Junior Warden.

January 4: Second Day of Art Camp! Pastoral phone calls.

Coming Events

Altar Guild — Jan 8 at 9am

Time to take down and pack away the Christmas Decorations. Many hands would be

appreciated to help make things faster!

Altar Guild Meeting — Jan 21

After the 10am service in the board room.

Take Home Poinsettia

Take a poinsettia or two home with you after service today!

Faith and Family night with the LA Chargers

We have been invited to the Chargers/Taylor Swift game this Sunday, January 7. It's Faith and Family Night! Click the button below for tickets (they are not free).

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The Dawn Unity Group Presents

The Garden of Eden

“The Garden of Eden” will be addressed at 7:30pm on Tuesday, January 16, 2024, at Congregation Ner Tamid, 5721 Crestridge Rd. The panel will be Rev. David Brown, Wayfarers Chapel; Rabbi Tzvi Graetz, Congregation Ner Tamid; Rev. April Herron, Rolling Hills United Methodist Church; and Fr. Alexei Smith, Archdiocese of Los Angeles; Bob Rothman will be the moderator. The first sin occurred here—how does that relate to original sin? Why was Eve responsible for the first sin and all women made to suffer in childbirth for it thereafter? Why was the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge forbidden to humans? How are today’s environmental concerns related to the story? The 90-minute

program is free and is followed by interfaith cookie time. For further

information call (310) 833-7008.

Calling all Quilters and Knitters

If one of your New Year's resolutions is to spend more time working on needlework projects, please consider coming to the Boardroom on Thursdays at 1:00 to 3:00 pm. People are quilting, embroidering, knitting, and crocheting every week. Come join us to share your creations, ideas, and knowledge! For more info, contact Anna Eakins or the church office.

Military Outreach Update

The next Military Outreach for Camp Pendleton donations is January 20, 2024. Thank you for thinking of the women and children! Sharing your gently used items that your children have outgrown is gratefully accepted. Kitchen items are needed, as well.

You may bring items to the church by Sunday, January 14.

We encourage you, if you have a truck or van, to donate your time to pick up items we have stored in our garage since the end of October, after the last donation. We have a small car.

You can put your items in your vehicle. Thank you for sharing your time, vehicle, and items.

If you have no items to share but can donate your time and a vehicle, that would be so helpful.

Please let me know if you can help in that right away.

We meet on January 20 at 8:15 to pack the vans and trucks then leave at 8:45 am. The moving vans are quickly filled up, so if we get in line before 9 am, we usually arrive in time.

The address to meet is 5008 Milne Drive, Torrance CA, 90505.

Thank you so much for sharing gently used items for our military families.

If you would like to donate a gift card ($25.00) to Target or Walmart, that is great! Most use these cards for food.

Thank you so much!

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Susie Zimmerman

Military Outreach

Sunday Holy Communion

8:00 a.m.

Rite I in-person worship in the Chapel, with hymns. This service is not live-streamed.

10:00 a.m.

Rite II in-person worship in the main church with choir and music.

For other worship services and parish events, visit our calendar.

Livestream Worship and Sermons Online

We livestream Sunday 10am worship on Facebook and YouTube. You can view past sermons or entire livestreams on our YouTube channel.

Nursery School and Sunday School

Sunday school for children in kindergarten through fifth grade will be held in the Parish Hall from 9:50 am to 10:40 am (ish ... the kids typically come in at the Peace). There is a nursery for children 6 months to 5 years old.

Contact: Kristina Pelá