Mark Your Calendars

This Week at St. Andrew’s Sun., Dec 6 Prayer time Sanctuary 8:45am-9:00am Sun., Dec 6 Prayer time Prayer Room 10:30-10:45am Sun., Dec 6 Youth Group Babylon 7:00-8:30pm Mon., Dec 7 Mom's Group Pastor's office 9:00-10:00am Mon., Dec 7 Women's Bible Study Prayer Room 7:00-8:00pm Tues., Dec 8 Trustees meeting Finance office 7:30pm Wed., Dec 9 Fellowship meeting Capernaum 6:30pm Sat., Dec 12 Senior Choir practice Sanctuary 9:00-11:00am Sat., Dec 12 Angel Tree party Zion/Jerus/kitchen 1:00-6:00pm Sat., Dec 12 WBPC Xmas program Sanctuary 1:00-5:00pm Sunday Worship Music Ministry

9:15 Contemporary Worship Service – Zion

10:45 Traditional Worship Service – Sanctuary Wednesday – Praise Band - 7:00 PM

Youth Group 7PM

Sunday School 9:15AM Thursday-Glory Ringers-7:00PM

T.O.P.S. Mon. 5:15-7 Damascus Thursday-Senior Choir-7:30PM

12-Step Recovery Groups Monday

Over Eaters Anon. 10 AM – Damascus Scouts

Tuesday Monday Girl Scouts-7pm-8:15

Al-Anon – 10 AM – Damascus - Capernaum/Emmaus

Thursday Tuesday

Narcotics Anonymous – 7:30 PM-Damascus Boy Scouts 6:30-9pm

Friday -Damascus/Emmaus

Over Eaters Anon. 10:00 AM-Damascus 2nd Wednesday of the month

Patrol Council 6:30-9:30PM

-Emmaus

Warminster Korean Congregation EXERCISE Sunday – 1:30-5 PM Monday-Zion Hall 5:45pm

Wednesday – 8-9 PM Thursday-Walking-Zion Hall 6:15pm

December Birthdays Anniversaries Doris Marshall 12/6 Frank & Clare Galzinski 12/9 Valerie Campbell 12/8 Frank & Carolyn Alvaro 12/11 Frank Alvaro 12/9 Louis & Jen Auslander 12/11 Jen Auslander 12/10 Ernie Keepfer 12/10 Melisse Bailey 12/11 Erica Knorr 12/11 Valerie Sanders 12/11 Kaitlin Walsh 12/12

December 6, 2015 OPPORTUNITIES FOR WORSHIP, FELLOWSHIP & SERVICE

PURPO SE – TO KN O W, GRO W IN , AN D SHARE THE LO VE O F CHRIST

Office Hours: Total Attendance: 11/29/15

Mon.&Thurs. 9:00 am-2:00 pm AM:147 PM:99

Tues 11-3 Wed 9-3 Nursery Nanny:

Greeters: 9:15-April Boyd 10:45- Bill/Sandy Hays

Terri Trassati Carolyn Alvaro

Today’s Flowers that Grace our Worship are presented by: Grace Kurki "In loving memory of my daughter, Lauren's Birthday!"

Senior Choir Cantata

December 13th 10:45am service "He Is Born"

Bell Choir performing

Please bring in cookies and/or cupcake donations for the

Youth "Angel Tree Program" Christmas party on

December 12th by noon.

Please see Kim Ruigrok (267-912-2074)

Christmas Poinsettias! The plants will be $10.00 and will be placed on the altar on Sunday, December 13th. They can be picked up after the Family Service on

Christmas Eve, December 24th. The orders must be in by today, December 6th. Payment envelopes and additional Order Forms will be placed on the Gift Card Table. The orders can either be given to Carolyn

Alvaro (672-9674) or the Church Office.

Please pick up your Christmas cards from the table

Pastor Bowers email: pastor@standrewsworship.org Cell phone:(215)630-0851

Office Hours:(M 12-5, T 2:30-5, W 2-5 , Th 11-2 )

Children's Christmas Play

"Tell Me The Story of Christmas"

December 20th at the 10:45 service

Please pick up your Offering envelopes in the Narthex

The St. Andrews Praise Band is looking for a new name and

would love your suggestions. Send your ideas to the church

secretary(office@standrewsworship.org) or write it on a slip of

paper and put it in the mailbox next to the office door. Please

include your name so that we can give you credit if your

suggestion is chosen.

Let's pray! There will be a prayer time in the Sanctuary every Sunday

at 8:45am- 9am and in the Prayer Room (ground level) at 10:30). Those

in need of healing are welcome to come and be prayed for. All are

welcome to come and take part in prayers for the church and worship

services as well.

Please put your Shoprite & Redner receipts in the red box

on the gift card table. St. Andrew's receives 1% cash back

Stop by our Gift Card table today in the Narthex to see how you

can help support our ministries.

Flowers for our Sanctuary and Zion hall each Sunday morning add to our worship service. They bring a little of the beauty of God’s work into our church and it is a way for us to remember special loved ones and occasions. The flower chart for 2015 is posted in the Narthex so please consider signing up to sponsor flowers.

Christmas Eve Services:

5:00pm Children's service in Zion Hall

7:00pm Candlelight in Sanctuary

10:00pm Candlelight with Communion in Sanctuary

Malachi 3:1-14 1 See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the

Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of

the covenant in whom you delight—indeed, he is coming, says the Lord of

hosts. 2 But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when

he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap; 3 he will sit

as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the descendants of Levi

and refine them like gold and silver, until they present offerings to the Lord

in righteousness. 4 Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be

pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and as in former years.5 Then I

will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against

the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against

those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow and the

orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien, and do not fear me, says the

Lord of hosts. 6 For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of

Jacob, have not perished. 7 Ever since the days of your ancestors you have

turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I

will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. But you say, "How shall we

return?" 8 Will anyone rob God? Yet you are robbing me! But you say,

"How are we robbing you?" In your tithes and offerings! 9 You are cursed

with a curse, for you are robbing me—the whole nation of you! 10 Bring the

full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in my house, and

thus put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts; see if I will not open the

windows of heaven for you and pour down for you an overflowing blessing.

11 I will rebuke the locust for you, so that it will not destroy the produce of

your soil; and your vine in the field shall not be barren, says the Lord of

hosts. 12 Then all nations will count you happy, for you will be a land of

delight, says the Lord of hosts. 13 You have spoken harsh words against me,

says the Lord. Yet you say, "How have we spoken against you?" 14 You

have said, "It is vain to serve God. What do we profit by keeping his

command or by going about as mourners before the Lord of hosts?

Luke 3:1-6 1 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was

governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler

of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, 2 during

the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son

of Zechariah in the wilderness. 3 He went into all the region around the Jordan,

proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, 4 as it is written

in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, "The voice of one crying out in

the wilderness: "Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. 5 Every

valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the

crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways made smooth; 6 and all

flesh shall see the salvation of God.' "