In January, February and March the popular fellowship program returns. Groups of seven or eight people gather once a month for fun, food and getting to know one another. Some meet for lunch, others for dinner. Some dine in restaurants, and others in the home of a group member. Sign up and you'll be put in a group. To sign up, click here.

At Christmastime, we remember and honor loved ones. This year, we'll decorate the church with a smaller number of poinsettias and won't offer them to be purchased. Instead, we invite you to submit names of loved ones you'd like to remember. We'll list them (at no cost) on a special handout available at the Welcome Center on Christmas Eve. Please use the button to provide the names of those you'd like to include.

As we have for the past few years, we are using a digital Advent Devotional from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. If you've signed up in the past, you won't need to this year. By the end of November you should receive an email notification from them. If it's your first time receiving the the digital devotional, please click here to link to their devotional page where you can sign up.

This year, during Advent, small groups, adult classes, individuals and more will be reading Names for the Messiah, by Walter Brueggemann. We're forming some new small groups to study the book. If you'd like to join one, click here and complete the form. Christians have claimed from the beginning that Jesus was the Messiah foretold in the Old Testament. In this study, best-selling author Walter Brueggemann tackles the questions: “What were these expectations?” and “Did Jesus