There are two worship events happening this weekend that you don’t want to miss. I hope you and your family will be well and come with your spiritual cups ready to be filled.
First, there is Thanksgiving Sunday at JIBC. We are concluding the three part teaching series “Living with Thanksgiving”. This Sunday we will build the worship service around the Eucharist: The Lord’s Supper as Thanksgiving. As a part of the message, we will see somewhere around 12 or 13 video stories about how our church family and friends used the $75 Blessing Envelopes. It has been so much fun giving away $15,000 to our community. I can’t wait for you to hear the stories and hope we will have many more to share in the days ahead. “Living with Thanksgiving” has been a reminder to make sure our thanksgiving goes upward to our Father in Heaven, the giver of every good and perfect gift. We also want to make sure our thanksgiving goes outward to bless others to the point that they end up giving thanks to God! This Sunday, we will direct our thanksgiving focus inward…grateful for the love of God that sent His only Son for us! It will be a wonderful service of thanksgiving.
Second will be our annual Community Thanksgiving Service. All churches and all believers are invited to join together in a service of praise and thanksgiving. Several of the church choirs will sing and Rev. David Dubay of Holy Trinity will share the Thanksgiving reflection. As always, there will be an offering received to help support the James Island Outreach. You may also being a canned food donation.
This really is a wonderful gathering of believers gathered not for theology, not for denomination, but rather for praise, thanksgiving and the mission of helping the underserved. The service will be held at James Island Christian Church, 12 Sawgrass Road, right off Folly Road, Sunday, November 20 at 4:00 PM
By the way, seems everyone is benefiting from livestreaming. If you cannot attend Sunday night, you can watch on facebook.com and You Tube, James Island Outreach.
JIBC has been sending 75 jars of jelly every week since the first week of September. Thank you for being so generous in your giving!
Love you all,
Pastor Tom
