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Pastor’s Ponderings – Happy Advent!

Pastor's Ponderings
Dear Glen Mar friends, December is here! Journey to Bethlehem is underway! I hope you’ll join us for this Christmas Experience and also for our Advent Worship Series, The Heart that Grew Three Sizes. We’re starting this week with HOPE… and having Communion together. Bring a friend! You will be so blessed to make worship part of your faith journey…
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This Just In: November 29, 2023

This Just In

Advent Series – The Heart That Grew Three SizesJoin us to explore the faith themes in the beloved Christmas story, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. This advent series is based on the new Advent study by Matt Rawle, The Heart That Grew Three Sizes. Through this story we will examine the change in the heart of the Grinch in result of relationship building. Through relationship building his heart grew and was transformed.
SPOTLIGHTS
– JOY! A Gospel Christmas Celebration – Sunday, December 17, at 9:30 AM
– Hygiene Kits and Supplies for Migrants
– Howard County’s Cold Weather Shelter – Meals needed for December 4-11, December 18-26, and January 2-8
AND . . .
– Be A Part of Advent & Christmas Eve Services
==>Calling All Actors & Actresses! (We still need “Nativity People” and Readers)
==>Advent Wreath Lighting – December 10, 17, or 24.
– Shoe Box Success!
– Glen Mar Cookbook
– Grief & Loss Are Inevitable in Life
– Youth Group – Taking a Break Until Sunday, December 10
– HOLA Toastmasters of Ellicott City – Tuesday, December 5 at 7:30 pm
– Family Matters Pot Luck Dinner – Saturday, Dec 9 from 6:00 – 7:30 pm
– Baptism Class – Sunday, December 10 – 11:15 am
– Dancing Needles – Thursday, December 14 at 1:00 pm
– Lunch Bunch – Tuesday, December 19 at 11:30 am
– Alphabet Soup – Tuesday, December 19 at 7:00 pm
– The Longest Night Service – Thursday, December 21 from 7:00 pm
– Our Next Turn @ Rt. 1 DRC – December 23 – 11:45 am – 2:00 pm
– Journey Through Grief – Saturdays from 9:30 – 11:00 am, starting Saturday, January 6 at 9:30 am
– MLK, Jr. Day of Service Volunteers Needed – Monday, January 15, 2024
– KIDS/YOUTH Save the Dates!
==>VBS 2024 – Dive into friendship with God this summer at Scuba VBS – July 8-12
==>Youth Summer Mission Trip 2024 – June 23-29
– Re-Potting & Care of Live Plants at Glen Mar
– Sponsor/Purchase Flowers for the Sanctuary
==>Christmas Poinsettias – Order by December 10.
==>Honor a Loved One or Special Occasion
– Glen Mar Church is a Lighthouse Congregation of the Baltimore Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church.

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Journey Through Grief 2024

Congregational Care
Saturdays, beginning January 6, 2024 at 9:30 am If you have lost a loved one, and would like support and strategies to cope, join us for a six-week small group experience called Journey Through Grief. We will share stories and support one another during this video-based series, to help navigate the grieving process and learn coping strategies. Sue Neal-Lyman and…
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It’s Giving Tuesday

Opportunities to Serve
On Giving Tuesday, we join the world in celebrating a day when millions of people around the world come together in gratitude to celebrate generosity by giving back to causes that are important to them. For the Glen Mar community, we cannot think of a better way to celebrate Giving Tuesday than with giving to Glen Mar who in turn…
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Pastor’s Ponderings – Giving Thanks

Pastor's Ponderings
Dear Glen Mar friends, We are counting our blessings this day at the Sayers family table and YOU are one of the blessings for our church and for us! Thank you for being in ministry with us at Glen Mar and thank you for all you are doing, every day, to bless others through our church and otherwise! God has…
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