Weekly Reminders

This is Epiphany Sunday and the scripture reading is from Matthew 2:1-12, the visit of the wisemen. They are a wonderful example of steadfastly seeking Jesus, worshiping Jesus, offering themselves to Jesus. What do you seek in this new year? Here is a poem from Godfry Rust, titled “The Magi.”
Blessings,
Pastor John

PICK UP YOUR COPY
Copies of the 2025 Year in Review / Church Directory are available and free to pick up in the Crossroads Connection Center, the Sanctuary, and the Church office. The Office has done an excellent job again on it this year, and we encourage all the members to pick up a copy. The directory is especially helpful in getting to know one another and in praying for each other.

Copies of the 2026 Lay Leadership Report are available and free to pick up in the Crossroads Connection Center, the Sanctuary, and the Church office. We are thankful for all the faithful hardworking volunteers that keep our community going!

Come to eat, stay to undecorate
Join us for the Wednesday Night Fellowship Meal at 5:30 p.m. on January 7, for a traditional New Year’s meal of baked ham, turnip greens, black eyed peas, cornbread & peach cobbler. Cost is $10 per adult and $5 per child 10 & under. Please use the link below to register or contact the church office before 4 pm on Monday, January 5th. And stay after supper to help us pack up and put away the beautiful Christmas decorations.

Meal registration link: https://elbertonfmc.subspla.sh/xdrw79r

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In 1959 Bill Gaither graduated from Anderson College, Indiana, with a bachelor's degree in English and a minor in Music. He went to work as an English teacher, pursuing music on the side. In 1963 he was asked to play the piano for a revival meeting in the area that featured the preaching of Dr. Dale Oldham. The meeting went well and afterwards Dr. Oldham asked Bill to write a song that included the words, “He touched me.” Gaither, who would later say that “songs are like whispered answers to questions of the heart”, took the words from Oldham as the theme of his first hit song, “He Touched Me.” This song would later be recorded by the Imperials, Elvis Presley, Tennessee Ernie Ford, and, more recently, Steven Curtis Chapman. Bill Gaither might have been writing about the woman that Jesus made whole in Luke 13:10-17.

We are looking at the Luke passage this week and the spiritual wholeness that Jesus wants to bring to us all.

Blessings,
Pastor John