Mark your calendars and come celebrate the season with us!

Angel Breakfast
Saturday, December 6th, 8:30am-11:00am
Ages through grade 6, open to the community
RSVPs preferred, call the church office.

St. Nicholas Day
Sunday, December 7th, 10:30am service
From Grades 6 and below, bring an unwrapped toy for your child to present in service to St. Nicholas. And have them wear shoes good for receiving goodies as he will hide them in Sadler Hall!

Church Family Potluck
Sunday, December 14th, 12noon (after 2nd service)
Main Course and Drinks will be provided. Bring your favorite holiday side dish or dessert to share—enough to serve 8.

Greening of the Church
Sunday, December 21st, 3:00pm
Come join the Altar Guild as they decorate the church for our Christmas Eve services.
(Remember to get you poinsettia dedication in by Sunday, December 14th.)

Christmas Eve Services
Wednesday, December 24th
5:00p.m. Family Service
Our Children present a Christmas Pageant!
10:30p.m. Festival of Music
Come simply listen or sing along with our Worship Team!
11:00p.m. Candlelight Service
Come let us adore Him!

Lessons and Carols Service
Sunday, December 28th
The gospel story interspersed with familiar carols of the season.

As you know, we filed our opening brief in our appeal this past May. The Episcopal Church (TEC) and the Los Angeles Diocese filed their opening briefs at the beginning of October. For our response to the L.A. Diocese’s and TEC’s opening briefs our attorneys have requested an extension to December 4. After our response is filed the timeline would be 30 days for amicus briefs (friends of the court briefs) to be filed, then it would be in the hands of the Appellate judges in the beginning of January. This is the same time that there should be a decision in the California Supreme Court St. James case- their decision should be made by Jan. 8. Even when there is a ruling with the St. James case, it is not an automatic decision for our case. We still need to proceed through the process of our appeal.

Please continue to pray for your Vestry, Sr. Warden, and Rector. Also, keep in prayer the California Supreme Court Justices, our Appellate Court Justices (4th District, Div. 1), and especially our attorneys, Eric Sohlgren and Daniel Lula.

Thank you for keeping all of this in your prayers.

Blessings,
Fr. Rob Holman, Rector
Debbie Kollgaard, Sr. Warden