Let’s start the New Year by reclaiming a tradition from past years! Prior to COVID, on the Sunday following Christmas Day, TMUC worshipped in Yale Hall. This Sunday (January 1, 2023!) we reclaim that tradition with “Worship Around the Breakfast Table” at 10 a.m. You are invited to bring ‘finger foods’ to share in our…
‘Twas the night before the night before Christmas… And all through the church The candles were waiting Snug in their wreath’s perch The manger was ready For Christ to arrive God’s love born anew God’s love come alive! TMUC’s Christmas Eve service is tomorrow evening at 7 p.m. We gather on Christmas morning for worship at 10 a.m. The…
PLEASE NOTE – There is a parking ban to allow for snow clearing for Yale Avenue West including the block on which the church is located for Sunday, December 18 from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. The ban also includes parallel streets like Ravelston, but does not include Winona or Bond. The services, both the…
We light the third Advent candle – the candle of Joy! This week in Sunday worship we will sing: Joy is Now in Every Place; and I Have Called You by Your Name: and Good Christian Friends Rejoice and Away in a Manger NOTE: We will be celebrating the sacrament of baptism this Sunday,…
On Sunday we light the second Advent candle – the candle of peace! This week in Sunday worship we will sing: Put Peace Into Each Other’s Hands and People Look East Faith communities have been looking east, and lighting candles of peace for centuries, and praying for peace without ceasing. Advent reminds us that…
Light the First Candle This weekend is the advent of Advent!! The weeks of Advent prepare us for the birth of Jesus. This year we are reading from Matthew’s Gospel – stars fill the church sanctuary as we hear the story of Joseph’s dream. God’s angel appears to Joseph in a dream. It is a dream of…
This Sunday will be the last service of the year. correction… of the church year! The season of Advent begins on November 27. Advent begins a new year on the Christian church’s calendar – a calendar that moves through the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Ordinary Time, Lent, Easter, Pentecost, Ordinary Time and Creation Time! So, this…
Two minutes of silence… At the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day, of the eleventh month… Two minutes of silence…. Two minutes of remembering…. …those whose voices were silenced by war, …a world divided and at war …hopes for a time of peace. Today, at the eleventh hour, we again pause for two minutes of…
If “a penny saved is a penny earned…” And “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush’…. Then is it true that ‘a clock re-set is an hour gained!’ Yes, it is true! At least it will be true this Saturday. Daylight Savings Time ends this weekend, so, remembering to ‘spring forward and…
Trick or treat! We are just a few days away from hearing young voices shout those words from outside our front doors. Monday is Hallowe’en! How did the phrase “trick or treat” come to be? There are several theories – and if the Internet is to be believed – all might be true! Some say that…
