King Avenue Digest 12/11/20
December 11, 2020
The Advent Season at King Avenue Church
Although Advent season will look quite different this year due to the pandemic, King Avenue Church still has opportunities for mission, faith formation, support, music, and worship. Click here for all of King Avenue's Advent and Christmas virtual events.
King Avenue Happenings-
EFFECTIVE NOW: Resuming In-Person Worship - Since Franklin County has been downgraded in status from purple to red, King Avenue will resume in-person worship services this coming Sunday, December 6 at 9am and 11am. All our safety precautions of social distancing, masking, and sanitizing will be in effect. Please arrive for worship no more than 15 minutes before the service. Live streaming of both services will continue as always. Be safe and well.
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By Dec 18: Submit Blue Christmas Names - Falling on the winter solstice, our Blue Christmas Worship is a contemplative, candlelit service will include opportunity for persons to remember loved ones, to pray for the world, and to remember God’s love in Christ. You may participate by livestream or you may attend in person. CLICK HERE to learn more about the service and how to honor your loved one.
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Calling All Musicians up to age 18 Years Old! If you play an instrument and would like to share your musical gift during the Christmas Eve family worship service, now's the time to start practicing! Record yourself playing your piece and email/share your video to erin@kingave.org by Dec. 13th. Your performance video will be included in the prelude of our virtual service. Let Erin know if you have any questions!
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Comprehensive Campaign and 2021 Operating Budget Pledges Welcome! Please submit your pledges to the Comprehensive Campaign and the 2021 operating budget by December 4. Remember that your pledges may be done online through Realm. For assistance, please contact our stewardship secretary Charlene Dubin at charlene@kingave.org. Thank you very much.
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Automatic Payments in Realm - Do you give via automatic drafts in Realm? These drafts "stop" after December 31 each year. To continue your draft into 2021, please remember to set this up for 2021. If you have questions, please email Charlene Dubin at charlene@kingave.org. Thank you for your gifts. They are needed and appreciated.
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NOW through Dec 13: Hubbard Holiday Help - Please consider giving a gift or a meal to a Hubbard School family in need of support this Christmas. CLICK HERE for more information. The deadline for gifts/gift cards is December 13. Contact Erin Kendall at erin@kingave.org with questions or for more information.
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Dec 17 & 29: Open Shelter Lunch Packing - Do you have some available time to help those in need? Join the King Avenue lunch packers on December 17, 6:00pm or December 29, 6:00pm. Please take all necessary precautions to ensure your safety and those of the fellow lunch packers.
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NOW through Dec 26: NNEMAP Holiday Food Drive - The Holiday Food Drive sponsored by the Dennison Place Neighborhood Association and the Short North Block Watch will continue on Saturdays through the end of the year. A blue bin will be outside the southwest entrance to the church every Saturday from noon- 6 PM.
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Sunday Worship Sermon Series - Light for the World, November 29 - December 20
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Advent at Home Kits - Pick up your own Advent at Home Kit! Come by the church Saturdays 10-noon, Sundays 10-11 & noon-12:30, and M-F 10am-2pm, call Amy at 614-266-5030 to make arrangements.
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Sounds of the Season Advent Music Series - Our Sounds of the Season Advent Music Series will occur Sundays at 4:00pm throughout Advent. There are still 2 opportunities available this season! December 13, Heartsong concert (Livestream); and December 20, Advent Lessons & Carols (Recorded). Check the landing page (home) of this worship page on Sundays at 4:00 to find the live-streamed events.
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Dec 11-13: CGMC presents the 31st Annual JOY! Holiday Spectacular - With a mixture of both classic and comical music, you will be witness to a telethon gone awry — where a failing studio is trying desperately to stay alive by bringing up the cheer-o-meter! The show will provide a much-needed humorous take on the season. JOY! IS A SPECIAL VIRTUAL PERFORMANCE . Go to CGMC YouTube channel to attend the concert virtually. Performances are December 11 at 8:00pm, December 12 at 2:00pm & 8:00pm, December 13 at 6:00pm.
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Dec 2-23: Join an Advent Study, Names for the Messiah - Join us for an Advent study, Names for the Messiah, based on Isaiah 9:6. This class will discuss how people understood the titles of Jesus and how we understand them now. This study will be held on Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. on 12/2, 12/9, 12/16, 12/23. This class will be led by Rev. John Keeny and meets weekly on Zoom. CLICK HERE to register.
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Dec 21: Blue Christmas Worship - Not everyone feels like celebrating the holidays with great cheer. For those who have experienced the recent loss of a loved one or other serious grief, observance of Christmas may evoke as much melancholy as joy. 2020 has been a year of many challenges for the world, for our nation, and for the church. It has given us, as Christians, much to think about, to pray for, and to do in service. It is in light of this rather sobering year, that we add an additional worship service – Blue Christmas – and change, temporarily, one holiday tradition. Rather than inviting you to purchase poinsettias in memory or honor of loved ones, we would like to put a star ornament on a Chancel or Fellowship Hall Christmas tree to express gratitude for all that those we remember, and honor mean to us. We will place Moravian star ornaments on the trees during the Blue Christmas worship service, where they will remain for Christmas Eve worship. Blue Christmas worship is Monday, December 21 at 7 pm by livestream or you may attend in person as long as Franklin County is not stage purple. Falling on the winter solstice, this contemplative, candlelit service will include opportunity for persons to remember loved ones, to pray for the world, and to remember God’s love shared freely in Christ. CLICK HERE to learn more.
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Dec 24: Zoom Family Service will be held via Zoom at 4:30pm.
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Dec 24: Organ Mini Concert will be available on our online worship service beginning at 6:00pm on December 24.
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Dec 24: Pre-recorded Christmas Eve Worship will be available on our online worship service beginning at 6:00pm on December 24.
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Dec 24: Candlelight and Caroling is an outside, in-person Christmas Eve service of scripture, candle lighting, luminaries, and caroling in the south parking lot of our church, 7:30pm-8pm. Parking will be in our west lot and the OSU lot on Pennsylvania Avenue.
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December NNEMAP Needs - Donate Books for all ages, especially kids! Baby wipes, Large Size Diapers (size 5 and 6), Grooming Kits-We would prefer to have hygiene drives provide specific items as opposed to a bag or kit. With our current distribution method, we need to have the specifics our families request. Hygiene items are always low! We always need dental items, razors, and shampoo, and feminine hygiene items. NOTE: SOAP AND PURELL REQUESTED FOR OUR CLIENTS WITH THE CONCERN FOR THE CORONA VIRUS!
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Dec 27: Lit Club - The Lit Club will get together on December 27 at 7pm to discuss Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid,
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Beginning Dec 3: The Harbor Post-High School Community - The Harbor is a post-high school community of faith and fellowship for young people (through age 24). This is a safe space for support, connection, and refreshment before heading back out into different directions. The Harbor is faith-based since many of us are connected to King Avenue UMC in Columbus, OH, but it is also a place where faith and life questions are encouraged and welcomed. We expect and celebrate the ways in which our beliefs evolve and change during life transitions. The Harbor affirms and works for the inclusion of all people, including all gender identities, LGBTQ folx, all races and ethnicities, all (dis)abilities, and all religious traditions. Participate in our Facebook group, and join us for our first Zoom meeting on Thursday, Dec. 3rd at 8 pm: Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 839 7538 7900 Passcode: 959998