Resolution: Past and Future

Bringing Resolution to Last Year and Making Resolutions for Next Year.

We'll meet Sunday 1/4/15 at 4 p.m. For dinner bring your favorite Holliday Best Overs (aka: Left Overs)

Our Scriptural reflection will be on Matthew 2:1-12.

Notice at the end of this reading how the Wise Men return home by "another road".

Is it time for you to travel a different road this year?…

Next week Stone Soup meets on Saturday 1/10. See below for details

Matthew 2:1-12

The Visit of the Wise Men

In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, ‘Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage.’ When King Herod heard this, he was frightened, and all Jerusalem with him; and calling together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Messiah was to be born. They told him, ‘In Bethlehem of Judea; for so it has been written by the prophet: 
“And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
   are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for from you shall come a ruler
   who is to shepherd my people Israel.” ’

 Then Herod secretly called for the wise men and learned from them the exact time when the star had appeared. Then he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, ‘Go and search diligently for the child; and when you have found him, bring me word so that I may also go and pay him homage.’ When they had heard the king, they set out; and there, ahead of them, went the star that they had seen at its rising, until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw that the star had stopped, they were overwhelmed with joy. On entering the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother; and they knelt down and paid him homage. Then, opening their treasure-chests, they offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they left for their own country by another road.

Join Cynthia, Rob and members of the Columbus and Saluda United Methodist Churches in the New Year as we visit the Russian Chapel Winery. (Green Creek Road) We will attend a special Traditional Russian Bells performance hosted by the Russian Chapel Hills Winery. The traditional Russian bell-ringing performance will be Saturday, Jan. 10 at 2 p.m. and we will make a short pilgrimage to the chapel for a time of prayer and then head into the tasting room for fellowship and camaraderie.
Gabriel Gaidenak will play the “Bilo”, a standing framework of flat bells struck by mallet with a resonant, meditative sound. The instrument, represents a lost style used long ago for church services in Russia.The sound of Russian bell-ringing has been called “music of the soul.” Take this chance to connect heaven and earth through sound.
Please put this on your calendar  and invite a friend – you will find it will truly be an uplifting and spiritual experience.

Columbus UMC will meet at 1 p.m. to carpool from the church.

Saluda UMC will meet at 12:45 p.m. to carpool from the church.

Call Rob for more information 606-3452