December 4, 2019

Dear Church of the Apostles,

I want to invite you to join Tamara and I as we engage together with our Apostles family in four ways to keep this Advent season well.

Engage with quiet and rest this Saturday morning at our annual Parish Quiet Day. Fires will be going inside and out, calm spaces will be offered for reflection, reading, prayer, or even sleep, and we will gather for three times of short community prayer throughout the morning. Come for a few minutes or for the whole time. See details below.

Engage with Scripture and prayer using the Daily Office this Advent season. We will have Daily Office booklets available on the Greeters’ Table this Sunday. You may also fine these two online resources helpful as well.

• The ACNA Daily Office site at legereme.com.

• A daily reading of Office at thetrinitymission.org.

Engage with the neighborhood by inviting people we know to the Advent and Christmas events below especially the Sing-a-long, Christmas Eve service, and 12th Night Party. Invitation cards are available on the greeters table and more information is provided below for each event.

Engage in justice. Mark your calendars for the Gather Together event on Saturday, January 11 from 9am-noon. Apostles is hosting and partnering with The Underground and the Partnership to End Human Trafficking (PEHT) to present this information and education session about the sex trade in Fairfield County to help us better understand the darkness of slavery that exists right here and now.

At Gather Together we will hear more detail about a follow-up event scheduled on Saturday, January 25 to canvass local businesses asking them to display a poster alerting people to the signs of trafficking and promoting a hotline to report activity and seek help.

I hope that you will crescendo to Christmas and beyond by joining us in these activities and events.

Peace and Hope,

Brian+