February 22nd at 7:00 pm

Worship, music & imposition of ashes

Our journey to the joy of Easter begins with acknowledging our need for a savior.

Join us each Sunday in Lent as we make our pilgrimage through Galilee to Jerusalem, from lakeshore to city streets,. We know that there is a difference between a just for fun road trip and a pilgrimage. But do we know how to make that difference real in our life, whatever part of life’s journey we are on? That is our spiritual topic this Lenten season as we explore pilgrimage: through worship and service, small group and solitary prayer. As in all things, we know that the Holy Spirit will open our hearts and minds to the deeper pilgrimage open to all of us. Join us beginning the evening of Ash Wednesday.

“O Holy Night” Shiloh Choir Christmas Cantata

Sunday, December 19th at 11:00 am Worship

Don’t miss our annual Choir Christmas offering as part of our worship service the Sunday before Christmas. Dress rehearsal is at Friendship Manor Dec 15th at 7:00 where our Youth will also be joining in fellowship with the residents. Join us there!

November 5th from 5:30 on

Christmas holiday visits to a parent in prison or jail can be traumatic experiences for a child.  The Christmas stocking gift makes that time a little brighter and less tense….and the stocking you make may be the only gift some of these children receive…

These home-made stockings are filled with small toys and other goodies.  As always, we supply the stockings! There is a standard pattern, but you can make it as plain or fancy as you like.   See Carole for the pattern if you don’t have one.

Bring one and all to our family night in November for the decorating and sewing of stockings for this project. Dinner will be served and it’s a great way to get in the true Christmas spirit.

These home-made stockings are filled with small toys and other goodies. As always, we supply the stockings! There is a standard pattern, but you can make it as plain or fancy as you like. See Carole for the pattern if you don’t have one.

Bring one and all to our family night in November for the decorating and sewing of stockings for this project. Dinner will be served and it’s a great way to get in the true Christmas spirit.

We’ve got a plan…..

First Wednesday of every month we’ll go to Breath of Life to reach out in ministry in our community

Second and third Wednesday’s we’ll reach in and deepen our faith through a combination of Scripture, games, snacks and sharing

Fourth Wednesday’s is “Field Trip” when both youth groups either hit the road for an activity or have our ‘field trip’ brought in by a guest who’ll bring a new skill or activity to share.

September’s Field Trip: Our very own Blanca will teach us how to make a Mexican meal, complete with homemade tortillas and salsa (we’ll provide the chicken and other stuff).

Be there by 6:30 and we’ll get going so we’ll have time to enjoy the great food.

Scripture topic: Remember you yourselves were once foreigners in Egypt…Ex 22:21

February 17th at 7:00 pm

Worship, music & imposition of ashes

Our journey to the joy of Easter begins with acknowledging our need for a savior.

Join us each Sunday in Lent as we explore the life of Jonah and Jesus’ call to us to heed the sign of Jonah’s life.

Trite as the saying may be, it’s still true. If you don’t care where you’re going, any road will do. But how often do we truly not care where we end up? Even when we say we don’t care who picks the movie or the restaurant, just let someone suggest something and you’ll suddenly find you did care. The New Year presents all of us at Shiloh with the time to consider where it is we want to end up this year. End up individually. End up as a congregation. End up as part of the community around us. The New Year presents us with a time to decide what it is we actually care about. Then having figured out what that is, it is up to us as followers of Jesus Christ to try and discern how God would have us behave.

We begin this January building upon the momentum of our Advent and Christmas. Administrative Council will be meeting in retreat in mid-January for a training time on strengths-based leadership and communication. The entire church is invited to save Sunday evening, January 31st for a potluck dinner State of the Church gathering in which we will share our thoughts on Shiloh’s mission and ministry for 2010. Our Youth Group will continue its activities through Breath of Life, weekly gatherings and a weekend outing to the Winter Blitz 2010 at the Kentucky Convention Center. This yearly gathering of the youth of the Kentucky Conference is a loud, lively inspiring time of faith-sharing from some of the country’s leading youth speakers and musicians. Our Tuesday night small group resumes with “Bo’s Café”, a story of one man’s encounters with grace at an amazing café, published by the people who brought The Shack to publication. Our Sunday School class for adults will also begin a new study in January, “I Can’t See God Because I’m in the Way” in which we explore the possibility that God’s abundant life is present for us if we just change our spiritual perspective. Our women’s small groups on Sunday morning and Friday lunch continue meeting and will be selecting new materials later in the month.

The one thing we all know we care about is that Shiloh’s sense of family, where we know each person by name, continues to be central to our mission and ministry. Be sure to know that you will be missed if you are not with us in worship, in fellowship, in study and in ministry this January.
Pastor Susan