SUNDAY AND WEEKDAY ACTIVITIES -- temporarily postponed
Sunday School, Adult and Children will be meeting at 10:00 A.M.
Adults will meet in the Library. Children and Youth will meet in the Youth and Children’s Area.
SUNDAY POT LUCK LUNCH -- has resumed Fall 2022
Usually the 4th Sunday of each month, following Sunday Morning Service.
All Members and Guests are invited to attend . Share your favorite dish!
WEDNESDAY BIBLE STUDY -- temporarily postponed
At 1:00 P.M. Bible Study will be held in the Library. Open to all.
ST. PAUL'S WOMEN'S GUILD -- has resumed June 2021
St. Paul's has a small but very active Women's Guild which meets every first Tuesday of the month. The Guild has a short devotional followed by a business meeting. Then they work on their mission project, which for several years has been to sew caps for cancer patients who are going through chemotherapy. The group then tops the day off by going out to eat. Join us!
7:00 p.m.
9:00 a.m. breakfast, egg hunt, decorating Easter flower cross in Sanctuary
11:00 a.m.
See below for Oktoberfest,
German Advent Service, and
Christmas Services.
December 24, at 6:30 p.m.
Open Commuion
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Evangelical and Reformed Church merger
Congregational Christian Church merger
United Church of Christ merger
Service of Lessons and Carols.
German program with English translation.
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Reception in Fellowship Hall following service.
During the Holocaust, as many countries only agreed to accept limited numbers of Jewish refugees, Max and Helen Sebba were among the fortunate.
In the hours after Kristallnacht in November 1938, Max realized that he and his wife had to get out of Danzig and the growing Nazi terror.
Within weeks, the couple successfully escaped to England with a just few belongings. But their quick getaway was not filled with relief and hope but rather anxiety and apprehension for the loved ones they left behind.
This was the family secret that Mrs. Sebba took to her grave.
And it’s a story that might have never been told today if it weren’t for an old desk at an estate sale and a chance meeting with the Hollywood star Jane Seymour, whose own father is Jewish and helped liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945.
A man named Tim Mallad purchased Mrs. Sebba’s drop-front desk at her estate sale and made a discovery that Mrs. Sebba’s own grandchildren knew nothing about.
Tucked away inside a hidden compartment of that desk was a collection of old letters, written in German, from World War II.
The fragile stationary explains how, in the final days of the war, thousands of innocent German families took their own lives in fear of what the conquering Soviets would do to them.
Then, in heartbreaking detail, these letters document the intimate last moments of Mrs. Sebba’s brother, his wife and their 13-year-old daughter.
Their conversation, written word-for-word by a refugee who lived with them, hauntingly recounts the girl begging her father to end their lives with cyanide before Russian soldiers returned to rape her and her mother again.
But how were Jews still living freely in Nazi Germany? The letters led to new questions and a story that history never captured.
Tim Mallad turned to another Jewish Holocaust survivor, Mr. Walter J. Levy, now 100-years-old, to help piece Mrs. Sebba’s family tree back together.
Determined not to let this story slip through the passage of time,
Tim Mallad tracks down the Sebbas only surviving grandchild and together they travel to Germany to retrace what happened.
The documentary ‘Let Us Die’ tells one of the last untold stories from World War II and reveals the
complexities facing many families during this terrible moment in time.
If you are unable to attend in person at 11:00 a.m. in the sanctuary, please join us via Zoom. Here is the log in information:
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Sunday, March 31, 2024, worship in the Sanctuary.
Scripture readings:
Isaiah 25:6-9 and Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 and Acts 10:34-43 and Mark 16:1-8
Sermon: "Raised for Life"
Sunday Morning Worship: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1joUlrPcptP6_umh8YmlEFKhSKbQcnrE9?usp=sharing
Oktoberfest Konzert: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VvrWHPhjWehqdpEkUyvZo8fCVtiHjlbF?usp=sharing
Enjoy!https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1joUlrPcptP6_umh8YmlEFKhSKbQcnrE9?usp=sharinghttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1joUlrPcptP6_umh8YmlEFKhSKbQcnrE9?usp=sharinghttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VvrWHPhjWehqdpEkUyvZo8fCVtiHjlbF?usp=sharinghttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VvrWHPhjWehqdpEkUyvZo8fCVtiHjlbF?usp=sharing
Sunday, October 22, 2023, we will meet in the Sanctuary for worship. Then stay for Oktoberfest! Scripture readings are
Jeremiah 31:31-34 * Psalm 46 * Romans 3:19-28 * John 8:31-36
Sermon: "Though the earth should change"
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