Annual Congregational Meeting
The 2021 Annual congregational meeting will be held on January 24th in the sanctuary immediately following the second service - approximately 11:40 AM. The agenda will include the election of committee members for: Council, Nominating and Audit committees. The meeting will also include a short review of 2020 finances, the 2021 budget and amendments to the NALC Synod constitution. Please try to attend
OSLC Pastoral Call Committee
There will be a congregational workshop on Saturday, January 23, from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Lunch will be provided. We will meet in the sanctuary, have breakout sessions in Sunday School rooms, and we will ask that everyone wear masks and maintain safe social distancing. The workshop will be led by Pastor Tim Christ, who is our acting Mission District Dean.
The workshop has several goals:
1. To engage the congregation in biblical study and reflection upon the nature of the call of God.
2. To invite congregational members to evaluate past relationships between the pastors and our congregation. To discover what our members find to be the most important characteristics of a Pastor.
3. To reflect how conflict and tension are handled in the congregation.
4. To enlist all members of the congregation into providing input into several aspects of the congregational profile that is sent to the NALC.
Please keep this committee in your prayers asking they have insight and wisdom when it comes to finding a new pastor. The members of the committee are: Kimberly Butler, Carmen Nazario, Bill Hebb, Alan Cumming, Blaine Davis, and Roger Stai.
Come Have Coffee with Pastor Wally
Contact is important and difficult in the time of Covid. In order to meet the people of Our Saviour's Pastor Wally is:
- Inviting all who are comfortable with a Coffee Get together to meet Wednesday’s at the pavilion 1:30 – 3 at the Pavilion. Bring your own coffee (or other drink), snacks if you like...and if possible a chair. By meeting outside, and socially distancing, we are trying to keep safe
- Is calling people on the phone
- just rejoined Facebook. Please connect (“friend”) him. He is listed as “Stephen Seibel”
Thursday Morning Bible Study
We are beginning a 12 week Bible study on Thursday, January 14th at 10:00 AM. Our topic this time is Exodus! We are a small group and we meet in the fellowship hall. We maintain social distancing. We have study books available. Please join us!
Contact Chris Burris for more information at cburris9031@gmail.com.
BYOB – Bring Your Own Bibles
The Gospel lesson in the bulletin used to not be printed in the bulletin, so that you would either use your own Bibles, or the pew Bibles to follow along. We are returning to that, and encouraging you to bring your Bibles from home, to follow the reading of this lesson on Sunday morning.
White Gifts Drive
Christmas brought Our Saviour’s another opportunity to share the true meaning of Christmas. At the Christmas Eve services we collected “White Gifts” for newborns. The gifts served as a reminder that Christmas is a time for giving and the greatest gift was the savior we were given. The gifts were wrapped in white for the purity of our new born king. The gifts were donated to St Paul’s Children’s Services in Tyler. Wyatt from St Paul’s accepted the gifts and sent thanks to all who shared the love.
Join our weekly Epistle here
