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Give the gift of your body, your spirit and soul
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Saturday Morning Worship 9:30 and 11:00 am 3333 Griffin Ave. 825-4155
CHURCH OF
CHRIST
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Jim Miller Anthony Wilson
2627 Kibler Avenue Enumclaw, WA 98022 (360) 825-5903
www.kiblerchurchofchrist.org
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Saturday Night Worship 7 pm Sunday Morning Worship 9:30 am Interim Pastor: Ron Oldenkamp Assoc. Pastor: Cindy Ehlke Youth Dir.: Ben Auger 1725 Porter St., Enumclaw 360-825-3820 www.calvarypreschurch.org
“A Joyful Family Centered in Christ”
Traditional Family Worship Sunday 10am
sacredheartenumclaw.org 1614 Farrelly Street, Enumclaw 360-825-3759
Dan Martin
Worship Service 10:45am • Sunday School 9:30am www.hillside-communitychurch.org
First Baptist Church Enumclaw
The Friendliest Church in Town!
Celebrate the Lord with US!
Sunday Services
Bible Classes for all ages.......................................................................................9:30am Morning Worship.................................................................................................11:00am Discipleship Classes ............................................................................................. 5:30pm
Wednesday Services
Bible Studies .......................................................................................................... 6:30pm
Pastor: James Dunn, Ph.D. Music Director: Jenny Hammond Minister of Education: Sharon Goodspend
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Our Redeemer Lutheran
Rev. Anthony K. A. Davis Saturday Mass - 5:00 pm Sunday Masses 8:00 am & 10:00 am 1:00 pm Misa en Español
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Sunday Bible Classes 9:45 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship 10:45 a.m. Sunday Evening Worship 6:00 p.m. Wednesday Bible Classes 7:00 p.m. Ministers:
Our Doors are Always Open
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
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Speaking the Truth in Love
“Come find a place in His heart.”
3466 Porter • (360)825-1111 • www.firstbaptistch1.qwestoffice.net email:firstbaptistch1@qwestoffice.net
Sunday School 9am
Pastor
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Enumclaw Seventh-day Adventist Church
believe in the concept of, and someone else who doesn’t even want it will buy it and gift it to someone they don’t even like . . . or, perhaps we’re a loving parent or grandparent or friend, looking for that special gift for a special someone, and some little piece of creation will be just the thing . . . and we’ll all be doing it in the name of the baby from Bethlehem, Judea, Israel, that was born, lived and died 2,000 years ago. Whether or not you understand or believe in what you’re doing, Jesus, the Christ, the Son of the Living God, is being honored with a party, complete with noise and gifts, and food and drink, and ridiculous celebration! Why do we do it? For the baby! Here’s to the baby! “Happy birthday Jesus, and thank you so much for getting involved with us so we can have such a wonderful party now, and then, one day, when it’s time, the greatest party ever! Thank you!” This year, give God a gift. Give him your self – body, soul and spirit. And if you’ve already gifted him like that, re-gift him with the same thing. He loves it when we do that! Dale Pratt can be reached at dale@cedarcommunitychurch.org
253-862-0715
12407 214th Ave. E., Bonney Lake OurRedeemerLutheran @hotmail.com
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST
(Christian Science) 1752 Wells Street, Enumclaw (360) 825-5300 Sunday Service............10:00am Sunday School ............10:00am Wednesday Meeting .........7:30 pm READING ROOM 1752 Wells Street, Enumclaw (360) 825-5300 Mon. & Tues. 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Wed. 6:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
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Shepherds were startled with the news of the birth, on that first Christmas night, by an angelic being . . . and then a whole gang of them. And somewhere in the Far East – beyond the borders of the Middle East – some early astronomer/ astrologers were star-gazing, when a phenomenon caught their eye so powerfully that they would come to risk their lives and several small fortunes to go find the baby that they knew would be at the bottom of the star-light. And now, 2,017 years later, we’re spending several large fortunes – each year – to say “Happy birthday!” to the baby, that grew into his mission, and completed it! And the whole world is joining in the party! There are hundreds of thousands of folks – probably millions – scattered all around the world, whose sole product is icons for this baby – in some phase of his life and mission – and perhaps the majority of those folks don’t either understand what they’re creating, out of habit, nor believe in this divine intervention in the flow of the history of our little world . . . but they keep on going to work and creating. So someone, somewhere, will create something they don’t understand or
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I’ve been around the of Christmas. So what Christian celebration of does that mean interChurch Christmas, and all the nationally? Perhaps Corner ornamentation of this more than a trillion holiday, since birth. dollars? We’ll be passI’ve heard all the ranting around nearly halfing about how it’s actua-trillion here at home, Dale Pratt ally some pagan holiso I don’t think this Cedar Community Church day that has nothing to number is out of line. do with Jesus, and that And it’s estimated that the Christmas tree and we’ll spend more than ornaments and lights and gift giving and $3 billion just buying Christmas trees . . . receiving all have some evil inception and hmmmmmmmm . . . have nothing whatsoever to do with the So something just over 2,000 years Baby in the manger. And I’ve done my ago, a baby was born in the little village share of yowling about the commercial- of Bethlehem, just a few miles outside of ization of Christmas and all the money Jerusalem. The baby was reasonably nondewe spend, and sardonically quipped about script, as Jewish babies go . . . and there were how we spend money buying gifts no one lots of them born that winter. But we have wants to give to people we don’t even like, some story around this baby! His momma and how it’s expected of us and we play into was preinformed of her pregnancy and that the game . . . yada, yada, yada . . . or some it was of divine intervention and the baby such blah, blah. was on special mission from God. And Then, a few years ago, I had a rather his ‘daddy’ also received special angelic substantial reorientation of my thinking. visitation to help him cope with a pregTake a look at this stuff: there will be nancy he didn’t have anything to do with, about $450 billion dollars worth of eco- but for which he would be credited. And nomic activity generated in the United Joe was also told that the baby was divine States alone this year for the celebration in nature and on special mission.
Everyone Welcome!
Enumclaw Church of Christ SUNDAY WORSHIP: Morning Bible Classes .............9:30 a.m.
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Now Meeting at 26007 SE 425th, Enumclaw WA 98022 Morning Worship....................10:30 a.m. Evening Worship.......................6:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY WORSHIP: Evening Bible Classes..............7:00p.m.
Come be our welcome guest! (360) 825-2182