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Events and Outreach
Interfaith Thanksgiving Gathering
Wednesday
November 20th
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The Brookfield-Elm Grove Interfaith Network (BEGIN) invites everyone to a Thanksgiving Gathering. This is always a popular event. Singers can come early to learn a song and participate in an interfaith choir.
Date: 20 Nov 2024
Time: 7:00 – 8:00 p. m. (Interfaith Choir Practice at 6:30 p. m.)
Location: Unity Lutheran Church
20700 West North Avenue
Brookfield, WI53045
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Mother's Day Out - Thankful Turkey
Thru
November 27th
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Stop by the church office or head over by the MDO office and fill out your turkey feather with what you’re thankful for so it can be added to the Mother’s Day Out Thankful Turkey!
Mission Gift Festival
Sunday
November 24th
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Make a difference this Christmas.
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Join us November 24th to learn about six important mission agencies and to purchase mission gifts for your loved ones. It’s a great opportunity to connect with your Community UMC friends and get some holiday “shopping” done. You will also be able to find out more about each organization and how else you might be able to help them, not just at Christmas time, while doing your shopping.
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Click Here for the Mission Gift Festival Brochure
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Click Here for the Description of Mission Partners
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MDO Gives Back
Thru
November 26th
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Scholastic Great Bedtime Story Pajama Drive
Bring items in by November 26th
(You may drop items in the church office or leave items in the Narthex)
Children’s Pajamas
Sizes Infant – 12
*All donations will go to a local organization and Scholastic Books will donate a book to go along with every pair of pajamas given.
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Click Here for the Mission Gift Festival Brochure
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Click Here for the Description of Mission Partners
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Advent
As the air starts to chill we turn our attention to the holy advent.
Christ was born into a weary world. King Herod ruled the land with a legacy of ruthlessness. The Romans treated the people of Israel with contempt, imposing harsh taxes and land seizures that forced many into subsistence farming. Poverty and destitution were pervasive. And yet, Christ was born, bringing good news of great joy for all people. As Advent comes again to a weary world, we ask, “How does a weary world rejoice?” This year, we will follow the stories in the opening chapters of Luke’s Gospel. As we hold space for our weariness and our joy, we will seek a “thrill of hope” in our hurting world. This Advent, may we find many ways to rejoice.
Winter Cantata
Thank you to all of the Festival Choir and Orchestra members who brought us the moving and faithful message of Jesus’ birth through this year’s Christmas Cantata. The themes and message of Songs of Justice, Songs of Hope, Songs of Joy were inspiring and challenged everyone listening to see Jesus and the Holy Family in a new light. We celebrate Tyler Walters’ original arrangements and compositions which added depths of peace and joy to our experience. Unfortunately, we missed an important recognition! A very special thank you goes to Danielle Bridges, for her faithfulness to the fuller story of Jesus’ birth that goes beyond the manger scene we so sweetly conjure in our minds each year. Danielle put many, many hours into creating this year’s cantata by selecting each song individually, choosing appropriate scriptures, and writing the narration that tied everything together in a beautiful way. The result was a masterful work that invited us to celebrate the birth of Jesus and to turn inward to examine how we welcome “the other” in our daily lives! In the days ahead, please thank all those who participated in the cantata!
Christmas Eve Services
Jesus’ birth is a story about God making room—for great joy to break beyond boundaries, for awe to push past the limits of our imaginations, for welcome to be extended to shepherds and strangers. This is a story about how God makes room.
Luke’s Gospel tells us that when Mary gives birth to Jesus, she lays him in a manger, for there was no place for them in the guest room. Scholars argue about where, exactly, the birth occurs—and why. Was it in a stable or the living room of a simple peasant home? Was Bethlehem teeming with visitors who were also there to be counted in the census? Was Joseph’s family inhospitable because they disapproved of his marital situation? Regardless of where the birth occurs, we know that Christ is born in a crowded, unlikely place. And yet, God makes a place here anyway. God draws the circle wider as shepherds and unexpected guests arrive. This Christmas, let us also make room—for strangers and neighbors alike. For this is good news of great joy for all people.
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Christmas Eve Music & Bulletins
