Peakland UMC

Grace and peace to you, welcome to Sunday morning worship for December 4, 2022. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor at Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg Virginia. Today is the second Sunday in the season of Advent, our season to prepare the way of the Lord. We’ll be recording the Advent worship services here in the sanctuary throughout Advent, so that you can see how the sanctuary looks this happy season.

Today is communion Sunday, and you are welcome to participate later in the service. You’ll need a cup of grape juice and a bit of bread, enough for your household.

It's the tradition of Peakland and many churches to light candles during advent. As we light the candles, we remember that in the darkness, a light shines and grows in strength. Christ is that light, and we pray his light will grow stronger in us this season.

Grace and peace to you and welcome to Trusting God at all Times Kids Edition. This devotion is created for children of all ages. I’m Rev. Joe, and I’m the pastor at Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg Virginia. All are welcome

In our time together now we’re going to do three things. Hold up three fingers. We’re going to sing our song with our mouths. We’re going to listen to a story from the Bible with our ears, and we’re going to pray the action prayer with using our words and our actions to pray and talk to God..

Let’s begin with our song, He’s got the whole world in his hands.

Garrison Keillor on Being A Methodist PODCAST EDITION by Peakland UMC

Good morning, welcome to the season of Advent and another Wesley Wednesday with Linda and David Drinkard

Many of you are aware of these age-old debates; when is appropriate to put up your Christmas decorations and should we be singing Christmas Carols during the Season of Advent. What makes this even more difficult, is that the season of Advent is not just about the coming birth of Jesus, but the second coming of Christ in final victory at the end of time.

Each week during the season of Advent, Linda and I will share verses from a few of Charles Wesley’s hymns for the Advent and Christmas seasons.

Grace and peace to you, and welcome to Trusting God at all times, a daily devotion. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor of Peakland United Methodist Church here in Lynchburg Virginia.

During this season of Advent, Peakland people are reading this book: Prepare the Way for the Lord, an advent study focusing on John the Baptist. This book is written by Rev. Adam Hamilton.

We’ll discuss a chapter of this book each week in small groups here at Peakland and referencing this book in the sermons on Sunday morning worship. I’m eager to share some of my insights with you, so that’s what I’ll do online each week on Thursdays in Advent.

Good morning, welcome to the season of Advent and another Wesley Wednesday with Linda and David Drinkard

Many of you are aware of these age-old debates; when is appropriate to put up your Christmas decorations and should we be singing Christmas Carols during the Season of Advent. What makes this even more difficult, is that the season of Advent is not just about the coming birth of Jesus, but the second coming of Christ in final victory at the end of time.

Each week during the season of Advent, Linda and I will share verses from a few of Charles Wesley’s hymns for the Advent and Christmas seasons.

Grace and peace to you, and welcome to Trusting God at all times, a daily devotion. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor of Peakland United Methodist Church here in Lynchburg Virginia.

We in the church are now in the blessed season of Advent. Peakland’s new blue banners are up in the sanctuary. We have wreaths with blue ribbons hanging outside on the church doors. Blue is a new Advent color for Peakland. We’ve not ever done that before. Doing new things is often a challenge for churches and for people. Why don’t we keep doing things the way we’ve always done them? We’ve never done it that way before. We’ve always done it this way. I hear that a lot from church folks and I hear myself saying that too.

From Linwood:

According to the official United methodist Church Calendar, yesterday, November 27 2022 was the first Sunday of Advent - that’s Christmas friends. That means I can play Christmas Music, even though it’s still November.

Grace and peace to you, welcome to Sunday morning worship for November 27, 2022. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor at Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg Virginia. Today is the first Sunday in the season of Advent, our season to prepare the way of the Lord. We’ll be recording the Advent worship services here in the sanctuary throughout Advent, so that you can see how the sanctuary looks this happy season.

It's the tradition of Peakland and many churches to light candles during advent. As we light the candles we remember that in the darkness, a light shines and grows in strength. Christ is that light, and we pray this light will grow stronger in us this season.

Grace and peace to you, and welcome to Trusting God at all times, Thanksgiving Day edition. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor of Peakland United Methodist Church here in Lynchburg Virginia.

Today is Thanksgiving Day in the United States. I’m recording this about 10 days before Thanksgiving and if all goes according to plan, I’ll be with most of my family in Indiana. We can’t all gather around the same table on Thanksgiving Day but we are together in Spirit.