107 Concord Road, Wayland Massachusetts 01778

Invite your friends to Peace on Sunday, February 9 for the 9:30 am service and for the 11:00 am coffee. We’ll make a special effort to welcome visitors!

February 2014

Sunday, February 2nd

During the Sunday service we will recognize the families and individuals of

Peace who have been members since 2004.

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Thursday, February 6th

Wayland/Weston Town Crier & Sudbury Town Crier

article featuring PLC’s 50th Anniversary year

&

Ladies Night Out!

Bertuccis Restaurant, Wayland Town Center

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Celebrate Peace’s 50th with dinner, wine and friends or just stop by for a

visit. Kindly RSVP by Tuesday, February 4th so a reservation can be made.

Please contact a committee member or Pastor if you need a ride and you

will be cheerfully picked up for dinner and brought back home afterward.

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Sunday, February 9th

Visitor Open House after the Sunday service

We will welcome community members who wish to join in the Sunday

worship service and we will host a special coffee hour afterward.

Ask your friends, family and neighbors to join us!

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Saturday, February 15th

PLC Game Night and Pizza Dinner

5:30 pm @ PLC

Bring your favorite card, board or other game, and a dessert, and enjoy a

night of fun, food and fellowship! Pizza, salad and drinks will be provided.

(kindly leave electronic games at home)

Please RSVP to peace50th@gmail.com by Thursday, February 13th with

the number of people who will be attending.

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Thursday, February 20th

Senior Lunch Lecture

12:00 noon at PLC

Pack a lunch and come to Peace to hear a talk by Wayland’s own Tonya

Largy. Tonya is an archaeology and a archaeobotany consultant who will

talk about the history of the greater Wayland area.

All ages are welcome.

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Peace Lutheran Church’s 50th Anniversary information

and pictures can also be found at

http://www.facebook.com/peacelutheranwayland

Ladies Night Out

Wow, didn’t we have just a terrific Senior Lunch yesterday – it was a FULL house
and a FUN one, too!  I posted some pictures on the church’s Facebook page (click
here to view, you do not need a Facebook page to VIEW the Facebook page:
www.facebook.com/peacelutheranwayland).  I also have some video of Milly talking
about how PLC got it’s name and of Ruth Forinash telling the story of her first
visit to PLC 20 years ago.  I will get that up on Facebook as soon as I locate a
teenager who can teach me how.

On Sunday the new, and may I say strikingly beautiful, paraments will be blessed
and put into service.  Milly OUT DID herself with these as they are truly works
of art and labors of love.  Once they are put into service on Sunday, Jeff will
be utilizing the green side (other side is red).  You might consider wearing
green on Sunday if you have something you like to wear that is green.

-Deb Vogt

2014 is our congregation’s golden anniversary year!

Greetings Sunday school families, 

This week in Sunday school our children will hear about Jesus’ baptism in the River Jordan by his cousin John.  

13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by him. ¹⁴John would have prevented him, saying, ‘I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?’ ¹⁵But Jesus answered him, ‘Let it be so now; for it is proper for us in this way to fulfil all righteousness.’ Then he consented. ¹⁶And when Jesus had been baptized, just as he came up from the water, suddenly the heavens were opened to him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. ¹⁷And a voice from heaven said, ‘This is my Son, the Beloved, with whom I am well pleased.’ (Matthew 3) 

Two comments from our curriculum caught my attention this week: “Evident at Jesus’ baptism is an ironic tension that remains constant throughout his entire earthly ministry.  Jesus’ uniqueness is known in and shouted from the heavens – a higher authority, there is not! – but his own baptism and ministry are characterized by a consistent and conscious submission to those for whom he is bringing the gospel.”  From “Exegetical Perspective” by Troy A. Miller

 “In Matthew’s text, the baptism of Jesus is the beginning of his ministry.  It is his launching.  It is his commissioning to begin the public ministry for which he was created and to which he was called.”  From “Pastoral Perspective” by Rodger Y Nishioka

 Our baptism represents a beginning in our lives as well, the beginning of all which lies ahead of us.  Reflecting on our baptism reminds us of our own humility and humanity within the world.  To prepare your children for Sunday school this week, take a few minutes to tell them the story of their baptism and share with them what you know of your own.  These personal stories will enrich your children’s understanding of Jesus’ baptism and begin to help them understand the meaning of their own baptism as their faith unfolds.

–Kim Canning

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1

This ancient poem seems to come from the center of all that is, seen and unseen (as the creed puts it). The other three Gospels are anthropocentric, they focus on human ancestry, history and events. The prologue of John’s Gospel, which we hear on Sunday, is a song or more like a philosophical point of departure. The divine “logos” or word lives in, through and under all that is, seen and unseen.

It’s fashionable in church circles these days to talk about being disciples of Jesus. I affirm this fashion. However, there is a spiritual environment, which the Christian heart senses, that the world is known whether we are following Jesus or not. We don’t know all about the world–clever as we are–and we don’t always love it–as shown in our neglect of the natural world–but it is known and loved. With faith we are free to explore the world–through disciplines like science and history–and drawn to take care of it as stewards of the world.

At the center of everything that is–of everything that can be imagined and everything yet to be imagined–there is this life-force which is, according to John, a creative force, a word. That “word” becomes present in time and space–where history and science pay attention. It’s a perfect line of thinking on a cold, snowy day in the Christmas season.

The choir meets at 8:45 am Sunday.

We have the tree up for one more Sunday. We’ll sing Christmas songs. Most of the world is done with Christmas, but we’re not. I’ve often thought that we should be a little bolder about singing Christmas carols out of season, many of the traditional ones are classically fine examples of Christian doctrine.