Epiphany Celebration for Kids and Families will be Sunday January 8 after worship.  We celebrate the coming of the Light of the World in the season of Epiphany.  Kids will learn about Epiphany symbols and what they mean, through engaging activities.  Everyone is invited to bring their Christmas wreath greens for a small bonfire outside.  Please remove all wire, plastic, and artificial decorations from your wreaths.  You may also bring branches from your live Christmas trees.  The Magi take the Light of Christ with them to the ends of the earth! Come celebrate the many forms light occurs in the natural world! 

Service opportunity at the Utah Food Bank, Saturday, January 7th, 10am-noon.  Come help other Tabor volunteers sort canned and non-perishable goods at the Utah Food Bank 3150 South 900 West, Salt Lake City.  Contact Casey White for more information at (801) 678-5049.  Rumor has it that Casey sometimes brings donuts!! 

YOAKS Bible Study Monday, January 9 and Tuesday January 24 at 9:30am.  All ages are invited to join Pastor David and Regina Reed in this new Bible study group at Tabor. Enthusiasm is high, and the group now meets twice a month. Coffee and light refreshments provided.  Invite your friends! 

2023 Offering Intention forms are available next to the offering plates at the sanctuary doors. Completed forms can be put into the plates.  Please see Dave Warren for any questions, and thank you for your generosity!

The annual report to the congregation will be emailed to members January 26th. Harry Heightman, our Adminstrative Assistant, has set the deadline of Tuesday, January 10 to please email your reports to office@mttaborslc.org Thank you for helping your staff get the job done!

“Dinner at Vinny’s” service opportunity is Tuesday January 10, 4:30-6:30pm at the St Vincent DePaul Dining Hall at the Weigan Center downtown.  Come and share Tabor’s gracious and loving hospitality with our hungry neighbors living on the streets.  We always have room for more volunteers!  Clean-up help especially! Please see Casey White if you have any questions.  

Future Tabor Dream Box is in the narthex for your dreams, hopes, visions, and ideas about what Mount Tabor can be and do in the future!  The Tabor Vision Team meets again on Tuesday January 24^th at 7pm and is excited to read about your visions and ideas for our future mission and ministry! 

YOAKS Lunch January, 17, noon -1:30pm.  All Young and Older Adults Knowing Strength are invited! Lunch is provided and an activity is being planned.  Please RSVP to Sharon and Harry Heightman or Pastor David.  Invite your friends and neighbors! 

Adult Forum on “Rights of Conscience” brief, Sunday January 15th, 9am-10am: At our council meeting December 13th, your council joined Pastor David in endorsing the upcoming Utah Supreme Court amicus brief on behalf of Planned Parenthood America of Utah. The amicus brief will be based upon the Utah Constitutional provision regarding “rights of conscience.” The council invites everyone at Tabor to bring their opinions and questions on joining the brief, and the ELCA Social Statement on Abortion, to the forum next Sunday. The council would like to see if we have consensus for joining this effort as a congregation, or if Pastor David would be representing the ELCA in Utah as an individual clergy member. Tabor would simply be saying, "Yes, we as an ELCA congregation stand behind our Church's Social Statement on Abortion that states: “there can be sound reasons for ending a pregnancy through induced abortion” and that there are situations where obtaining an abortion may be a “morally responsible” choice and the ELCA “opposes laws that deny access to safe and affordable services for morally justifiable abortions.”https://www.elca.org/faith/faith-and-society/social-statements/abortion.  Mount Tabor has until Friday January 27th to join the brief.

Our annual congregational meeting is Sunday February 5 after worship. Your presence is a blessing as we look forward to our life together in Christ.

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