Announcements

We gather at 11 a.m. CST in the Chapel of the Incarnation and online for chapel. We welcome Mary Hess, Professor of Educational Leadership, for a service of the Word. We also celebrate St. Nicholas Day! Share your prayer requests.

Please plan to join us for the 2022 Winter Graduate Recognition Service and Community Meal at 11 a.m. tomorrow, December 7, in the Chapel of the Incarnation in Olson Campus Center.

If you are unable to join us in person, you can join the chapel livestream.

We look forward to celebrating, blessing, and sending our most recent group of graduates with the Luther community!

We gather in the Chapel of the Incarnation and online for chapel. On Thursdays, we gather in the OCC dining room and on Zoom.

• 11 a.m. Tuesday, December 6—Service of the Word x Saint Nicholas Day. Preacher: Mary Hess, Professor of Educational Leadership 
• 11 a.m. Wednesday, December 7—Service of Holy Communion. Preacher: Terri Elton, Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Leadership 
• 11 a.m. Thursday, December 8—Lunch Church x Why Jesus. Speaker: Dee Stokes. Free lunch in the OCC dining room, or join by Zoom (see email for link).

No chapel on Friday or next week (winter break).

The snow is falling and finals are fast approaching. So nothing sounds better than some comfort breakfast food to help us get through it all. In celebration of the end of the year, Community Life is hosting a pancake breakfast December 8 from 8:00–9:30 in the OCC Coffee Shop. Come on by before class (or after for our Greek class.) All are welcomed. We will have yogurt, juice, fruit, and coffee available along with fun pancake toppings.

Staff and faculty, check your inbox to signup for a 30 minute shift to help make and serve the pancakes.

The Employee Engagement Team invites students, faculty and staff to gather over coffee, tea, or hot cocoa with a side of your favorite Christmas treat. Please bring along one or two dozen of your favorite treats to make this time of year and drop them in BH 116 between 10–noon on Wednesday, December 14.

Then, please join us between 1:30–3:00 p.m. as we gather before our Christmas/New Year Break. Please feel free to come and go as you are able. If you have questions feel free to contact an EET member: Jon Anderson, Carrie Johnson, Sianeh Miller-Crusoe, Grace Pomroy, or Alison Roberts.

In this Advent devotion, Dawn Alitz ’09 Ph.D. reflects on God’s action to restore hope. Read today’s God Pause.