The Alaska United Methodist Conference

Sharing God's Message and Love By Putting Christ First.

Ministers:	Tori and Robert Hicks
Address:	5137 W. Fairview Loop, Wasilla, AK 99654
Directions:	Map From Parks Hwy (Anchorage) turn left at light on Knik-Goose Bay Road. 4.1 miles turn left on Fairview Loop (just before the Tesoro gas station). We are the first driveway on the left.
Phone:	(907)376-3109
Fax:	(907)357-3109
E-mail:	christ1st@mtaonline.net

Regular Schedule
Sundays

10:00 - 10:45 Adult Sunday School with childcare available. Youth Grade 7 and up may join us!
10:45 - Choir Rehearsal
10:30 - Sunday School classes for Children K-6 and Adults. (Childcare for birth through Kindergarten available)
11:30 - Children’s Church -- Programs for Toddlers and Preschool - 1st Grade. (following Children’s Moment during worship)
12:30 - Fellowship Coffee Hour

Wednesdays - "Inspire" program for the whole family

5:45 - Free family-friendly hot meal (you may arrive earlier to help set up)
6:15 - Classes for Preschool through 6th Grade and Adults. (Childcare provided)
6:15 - Youth Group
7:00 - Choir rehearsal

Links

The Passion: Opportunities for Discipleship

Pastor's Ponderings

My eyes were scanning my bookshelves and a title caught my eye: Practical Divinity. Suddenly my mind is racing: a practical God. Approaching us in the most efficient manner, spreading the news of God’s love through straight-forward, practical approaches. The practicality of God.

Wait a minute...
The PRACTICALITY of God?
The practicality of Christmas?

The practicality of being born a helpless child to a couple housed among the animals soon to become refugees fleeing for their lives?
The practicality of placing God in the hands of humanity?
The practicality of taking on life and flesh, torture and death?

No!
This is not practical!
But it is divine.
It is a miracle.

A miracle that makes no sense and yet is the perfect way to show us the incredible depth of God’s love for us.
A miracle, remembered with amazement as we picture a tiny babe, shivering outside his mother’s body, wrapped in strips of cloth and placed lovingly in a manger by an awed father as the young, exhausted mother leans back in the straw. The air filled with the rich, heavy scents of animals lowing a lullaby in the background.
A miracle heard in the songs that fill the air with the force of God’s joy as the angels proclaim a birth,
A miracle as brilliant as a star that shone down on a stable, bringing light into the darkness.
A miracle as shepherds, dirty and tired, roused from their sleep by the heavenly chorus, stumbling down to the town and finding their way to a simple manger.
A miracle in Bethlehem so long ago.
A miracle here, today.
Not practical at all, but a soul-wrenching, heart-swelling gift of divine proportions that should cause us to take a step out of our practical world filled with lists of things to be done, gifts to be bought, preparations to make, decorating that must happen and calls us to find our way to that manger. Where the sheer impracticality of God’s love causes us to drop to our knees as we behold a miracle.
Oh come let us adore him, Christ the Lord!

Merry Christmas from our family to yours, Pastor Tori Hicks

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