December 2024

Greetings,

Each month the circuit pastors meet for a meeting called a “winkelkonferenz”-a German word indicating a place we meet in conference (notice the word used in the title).  A time for clergy to encourage one another as we study God’s Word. 

At the October meeting, 2 of the pastors shared an incident that took place in their congregations.  Apparently, someone had hacked their email accounts and sent messages (supposedly from the pastor) to the folks on their email addresses stating that someone had come by the office in need of gas cards, etc, and the recipient was asked to send money for cards for a person/family in need.  These requests were all fraudulent. 

Fortunately, some of the recipients of this email traffic saw the pastor and clarified it.  And they had to notify their congregations, family members, etc (whoever would be on their email list) that this was not legit-hopefully stopping the fraud.

Let you know, you will never receive this type of message from me.  But the message you will receive is not fraudulent, it is this:  Jesus Christ came into the world to save us.  May the Lord bless your Christmas celebrations as we celebrate this true event.

In His Service,

Pastor

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