Thank goodness, “Happy New Year!” Let us all say goodbye to 2020. By faith we certainly trust and walk with God into this new year.

December was a quiet month. Council did not meet in December, but all of council is trying to reach out to all of our Ascension community, calls will continue into January too. We all need to stay connected with each other, to show our love and caring for each other and to pray for all.

Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord: let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker; for he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care. Today, if only you would hear his voice. (Psalm 95:1, 6-7)

With our continued prayers to God, we will get to a church, community, state, and world that is free of covid-19.

Again, my thanks and all my love to our pastors, staff, wing leaders, leg leaders, and to all of our faith community of Ascension. I am especially grateful for the church council, who with God and all their help, have made this wonderful even in the midst of so much upheaval and challenge in the life of the world, the church, and in our own lives. For this I am forever thankful. I am so proud to say I am a member of Ascension.

Please continue to give – your time, your prayer, and your financial support to Ascension, to keep our church moving forward with all it does in and around our community and throughout the world.

God’s love and mine,

Karen Simington, Council President
(Reprinted from the Jan. 2021 newsletter)