A Triple-Header Weekend
The NBA touts annually its triple-header Christmas Day basketball games between great teams; the league wants to command your eyeballs all day and night long (as if you didn’t have something else to do that day). I am not sure we can compete with those offerings, but ours do come 10 days sooner. This weekend, December 13–14, our triple-header will have:
Our Gift Market both days, for that last-minute and one-of-a-kind shopping that graces those you love while helping sustain small microbusinesses in developing countries around the world.
Our famously wonderful (and funny) Christmas Pops Concert Sunday night, which has something for everyone of every age, including free giveaways.
Bishop Ruben Saenz, Jr. of our Horizon Texas Conference preaching at both services on Sunday and leading an infant baptism at the 9 a.m. service. It will be Bishop Saenz’s first worship experience at FUMC Plano, and we are honored to have him and his wife, Maye, as our special guests.
I saw on another United Methodist church’s sign: “Thinking about church again? Start here.” I can’t think of a better time and a better place to extend exactly that invitation to someone you know who would feel cared for by your thinking about them. You will be proud you did—especially if they come and find that what you said was indeed true. Love is arriving this weekend and this Christmas, and my experience says that a lot of people are ready for that good news.
Come on—you don’t even have to play basketball!
See you at the triple-header place,
Matt Gaston
Lead Pastor
