Spirituality

Annual Children’s Christmas Bazaar Saturday Dec. 3

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Children in kindergarten through 6th grade shop and have their gifts wrapped Dec. 3 at TOTH. Photo by TK Thompson

Children select gifts and have them wrapped Dec. 3 at TOTH. Photo by TK Thompson

COMMUNITY News:

Want to encourage children to be involved in selecting and giving their own gifts this Christmas? The Children’s Christmas Bazaar, 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Dec. 3, at Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church is a child friendly community event, for students in kindergarten through 6th grade, where children shop and have their gifts wrapped. 

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Foster And Adoption Meeting At CBC Dec. 6

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CBC News:
 
Crossroads Bible Church at 97 East Road is hosting a foster and/or adoption information meeting with CYFD at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6.
 
The community is invited to attend and learn more about the growing need for local foster families. Melony Espinoza, a placement worker (and foster parent) from the Rio Arriba County Office, will provide information and answer questions about the process to become a licensed foster or adoptive home.
 
For more information, contact Kim Looney at 918.576.9108.
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Twenty-third Crèche Show Ushers In Christmas Season

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Deb Jackson’s stoneware nativity scene is displayed at the 2014 Crèche Show at the Los Alamos ward of the Church of Latter-day Saints. By Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

COMMUNITY News:

The 23rd Annual “Crèches from Around the World” exhibit is Dec. 2- 3 at the Los Alamos chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 1967 18th St.

Admission is free and the exhibit is open to the public noon to 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2 and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3. 

On display will be more than 200 crèches from around the world, representing different cultures and nationalities. In the past the Read More

Pastor Raul: In Christ Alone

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By Pastor Raul Granillo
Los Alamos
 
It seems to be a common thing for people to assume that the problems we face today are much different than the problems people faced yesterday. After all, our world is much more complex and pluralistic than it has ever been. The latter idea may be true, but the former…not so much.
 
During the days of Jesus, the Jews shared many of the same concerns that people have today. They worried about employment, they worried about health, they worried about potentially having freedoms taken from them, they worried about war, they worried about their children’s
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Pastor Raul Granillo: Gone Fishing

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By PASTOR RAUL GRANILLO
Los Alamos  

“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.” (Mark 1:17 NIV)

There are two types of fishermen: those who catch fish and those who don’t. While dumb luck seems to play a part in catching fish, any successful fisherman will tell you that catching fish takes more than throwing your line in the water and sipping on a cold drink. Being successful at catching fish requires strategy, patience and a love of fishing.

Both my oldest brother and my youngest brother love to fish. I enjoy it, but I lack patience. I remember, as a kid, walking with my little Read More

Fundraiser Underway For Zee Stidham

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Tony and Zandree (Zee) Stidham in October before they left for her bone marrow transplant in Denver. Courtesy photo
 
Zandree Stidham moments before her bone marrow transplant last month in Denver. Courtesy photo

Staff Report

A local 35-year-old assistant professor of English, wife, mother and aspiring writer has just undergone a lifesaving bone marrow transplant at the Colorado Blood Cancer Institute in Denver. 

Zandree (Zee) Stidham was diagnosed with Essential Thrombocythemia or ET (a disease in the same family as Leukemia and Lymphoma) in January 2010. After

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Pastor Granillo: A Theology Of Salt

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By Pastor Raul Granillo
Los Alamos

A Theology of Salt.

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.” (Matthew 5:13 NIV)  

I heard the most profound observation concerning salt in this passage. It was so profound I could no longer look at the rest of this passage, or of anything else that Jesus had said, in the same way. Dr. Ron Benefiel shared with a small group that salt is…Are you ready? Salt is…salty.

I find myself, very often, trying to find the deep interpretation Read More