We will offer Holy Communion with Imposition of Ashes at the following times and locations. Please look up your local church here on the website, and feel free to contact us for directions or more information.

• Calvary, Red Lodge: 9:00 AM
• St. Alban’s, Laurel: 9:30 AM
• Our Saviour’s, Joliet: 11:00 AM
• St. Paul’s, Absarokee: 7:00 PM

Here are just a few reminders as we move toward the end of Advent and the end of the year:

1. Christmas Eve service times - Please plan to join us as we celebrate the Nativity of Our Lord!

• 5:00 PM - Calvary, Red Lodge
• 5:00 PM - St. Paul’s of the Stillwater, Absarokee
• 7:00 PM - Our Saviour’s, Joliet
• 7:30 PM - St. Alban’s, Laurel

2. Bookkeeping - Thank you to everyone who has already returned their 2010 pledge card and committed themselves to God's work in our churches. If you have not already done so, please prayerfully consider your giving for next year and mail or bring in your pledge as soon as possible.

Additionally, our treasurers around the region are hoping we will bring our pledges & contributions for 2009 up to date so they can close out our books before our annual meetings. The IRS also requires 2009 donations be posted in this calendar year. Please consider this as you finish out the year.

3. Annual Meetings - Our churches will have their annual meetings in January, as follows. These meetings are always combined with a marvelous breakfast, and a great opportunity for spending time with our parish families. Please mark your calendars and plan to help with our plans for the coming year!

• Calvary, Red Lodge - Jan 17
• Our Saviour, Joliet - Jan 24
• St. Albans, Laurel - Jan 24
• St. Paul’s of the Stillwater, Absarokee -Jan 31

By now, most of you have likely heard of the incredible devastation that resulted from yesterday's earthquake in Haiti. As it happens, Haiti is the largest diocese in the Episcopal Church, with nearly 200,000 members. We have very real and ongoing relationships-- through bishops, clergy, missionaries, aid workers, sister churches, etc.-- with these our brothers and sisters in Christ who are now suffering. If you are in the habit of reading "Forward Day by Day," for example, you may note that the writer for January is a missionary priest currently serving in Haiti. Perhaps these connections make our awareness of desperate need at this time only more acute.

This Sunday we will join with other churches in the diocese in helping Bishop Keyser celebrate his 80th birthday (January 19) by making contributions to Episcopal Relief & Development in his honor. Collections will be taken at all our churches. In light of this recent disaster, our gifts could not be more timely.

Please say a prayer for the people of Haiti, and then plan to make your care tangible, in Jesus' name.