Jewish Congregation
The Lake Chapala Jewish Congregation holds Friday services at 6 p.m. via Zoom. See lakechapalajewishcongregation.com for the URL.
Lakeside Presbyterian
This week Pastor Carolyn will talk about Zechariah: “God Blesses at the Appointed Time.”
What can bring hope when the worst happens? The people of Israel KNEW down to their bones that they were God’s chosen people. And yet . . . the northern kingdom of Israel had been destroyed by the Assyrians. Then the southern kingdom of Judah was carried off into captivity by the Babylonians. After 70 years, as prophesied by Jeremiah, the people returned, hoping that the restoration and kingdom the prophets had foretold would at last be realized. But things didn’t look good. How do things look now for Christian believers? What will bring us hope? Zechariah provides a rich picture of God’s redemptive plan for his people and for the world.
The Lord will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one Lord, and his name the only name.
English-language service begins at 9:30 a.m. Bible study Wednesday 10 a.m.
The English service also streams each Sunday at facebook.com/LPCChapala. Spanish service starts at 11 a.m.
Everyone is welcome to Wednesday drop-in Bible study
If you need a ride, or more information, call 376-106-0853 Thursday, before 4 p.m.
There is coffee and refreshments after the service in the Narthex.
LPC is at Calle San Jorge 250 in Riberas del Pilar, (turn lakeside at Mom’s Restaurant).
St. Andrew’s Anglican
Rev. Robbin Moore will celebrate and Rev. Johannys Hartog will preach Sunday, December 11. Services begin 10 a.m. Christmas Eve service will be at 5 p.m.; Christmas Day, at 10 a.m.
December’s Taize service is Wednesday, December 14, 5 pm., to avoid conflict with our Carol sing, Wednesday, December 21, 4 p.m.
Advent educational seminar on self-reflection and the Enneagram, led by The Reverend Michelle McKinnon-Young will be held Wednesdays through December 21, 10 to 11:30 a.m., in the multi-purpose room.
Service of Advent Lessons and Carols led by our choir, Saturday December 10, 4 p.m., followed by a reception with appetizers and bar. The event is free; everyone welcome.
Sunday, December 18, the boys from Mama Cleo’s will sing at the service.
The St. Andrew’s Lunch Bunch goes to different venues for lunch at noon every Sunday. The location is listed every Sunday in our bulletin.
Operation Feed: Our feeding program buys non-perishable food items to donate to “Operation Feed,” which feeds about 150 families— approximately 700 people— in and around San Juan Cosalá. We prefer cash donations. Cash enables us to buy at bulk for the lowest prices to help feed even more families. If you opt for a cash donation, envelopes marked “Operation Feed” are available every Sunday. If you sign your name to the envelope, your offering will be recorded as a church donation.
Operation Feed feeds hungry families in and around San Juan Cosalá. Today, it feeds 150 families, about 700 people. Each week every family receives packages of pasta, beans, rice oats and soy, plus fresh fruits and vegetables, a bottle of cooking oil, a can of tuna and six eggs.
Coffee and Cookies Ministry: A wonderful time for meeting friends and greeting newcomers. Please join us. We’re always grateful for volunteers to provide cookies. Those interested can sign up via the sign-up sheet near the garden pathway.
If you’d like to donate to St. Andrew’s, checks can be made out to Andrew’s Fund U.S., or Andrew’s Fund Canada, each of which are tax-deductible.
Sunday services are streamed live and sermon highlights are available on Facebook/St Andrews Anglican Lake Chapala.
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Little Chapel by the Lake
Thomas Walker, who will be preaching from Matthew 11:28- 30 “Take My Yoke upon you and learn from Me...” What does it mean to be “yoked” together with Christ? Many who are yoked together with Christ enjoy the reality of unity, effectiveness, peace, and divine love.
Stay afterwards for a time of coffee, food, and fellowship.
We are located on the Ajijic Chapala highway 10 in Chula Vista. Sunday service begins at 11 a.m.
Donations for our food mission in San Juan Tecomatlan are always gladly accepted via our big purple box in front of the Chapel. Thank you for continuing to contribute to this worthy cause. Our next distribution, on December 16, for a gift giving time for the children of the people we support with our monthly food “baskets”.
Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m., a small group meets at the Chapel for fellowship and prayer.
Conversational Spanish classes are held Friday, 1 p.m. Information: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Mama Cleo’s Boys holds car washes Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., fundraising for their many needs at their care facility.
December 24, 4 p.m. Little Chapel will hold a candlelight service with carol singing and scriptures about the Advent.
Little Chapel telephone: 376-766-2538.
Christ Church Lakeside
Christ Church Lakeside, a parish of the Diocese of the West in the Anglican Church of Mexico, will observe the third Sunday of Advent, Gaudete Sunday, December 11, 10:30 a.m., in person and via Zoom at our location with the red door and windows next to The Smokehouse Restaurant. Rev. Jim Powers will be the celebrant and give the message “Are You the One Who is to Come?” Those wishing to have brunch after the Service will meet at noon in Mariscos Peter, Carretera Pte. 524, Ajijic, 376-766-4450.
The Loaves and Fishes Food Distribution will not be held Tuesday, December 13, 1 p.m. If you wish to give a much-needed monetary donation, or need more information, contact Al Ramos, 332-384-2343, or email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
The Bible Study, hosted by Rev. Danny Borkowski will not be held for the rest of the year. All are invited to learn about the inspired contents of the Bible and share their insights with each other when it resumes via Zoom on January 4, 2023.
The Lakeside Singers Christmas Caroling begins Wednesday, December 14, singing first at Casa Nostra, Santa Margarita 8, Riberas del Pilar at 12:30 p.m.; and at the Nursing Home Lake Chapala, Paseo del Lago 282, Riberas del Pilar at 2:45 p.m. Thursday, December 15, 12:30 p.m., the singers will be at Ohana’s Nursing Home, on Calle La Paz 73A in San Juan Cosala; and at 2:45 p.m. they will sing at Mi Casita #2, Calle Los Angles 125 (Near San Antonio Hospital), San Antonio Tlayacapan. More information: Kay Borkowski, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 376-766-2495.
To receive the Zoom sign-in information for joining the Holy Eucharist service and/or the Bible study, contact Rev. Danny Borkowski at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 376-766-2495, or Rev. Jim Powers at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 322-356-0382.
Lake Chapala Baptists
Interim Pastor Ed Garnett gave us three catchy principles for spiritual discovery and success last Sunday: 1: Until you go, you will never know; 2. Until you know, you will never grow; 3. Until you grow, you will never glow.
“It’s an ongoing process,” he said, “and it leads to the kind of joy that glows from the inside out. We are all fearful, like the shepherds when the angel came to give them the good news. Suddenly they were standing before the uncountable armies of heaven praising God for the birth of the infant king. And despite their terror, the shepherds dropped everything to hurry over to Bethlehem and see Him in person.
“Go to Him when you are given the sign. Don’t wait around, just go. Wisdom and growth await those who know Christ and invite Him into their lives, and those who look always to Jesus are always radiantly joyful.”
Share memorable weekly sermons, uplifting music, and an ongoing thirst for true wisdom Sundays at 10:45 a.m. at the Lake Chapala Baptist Church. Sta. Margarita 147, Riberas del Pilar. LCBC’s bilingual services continue Sunday afternoons, now at 4:30 p.m.
Unitarian Universalists
Sunday, December 11, Rev. Matt Alspaugh will talk about “If We Do Not Venture Out: Thoughts on Wonder.”
We are gradually recovering the wisdom and power of cultivating awe, wonder, the sense of the sublime, even as our current culture tends to diminish these profound aspects of life. We’ll ponder wonderful things and awe-filled (but not awful) things, and ways we might tap into the awesome universe around us, and the sublime mysteries that lie beyond. But only if we do venture out, to explore this world of wonder.
Lake Chapala Unitarian Universalist Fellowship services are Sundays, 10:30 a.m. In-person services are now available at Hidalgo 261, Riberas del Pilar.
Unity Ajijic
Sunday, December 11, noon, “Three different Biblical nativity stories. Which speaks to you?” Please join us to hear our visiting minister, Rev. James Tierney and Senior Minister Rev. Johanny. Located at Namaste Village, Angel Flores Place 5, Ajijic or on Zoom at unitynamaste.org.
Abundant Life Church
How important is it to you that people recognize you? Everyone likes to be recognized and we try our best to remember names and faces. It is even more important that we are known and recognized by God as only those who are in relationship with Him through His Son, Jesus, will make heaven their home. Come this Sunday, December 11, to discover that one of the gifts of the Spirit also follows the line of recognition. God wants us to see the difference between the sheep and the goats and gives us His Spirit to do just that.
English Sunday service is at the church at 10:30 a.m., also at abundantlifechapala.com. Bible studies are Wednesdays, 11 a.m. Carretera 140 in San Antonio Tlayacapan, just a block from SuperLake.
Grace Church Chapala
Join us for worship at the Bravo Theater, 441 Hidalgo, in Riberas, every Sunday, 10 a.m.
Grace Church is a group of believers with a more contemporary style of worship with a mix of praise songs and hymns.
Heart of Awareness
The HoA library now has an “open hour” each Thursday from 2:30 to 3:30 pm. The public is welcome to browse the extensive collection of materials related to Buddhist history, teachings and practice. Books may be checked out by members as well as non-members.
The meditation practice schedule is on Sunday from 9-10 am, and Wednesdays from 4-5 pm. Wednesday, December 14, practice will be followed by a teaching on “The Three Marks of Existence” offered by Marty Janowitz. The session will end by 6:30 pm.
Marty has been a student, practitioner, and student-teacher primarily in the Tibetan Buddhist lineage of his teacher Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche since encountering him in 1970 at the age of 20. Over the decades Marty introduced and shared Buddhist practice and perspectives widely in North America and internationally, ultimately in the formal role of Acharya (Senior Teacher) until he retired in 2019. Marty and his wife Susanna live full-time in Ajijic from where he continues to actively teach and study.
The Heart of Awareness Buddhist Community and Practice Center is located at Guadalupe Victoria 101 in Ajijic.
Satsang
Satsang will be held Sunday 18, 2 to 4 p.m. at the Villa del Angel. Emiliano Zapata 3, Ajijic.
Wholeness: Where the opposites meet, the contradictions become visible and equalized, liberating prejudices.
During Satsang we gather to give ourselves an opportunity to be supported and to support others in our Inner Way by offering ourselves to be present.
I like to call it a worship of the True Self, because the meaning of worship is to honor or show reverence. And we honor our true selves by self-awareness and attention.
Satsang is a place where we can self-inquiry and Be in the realization of our wholeness.
Noris Binet is a spiritual teacher who facilitates Meditative Self-Awareness and Self-Inquiry to support Spiritual Awakening and self-realization. She is in the Advaita Non-dual tradition under the Lineage of Ramana Maharshi and her root teacher is Gangaji. She is Psychospiritual therapist.
St. Mark’s Anglican Episcopal, Guadalajara
Friday, December 18, St. Mark’s host Lessons and Carols, our community Christmas carol sing-along for everyone. Traditionally, people from other churches in the area join us for readings from the Christmas story.
A bilingual candlelight Christmas Eve service begins at 6 p.m. December 24. Finally a bilingual service will be held at noon on Christmas Day.
Saint Mark’s Anglican-Episcopal Church in Guadalajara holds services in English at 10:30 a.m. and in Spanish at 12:30 a.m.
Chichimecas 836, corner of Aztecas diagonally across the street from the UAG ICB Campus, Colonia Monraz, 44670 Guadalajara.