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GREETINGS FROM WORSHIP PLANNERS – SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 2026

A ZOOM SERVICE

John 2:1-11

The Wedding at Cana

The scene is a big wedding at Cana in Galilee. Among the guests are Jesus, his mother, and several of Jesus’ disciples.

Jesus’ mother notices the wine has run out and tells him. (You can wonder why she didn’t tell one of the servants, but no matter, that’s not what the text says.) Jesus replies in a kind of pouty and confusing way: “Woman, what does that have to do with me? My time hasn’t come yet.” This sounds like a teenager who needs a smack.

Six enormous water jugs stand nearby. Jesus tells the servants to fill them with water. When the head servant sips, the water has become wine! In fact, it is the best wine.

According to John, this is the first miracle Jesus performed and “it revealed his glory, and his disciples believed him.” (Do not worry here about the loaves and fishes timeline).

This is such a graphic story. We are there! Everyone has a little taste of the miraculous wine! In the semiotics of the piece, we find numbers, signs, symbols!

Be with us on Zoom at 4 pm as Rev. Carl Hilton VanOsdall parses the dynamics in this portion: grace, abundance, delight, wonder! Tom Jones is our musician. Zoom codes appear in your Sunday morning email.

Plan to stay on Zoom after our service for a special slideshow from Ann Naumann about her Mercy Ship mission. Ann was part of a team of medical providers that cared for patients out of a floating clinic on the shores of Madagascar. She has some amazing stories!