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MLK Jr. Day of Service on Monday, January 19, 2026

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Join us for a full day of learning, service, and community as we honor the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and live out our Christian commitment to human flourishing in all places. All are welcome—come for one part of the day or stay for as much as you’re able.

ROBESON HOUSE TEACH-IN

“Where Do We Go From Here?”

Monday, January 19, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm, Sanctuary of Nassau Presbyterian Church
Begin MLK Jr. Day with a morning of learning and reflection as we explore the powerful, intersecting stories of the Robeson family and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and how their witness calls us to faithful action today.
Registration Required: https://tinyurl.com/PRHPTeachIn26 

HANDS-ON PROJECTS

Monday, January 19, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm, Assembly Room
Join us for hands-on service projects for all ages! We’ll make pet blankets for orphaned animals, pack sack lunches for Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK), assemble Creativity Kits for HomeFront, pack personal care products for Arm In Arm clients, and create calendars for ABC Literacy. Bring donations to the Assembly Room through January 19.
Donation list: https://nassauchurch.org/an-advent-moment-of-mission/
Contact Ingrid Ladendorf (email, x105)

COMMUNITY CLEAN-UP

Monday, January 19, 1:00-3:00 pm, Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve, 57 Mountain Ave, Princeton
Spend the afternoon caring for our local environment alongside Friends of Princeton Open Space. Volunteers will help remove invasive species in riparian restoration areas and install deer-exclusion caging to protect young tree saplings.
Registration Required
https://bit.ly/NPC26FoPOS, choose the 1:00-3:00 pm session.
Contact Mark Edwards (email, x109)

COMMUNITY WORSHIP SERVICE

Monday, January 19, 7:00 pm
Princeton United Methodist Church, at the corner of Nassau Street & Vandeventer Avenue, Princeton
Join us for a Multi-Faith celebration of the life, faith, and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., sponsored by the Princeton Clergy Association and the Coalition for Peace Action.

You are also invited to join the pick-up community choir: the rehearsal is Monday, January 12, 7:00-9:00 pm at the PUMC, and warm up is 6:00 pm on January 19.
Choir Sign Up https://bit.ly/44X3Cdq

 

#MissionMonday – Churches for Middle East Peace

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The Gift of Peace

As we enter a new year, we renew our commitment to serve with compassion, courage, and joy.

We give thanks for the mission partnerships that anchor our ministry and for the generosity that flows so freely from this community. Your faithfulness truly makes a difference. Partners like @churchesformep are working for hope and peace around the world – true lights in this sacred season.

Tomorrow is Epiphany, the final day for Alternative Gifts—a wonderful way to support mission partners as we begin 2026 with gratitude and purpose.

May this first full week of the year inspire hope and renewed dedication to loving our neighbors.


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#MissionMonday – Cetana Educational Foundation

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The Gift of Language

As the year draws to a close, we give thanks for the many ways God has been at work through our congregation’s mission and outreach.

Your support—through gifts, volunteering, and faithful presence—has touched lives both near and far. We are grateful for each act of compassion offered in Christ’s name. With partners like Cetana Educational Foundation, the members of Nassau Church are able to share and connect across the globe.

Alternative Gifts remain available through Epiphany if you’d like to make a year-end gift in honor of someone special.
Blessings as we turn toward a new year filled with possibilities.


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#MissionMonday – Trenton Microloan Collaborative

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The Gift of Support

As Christmas approaches, we remember that God comes to us in love—and calls us to love our neighbors.

Thank you for the ways you support our mission partners throughout the year and especially in this season of celebration and need. Your generosity strengthens ministries that offer food, shelter, friendship, and hope. Partners like Trenton Microloan Collaborative promote thriving communities right here in our neck of the woods.

There’s still time to participate in Alternative Gifts, which continues through January 6. It’s a simple, meaningful way to share Christ’s love with others.

Wishing you peace and joy as we approach Christmas.


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Journeys of Faith: The Greatest Generation through Gen Z

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Adult Education for January 2026

Sundays, 9:30 a.m., in the Assembly Room, unless otherwise noted
Breakfast snacks will be ready by 9:15 a.m.

Each January, our meaningful tradition of intergenerational education brings together Middle School, High School, and Adults of all ages to share in food, fellowship, and the stories of God at work in our community. Over light breakfast and good conversation, we listen for the ways faith is lived, deepened, and discovered across generations.

This year’s speakers offer a remarkable range of voices from within our own congregation—voices shaped by ministry, creativity, and leadership.

Come for the breakfast snack, stay for the wisdom, humor, creativity, and witness of your fellow Nassau pilgrims. All are welcome as we begin a new year listening for God’s faithfulness among us.

Download Flyer (pdf)

Audio recordings will be posted below each class description.

🎧 Listen On the Go!
Adult Education classes and sermons are now available as podcasts on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Search “Nassau Presbyterian Church”—follow or subscribe to be alerted when new recordings are uploaded.

January 4 | Felipe Paz

Revolutionary prone human being, enthusiastic, curious and passionate. Seeks to make everyday a day worth living and the lives of those around better. Traveler of cultures and traditions. Loves to climb, ski, snowboard and put theology into practice. Fútbol is life!

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January 11 | Dave Davis

Dave is the senior pastor of Nassau Presbyterian Church, where he has served since 2000. He earned his Ph.D. in Homiletics from Princeton Theological Seminary and taught there for several years as a visiting lecturer. His scholarship focuses on preaching as a corporate act and the active role of the listener. Before coming to Princeton, he served for fourteen years as pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Blackwood, New Jersey.

Dave is the author of A Kingdom You Can Taste and Lord, Teach Us to Pray and has served on the boards of the Presbyterian Foundation and the Princeton YMCA. He has preached widely in the U.S. and internationally, including in South Africa and Scotland, as well as at the Calvin Symposium for Worship and on the campuses of Harvard and Duke.

A native of Pittsburgh, Dave is married to Cathy Cook Davis, also a Presbyterian minister. They have two children, Hannah and Ben, and two grandchildren, Franny and Maddy.

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January 18 | Christianne Bessières Lane

Christianne is a mom, wife, and musician. She with her flutist husband, John, has been a member of Nassau Presbyterian Church since 2003, and sang in the Adult Choir for several years before the gifts of her two children. Now that her children are in school, she gratefully uses her gifts to create more music to serve God and beautify the world. Christianne has developed a musical and spiritual practice of creating rounds or canonic settings of biblical and other religious texts.

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January 25 | Sarah Berliner

Conversations with Mary Bess Clark, Doodie Meyer, Nancy Prince, and Carol Wehrheim

Sarah is a junior at West Windsor Plainsboro High School South. She enjoys playing field hockey and lacrosse. An active member at Nassau, Sarah participates in youth Fellowship, singing in Cantorei, helping with Carol Choir, and is on the Youth Ministry Committee.

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#MissionMonday – Homeworks Trenton

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The Gift of Academic Enrichment

During Advent, we are spotlighting some of our amazing partners that you can support through Nassau’s Alternative Gifts Market!

This week, we celebrate the work of Homeworks Trenton. Homeworks combines public school education with a boarding school experience for girls in Trenton, keeping scholars within their communities and supporting their growth as leaders and learners. At the Alternative Gifts Market, you can honor a loved one with a gift to Homeworks Trenton and make a difference this holiday season.


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#MissionMonday – Woman, Cradle of Abundance

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We celebrate the work of Woman, Cradle of Abundance

During Advent, we will be spotlighting some of our amazing partners that you can support through Nassau’s Alternative Gifts Market!

Woman, Cradle of Abundance empowers women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo through microloans, education, health and safety programs, and more. Their work is essential right now as conflict impacts Congo and its people. At the Alternative Gifts Market, you can honor a loved one with a gift to Woman, Cradle of Abundance and make a difference this holiday season.


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2026 Lenten Devotional Writers Needed

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Our annual Lenten Devotional is a meaningful tradition that brings together forty-seven voices from Nassau and our sister congregations at Westminster and Witherspoon Street. Each day during Lent, these reflections reach more than 600 recipients!

Lenten Devotional HeaderSignups are now open, and adults, youth, and children are all warmly invited to participate—and to encourage others who might enjoy offering a word of insight and prayer for our shared 2026 Lenten journey.

Sign Up (link)

More details will be sent out in late December to all contributors.

#MissionMonday – Alternative Gifts

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Give a Special Gift this Year

Looking for a meaningful alternative to Cyber Monday stress? Check out the Nassau Alternative Gifts Market every Sunday of Advent in the Assembly Room. You can make a difference and delight a loved one by making a gift in their honor to one of our amazing community partners! Check off your gift list and spread the spirit of the season by supporting those who are working as the hands and feet of Christ in our world.


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Christmas Joy Offering

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Holy God, as we look toward the manger at Christmas, prepare a way in our hearts to receive Christ into the world. May we love your world by showing forth the justice, love and peace only you provide. In Christ’s name, Amen.

This cherished offering strengthens two ministries equally: the Board of Pensions Assistance Program—providing emergency and long-term support for pastors, church workers, and their families—and Presbyterian-related schools and colleges equipping communities of color—forming future leaders with scholarships and leadership development.

Nassau Church will receive this Offering on Sunday, December 21. Can’t be here that day? You can give online anytime.

Christmas Joy Offering (link)