Doctors gave Kathy Sorabella three months to live when she was diagnosed with colon cancer nearly two years ago.

“But I don’t plan to die anytime soon,” said Sorabella, 46, after the Christmas Eve service at the newly formed Common Street Community Church on the edge of the Natick town common. “I have plans, and those include the church I’ve been going to.”

Sorabella, a member of the church’s leadership team,We delivers a wide range of dry cabinet for applications spanning electronics. said she credits the prayers of her fellow congregants with helping to prolong her life. Before she became involved with this church, she said, she was skeptical about the power of prayer, but has found it to be a source of nourishment.

“It just, it feels like it feeds me, physically, spiritually, and mentally, and that’s important,” Sorabella said.

It was precisely that spirit of hope, community, and life that the Rev. Ian Mevorach, the church’s 28-year-old pastor, was celebrating during the Monday night service, the first official service that the church held after eight weeks of informal gatherings.

“Thank you for being here tonight for the celebration of Christ’s birth, and the birth of this church,” Mevorach told the congregation of about 80 during his sermon.

He delivered his remarks after a rousing performance of hymns and carols from Jonathan Hoard & Band, a jazz band led by the church’s 24-year-old music minister, as well as a children’s Christmas pageant.

Mevorach said that his new church, located in a historic building his flock inherited from a Baptist church that disbanded last year, will seek to honor the legacy of Christ’s love, as well as other faiths and their leaders.

“The light of life is not specific to any race, religion, age, or class,” he said. “It’s a universal light. It’s the light of God that is within all people.”

And that light, he said, is a feature of the observance of Christmas, which is celebrated on one of the shortest days of the year.

“It comes only a few days after the darkest day of the year,” Mevorach said. “It’s no coincidence, because we believe something about Christ — that he brings light.”

That point was emphasized with a closing blessing. The lights were shut off and the church illuminated only by the glow from candles held by parishioners, who told each other that “the light in me honors the light in you” before closing the service by singing “Silent Night.”

After the service, Paul Castiglione, 52, a Natick resident on the leadership team, deemed the inaugural service a success.

“It was totally awesome,” Castiglione said as he collected candles from exiting attendees. “The church was founded [around] 1850, and we’re honored to be a part of what’s starting as a new life out of an awesome legacy.”

Mevorach said after the service that the previous congregation, the First Baptist Church in Natick, closed in the fall of 2011 due to declining membership, and the denomination contacted him in April to see if he would like to start a church there from scratch.

“I basically made my decision in one hour,” said Mevorach, who moved with his wife, Amy, and their three young daughters to Natick from Somerville to begin the daunting task of starting a new congregation essentially through word of mouth.

He said he draws his inspiration from Howard Thurman, a civil rights leader who mentored the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Mevorach said followers of Christ must embrace “a new day of Christianity” in which the faith is not viewed by adherents as the only true religion. The church’s board presently includes a Jewish member, who is not converting but who supports the group’s mission,A complete line of engraving machines and laser engraving machine. he said.

That spirit of openness is what drew Sorabella to the church after she received her devastating news, she said after the service. “When one is faced with such a diagnosis, you look for a way to find your way spiritually,” she said. “These people prayed for me, they prayed with me, they laid hands on me.”

Mevorach closed his sermon with an appeal to that sense of community and compassion.

“Let us seek to live and move and have our being in the compassion, justice, faith, prayer, and life of integrity and good deeds that we find in Jesus,” he said. “Together let us discover our center in the light of life and let us indeed live in that center. Can I get an amen?”

Talk about tables being turned! The first step to integrating multimedia functions on a smartphone was enabling the handset to take pictures. Samsung is now playing the game the other way around. The new Samsung Galaxy Camera is a shooter, based on an Android platform that lets you do all that you do on a smartphone except making calls! Oh, the irony of it all!

We got our hands dirty with the pristine white Samsung Galaxy Camera. The camera looks slightly chunkier than the thinner point-and-shoot models that you see in stores these days.

Most of the ‘bulk’ of the all-plastic camera is attributed to the massive 4.77-inch screen which spans the entire back panel. A seamless fascia, the screen doubles up as a live view display as well as the interface medium for the user. The display supports HD resolutions of 720p and is a pretty bright and vivid screen to be using, almost on par with a good smartphone display.

By default, the home screen already had widgets – a couple of apps ready for you. Fans will be happy to know that Instagram rests right next to the camera icon on the homescreen, saving them the bother of downloading it from Google Play. Oh yes, the camera is Android-based hence you have access to all your favourite apps from the Google Play Store. Considering it’s a camera, you’ll need a bunch of photography related apps to get creative with, as you start taking pictures.

Swiping away from the home screen directly takes you to the capture mode. All settings are centered around a virtual click-wheel where you flip through the various modes. I could choose among three options depending on how much control I wanted over the shots. The Smart mode is the more interesting one where you have more than a handful of effects which kick into place before you take a picture. There are some common ones such as Continuous Mode, Panorama, Sunset and so on. But I had more fun with modes such as Beauty Face, Rich Tone and Silhouette. In the panorama mode, the stitches were easily visible despite holding the camera reasonably still while capturing the scene. The rich tone works well but you can always up the saturation after you’ve taken a pic so there’s no real need to activate it beforehand.Find the best selection of high-quality collectible bobblehead available anywhere. We wish we were around a Waterfall or on a skateboard so we could try out the Waterfall and Action Freeze modes.It's not hard to see why outdoor solar light is all the rage.

The camera has a cool and convenient pop-up button for the flash on the side. The camera is capable of 21x optical zoom and while that’s a big number,Parking Guidance for parking management system and Vehicle Control Solutions, a lot of the detail was lost when we tried taking pics in full zoom. It has a dedicated toggle button on top of the camera so you don’t have to bother with a virtual zoom slide. Also, because it’s a little bulky, single-handed shots ended up being blurry most of the time.

The only mode in which the camera gives you complete control is the Expert Mode, and in doing that the Galaxy Camera comes close to emulating a DSLR. I could choose between three different priority modes – Aperture, Shutter Speed and Exposure. Thankfully the interface was not boring lines of text but an image of a lens with different stops etched on it.

The smart-camera comes with pre-loaded apps such as Google Local, Latitude and Google+. You also have Samsung’s proprietary S-Voice, Game Hub and ChatOn.

You can download many more from Google Play as and when you want to but do keep in mind that the camera comes with only 4GB of internal storage. It is, however, expandable up to 32 GB with an external memory card. You can also activate Dropbox which is already installed in the cam so your pics get stored in the Cloud after you click them.

Paper Artist and Photo Wizard are the two post-processing apps that are loaded on to the camera. Both offer a bunch of editing options and both are varied in how they post-process your pictures. I liked Photo Wizard a little better ‘cos the sketches in Paper Artist disguised the original ones more than I liked.