CHRISTMAS FOOD BOXES AND HAMS FOR TRINITY UMC
Sign-up in the Narthex to donate
food boxes and hams for families at our sister church,
Trinity United Methodist in Joliet. Your donation
provides a great holiday meal for a family who would
otherwise do without. Pick up a list of items to
include in each food box at the sign-up display in the
Narthex. Hams and food boxes are due back in the church
kitchen by
noon TODAY, Friday, December 21.
DON’T
FORGET OUR MEMBERS WITH LIMITED MOBILITY
Please remember to keep in your prayers a few of
our members who are not able to get to church as often as
they would like because of medical challenges. We have
included their addresses here in case you would also like to
send a card/words of encouragement:
Marv and Gen Bailey, 14804 S. Van Dyke Drive, #2245, Plainfield,
Illinois 60544
Vi
Schobel, Westbury Care, Room 104, 1800 Robin
Lane, Lisle, Illinois 60532
Joan Kettell, phone calls preferred but please limit the
length of the conversation
Juan Marianyi, 21422 W. Douglas Lane, Plainfield, IL 60544
Will Grosch, 1261 Cobblestone Court, Naperville, IL 60564
(email grosch1@wowway.com)
ADVENT
AND CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICES
Sunday, December 23th , 2018
9:00 & 10:30 a.m. – 4th Sunday of Advent
Monday,
December 24th , 2018
5:00 p.m. – Family friendly and candlelighting
11:00 p.m. – Communion and candlelighting
Please
plan to join us to Celebrate the birth of our Savior
There
is ONE Worship Service on Sunday, December 30th at 10am.
NO YOGA THIS THURSDAY
There
will be no class December 27th through January 10th.
Yoga will start back up again on January 17th. Any
questions, please contact Carrie Santucci at 630-532-7741 or funkylarry@yahoo.com.
Inquiring
Minds Want to Know
Let's begin
the year off in the right way!!! Starting in January we
will start a new series in our Wednesday night Bible study
class and on Sunday mornings based on the book by Adam
Hamilton entitled CREED,
What Christians Believe and Why.
We will be offering this as an option for persons who are
interested in becoming members of the church as well as
everyone else who wants to learn more about what we believe
as United Methodists.
JUST
HAVE QUESTIONS: We will try to answer
them as best we can.
INTERESTED
IN MEMBERSHIP: Here is your opportunity
in a non-threatening way.
WANT
TO KNOW WHAT UNITED METHODISTS BELIEVE:
We will try to share that information as well.
A sign-up sheet is available in the narthex. Join us on
Wednesday nights at 7:00 p.m. (dinner with the youth starts
around 6:30) and on Sunday mornings in January.
Reaching
Out Beyond the Walls of the Church
The Aurora
district is holding an outreach training event titled
“Reaching Out Beyond the Walls of the Church” on morning of
Saturday, January 26th at 9:30 am at Bethany
of Fox Valley UMC. Registration costs $5. See the
bulletin board in the Narthex for details.
Mission
U - Winter Event
Mission U is
an opportunity to study current issues impacting society
based on current mission study topics with particular
attention to the responsibilities of women in fulfilling the
mission work of the church. Possible study options are
Lembracing Wholeness,Missionary Conferences of the United States
and What About Our Money?. Conference events are open to
members and non-members of United Methodist Women. The
Winter mission U event runs from January 18-20th (Pastor
Danita is a speaker). See the bulletin board in the
narthex for more details.
Martin
Luther King Celebration 2019
There will be
a celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On Sunday, January
20th at 4 pm at Faith UMC of Orland Park with
a reception to follow. The features speaker will be Dr.
Timothy Tyson, senior research scholar at the Center of
Documentary Studies at Duke University.
WOMEN'S
FIESTA
Mark your
calendar now!!! WOMEN'S FIESTA - A day apart for
women of all ages!!! SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 2019
form 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.. Invite a friend to hold the date
as well.. Details to come...................
STAFF
AND OFFICE WISH LIST
From time to
time our office finds that there are items needed that are a
bit more expensive than a case of paper or sometimes for
special needs that occur. Currently, our list includes the
following:
● 4 new dry erase/whiteboards approximately
$230 each;
● Funding to update the youth room which
includes the purchase of 6 hightop chairs/stools, 4 ottomans
with removable tops and storage and a coat of paint for the
walls;
● Funding to update the Friendship Room
(den/parlor) for carpet and furniture cleaning and new paint
for the walls;
● Updated shelving units for the Christian
Education office
While we know that you would love to run out and go shopping,
our staff has looked at and chosen very specific items with
the best deals! If you would like to help in this
effort, please mark your check "staff/office wish
list" and make it payable to the church. No
amount is too small. PLEASE DO NOT GO OUT AND
PURCHASE THE ABOVE ITEMS ON YOUR OWN WITHOUT CONTACTING A
STAFFPERSON!!! We appreciate your support of us
and are constantly looking at ways to make our daily work
environment better!! We invite you to join us in
this effort.
THE
MITTEN TREE IS CALLING FOR YOUR DONATIONS
The mitten tree is available in the Narthex to
accept your donations of children’s mittens, gloves, warm
hats and scarves. The donations are going to Woodridge School
District 68. They give them out to children who don’t have
appropriate gear for the winter weather. We’ll be harvesting
the tree a couple of times. Please donate as you can.
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Looking Ahead
December 24th - Christmas Eve Worship Services at
5 & 11 pm
December
30th - ONE Worship Service at 10 am
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