This week's Chimings email
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In case you missed Pastor Jack's Chimings email this week, it is posted below.
The Chimings email previews what will be happening at church every Sunday and throughout the upcoming week. |
As the L-tryptophan effect wears off after eating all that
turkey at this week's Turkey Dinner, here is what we have planned for this
weekend...
Sunday is the 25th Sunday after Pentecost. It is also Veteran's Day and we have a special moment of prayer and thanksgiving planned for each service this weekend!
Week #2 of our fall stewardship-themed worship services has us looking at "FIRST: The Challenge". I'll be talking about the challenges in life to putting God FIRST and also the many benefits when we choose to live as faithful stewards. I'm using Matthew 6:33 and 2 Chronicles 31:2-10 as my key scriptures this week. What happens when God occupies the FIRST place in our lives? How differently would we live our lives?
At 8:30am and 10:00am our Finance Team has another FUN stewardship moment planned. If you liked Jeopardy last week, just wait until this week! At 8:30 we celebrate the Sacrament of Holy Communion together and 10:00am will see us enjoying our Children's Moments and hearing another great anthem by our choir.
Following worship our Fellowship Time is hosted, this week, by our Trustees! Thanks Trustees for making everyone feel so welcome and well cared for!
And then our Youth Group heads of for the annual RAKE AND RUN event! Bring your rakes friends... there are lots of leaves just waiting for you!
This Sunday is the last Sunday to order your Door Sprays for the holidays. See the table to place your order.
The Church office is closed on Monday as our staff observes Veteran Day. We reopen on Tuesday morning at 9:15am.
Speaking of Tuesday morning, the Tuesday Morning work group is looking for some more helpers each week. See Jerry or Mike to get involved with the fun-loving ministry!
Charge Conference is Tuesday night, 11/13 at 7:00pm.
Next Sunday, 11/18 is Commitment Sunday! Bring your Estimate of Giving cards to worship that morning as we talk about commitment and help our Finance Team plan our ministries for 2019.
Also next Sunday, November 18th... our community houses of worship will gather for a community Thanksgiving worship service at St. Michael's Lutheran Church on West Genesee Street at 4:00pm. Bring some non-perishable food items for our community food pantry or monetary gifts for the pantry.
Our Advent Study begins on Monday, 11/19 at 12:00noon. Bring your lunch and be part of this exciting study. Adam Hamilton takes us on a journey retracing the route to the manger in Bethlehem. The study is called The Journey to Bethlehem. Gary and Barb Merckel are leading this study and books can be ordered outside the Fireside Room on Sunday!
And speaking of Advent... our bulletin contains information about our many Advent mission opportunities. The Angel Tree, Mitten Tree, Poinsettia Sale, and Heffer International Mission project all kick off in the next few weeks. What fun and great mission opportunities you'll be a part of! They are also great family mission opportunities! You can teach your kids all about missions by supporting these mission projects together.
Enjoy these next few days, as I finish my last Course of Study class in Buffalo! By the time we gather on Sunday I will have finished Medieval Theology and will be a graduate of Course of Study! Twenty courses over 12 years will be behind me. I am excited! Almost as excited as I will be to see each of you in worship at either 8:30am or 10:00am! We'll save you a seat.... because the family of Immanuel just isn't the same without you! Pastor Jack and Pastor Pam
Sunday is the 25th Sunday after Pentecost. It is also Veteran's Day and we have a special moment of prayer and thanksgiving planned for each service this weekend!
Week #2 of our fall stewardship-themed worship services has us looking at "FIRST: The Challenge". I'll be talking about the challenges in life to putting God FIRST and also the many benefits when we choose to live as faithful stewards. I'm using Matthew 6:33 and 2 Chronicles 31:2-10 as my key scriptures this week. What happens when God occupies the FIRST place in our lives? How differently would we live our lives?
At 8:30am and 10:00am our Finance Team has another FUN stewardship moment planned. If you liked Jeopardy last week, just wait until this week! At 8:30 we celebrate the Sacrament of Holy Communion together and 10:00am will see us enjoying our Children's Moments and hearing another great anthem by our choir.
Following worship our Fellowship Time is hosted, this week, by our Trustees! Thanks Trustees for making everyone feel so welcome and well cared for!
And then our Youth Group heads of for the annual RAKE AND RUN event! Bring your rakes friends... there are lots of leaves just waiting for you!
This Sunday is the last Sunday to order your Door Sprays for the holidays. See the table to place your order.
The Church office is closed on Monday as our staff observes Veteran Day. We reopen on Tuesday morning at 9:15am.
Speaking of Tuesday morning, the Tuesday Morning work group is looking for some more helpers each week. See Jerry or Mike to get involved with the fun-loving ministry!
Charge Conference is Tuesday night, 11/13 at 7:00pm.
Next Sunday, 11/18 is Commitment Sunday! Bring your Estimate of Giving cards to worship that morning as we talk about commitment and help our Finance Team plan our ministries for 2019.
Also next Sunday, November 18th... our community houses of worship will gather for a community Thanksgiving worship service at St. Michael's Lutheran Church on West Genesee Street at 4:00pm. Bring some non-perishable food items for our community food pantry or monetary gifts for the pantry.
Our Advent Study begins on Monday, 11/19 at 12:00noon. Bring your lunch and be part of this exciting study. Adam Hamilton takes us on a journey retracing the route to the manger in Bethlehem. The study is called The Journey to Bethlehem. Gary and Barb Merckel are leading this study and books can be ordered outside the Fireside Room on Sunday!
And speaking of Advent... our bulletin contains information about our many Advent mission opportunities. The Angel Tree, Mitten Tree, Poinsettia Sale, and Heffer International Mission project all kick off in the next few weeks. What fun and great mission opportunities you'll be a part of! They are also great family mission opportunities! You can teach your kids all about missions by supporting these mission projects together.
Enjoy these next few days, as I finish my last Course of Study class in Buffalo! By the time we gather on Sunday I will have finished Medieval Theology and will be a graduate of Course of Study! Twenty courses over 12 years will be behind me. I am excited! Almost as excited as I will be to see each of you in worship at either 8:30am or 10:00am! We'll save you a seat.... because the family of Immanuel just isn't the same without you! Pastor Jack and Pastor Pam