Weekly Announcements for December 4, 2018

 EVENTS THIS WEEK

Wednesday, December 5

• Men’s Prayer Breakfast, 6:30am
  
• Wonderful Wednesdays, 4:15pm
• Chancel Choir, 7:00pm

Thursday, December 6

• Property Meeting, 1:00pm

Sunday, December 9

• Congregational Meeting, Immediately following Worship Service
  
• Session Meeting, 12:00pm
• Community Kitchen at BUMC – Upstairs With a View Class
• Youth Caroling, 2:00-4:00pm
• Youth Choir, 4:30pm

Monday, December 10

• P.I.G.S at JPs, 5:00pm
• Faith in Film – Yentl, 6:30pm
• Deadline for Christmas poinsettia orders

 

Birthdays

• December 5 – Mary Baker
• December 6 – Ben LeBuhn, Todd Masek
• December 8 – Rebecca McQuage

Anniversaries

• December 27 – Robert & Dawn Robertson
  

 

VOLUNTEER SCHEDULE for November 25, 2018

Children’s Church:

Acolyte: Madalynn Dochniak

Nursery: Lisa McClintock

Ushers: Michael Crouse, Jim Hank, Kyle Miller, Joe Roetteis

Liturgist: Cathy Crecelius (Scripture: Malachi 3:1-4)

Offering Counters: Karen Brown, Margaret Kaltenbach

December Sunday Custodian: Helen Mungle

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

December Collection Item for PCM – Canned Soup

 

December 16, Sunday – Festival of Lessons & Carols – 10:45am

The Festival of Lessons & Carols rehearses the biblical history of God’s people from creation through the Fall, the voices of God’s prophets, the promises of God’s messengers, the willing response of God’s faithful servants, and the presence of light, hope, peace, joy, and love that has invaded the world through the birth of the Christ Child. Pleas

e plan to come and share this musical “faith journey” with your church family. The Chancel Choir and nine readers from our congregation will help us better appreciate the enormity of the Christmas moment in the life of our faith.

Please bring your favorite breakfast treat to share for the brunch following our Festival of Lesson & Carols.

 

December 16, Sunday – Advent Cluster Gathering

The Advent Cluster Gathering is happening in Princeton, KY. Please call the office if you are planning on atteding and would like to ride the bus. 270-442-3545.

 

December 24, Tuesday – Christmas Eve Candlelight Communion – 5:30pm

“O Come, All Ye Faithful” to the communion table on Christmas Eve. Spread the news and invite your neighbors and bring you out-of-towners to worship.

 

FPC Youth T-shirts Available

First Presbyterian Youth Group t-shirts are here! The are available for purchase in Whitni’s office for $15 each.

 

Construction Notice

If you come to the church during non-office hours, you will have to disarm the alarm by the office door.

 

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION

Fellowship Hall Class

We find ourselves entering into Advent. This is the ‘awaiting with anticipation’ for the celebration of the arrival of our Holy Christ Child. However, this year, we are taking a different route in getting there.

Study: “God Commands Our Love, Respect, and Obedience” is taken from Deuteronomy, Joshua, Psalms, the Luke and Matthew.  We are shown time and again how God loves us. We are commanded to love God and to love others as we wished to bed loved as well as loving the same way we are loved.

 

Lifelong Learning Class

Study: “The History of Christianity: From the Disciples to the Dawn of the Reformation” (Great Courses Series). Learn about Christianity’s first millennium and a half and how Christianity is shaped by, and gives shape to diverse political and cultural worlds. In addition, the course will explore the more “religious” aspects of Christianity: its experiences and convictions, its beliefs and practices, its mode of worship and its manner of life.

 

Upstairs With a View Class

Study: “Advent Celebration”. Celebrate the joy of the Christmas season with fellowship, reflection, discussion, reading, fun and games – including an almost weekly dose of Christmas Trivia.

On Sunday, December 9, we will meet at Broadway United Methodist Church to provide and serve free Sunday lunch for Community Kitchen Guests.

 

PRAYER REQUESTS

Sandy Meredith

Ashlee Dochniak

David Fleming

Stacey Ellis

Jim Boyd

Irene Beaver

Molly McSorley, friend of Splane’s

 

May God Bless!