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Gracias! & Help ...
| Thanks to the Clark and Cheryl for another wonderful evening of the best pizza anywhere! Thanks also to Josh and Heather for heading up the cleanup crew. Thanks to Martin and Hannah for being the AV club.
Thanks to Toni Bissessar for setting up coffee time Sunday.
We have no one signed up to host coffee time this Sunday or Nov. 28. Can you host? Please let me know: revdocdee@gmail.com.
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Worship Team Wants You!
| The worship team has some powerful plans in store for November and December that call for sharing some of our stories.
We began last Sunday with James Fisher's beautiful story of encountering the abundance of creation along a roadside in Spain.
What's your story?
In November we are shaping worship around hunger and God's provision. We'll use the Exodus story of manna in the wilderness as a starting place.
We're looking for your stories of a time when you received unexpected hospitality, when someone fed you when you needed it but didn't expect it. Or, the other way around: do you have a story of a time when you offered a timely, unexpected meal? Please send me a note this week letting me know if you have a story to share.
During Advent, we are looking for stories of unexpected gifts. Do you have such a story to share?
Send me a note.
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Pledge Sunday
| Sunday, Nov. 28, is pledge dedication Sunday. Begin the church year (it's also the first Sunday of Advent) with your pledge to the 2011 Clarendon budget. Pledge forms are available in the narthex at church, and will also be mailed to you this month.
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Tea Time
| The former Brown Bag Book Group has transformed into Tea Time! We're meeting at 10:30 Thursday mornings at Sunrise on N. Glebe. In honor of Halloween, we're reading some ghost stories, including Holy Ghosts. Join us -- if you dare!
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A Season for
Giving Thanks
Progressive ... Inclusive ... Diverse | November.2010
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Greetings!
 Today is Veterans Day, so take a moment to hold in the light all of those men and women who have sacrificed so much for the sake of our country, and all of those who are currently serving in often difficult and dangerous circumstances. It's also a good day to lift a prayer for those in and out of the services who are working diligently for peace, also often in difficult and dangerous circumstances. The original Congressional action that designated November 11 as a federal holiday (in 1938), proclaimed it "...a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace." In that spirit, this evening I will be at National City Christian Church for an interfaith worship service marking the release of the final report of the Truth Commission on Conscience and War. Join me if you are able. peace,
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Sunday School: Family Circle Gathers Sunday
 This Sunday following worship is our monthly Family Circle Sunday School time.
This month, as part of our focus on issues related to hunger and hospitality, we're going to bake bread together. So come ready to get your hands a little messy, your belly a little full, and your soul a little stretched. All are welcome!
Are you interested in getting to know some of the children in our congregation? You are in luck: We need Sunday School teachers!
Teaching on any given Sunday is no more than a 30-minute commitment including prep time. We are pulling the younger children out during the Sermon and presenting one of the lectionary readings for that day in "kids language" plus related activity (approx 15-20 min).
Prep time is 5-10 minutes at the most. Please consider this as a way to share your time and talents.
When the children are baptised, we all pledge to assist and guide them in their spiritual journeys and this is where they get started. The children are insightful, open and a pleasure to teach. You may even end up learning something too!
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Advent: A Joyous Season of Worship, Fun and Service
Advent, the season of expectation and preparation for the coming again of Christ into our lives, begins on the final Sunday of November. We will mark the season in a variety of ways as the days grow shorter and Christmastide draws closer. Sunday worship during Advent will again include the lighting of candles, and the liturgy of readings and litanies of the season. Advent also begins the Christian calendar, and we'll mark that by gathering at table and sharing the Lord's Supper. As we do each year, we will gather on Christmas Eve (7:30 p.m.) for a service of lessons and carols in the candlelit beauty of the sanctuary. In addition to worshiping well, December willed be filled with opportunities to serve and to share the joy of the season with one another. - Saturday, December 4, we're having a spiff-up, fix-up morning from 9:00 to noon.
- Sunday, December 5, following worship we'll deck the halls. Join us for some festive fun!
- Saturday, December 11: The Lederle-Ensign clan invites you to their annual cookie baking open house from 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. We'll have a steaming pot of chili, and enough sugar, butter and flour to put a small army into a food coma.
- Sunday, December 12: Plan to stay after worship for "Carols and Cookies," as we sing our favorite Christmas hymns and munch on cookies from the great cookie bake.
- Monday, December 20: Our monthly evening of bagging groceries at AFAC.
- Friday, December 24: We feed folks with A-SPAN at 6:00 p.m., and gather for Christmas Eve lessons and carols at 7:30.
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Session Creates Music Study Team
Responding to the promptings of the small group meetings this fall, session has asked a small task group (Clark Chesser, Carol Deford, Travis Reindl and Peg True) to study music ministry at CPC. The group has been asked to do the following:
- to take the information gathered through the small groups and other means that they determine;
- to look at the history of music ministry at CPC;
- to look at music ministries in other small, progressive congregations; and
- to draft a mission/vision statement for music ministry at Clarendon.
The group has also been asked to develop a position description for leading such a ministry. Session anticipates receiving information prior to its January planning retreat, and bringing a report to the congregation at the January 30 congregational meeting. |
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