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Gracias! Lots of Notes of Thanks that We Should Share
| Thanks to Cheryl Lederle for setting up coffee time last week. We look forward to the hospitality of Jeannette Regetz this Sunday.
Thanks to Marit Simenson for setting out the feast at Unchurch! Thanks also to all who stuck around for the clean up after.
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Milestones
| We celebrate with Tom Hull and Jerome Liwanag as they are joined together in Holy Union at a service Saturday, October 22.
We will hold a celebration of the life of Ditty Boaz and a service of witness to our resurrection faith Saturday, October 29, at 4:00 p.m. at Clarendon.
Heather Murray asks prayers for her grandfather and grandmother. He remains on a ventilator following a stay in ICU. Don Hodgen asks prayers for his mother, who faces a lengthy recovery following a car accident.
Ron Bookbinder asks prayers for his Great Aunt Francie Huber. After a fall, she is recovering in a rehab facility and hopes to be able to return to her home.
Cheryl Lederle asks prayers for her colleague, Uhuru Goss, who is facing surgery and is the primary caregiver for her mother, who is being treated for cancer.
In this space we celebrate moments and milestones in the lives of members of the community. So, if you have a birthday, an anniversary, a graduation, a promotion, a retirement, or other milestone to celebrate send me a note and we'll shout it out right here.
Likewise, if you have a prayer concern that you'd like lifted up in the prayer lives of the the community, let me know and we'll list that here, as well.
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Coming soon to the wee kirk:
Exploring Membership, Sunday, Oct. 23, 11:30 a.m.
Worship planning team, Sunday, Oct. 23, 11:30 a.m.
Unchurch! Sunday, Oct. 23, 6:00 p.m.
Wii Kirk, Friday, October 28, 6:30 p.m.
Fall congregational meeting, Sunday, Oct. 30, 11:30 a.m.
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Gathering Up
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Greetings!
 As you are probably aware, CPC holds its annual autumn congregational meeting on the last Sunday of October (the 30th, this year). At that time we elect new officers to serve on session and we take a look at the preliminary budget for the coming year. And we break bread! As you surely know by now, CPC faces some significant challenges as we live through the massive cultural shifts of our time. Those challenges make this meeting a bit more important than some, so please make every effort to join us. The breaking of bread is always important. In it we are reminded of the one who provides bread for us all. In it we become the gathered community. In it we meet God and one another. The breaking of bread is not incidental our meeting, it's what makes actual meeting possible. So come, let us break bread together. Next week's e-mail will include a copy of the budget. That document won't actually contain anything particularly surprising in terms of totals for income and expenditures, but it does gather all staff compensation into a lump sum on the expense side. That is session's way of insisting that we make some significant decisions together, and of inviting you into the ongoing conversation about the shape of the future at CPC. How should we be staffed? What makes the most sense? What are the best ways of using the resources we have for the work that is before us? We've been having general conversations about this for several weeks at our Unchurch! gatherings, and will conclude that this Sunday evening. We're gathering information, ideas, memories, and observations about the past, present and future of the church, and we'll continue to do that at the congregational meeting, and in the days ahead. Meanwhile, we continue to be the church. We'll gather in worship as usual this Sunday at 10:00 a.m. We'll sing together, pray together, and share good news together. Then we'll go forth into the world to keep sharing good news. grace and peace, David P.S.: Something new! Sound recordings of Sunday sermons are now available on the web site at this link. Not actual Sunday worship tapes, but it's something more than a manuscript. Check it out and let me know what you think. P.P.S.: Only one of you has joined the Unchurch! meetup thus far. It really would be helpful if more of you did. It costs nothing, and takes about five minutes. Click here. |
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It's Not Too Late For
Exploring Membership at CPC this Fall
Our exploring membership group meets for a final time this Sunday following worship, as we talk about what it means to be a member of the church.
Even if you've missed the previous ones, if you're interested in joining the congregation this fall please come to the meeting this Sunday after worship.
All are welcome, and it's not too late to join us! If you'd like to be part of this fall's exploration, please contact David.
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Come to the Unchurch! And Bring a Friend.
Sunday evening at 6:00 the Unchurch continues. This Sunday we'll be talking about what church needs. It's a great time and space for welcoming friends who harbor deep suspicions of organized religion, and not so much for their sakes as for ours. We desperately need to hear their voices if we are to break out of the shrinking box of church in which Mainline Protestantism finds itself caught these days.
Click here to download an unchurch flyer to share with friends! This Sunday concludes our forum on the church. We'll finish (this stage of) our conversation about what church means, how and where church happens, who's in and who's out of church, what the whole enterprise has to do with that Jesus fellow, and lots of other questions that spark along the way.
Please note this: We've invited the whole community to join us, and thus far a few sojourners have come in. We're using meetup.com as one new way to connect. I encourage you to join us there, too, because it always helps a meetup if it's clear on line that there will be participants. Click here to find the unchurch meetup.
We'll close October with DC poet Rose Berger (a longtime staff writer for Sojourners). Rose will be joined by poet Joseph Ross for a joint reading.
In November we'll devote the unchurch to further explorations of the spiritual practice of hospitality. Picking up where we left off last winter during our Lenten soup series, Clark Chesser and Cheryl Lederle will guide us deeper into the art and practice of Christian hospitality.
Unchurch will feed your body and your soul.
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AFAC Hits New High in Clients; CPC Hits New High in Bags
Last month, AFAC served 1,450 families, a 19 percent increase from one year ago and a new record high for a single month. Last Monday, CPC hit a new high for baggers (22 people helped fill bags) and for bags filled. OK, they told us it was still just 500, but it looked and felt like more, so I'm declaring a new unofficial record of 550 bags! AFAC sites two key reasons behind their increase. First is the continuing economic stagnation, and second is new distribution sites. With more families struggling to secure adequate income the strain on food budgets continues. We site one key reason behind our increase: brownies! CPC continues to "fill the gap" for families by filling the bags at AFAC every month. We're also harvesting the first small "crop" from our "Plot Against Hunger." Last week we donated several pounds of produce, including a beautiful watermelon! Kudos to James and Ron for picking and delivering! |
CCCC Silent Auction Coming Soon
The Clarendon Child Care Center's annual silent auction will be Sunday, November 5, at 7:00 p.m. The event has outgrown Wilson Hall and will be held this year at the Lyon Village Community House at 1920 North Highland Street. Click here for a preview. |
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