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Gracias! Lots of Notes of Thanks that We Should Share
| Thanks to Jeannette Regetz for hosting coffee time last week.
This Sunday we share a pot luck brunch as we hold our fall congregational meeting.
Thanks to Marit Simenson for setting out the feast at Unchurch! Thanks to Cheryl, Hannah, and Martin for helping set up. Thanks also to all who stuck around for the clean up after.
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New Members Joining Us This Week
| Session holds a special meeting this Sunday morning at 9:00 to receive several folks into membership at Clarendon.
Prospective new members, please confirm your attendance at this special meeting with an e-mail to me. Thanks.
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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.
A very happy birthday this week to Hal Logsdon! Congratulations to David Pitts who was awarded tenure at American University this week. 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:
Choir practice, Thursday, Oct. 27, 7:00 p.m.
Wii Kirk, Friday, Oct. 28, 6:30 p.m.
Ditty Boaz memorial, Saturday, Oct. 29, 4:00 p.m.
Fall congregational meeting, Sunday, Oct. 30, 11:30 a.m.
Unchurch! Sunday, Oct. 30, 6:00 p.m.
Christian education planning team, Sunday, Nov. 6, 11:30 a.m.
Peter Mika concert, Saturday, Nov. 19, 7:00 p.m.
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Celebrating All Saints & All Souls
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Greetings!
 Some weeks the news just repeats itself, but this week the news is new! So, please, take about five minutes and read through all of this, and please respond to the various invitations -- one way or another!The last Sunday of October is variously celebrated as Reformation Sunday, All Saints Day, or simply as the Sunday when Clarendon holds a congregational meeting. As it turns out, we're bringing together all of those themes this weekend. Saturday afternoon at 4:00 we will gather to celebrate the life of one of the saints of the church, Ditty Boaz. Sunday morning in worship we'll talk about being the church reformed and always being reformed. Following worship, we'll gather for brunch and our fall congregational meeting. As you'll see in the rest of this e-blast, there's a whole lot going on at the wee kirk. Come out and be part of it this weekend. grace and peace, David |
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Fall Congregational Meeting Preview: Pictures Wanted!!!
Sunday morning over a pot-luck brunch we'll look back over the past 12 months, and look ahead toward the next year.
Part of our looking back will be greatly enhanced if you can send me digital photos from events of the past year. Send them to me at revdocdee@gmail.com.
In addition, we will elect three session members. As noted in a letter to the congregation at the beginning of October, this year the nominating committee has faced considerably more difficulty than in previous years in filling a slate of candidates. As of today, the nominating committee plans to submit two names for the three slots.
Partially in recognition of that challenge, and also to equalize all session terms, session will be asking the congregation to approve a change to the congregation's bylaws to set all session terms at two years, beginning with the class to be elected Sunday.
We will also look at the preliminary budget for 2012. That document is attached for your preview. You will notice one significant change from previous years: all expenses related to staff compensation (pastor, music director, nursery attendants) have been lumped together as one line.
We're doing that because we also will ask your blessing on a staff design task force that has been asked to work with session, the congregation and the presbytery to develop a proposal for staffing the church. The task force will be asked to develop a preliminary design concept to be presented to the congregation at our January meeting with the final budget.
We will begin the next phase of conversations about all of this during the meeting this Sunday.
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Wii Kirk!
 This Friday evening Wii Kirk returns! Doors open at 6:30, and the first pizzas slide out of the ovens sometime close to 7:00. The Wii and TV will be out, and a whole lot of joyous silliness will surely ensue.
Come out and play!
Cheryl Lederle and Clark Chesser, pizza cooks extraordinaire, will fill the house with heavenly aromas and fill your bodies with the best pizza in town. Feel free to bring anything you'd like to share with the community.
Wii Kirk is another way we do church at Clarendon, and if you've got friends who are curious about the whole church thing this is a great way to introduce them to the community as we pray together and play together!
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Music Director Search On Hold
The search for a person to fill the proposed position of music director at CPC has been placed on hold pending the recommendation of the staff design task force whose work begins with the congregational meeting this Sunday. The music director search team (Clark Chesser, Peg True, Suzanne Matula and Travis Reindl) interviewed three candidates for the position over the summer and early fall, but suspended the search earlier this month when it became apparent that the overall staff structure at Clarendon might change next year.
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Unchurch! Poetry This Sunday
Sunday evening at 6:00 the Unchurch continues. This Sunday we 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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Peter Mika and Ensemble Appassionato Perform Again
Clarinetist Peter Mika and Ensemble Appassionato visit Clarendon again next month for an intimate evening of chamber music in the sanctuary, Saturday, November 19, at 7:00. This will mark the second time the ensemble has appeared at CPC. Peter has performed during worship for the congregation on numerous occasions during the past year. The November performance will include works by Johannes Brahms, Max Bruch, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. |
CPC Puts the Giving in Thanksgiving!
Join the Clarendon crew this Thanksgiving as we feed Arlington's hungry with the Arlington Street People's Assistance Network. Meet up at church at 5:45 p.m. Thanksgiving day. We'll deliver meals in Virginia Square and Rosslyn. We should be finished handing out food by 7:00 p.m. If you can be part of this Thanksgiving Day service please let me know. |
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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