Due to heavy ice at the church and concern for safety, worship service is cancelled for tomorrow, Sunday, 02/10/19. Please spread the word.
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This is NOT the month of Feb-You-Ary. It's the month of Fe-Brew-Ary. And that reminds us that, as followers of Jesus, we can either brew up trouble, or brew up blessings- the choice is up to us. See, the choices we make every day are either taking us in the direction of trouble, or in the direction of blessing. What we choose makes all the difference... good choices, good consequences. Bad choices... well, you get the idea. "...I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace." (Paul, writing to the Ephesians (Eph. 4:1-3)) And, speaking of brewing, in that same letter, Paul writes: " Do not get drunk with wine, but rather be filled with the Holy Spirit." (5:18) I think the issue here is bigger than wine. We can "get drunk" on other things as well: pleasure, power, money- anything that takes us over and usurps Gods rightful first place in our lives. The emphasis, I believe, is on the second part of that statement. When you have been filled with the Holy Spirit, you will little want or need to be filled with anything else. So, what are you brewing up this month? Make sure it's something that's good for you, and for those around you. Have a great month! Gary Calendar Sundays - Every Sunday: Worship Service at 10:30 am. 1/3 - Communion Sunday Wednesdays - Every Wednesday - Bible Study - 7 PM - Fellowship Room - Everyone invited! Thursdays - 2/7 - Church Board Meeting - 7 PM - Fellowship Room. 2/28 - Community Dinner - Poplar Grove Church - 5:30 PM - Come to serve, and/or eat. Saturdays - 2/9 - Southern Breakfast - 8 am - 12 noon - House of God - 840 Brooke Road, Rockford. Other News: Southern Breakfast - Some of us are going to a southern breakfast put on at the House of God in Rockford on Saturday, February 9. It is located at 840 Brooke Road. It is a cultural experience you won't want to miss. The menu usually consists of eggs, biscuits and gravy, grits, ham, coffee, juice and probably more. Cost is usually around $10. Talk to Gary if you have questions. Refreshments - Starting in February we are trying a new approach for our fellowship hour. For now, there will no longer be a refreshment sign-up sheet. Any given Sunday that you feel like bringing a plate of something to share, just bring it. Please consider occasionally bringing something. It can be a plate of cookies or bowl of fruit or cheese and crackers or anything you want! We are not very picky! We are hoping this will simplify things and that more people can participate in this way. Some weeks we may have a lot and maybe some weeks very little. We will always have coffee. Please be patient while we try this new approach and please participate! Church Board - The board for 2019 consists of Deacons: Barb Kohl and Mark Zellman, Trustees: Curt Moore, Bob Lyford, and Dave Kohl, Communion Helpers: Rita Gillette and Deb Zellman, Financial Secretary: Nathalie Lyford, Treasurer: Dave Walker and Moderator: Pastor Gary. Coordinator Needed - We are still seeking someone who will coordinate details for Christmas Eve. Please talk to Jennifer if you are interested. Thanks for others who have stepped up to fill the other positions. Flowers - There are still a few months open for signing up to provide flowers or some type of decoration for the front of the church. Sign up in the fellowship room. Coin Collection - Our next coin collection for benevolence will be March 31. Thanks for saving your coins! Friends-
Happy New Year? It occurs to me that it might be hard to maintain happiness for a whole year... Heck, it's hard for me to maintain happiness for a whole day sometimes! A moment might be the best we can achieve, and then only with God's help. And happiness seems so dependent on circumstances. My real prayer for you, for myself, for others I love is joy. Joy is both a gift from God and a decision we make. It is not dependent on the circumstances, good or bad. In fact, the Bible tells us we are to count times of trial as opportunities to practice rejoicing! We are told to rejoice always! We are told that God's joy is our strength. Looking ahead even a little into this new year, we could get anxious, fearful, overwhelmed. We needn't be. The God who brought us thus far will not ever abandon us. Jesus told his followers just before he died that it was his intent and purpose that His joy would be in them, and that their joy would be full. I believe he wants the same for us. So, don't spend a lot of time trying to plan the perfect year. Plan, yes, but take each day, each moment, as it comes determined to rejoice in the One who gives us each one those moments and days. Living the adventure with you, Gary Calendar Thursdays - 1/3 - Church Board Meeting - 7 PM - Fellowship Room 1/24 - Community Dinner - Poplar Grove Church - 5:30 PM - Everyone welcome to eat and/or serve. Sundays - Every Sunday: Worship Service at 10:30 am. 1/6 - Communion Sunday. Also bring your jar of change if you forgot it last week. 1/13- Annual Meeting and Potluck immediately following worship. Church basement. Wednesdays - 1/9 - Bible Study starts back up. 7 PM - Fellowship Room. Will meet every Wednesday the rest of the month. Other News: Annual Meeting and Potluck - Please stay for our annual meeting on Sunday, January 13. We will enjoy a potluck dinner before the meeting. If possible bring a hot and a cold dish to pass. This is an important time to discuss our past and our future of our church. Your thoughts and input are needed! You should have received your minutes from our 2018 annual meeting via email. Please read and/or bring along to the meeting this year. Coordinators Needed - We are looking for a greeter coordinator and a Christmas Eve coordinator for 2019. Please talk to Jennifer if you are interested. Flowers - Each month one person is in charge of providing some kind of flowers, plants, candle, or other decorations for the front of the sanctuary. Consider taking a month! Sign up sheet is in the fellowship room. Thanks to everyone who brought all kinds of beautiful things for 2018. Thanks - Thanks to everyone who brought cookies for our sing along and for Christmas Eve. We had so many we were able to use them for the Sundays following those events as well. Refreshments - We will be trying a new approach to treats for our Sunday fellowship time. There will no longer be a sign up sheet. Any given Sunday that you feel like bringing something, just bring it. We will just see what shows up each week. Some weeks we may not have much and some weeks perhaps we will have a lot. There will always be coffee. For most of last year it was getting harder and harder to get commitments to sign up. So we will try this approach at least for awhile. Looking Ahead: Save Your Change - Next quarterly collection of jars of coins will be March 31. This is a way for us to build up our benevolence fund. Friends-
We all need hope. It is a gift from God that keeps us going when we want to quit. A few thoughts... " 'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord,'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.' " God speaking through the prophet Jeremiah (Jeremiah 29:11) "... we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit..." Paul the apostle (Romans 5:3-5) "For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently." Paul again (Romans 8:24,25) Hope is a longing for an improved situation. Without it, we are hope-less, we despair. Isn't it interesting that trials themselves can be the source of hope? We may all get to the point of despair at times, but we must remember that it is a lie- there is always hope! God never lets us down! It may seem he has, or feel like we are all alone in the bottom of a deep hole, but we are not. God is with us, even there, and wants to give us hope, to buoy us up and into the light again. Hope is not wishful thinking. It is a powerful gift that keeps us moving forward. Ask God to fill you with His hope! Have a great week! Gary Friends-
The arrival of the first winter storm. The arrival of the cards and letters from old friends and family. The arrival of winter itself, and so, the arrival of longer days. The arrival of packages and presents. The arrival of family and friends. The arrival of bills for those packages and presents. This is the season of arrivals. Advent means "arrival". And all of the above is part of it, at least in our culture. But of course, none of them, nor all of them together, matches the arrival of that which this season is all about. That arrival is the coming of God as man, God as a baby, God as one of us. Come to show us who God is. Come to heal us and deliver us. Come to set us free and restore us- all of us- to as right relationship with our loving Father. As we prepare for the many arrivals of the season, let's keep our eyes on Jesus. He came once as a human, so many years ago. He comes daily now, to every waiting and seeking heart. And he will come again, arriving with power and glory and might- the last and greatest arrival! Happy Advent! Blessed Christmas! Gary CALENDAR Sundays - Every Sunday: Worship Service at 10:30 am. 12/2 - Communion Sunday - First Sunday in Advent. - Congregational Meeting to follow after worship. 12/9 - Second Sunday in Advent. - Fellowship time at Alice VanBrocklin's home. 12/16 - Third Sunday in Advent. - Fellowship time at the Green's home. Walk on over after church. 12/23 - Fourth Sunday in Advent. 12/30 - Collection of jars of change for benevolence fund. Mondays - 12/24 - Christmas Eve Candlelight Service - 7 PM. - Cookies and beverages served in the fellowship room after the service. Wednesdays - 12/5 and 12/12 - Bible Study - 7-8:30 PM - Fellowship Room. 12/5 and 12/12 - prayer, reflection, rest 6-9 PM Sanctuary 12/19 - Sing the Songs of Christmas - 6:30 PM - Sanctuary. Thursdays - 12/7 - Church Board Meeting - 7 PM - Fellowship Room. 12/27 - Community Dinner - 5:30 PM - Poplar Grove Church - come to eat and/or serve. Other News: Congregational Meeting - This Sunday, December 2, there will be a short congregational meeting. Decisions about the church budget will be discussed. Please plan on staying for this important meeting. Grab a cup of coffee and some treats, then head back into the sanctuary for the meeting. Refreshments - On December 9 we will head over to Alice VanBrocklin's house for treats after church. Takes only a minute to get there. Carpool for easier parking. She lives at 14730 Caledonia Road. December 16 we will walk over to Angela and Stacy Greens house for our fellowship time. Also please note that there is a new sign up sheet for December through February in the fellowship room. Sing the Songs of Christmas - We are having an indoor Christmas carol sing-along on Wednesday, December 19. Invite friends and family for a fun night to sing all your favorites Christmas songs. Cookies and hot chocolate afterward. If you are not into singing, just come for fun and to celebrate the season! Sanctuary open for holiday respite/prayers- I love our sanctuary this time of year! I was in it for some solitude after the Bible discussion on Wednesday night- so lovely, peaceful, holy. But, I don't want to be selfish! So, we will open up the sanctuary on the first 2 Wednesdays of the month from 6-9pm, for any who might want to pray, reflect, or just get a little silence into their life. (Bible discussion will still go on in the fellowship room from 7-8:30) Cookies - We need cookies! We would like to have cookies or some kind of treats for our December 19 sing along and our Christmas Eve service. Please bring some if you are able. Thanks! Save Your Change - We will be having our quarterly collection of coins on Sunday, December 30. The board has initiated this plan to help build up our benevolence fund. In September we collected a total of $237.40! Flowers - A new sign up sheet for altar flowers for 2019 is in the fellowship room. Choose a month and furnish some type of flower, plant, candle, or decor for each Sunday in your month. Thank you to all who furnished beautiful arrangements this year. Happy December Birthdays! 25 - Jesus Christ Looking Ahead: Annual Meeting and Potluck Dinner - Sunday, January 13 - Everyone is encouraged to be a part of this important time. After church, we will gather for a potluck and then conduct our annual business meeting. Friends-
What if, instead of reminding ourselves on Thanksgiving to be thankful all the time, we remind ourselves of that right now? What if we decided as a congregation that we would make gratitude our practice the entire month of November? When we are tempted to grumble or complain, we choose instead to give thanks? That when things don't go as we planned, we choose to trust that God has it all under control, and thank him for that? What would happen if we intentionally, and intensely, began each day thanking God for as much as we could think of, even before we have our coffee or breakfast? Does this sound nuts to you? Well, thanksgiving brings us into the presence of God (Psalm 100:4). When we are in his presence, we have direct access to him and all he offers. Thanksgiving is not just a good rule to be polite. Thanksgiving is a radical act, refusing to let all the cynicism and darkness of the world shape our thoughts and our hearts. Thanksgiving will shape us... and our world. Try it! Gary CALENDAR Saturdays - 11/3 - Set your clocks back 1 hour tonight! Daylight savings time ends! Sundays - Every Sunday: Worship Service at 10:30 am. 11/4 - Communion Sunday - light lunch in basement after church. 11/11 - Fall Harvest Potluck - Church Basement - right after church. 11/18 - Thanksgiving Worship Service 11/25 - Decorate the church for Christmas during fellowship hour. Tuesdays - 11/6 - Church Board Meeting - 7 PM - Fellowship Room - new day for this month only. Wednesdays - Every Wednesday: Bible Study - 7-8:30 PM - Fellowship Room. Other News: Socktober - Thanks to everyone who helped out in so many ways, our Socktober was a huge success! Our sock drawer was overflowing! We collected over 302 pairs of socks for veterans! We continue to ask God to bless the people who will receive those socks. Our Socktoberfest potluck was also a success. It was a delicious meal eaten on beautifully decorated tables. Special thanks to Joyce Lowecke for the Socktober idea and for Judy Murphy being on the point to make it happen. Lunch - Enjoy a light lunch after church this coming Sunday, November 4. Served in the basement. Thanks Leslie and Judy! Fall Harvest Potluck - Please stay after church on Sunday, November 11 for a delicious turkey dinner potluck. There is a sign up sheet to help bring the side dishes. Or you can call Nikki at 815 - 979-3641 or email her at nstefan123@aol.com to do the same thing. Let's gather and be thankful together! And enjoy a fabulous meal. We thank the board for organizing this! Decorating for Christmas - Plan on staying after church on Sunday, November 25 to help decorate the church for Advent and Christmas. Advent starts December 2. Rada Cutlery - Looking for Christmas gifts? Another order for Rada Cutlery will be sent in late November. Catalogs are available in the fellowship room. Orders can be placed starting this Sunday November 4 and through Sunday November 18. Talk to Leslie Quiggle if interested. Looking Ahead: Congregational Meeting - Plan on staying after church on Sunday, December 2 for a brief congregational meeting. Decisions about the church budget will be discussed. Everyone is encouraged to stay. Save Your Change - Next collection of loose change for benevolence is Sunday December 30. Friends-
As many of you know, Jennifer is a fantastic cook. She is always on the hunt for a good recipe. Plus she already has a ton of recipes at her disposal. And I am always the willing guinea pig for her experiments because I have learned that they almost never fail! I was thinking about the difference between those recipes and the actual meal that they produce. She could labor for hours to find the perfect recipe for a meal. Once she was completely satisfied, she could happily add it to her growing collection. But I wouldn't be happy. At least, not until she actually prepared it and served it to me! That's when the dream becomes reality. That is when I, at last, can appreciate those recipes. That made me think that what I believe about Jesus won't really satisfy me either. I need an actual encounter. Knowing all about him, but never taking the step of faith required to encounter him and engage with him, will ultimately leave me disappointed. I need the real thing. And so do you! Never be satisfied with knowing about Jesus. Never be content with someone else's report of what an encounter with him is like. Have you own encounter! Every day! Take time to be alone with him, if only for a few minutes. You will not be disappointed! "Taste and see that the Lord is good!" Psalm 34:8 Happy tasting! Gary October 2018 Calendar Sundays - Every Sunday: Worship Service at 10:30 am 10/7 - Communion Sunday - Socktober Collection Kick off. (bring socks on the 14th and 21st) 10/21 - SocktoberFest Potluck - Church Basement, immediately following worship service. Wednesdays -Every Wednesday: Bible Study - 7 - 8:30 PM - Fellowship Room Thursdays - 10/4 - Church Board Meeting - 7 PM - Fellowship Room 10/25 - Community Dinner - Poplar Grove Church - 5:30 PM - come to eat and/or serve. Other News: Thanks - Thanks to everyone who helped make the Village picnic a success. It could become an annual event! Socktober - Help us fill our sock drawer! Sisters in Spirit and Service are sponsoring a sock collection in the month of October. We are asking for your help! We will be collecting new pairs of adult socks. We need men's mostly but could use some women's as well. Our goal is to donate 50 pairs of socks to the Veterans Assistance Commission of Belvidere. Any extra pairs will be donated to the 2018 Veteran's Stand Down in Rockford on October 26. On October 7 you will receive a special bag to bring your donation back on October 14 or 21. We are going to ask the village to help as well. We will be taking the same bags around to the village homes on October 7 and then go back October 21 to gather their bags. If you would like to help take the bags around, talk to Judy Murphy. Socktoberfest Potluck - We want to celebrate our Socktober with a meal, a Socktoberfest! Plan on staying after church on October 21 for a Socktoberfest potluck. Bring a dish or two to share with everyone. Bring your favorite Oktoberfest foods! More chicken is consumed at the official Munich Oktoberfest than sausages! So maybe bring some chicken! Or sausages, or sauerkraut, or red cabbage, or soft pretzels! How about some German chocolate cake? Or bring your favorite potluck food. Just plan on coming! Rada Cutlery - Another order for Rada Cutlery will be sent in November. Think about Christmas gifts! Talk to Leslie Quiggle if interested. Save Your Change - Next collection of loose change for benevolence is December 30. Friends-
I am writing with a cool breeze blowing in my window. It has been hot and sultry- steamy!- but last night, a huge storm came through, and now it feels like fall. And soon, it will be fall! Are you ready? I usually fight hard to hang onto summer. But that is pretty silly, really. Silly, because I love fall, too. Silly because God is the one who ordains the seasons and the passing of time. Silly because I can't do one thing about what is coming, or, for that matter, about what has passed. What I can do, and you can too, is learn to live fully in the present. Fully and joyfully. Trusting God with every moment and situation. Trusting that He who loves me most is guiding me forward. And how do I show that I trust him? I thank him. Often and always. Our thanks says to God, "You are so good to me! You know best! I am in your hands." So let's thank God for all the good the summer has brought us. And thank him too, for all that is coming our way. Have a great month! Gary Calendar Sundays - Every Sunday: Worship Service at 10:30 am 9/2- Communion Sunday 9/30 - Collecting your jars of change for our benevolence fund. Wednesdays - Every Wednesday: Bible Study - 6:30 PM - Fellowship Room Thursdays - 9/6 - Church Board Meeting - 7 PM - Fellowship Room. 9/13 - Rotary Gardens trip for women. 9/27 - Community Dinner served at Poplar Grove Church. Saturdays - 9/22 - Caledonia Community Wide Picnic/Potluck - 5 PM - Under the oaks. 9/29 - Farewell Party for the Hitchcocks - 5-7 PM - Gary and Jennifer's home. News: Wednesday Night Bible Study - Every Wednesday we will gather for a Bible discussion. What we will look at, will be determined by those who come... so COME! First meeting is September 5 at 6:30 PM. Open to everyone! Rotary Gardens Trip - Women's trip to Janesville to the Rotary Gardens on Thursday, September 13. Please talk to Judy Murphy if you are interested in going. Admission cost is $6 or $7 depending on age. Caledonia Community Wide Picnic/Potluck - Our Church will be working with the Village Board to host a Caledonia Village picnic on Saturday, September 22 at 5 PM. It will be held outside under our oak trees. We will furnish the main course and everyone is to bring a dish to pass. We need lots of help to make this happen! How can you help? Please talk to Gary or Mark Zellman and look for sign up sheets. We would like to get everyone to attend. Help us to love our neighbors! Farewell Party for the Hitchcocks - If you have not heard, Walter, Cassie, and Oliver are moving to Michigan on October 1. We will miss them so much, but we are excited for their new adventure. Everyone is invited to come to Gary and Jennifer's home on Saturday, September 29 to say good-bye. Feel free to drop in anytime between 5 and 7 PM. We will have a light supper waiting for you! Please sign up on the sheet in the fellowship room, so we know how many to plan for. Save Your Change - Have you been saving your change? Please bring it on Sunday, September 30. It will put in our benevolence fund. We are trying to do this quarterly, so your next chance will be the end of December. Prayer Requests - On Sundays, we gather in prayer requests and pray for them. They are no longer being emailed out. However, if you have something come up during the week, that you really need prayer for, please contact Gary or Jennifer and we can email that out to our prayer team list. If you are not on that list and want to be, just let us know. Besides that, we ask that you continue to pray for the many needs of our congregation and community on a regular basis. Devotional - Every Sunday night Gary sends out a devotional called Strong Spirits as part of his role at the YMCA. A few of you might receive it already. We are going to add everyone to the list to get it. However, if you would like to opt out, please let us know. They are often a recap of the Sunday morning sermon. A good reminder for the week! Looking Ahead: Socktober - We will be collecting new pairs of adult socks from October 7-21 to donate to those in need. We will finish with a Socktoberfest Potluck on Sunday, October 21 after church. Start hunting for deals on socks now. Please save and bring them in October. We will also be taking out flyers in the village to get them involved in the collection as well. We could use help taking the flyers around and then picking up the socks later. Sisters in Spirit and Service are organizing this event. Camping Trip... The men will take their annual camping trip to Devil's Lake October 11-14. Consider joining us, guys. We always have a blast! Friends-
We as Americans are a people who love our freedom. Since the founding of the nation, people from around the world have come here in search of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And freedom is a wonderful gift and virtue. It can also be a dangerous trap. Paul tells us that our greatest freedom has little to do with our national identity, but with our identity as God's children. Then he warns us not to let that liberty, that freedom, lead us into bondage: "Freedom is what we have- Christ has set us free! Stand, then, as free people, and do not allow yourselves to become slaves again. As for you, my friends, you were called to be free. But do not let this freedom become an excuse for letting your physical desires control you. Instead, let love make you serve one another." Galatians 5:1, 13 Paul says, we are free people. And the proof of it is when we, motivated by love, submit to and serve one another. As strange as it may sound, we are freest when we are surrendered to Christ, and most enslaved when we ignore him to do what we want. Jesus himself said, "If the Son sets you free, then you will be really free." (John 8:36) As we celebrate our national freedom this year, please remember that true freedom comes from God. Let him make you free indeed! Gary Calendar Sundays - Every Sunday: Worship Service at 10:30 am. 7/1 - Communion Sunday 7/29 - Fire Station Annual Chicken Barbecue. No treats at church today. Mondays - 7/9 - Child Evangelism Fellowship 5 Day Club begins in Caledonia. 1 - 2 PM - every day this week. Wednesdays - Bible Study meets the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month for the remainder of the summer. 7/11 and 7/25 - 6:30 PM. Fellowship Room. Studying the book of John. Thursdays - 7/12 - Church Board Meeting - 7 PM - Fellowship Room 7/26 - Community Dinner served at Poplar Grove Church - 5:30 PM - Help serve or come to eat! Saturdays - 7/14 - Sisters in Spirit and Service Gathering for Fellowship and Discussion - 9 am - Judy Murphy's home. Other News: 5 Day Club - July 9-13 - 1-2 PM - We will be hosting Child Evangelism Fellowship to run their children's program in Caledonia. Sisters in Spirit and Service - All women of the church are invited to Judy Murphy's home on Saturday, July 14 at 9 am. We will enjoy some refreshments and then talk about ideas for future events for women in the church. Bring ideas for service, social times, fundraisers, spiritual growth, or anything else! If you have never come before, please know you are welcome and we would love to have as many as possible come. Plus Judy has a beautiful yard and garden that we can enjoy this day! Save Your Change - The church board is asking us to continue saving our change throughout the year to collect for benevolence. It will be collected quarterly on the last Sunday of the month. Next collection will be Sunday, September 30. Friends-
It has been a most interesting couple of weeks. Thanks to all of you who have prayed, sent cards, stopped over, brought food. You guys are the best! I have not been nearly so handicapped as you might imagine. After only one night, I was given permission to sleep on my right side, not just my belly. That helped tremendously. And a week later, I was given permission to stand upright, and not have to always face the floor. That was even better! When I was still looking down, and people came to the door, I had to say, "How nice not to see you!" And now I can sleep on my left side, and read and write, and go for slow walks. Life is good! My eye actually is incidental to what is really going on, I think. I think God is getting me to pay closer attention to him, to slow down, to be still, to listen. And I have. I has been pretty amazing. As Tim would say, "Oh Baby!" I am learning things and relearning things. I am being stretched in all kinds of directions. I am learning to savor the simple and the moment by moment. I know many of you may have been concerned that I would find it hard to slow down from a pretty busy pace. Actually, it has been great, and I am now concerned that I not lose what God has been showing me as I get back to what has been considered "normal". If fact, I am praying that God would point me to a new normal, one that helps me to act more in line with all he is showing me. Please pray with me for that. As you may expect, Jennifer has been amazing through this- doing her work, doing my work, nursing me, reminding me of doctors orders, being her usual wonderful self. I can't thank her enough. This Sunday, I will be with you again. I suppose I should be working on a sermon! Better get to it! Thanks again! Gary Calendar Sundays - Every Sunday: Worship Service at 10:30 am. 6/3 - Communion Sunday - Treasure Sale and Pirate Potluck immediately after worship. See below for more info. Wednesdays - Every Wednesday - Bible Study - 6:30 PM. Fellowship Room. Thursdays - 6/7 - Church Board Meeting - 7 PM - Fellowship Room. 6/28 - Community Dinner served at Poplar Grove Church - 5:30 PM. All welcome to come. Saturdays - 6/9 - Ryland's Graduation Party - 1 PM - Green's home. See info below. Other News: Thanks - Thanks to SISS and all others involved who made and served lunch to Carpenters Place in May. Treasure Hunt and Pirate Potluck - Be sure to stay this Sunday, June 3 for the treasure sale and all church potluck. Our potluck will be pirate themed once again. Bring a couple of your favorite pirate foods or any of your favorite potluck foods. There are some great treasures for sale,so be sure to check those out. If you still want to donate like new items for the sale, just be sure they are priced and ready to be sold. Profits from the sale will go to Sisters in Spirit and Service. The sale will continue on June 9. Invitation - The Green family in inviting everyone to Ryland's high school graduation party on Saturday, June 9 starting at 1 PM. Hope everyone can come and celebrate this milestone with Ryland and his family. The party is at their home across the street from the church. Just look for the chickens and the big garden. Please RSVP if you plan on coming. Prayer Requests - There is a separate email that is sent out with prayer requests. If you are not currently receiving those and would like to, please let Jennifer know. Looking Ahead: 5 Day Club - July 9-13 - 1 PM - 2 PM - We will be hosting Child Evangelism Fellowship who will be running their children's program in Caledonia. Talk to Colleen if you have questions. |
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