Weekly Bulletin
Guide Posts
Sunday, November 4 - Remembrance Sunday
8:30 a.m. – Chancel Choir Rehearsal (Chancel)
10:00 a.m. – Worship (Sanctuary)
11:30 a.m.. – Sunday Forum (Church House)
11:30 a.m. – Art Show (Guild Room)
4:00 p.m. – Sunday Afternoon Book Discussion Group (Brown Parlor)
Monday, November 5
12:00 p.m. – Senior Club Meeting (Guild Room)
7:00 p.m. – Membership Meeting (Brown Parlor)
Tuesday, November 6
10:00 a.m. – Staff Meeting (Conference Room)
Sunday, November 11
9:00 a.m. – Chancel Choir Rehearsal (Chancel)
10:00 a.m. – Worship (Sanctuary)
11:30 a.m. – Chancel Choir Rehearsal (Choir Room)
11:30 a.m.. – Sunday Forum (Sanctuary)
Tuesday, November 13
10:00 a.m. – Staff Meeting (Conference Room)
6:00 p.m. – Music and Worship Meeting (Conference Room)
7:00 p.m. – Church Council Meeting (Brown Parlor)
Thursday, November 15
1:00 p.m. – Warming Center (Plymouth Hall)
Announcements
Welcome to First Congregational Church! We invite visitors to sign the Guest Book and join us for refreshments and fellowship after worship. If you are visiting today with children, please join us for Sunday School beginning after Disciple Dialogue with a recessional by the children to our Church House, three doors away. We also have an infant room, with a changing table, crib and comfortable rocker on the lower level. If you need those facilities during worship, an usher will be happy to escort you.
You are welcomed and seated today by Bob Phelps, Patty Sprague, Nick Tucker, Bernice Valantinas and Cherie Weil.
The lay reader today is Anne Trompeter.
Our Minute for Stewardship speaker today is John McElroy.
The greeter today is DJ Johnson.
The chancel flowers today are given by Joan and Tom Lindsey in memory of their parents.
Today’s Coffee Hour is hosted by Joan and Tom Lindsey.
Sunday Afternoon Book Discussion Group - The Sunday Afternoon Book Discussion Group will meet this afternoon at 4:00 p.m. in the Brown Parlor. Cherie Weil will lead a discussion of the book, Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen. You are welcome to join us for this informal book discussion.
Joys and Concerns: We extend our sympathies to Kingsley Day and Andrew Day on the death of their father and grandfather Cecil LeRoy Day. Our thoughts are with our known homebound members.Please inform the pastor or church office if we have missed anyone.
The Chancel Choir welcomes “holiday singers” to join them for two special musical services in December: The Christmas Portion of Handel’s Messiah on Sunday morning, December 16th, and carol settings by John Rutter on Christmas Eve at the 11:00 pm Service of Lessons and Carols. Rehearsals for these two events begin after worship on Sunday, November 18th at 11:30 in the choir room of the Church House. All are welcome – Come join us!
Your chance to Shape Evanston’s Climate Action Plan to fulfill the city’s commitment to the Kyoto Protocol on climate is Tuesday, November 13, 7-9 p.m. at Evanston Civic Center, 2100 Ridge, 4th Floor, Parasol Room. (See flyer in the Narthex.)
Affordable home-ownership opportunity - Do you know a family of 5 or 6 committed to home ownership, but with a family income of $64,350 (for 5) or $69,150 (for 6)? (See Citizens’ Lighthouse Community Land Trust flyer in the Narthex.)
Pledge Update – Week 2
To date we have received 32 pledges totaling $81,350.
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 6, 2008