November 2 News

 

Announcements:

Sunday School 9:00

Tuesdays 10:00 Bible Study

Wednesdays 3:00 Power Hour

November 6 Board meeting starting with commissions at 6:00

November 9 Our speaker is Shawn Cain.

                    Council Meeting follows worship.

                    11:00 – 1:30 Stew Dinner at Hammond UMC

November 16 Dawn Blackman, Champaign CoB, is our speaker.

November 23 Bobby Murray is our speaker.

November 30 Hymn Sing; decorate sanctuary after soup lunch

--Please sign up to help Stacie with Power Hour.

--Prepackaged snacks for District Conference due by 11/2.

--The Lord’s Storehouse is asking for help with Thanksgiving baskets ($30 each). Sign up on the east bulletin board. Put check to TLS in the envelope or give cash to Carol.

 

First Sundays: Food Bank donations

 

Keep in Your Prayers

Leonard Matheny; Pam and Tommy Trone; Bill Traughber; Martha Wood; Stacie Warren; Nancy Fansler; Ruth Siburt; Dorthea Wood; Mike and Kathy Gentry; Steve Needham; Larry Traxler; Nancy Gorrell; Ron and Kathleen Petersen; Doug Larrick; David and Jan Bower; Debbie Garvey Leibrock; Mayo Hanaver; many unspoken requests; victims of shootings and of natural disasters; shut-ins; the Nigerian church; the Haitian church; the CoB in the Democratic Republic of Congo; those in the middle of war and violence; military and other services and their families; Brethren Volunteer Service workers; Disaster project workers; immigrants, the poor and needy, flood victims and their families; those who will lose insurance and Medicaid District Prayer Calendar: Pray for District Conference and attendees this coming weekend in Bloomington.

Thanksgiving

We walk on starry fields of white
   And do not see the daisies;
For blessings common in our sight
   We rarely offer praises.
We sigh for some supreme delight
   To crown our lives with splendor,
And quite ignore our daily store
   Of pleasures sweet and tender.

Our cares are bold and push their way
   Upon our thought and feeling.
They hand about us all the day,
   Our time from pleasure stealing.
So unobtrusive many a joy
   We pass by and forget it,
But worry strives to own our lives,
   And conquers if we let it.

There’s not a day in all the year
   But holds some hidden pleasure,
And looking back, joys oft appear
   To brim the past’s wide measure.
But blessings are like friends, I hold,
   Who love and labor near us.
We ought to raise our notes of praise
   While living hearts can hear us.

We ought to make the moments notes
   Of happy, glad Thanksgiving;
The hours and days a silent phrase
   Of music we are living.
And so the theme should swell and grow
   As weeks and months pass o’er us,
And rise sublime at this good time,
   A grand Thanksgiving chorus.

Ellas Wheeler Cox, 1850 - 1919

Upcoming Events:

November: order your candy

November 2: The Lord’s Storehouse—Amy and Serena, speakers

November 6: Board Meeting—Commissions at 6:00; Board at 6:30

November 9: Shawn Cain, speaker

Council Meeting after worship

Stew Dinner at Hammond UMC

November 16: Dawn Blackman, Champaign CoB, speaker

November 23: Bobby Murray, speaker

November 30: Hymn Sing

Decorate sanctuary; soup lunch after worship

December 4: 6:00 Board meeting

December 6 10:00-12:00: candy pickup

December 7 4:00: Christmas Vespers

December 10 11:00: Women’s Fellowship Christmas brunch; reveal prayer partners

District Conference is November 7 and 8 at the Chateau Hotel and Conference Center in Bloomington. Delegates are Bobby Murray and Glen Kussart. Kelly and Mike Timlin are serving as hosts, and Carol Kussart is conference clerk. Worship is Friday night at 7:00.