There are many ways in which our lives are woven together. Honoring those connections is one of the ways we continue to form deeper relationships within community. In a spirit of prayer, please keep these spoken concerns in your hearts and minds in the coming days.

 

                 Those who aren’t able to join us this morning for worship due to their current health limitations including: Erma Petry, Fred & Lois Roop and Raymon Eller. 

                 Those Deacons we lift in prayer this week include: Anne Garber, Lois Good, Ann Hartsough, Tom Hess and Alan & Marilyn Kieffaber. 

                 Onita Johnson recovering at Lutheran Hospital following a fall on Thursday. Onita had a partial hip replacement. 

                 Lori Waas hospitalized at St. Joe’s Mercy in Ann Arbor, Michigan. 

                 We also pray for our Youth as they spend this week in final rehearsals for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat. 

                 And we pray for those from our congregation who attended the Progressive Gathering this weekend at the Highland Avenue Church of the Brethren in Illinois. 

                  

                 We pray for our sister church in El Salvador, Emanuel Baptist. We pray for Emanuel’s primary and secondary schools as they teach personal responsibility along with general education. 

                 We pray for peace in the world. 

 

Pastor Karen: 982-8420, Cell: 578-1247

The Family Life Center is open daily from 8 to 10 am for walking and exercise.

 

 

     6:00 pm  Youth Musical Rehearsal

 

We are grateful for all the stewardship pledges represented by the commitment cards that were brought forward during worship this past Sunday. If you were not able to be in worship or did not have your card with you, we encourage you to fill one out and return it to the church, marking it to the attention of Jeff Hunn, our financial secretary. If you did not receive a stewardship letter and commitment card, letters and cards are still available at the church office. Thank you for all the ways you support the ministries of the church!

Stewards Commission

The Senior High Youth will present Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical fondly known as “Joseph” on Friday and Saturday evenings, November 18-19, in our sanctuary. Both shows are at 7pm. 

A dessert bar will be offered beginning

at 6 pm prior to the shows. Instead of tickets, donations will be accepted at the door.  Donations will cover expenses for the show, as well as help the youth plan a trip to El Salvador next summer.

Brian Daniels has agreed to provide a van for the youth musical. The van will leave the Hub at 6:30 pm on Friday, November 18. If residents of TC are interested in attending, they can sign up at Timbercrest.

Saturday, December 3 - Toffee Corn making, 9-3pm. We will be baking in 2-hour shifts in the church kitchen. Sales will be following worship on December 4.

Friday, December 9 - game night at the Leckrones’, 6-8pm.

Rehearsals continue for Joseph

Thursday, December 1 - Registration opens for CCS (Christian Citizenship Seminar), held in New York City and Washington, DC, April 14-19. This year's theme is, "What's your carbon footprint?" Registration is $375, not including travel to and from the event. Interested persons should contact Jim Chinworth.

Friday, December 2 - "Parents’ Night Out" from 5:30-8pm. It's our turn to care for the children. Arrive at the church by 5:15pm.

Sunday, December 4 - Noon meal at the Borgmanns’

The Senior High Youth continue to collect old cell phones and ink cartridges to recycle. Please place them in the basket by the pie safe in the Narthex. There is also a receptacle in The Hub at Timbercrest.

The senior high youth are sponsoring a Silent Auction to be held January 15, 22, and 29, 2012. Organizing this year's auction will be Jan Fahs and Bonnie Shenefield. Keep alert to details late in the fall for bringing items, services, etc., to be bid on to raise funds for a trip to El Salvador the summer of 2012.

 

Beth E. Sollenberger, executive minister of South/Central Indiana District, has been named editor of the Ecumenical Stewardship Center magazine "Giving: Growing Faithful Stewards in Your Congregation," as of Jan. 1, 2012. She is a former member of the Ecumenical Stewardship Center Board of Directors and of the design team that launched "Giving" magazine in 1998.

 

Monday, November 14, from 7:00-8:00 pm, a CPR class called Family and Friends will be offered in Room 220 (All Things Considered Room). This class takes CPR one step beyond Hands Only. All are welcome, age 5th grade and up. All training with manikins will be done at table top, not on the floor. The cost is $5. “Charley” Lovelette will be the instructor. She works through American Heart Association and will be donating her time. If you are interested and this time does not work for you, let us know; we will be glad to set another class time. You will not be CPR certified after this class.

 

On Saturday, November 5, Annabel Rupel was inducted into the Indiana 4-H Hall of Fame. She is only the third person to achieve this high honor. This award is given to individuals who have made significant contributions statewide to the Indiana 4-H Youth Development Program.

The Children’s Christmas Giving project is again in support of the Fellowship of Churches “Angel Tree” project. Angel Gift Tags can be found on the Narthex Christmas tree, Nov.27 and Dec. 4 indicating gift information, including the age of recipient and a gift suggestion. Children, with parental assistance, are encouraged to choose gifts for other children. Please limit your gift to one per tag, to ensure recipient equality. Wrapped gifts, with Angel Gift Tag attached, may be placed under the Narthex “Angel Tree.” All Gifts must be received by Sunday, December 11.

Questions?? Please contact Laura Gable at the church (982-7523) or at home (982-2864) or (578-0378).

 

The Indiana Center for Middle East Peace announces its November Symposium. It features Peggy Gish of the Christian Peacemaker Teams. It is being held on November 17 from 6:30 pm – 8 pm at the Beacon Heights Church of the Brethren. The Beacon Heights Church is located at 2810 Beacon Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana 46805.

 

The Messenger Bible Study will be on Tuesday, November 29 at 7:00 pm in Timbercrest Education Room.

 

Karen & Kurt Roland are offering free maple wood to anyone with a chain saw and a way to remove the wood. The wood is off the alley at 204 South Sycamore Street and may be picked up at any time.

 

Articles and items for the weekly newsletter need to be submitted to the church office on the Thursday BEFORE the next issue.

 

Volunteers are needed for packing " Blessings In a Back Pack " Nov. 23 at 1:30 at Manchester El. School. You can sit and pack or move along a line. It should take about 1 hour, call Denny Unger

982-6928