Highlight THE CONGREGATIONAL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST Increasing Our Love for God & Neighbor October 27, 2016 • Issue 11 St. Charles (Campton Hills) • cuccstc.org DEPosition: by the Rev. David Pattee, senior pastor This moment is thick with anxiety... worry, frustration, anger... a sense of dis-ease in the present and in what the future may hold. Polls find that a large majority of Americans believe our country is on the wrong track. This is not new. We’ve found ourselves in such moment’s many times before. A long time ago, I decided to fight back, not resorting to the force of domination that only produces more anxiety and dis-ease, but employing what Paul called “the weapons of righteousness.” Conventional wisdom holds that the ends justify the means, but the greater truth is that the means shape the ends. Christians fight back by speaking the truth in love as God gives us light to see the truth. We work together in charity for our neighbors and extending hospitality to the stranger. We live in the disciplines of prayer and worship, with peace in our hearts, confident that as we take the risks to serve justice and make peace in the world, God is with us. A long time ago, I decided to take a stand in the Good News of Jesus Christ and, with the community of Christ’s followers, to fight back against the forces of discord and domination. We fight back against the settling of scores between winners and losers in a new paradigm of transforming lives. In the face of so much anxiety, I invite you to engage your church. Come to organize and train with us for fighting back with the weapons of righteousness. Article Submissions Recently we have been experiencing some articles that are getting inadvertently leſt out of our publications. To address this issue we have some new guidelines for articles being submitted. Please follow the instructions below: • Go to our website cuccstc.org • Select News from the menu • Under News, select Submit News • Select New Content A form will open up that you can use to submit your article. ere are spots for the Highlight, Blast, Bulletin, Twitter, Facebook, or our Website. Fill in where you would like it to go - you can even attach files such as sign-up forms, etc. By using this process, we can be assured that all submissions are received in a timely manner and they will all go thru the proper channels before being published. Please use these guidelines when sending in a submission for the Highlight, the Blast or the bulletin insert.
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HighlightThe CongregaTional UniTed ChUrCh of ChrisT
Increasing Our Love for God & Neighbor
October 27, 2016 • Issue 11St. Charles (Campton Hills) • cuccstc.org
DEPosition: by the Rev. David Pattee, senior pastor
This moment is thick with anxiety... worry, frustration, anger... a sense of dis-ease in the present and in what the future may hold. Polls find that a large majority of Americans believe our country is on the wrong track.
This is not new. We’ve found ourselves in such moment’s many times before.A long time ago, I decided to fight back, not resorting to the force of domination that only produces more anxiety and dis-ease, but employing what Paul called “the weapons of righteousness.”
Conventional wisdom holds that the ends justify the means, but the greater truth is that the means shape the ends.
Christians fight back by speaking the truth in love as God gives us light to see the truth. We work together in charity for our neighbors and extending hospitality to the stranger. We live in the disciplines of prayer and worship, with peace in our hearts, confident that as we take the risks to serve justice and make peace in the world, God is with us.
A long time ago, I decided to take a stand in the Good News of Jesus Christ and, with the community of Christ’s followers, to fight back against the forces of discord and domination. We fight back against the settling of scores between winners and losers in a new paradigm of transforming lives.
In the face of so much anxiety, I invite you to engage your church. Come to organize and train with us for fighting back with the weapons of righteousness.
Article Submissions
Recently we have been experiencing some articles that are getting inadvertently left out of our publications. To address this issue we have some new guidelines for articles being submitted. Please follow the instructions below:
• Go to our website cuccstc.org • Select News from the menu • Under News, select Submit News• Select New Content
A form will open up that you can use to submit your article. There are spots for the Highlight, Blast, Bulletin, Twitter, Facebook, or our Website. Fill in where you would like it to go - you can even attach files such as sign-up forms, etc.
By using this process, we can be assured that all submissions are received in a timely manner and they will all go thru the proper channels before being published. Please use these guidelines when sending in a submission for the Highlight, the Blast or the bulletin insert.
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Highlight Newsletter Copy Deadline Monday, Nov. 28th BEFORE NOON
Congregational Life is looking for volunteers to help serve coffee fellowship. There are step -by-step directions available by the sign-up sheet on the Congregational Life bulletin board. Volunteer today - it’s fun and easy!
Food on the 4th
FOOD ON THE 4TH, NOVEMBER 28The theme is Pasta. On NOVEMBER 28 please bring Ramen
noodles, macaroni & cheese, dried pasta, rice, spaghetti sauce for the St. Charles Salvation Army Food Pantry and the Elburn
Food Pantry.
MEAL MINISTRY If you could provide an occasional meal for a church member, please contact Mary Lou Bracken at [email protected] or sign up on the Parish Nurse bulletin board.
2016 Altar Flower DonationsThere are still some dates left to sign up for altar flower dona-tions in 2016. Get your special Sunday while the date is still available! Sign up on the Worship Bulletin Board next to the elevator. You will be contacted to make arrangements for your flower donation and what you would like printed in the bulletin. And after church you get to take them home!
Automated External Defibrillator is located near office door. Look for overhead AED sign. Phone is on the adjacent wall. To call for help, press an outside line and dial 911.
A second AED is located on the lower level across from the drinking fountain.
Circle of FriendsWednesday, November 16
Please join us on Wednesday, November 16 at 9:30 am in the church parlor. Sue and Charlie Petersen will give a presentation
on Wolves of North America.
Are You Interested in Walking?
A hearty group of men and women walk a 2+ mile paved trail within Fox Mill subdivision most Thursday mornings. We begin at the front of the church at 8am. If you are interested please contact Carol Ludemann, [email protected], to be added to an email reminder list. If you would like more info, please feel free to call Carol, 630-377-2564 or send an email.
Men’s Fellowship Walking Group 3rd Saturday of each month, 8am
Contact George Mohn for information and location. 847-488-9179
Make a DifferenceOn Make a Difference Day, Nov 6, join the St. Charles Community in a Feed My Starving Children Mobile Event. Our own GF crew will be there from 11-1. To volunteer or donate go to www.fmsc.org/mobilepack/events#illinois and click on get involved next to St. Charles event.
Our congregation has supported the work of The Night Ministry for the past several years, thanks to the dedication of Ann Richards. The members of our congregation have provided nutritious food, socks, sweatshirts, hygiene kits, and coats to those served by the Night Ministry.
Recently Megan Hoxailli, Congregational Relations coordinator for The Night Ministry attended the Mission Committee meet-ing and discussed the many programs of the Night Ministry. Did you know that there is a tent city in a vacant lot in Chicago, not far from the loop, where the street ministry serves the 75-90 homeless living in an encampment there? She stated that many there have mental illness issues, drug problems as well as serious health issues. The Night Ministry staff has provided clean water, food and medi-cal attention to the needy. She shared a story of a woman who is an amputee who lived there with her husband who had to carry her to meet all her needs. Working with other agencies, Night Ministry was able to provide her with a wheel chair.
Night Ministry has several programs including the Health Out-reach Bus which is on the street 7 nights a week addressing issues such concerns as diabetes, high blood pressure, TB, as well as men-tal health issues and testing for HIV.
Another program is the CRIB, which serves 18 to 24 year olds in an emergency overnight facility. Asked by the city of Chicago to address the homeless in this age group, the CRIB opened 5 years ago in a church basement. Guests participate in a nightly lottery to be able to shower and do their laundry. They are served a hot din-ner meal and breakfast and are provided a spot on the floor to sleep.
The Youth Outreach program is in the Lakeview neighborhood every Thursday evening. Food as well as other services is available. Recently the Youth Outreach program has provided hygiene kits and snacks to those released from the Cook County jail as well as a brochure of Night Ministry services.
In the spring of 2017 a new shelter will open in the Lawndale area targeting the needs of the 10% of the students at North Lawndale College Prep who are homeless. Students will have the opportunity to stay in the shelter until they graduate and provided with mentors and tutors.
Other programs are the Pregnant and Parenting program and tran-sitional living programs which serve the needs of young homeless persons who are not wards of the court.
The Night Ministry continues to grow their youth services pro-grams in response to the needs of homeless youth we meet and the problems they face. It is a privilege for our congregation to support the mission of this very important organization.
~Wyonne Hegland
Thursday, May 4, Lakeview. We always appreciate a volunteer willing to drive the church van.
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November 18th: THE BOOK OF DANIEL (1971) by E. L. Doctorow; discussion at the home of Carol LudemannThe central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia. His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths. He has not adjusted. It is a book rich in characters, from elderly grand-mothers of immigrant culture, to covert radicals of the McCarthy era, to hippie marchers on the Pentagon. It is a book that spans the quarter-century of American life since World War II. It is a book about the nature of Left politics in this country—its sacrificial rites, its peculiar cruelties, its humility, its bitterness. It is a book about some of the beautiful and terrible feelings of childhood. It is about the nature of guilt and innocence, and about the relations of people to nations.January 13th: A GREAT DELIVERANCE (1988) by Elizabeth George; discussion at the home of Denise Dojka To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale’s lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they’d hidden to escape the ravages of Cromwell’s raiders. Now into Keldale’s pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an axe in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father’s headless corpse. Her first and last words were “I did it. And I’m not sorry.” March 10th: EUPHORIA (2014) by Lily King; discussion at the home of Tony and Donna Giamberdino
Winner of the 2014 New England Book Award for Fiction A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A Best Book of the Year for: New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, Vogue, New York Magazine, Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Amazon, Publishers Weekly, Our Man in Boston, Oprah.com, Salon. Euphoria is Lily King’s nationally bestselling breakout novel of three young, gifted anthropologists of the 1930s caught in a passionate love tri-angle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives. Inspired by events in the life of revolutionary anthropologist Margaret Mead, Euphoria is “dazzling ... suspenseful ... brilliant...an exhilarating novel.”—Boston GlobeMay 12th: A MAN CALLED OVE (2013) by Fredrik Backman; discussion at the home of Dave and Marilyn SchaveMeet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at peo-ple he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him “the bitter neighbor from hell.” But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn’t walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove’s mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. A feel-good story…Fredrik Backman’s novel about the angry old man next door is a thoughtful exploration of the profound impact one life has on countless others.
Novel Approaches 2016-2017What is manna?According to the Bible, manna is the food miraculously supplied to the Israelites in the wilderness. (Exodus 16:14-36)Manna is also the miraculous amount of money raised by the Manna gift card program our church participates in. You purchase gift cards, for your personal shopping or as gifts for others, and get full face value. The Manna organization gives our church a percentage based on total sales. The funds earned are used by the Mission Committee for various mission related projects.
How to participate?Visit the Manna table in Rodgers Hall on Sunday during coffee fellowship. Place an order or purchase from in-stock cards. Cash or check only. Ordered cards are available the following Sunday. It is also possible to place an online or-der or have your order delivered to you via email once you have set up an account. Details at the Manna table.
Please consider becoming a regular Manna shopper. Thank you!
Your Manna Team,Charlotte Surta, Lynne Hardison, Wyonne Hegland, Carol Ludemann
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Look For the Christmas Giving Tree on November 27th
The Mission committee has chosen The Night Ministry, the Salvation Army and Lazarus House to be the recipients of the gifts on the 2016 Christmas Giving Tree.Tags gifts for children at the Salvation Army and guests of Lazarus House will be on The Giving Tree on Nov. 27. Tags requesting gift cards of various dollar amounts will also be on the tree for Night Ministry - purchase of these through Manna is encouraged. 64 Salvation Army tags represent 32 children. Each tag has suggestions for either a clothing item or a toy or other wanted gift. In addition there are tags for 6 unspecified teen age girls and 6 unspecified teen age boys. Gifts are NOT to be wrapped. Attach the tag to the item. Lazarus House tags The suggestions for guests at Lazarus House are very specific. Please try to honor the requests if at all possible. Gifts ARE to be wrapped with the tag attached. There are 40 tags for gift cards for Night Ministry. Please return the tag with the gift card and don’t forget to support Manna.All gifts and gift cards must be returned by Dec. 11 for delivery on Dec. 12. You may drop items off in the office. The Mission Committee thanks you in advance for your support of this year’s Giving Tree.
Little Free LibraryTake a Book, Leave a Book
There have been many recent additions to the Little Free Library, please check it out! You’ll find the Little Free Library behind the church on the sidewalk near the back east lower level entrance to the church.
Mel’s Diner
Head over to Mel’s after church on Sunday or any-time you are in the area. They are located in Campton Hills Center, on the corner of LaFox and Rt 64. 10% of all church members receipts will go towards our missions budget. Seniors who spend more than $25 will get $5 off ! All you need to do is write “Congregational Church” on the tab the waitress gives you or grab a flyer on the hutch outside the church office. Help support our missions budget and a local business by dining out!
The Prayer Shawl Ministry meets the second Monday of each month in the church parlor from 10am until noon. Knitters and crochet-ers can be part of this group even if they are unable to attend meetings. For more infor-mation call Mary Anne Rebernak at 630 377 9336 or email her at [email protected].
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Styrofoam RecyclingReuse, Recycle, Repent!
Last month a Highlight article announced that we would be switching from styrofoam cups to washable china, and we have done that! But in the article we mentioned that there wasn’t a local recycle program for styrofoam cups. A reader corrected us! Dart Industries, located in North Aurora near Sullivan Rd and Rt. 31 has a 24-hour drop off bin, separated into two bins, one for food ser-vice styro, and the other for packaging. We will keep using the china cups, but it is good to know that there is an alternative and that someone is reading the Highlight!
Trunk or Treat is scheduled for October 30th from 3:00-4:30 in the church parking lot. We are looking for interested volunteers to decorate the trunk of their cars
and pass out candy/treats to all the trick or treaters (suggested to bring enough for 75 children)! Sign-up on the Congregational Life Bulletin Board or email Kim at
On Sunday, November 27th, the Sunday School children will be assembling stockings which will be taken down to Night Ministry to be given away.Each stocking needs:small memo pad toothbrushadult thermal socks lip balmdeck of cards hand creamsmall pack of tissue hand warmersfull size deodorant pair of magic gloves (one size fits all)assorted candy, chocolates, mints and gumPlease place donations in basket in Rodgers Hall by November 20th.Thank you!
Christmas Stockings
Followers Of God Puppet Troupe
We are excited about our new puppet troupeseason and want to invite all 5th graders and older to join us:
Tuesday nights 5:00 – 7:00.in Rodgers Hall
Looking forward to seeing all of you! We have some fun new ideas!Jeanne Humke, Sue Peterson, Jennifer Megliola, and Cammie Humke Any questions - email, call, or text:Jeanne Humke at 630-229-3494 [email protected]
Parlor Art Gallery October and November, reflects A Man’s Lens - Male Inspired Interests. Featured artists are of the OGCC - Old Guys Camera Club; Chuck Peterson, Jack Shouba, Chuck Hunnicutt, Bill Ludemann and John Janunas. Each artist began with a response to “Men Inspired Interests”. Each piece demonstrates a keen eye for the many male inspired identities; expressing feelings for the locations visited, wonder of nature, passion of experiences, images of powerful creativity and documenting the world through the camera lens - using a male perspective. Explore, wander, and share the beauty of the wonderful male imagination and life.
- Enjoy the experience. Kathy Westman, Parlor Art Gallery.
The sign up sheet for the remainder of 2016 and all of 2017 is now posted on the Worship Bulletin Board. Please sign up today.
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LAZARUS HOUSE THANKSGIVING FEAST Lazarus House warmly invites you to join its staff, guests, and many supporters at our annual Thanksgiving Feast to be held Thursday, November 24, 2016 at the Salvation Army St. Charles Tri-City Corps, 1710 S. 7th Ave. in St. Charles. The event will run from 11:30 am to 2:00 pm with dining beginning at noon. The feast has become an established tradition in the community. Not only are Lazarus House guests blessed by the outpouring of generosity and compassion exhibited by those who attend, the feast has also become the family meal for many who live by themselves or do not have family close by. Come meet new friends and share a meal with the neighbors in your community. For those able to cook, a dish to pass is most appreciated. Food should arrive ready to serve between 11:30 and 11:45 in a disposable container. Needed dishes and supplies are posted on the website: www.lazarushouseonline.com. There is no cost to attend, but we would greatly appreciate a courtesy call or email letting us know if you are able to contribute a dish and/or plan on attending. Please contact Ellen at 630-587-2144 or [email protected].
Volunteering is a wonderful way to give back to your com-munity. Northwestern Medicine at Delnor Hospital and asso-ciated campuses are always looking for adults and teens with friendly smiles, helping hands and warm hearts to make a difference! Every effort is made to place volunteers in an area that they will find most rewarding and comfort-able for as little as 6-12 hours/month. A variety of assign-ments are offered from mail/newspaper delivery, gift and resale shops, staff support to transport and directional ser-vices. While you share your talents and help patients, their families and hospital staff, you will enjoy personal benefits and discounts as well.Please consider joining our team. You will be rewarded by the lives that you touch!New volunteer orientations will take place October 19 and November 8. If interested please contact Volunteer Services at 630 938 2180. We look forward to answering your ques-tions.
Volunteers Needed! Salvation Army Golden Diners Senior
Nutrition ProgramRoute: St. Charles Days: 2nd & 4th Wednesday of the month
Hours: 10am-NoonDeliver meals to homebound seniors in St. Charles!
Volunteers provide a nutritious meal, a wellness check along with a smiling face, a human voice and the knowledge that
someone cares. Requirements: Friendly, caring adult, application process &
automobile for delivery. Volunteer once a month or more!
You can make a difference.Contact: Kathy at 630-232-6676
Christian Education Classroom: School year Sunday school was kicked off on September 11th with Joseph and his Brothers. Students completed this unit this past Sunday and have moved onto learning about Ruth and Naomi.
Activities: With the holiday season approaching there are volunteer activities during service that our Sunday school students will participate in. November 27th we will be working with the Night Ministry to stuff our stockings. Remember to bring in supplies to help us create many! December 4th will be the Christmas Happenings crafting day. We will have a fun performance by our very own F.O.G Puppet Troupe and then we will be working with CE to create our goodies to be sold. December 18th will be cookies with Santa at 10:45.
Offering: We are continuing to raise our funds to keep on with the tradition of buying animals from Heifer International for the Holidays. There will be more information to come after our next Junior Worship in November.
Call to Worship & Acolytes: Slots are filling up fast for the children readers and acolytes. If your child is interested in reading for Call to Worship or Acolyting a list of dates can be found in the Sunday school wing on the bulletin board.
Looking to put your special talents in place here at Church? Sunday school teachers are needed for some dates in November. Currently we have a need for one teacher on November 13th and two teachers for November 20 & 27th. Our Sunday School teachers are not expected to know the Bible front to back and will have minimal planning/prep to do for our classrooms. Perhaps you would like more information or to volun-teer? Shoot Lauren Biddle an email at [email protected] or give her a call Monday - Wednesday mornings at (630)584-0929.
People may come to our church on their own, but often times people visit our church because someone invited them. That is true for Jack and Sandie Bils. Being a neigh-bor, Ivy Johnson invited them to visit our church in 2001. The bell choir, directed at that time by Larry Rossi who started the group, was playing that Sunday. Having played the handbells before, Jack and Sandie thought to them-selves, “We could do that.” They enjoyed the people and the worship service and joined the church and the bell choir in 2003 when the new bell choir director was Denise Beiermann.
Sandie grew up in South Beloit, IL. She did her nursing training at Rockford Memorial Hospital and then at Chi-cago State Hospital. Jack grew up in Lombard. He received his bachelor’s degree at Knox College in Galesburg and his masters and doctorate degrees at Northwestern. Sandie first worked at Madden Mental Health Clinic in Maywood and Jack began teaching high school physics and physical science at Ridgewood High School in Norridge. They met playing volleyball at the high school during a recreation night. (Sandie’s team beat Jack’s team but who remembers those details…..) They started dating soon after the game. I guess Jack liked an athletic young lady. After a year of teaching, Jack went into the army for two years where he was a lieutenant at the engineering school in Virginia. They continued dating during this time and married in 1968 after he returned from the army.
When they married, Jack and Sandie lived in Maywood for a year where Jack taught another year at Ridgewood and Sandie continued working at Madden. Then they moved
Who’s in the Pews?
Jack and Sandie Bils
By Sue Peterson
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Holy Communion
During July, August and September, we celebrated communion with the congregation coming forward for the bread and wine. We received the elements intinction style. Thank you to the congregation for being flexible. From October through February, we will return to pew communion with ushers serving row by row. After that, we may return to intinction at the front of the church. Pastor Dave and the Wor-ship Committee hope you agree that variety in our services is important.
The Worship Committee is also looking for a couple people who can help set up and/or clean up com-munion on the first weekend of each month. Set up occurs on your own schedule on Saturday, then clean up after Sunday service. Contact Janet Bell at [email protected]
to Evanston for four years where Jack taught at Evanston High School and Sandie worked at St. Francis Hospital. After Jack received his degrees, they moved to Aurora for four years where he was the assistant principal at Aurora West High School and Sandie worked at Mercy Center for six months before staying home with the children.
Jack and Sandie have two sons. Scott and his wife Elizabeth live in Austin, TX with their three children: Connor, Kathleen and Brendan. Scott is the director of global professional services at EMC, a computer con-glomerate. Brett and his wife Alice live in Chicago where he works as the assistant director of operations for Levy Restaurants at Wrigley Field.
Jack and Sandie lived in Green Bay, WI for a year when Jack was principal at Ashwaubenon High School in Green Bay before leaving to become principal at Lake Park High School for four years. He continued in the Lake Park district as director of student services for seven years and then assistant superintendent of Hu-man Resources for eleven years before retiring in 2002. After the boys were older, Sandie went back to work for Humana for 10 years and then at a doctor’s office in Bar-rington for 16 years before she also retired in 2002.
Jack and Sandie are active church members. They con-tinue to play in the bell choir directed by Dennis Beier-mann. Jack is currently a member of church council and Sandie belongs to women’s fellowship and is involved in her local quilt guild. She has had quilts hung in the church entrance and parlor twice. She also enjoys knitting and embroidery work which she can do while watching TV or while traveling. They both enjoy golf, gardening and and traveling. They have been to many places – Hawaii, Viking River Cruises, Alaska, Carib-bean and much more. This year they plan to go to Fort Meyers in Florida for three months. Ask them about their Marriott Vacation Club and you’ll hear many more stories.
Lazarus HouseWed., Nov. 16, 6:30 pm
214 Walnut Street, St. Charles
We are asking for your help with meal items for the November menu. We will be serving grilled hamburgers/cheeseburgers, macaroni and cheese and heavenly hash salad. Meat will be available in the freezer in the church kitchen. We also need the usual breakfast and lunch items. A sign up sheet is on the Lazarus Board in Rodgers Fellowship Hall. We thank you for your continued support of this ongoing mission project. Questions? Grace Caldwell - Home - 630 762 1347 Cell - 630 886 3482 Email - [email protected] or Diane Brown - [email protected]
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November–December 2016 • Food on the 4th
Reverse Advent Calendar
Each day in Advent: Pray for those who are hungry. Do an act of kindness. Add a non-perishable food item to your home container for the Salvation Army & Elburn Food Pantries. Note your donation on this calendar. Bring donations to church on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. Suggestions: Wrap your donation box like a Christmas package or use Christmas gift bags. Use paper grocery bags and decorate or color them. Children might like to draw pictures of the food that is donated each day on the calendar or container. Keep donations under your Christmas tree.
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Celebrate MLK during worship with us on January 15th
Make a pledge to Volunteer
Sign-ups available beginning September 18th SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES: January 15: Night Ministry January 16: Feed My Starving Children January 17: Bake Off at Church for Fire/Police Dept. January 18: Lazarus House January 19: “Act of Kindness” Day January 21: Northern Illinois Food Bank January 22: Salvation Army Special Food drive Other sites confirmed: Mooseheart for greenhouse work
OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING & FELLOWSHIP: January 8: 10:45 AM, discussion on the book, “While the World Watched”
January 15: African Drumming Group and Speakers during the 9:30 Worship Service
January 15: Chicago Sinfonietta 3pm, Tribute to MLK
January 29: 10:45 AM, discussion on the book, “While the World Watched”
Celebrate MLK during worship with us on January 15th
Make a pledge to Volunteer Sign-ups available beginning September 18th
SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES: January 15: Night Ministry January 16: Feed My Starving Children January 17: Bake Off at Church for Fire/Police Dept. January 18: Lazarus House January 19: “Act of Kindness” Day January 21: Northern Illinois Food Bank January 22: Salvation Army Special Food drive Other sites confirmed: Mooseheart for greenhouse work
OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING & FELLOWSHIP: January 8: 10:45 AM, discussion on the book, “While the World Watched”
January 15: African Drumming Group and Speakers during the 9:30 Worship Service
January 15: Chicago Sinfonietta 3pm, Tribute to MLK
January 29: 10:45 AM, discussion on the book, “While the World Watched”
MLK National Week of
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Here is a wonderful way to celebrate our church’s MLK Service Week.
Reserve your tickets for the Sunday, January 15, 2017, 3:00 p.m. concert at Wentz Hall, North Central College in Naperville. The Chicago Sinfonietta will perform their “Annual Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” concert with a side-by-side performance, matching the professional musicians with young student musi-cians. The Roosevelt University Choir will join the Sinfonietta for an epic performance of “Ode to Joy” from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. Wentz Hall is a beautiful concert hall with convenient parking, great acoustics and all seats are good.
This is early publicity because we must have half the money paid to save our block of tickets by September 15. With a 30% dis-count, tickets are $42 each. Sign up on the Congregational Life bulletin board. Come enjoy friends and beautiful music—a great combination!
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Sneak Peek at Upcoming Service Opportunities
RUMMAGE SALE POSTPONED
Women’s Fellowship is sorry to announce that the Fall Rummage sale has been postponed until the week of April 17. This would be the week after Easter Sunday. We are a busy and active church and sometimes events tend to collide. That is the case this October. A number of our reliable rummage sale workers are either going to be gone or are leaving that particular week. It came to our attention that we would be shorthanded, and we thought it was best to postpone the sale. We are aware that many of you save items during the sum-mer and are sorry for the inconvenience.
Please put April 17 on your 2017 calendar and thanks in advance for your understanding.
Anne GrahamWomen’s Fellowship Chairperson
GO CUBS GO!
Sunday, November 6th
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The Congregational United Church of Christ CalendarVisit cuccstc.org for current calendarNovember 2016 NOVEMBER 2016
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday30Back Bay Adult WorkTourNew Member SundayWomen's Retreat,Pilgrim Park8:30 AM - 9:00 AMWorship (S)9:30 AM - 10:30 AMSunday School9:30 AM - 10:30 AMWorship (S)10:30 AM - 11:00 AMCoffee Fellowship (FH)3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Trunkor Treat
31Back Bay AdultWork Tour9:00 AM- 10:00 AMSwing Set (FH)9:00 AM- 10:15 AMYoga (S)12:30 PM- 1:30 PM SwingSet (FH)2:30 PM- 5:30 PMLanguageStars(112)4:30 PM- 5:30 PMBeiermannLessons (S)
138:30 AM - 9:00 AMWorship (S)9:30 AM 4th Gradersreceive bibles (115, 117)9:30 AM - 10:30 AMSunday School9:30 AM - 10:30 AMWorship (S)10:30 AM - 11:00 AMCoffee Fellowship (FH)11:00 AM Confirmationvisit to Yurs
Tom Palansky–Council PresidentTara Moffitt–Congregational Life Chair Steve Sidor–Christian Education Chair Mary Emily Anhalt–Mission Chair Janet Bell–Worship Chair Bob Brautigam–Facilities Anne Graham–Women’s Fellowship President Jeff Graham–Youth Director Rev. William L. Nagy–Pastor Emeritus All Members–Ministers
YOU ARE WELCOME Striving to increase our love for God and neighbor, we welcome persons of every age, health condition, race, marital status, economic status, sexual orientation and religious background.
We encourage you to become an active member of our church, sharing your God-given gifts in all areas of church life: worship, education, mission and ministry.
