email, etc. by Wed. noon. Carol
Don't forget Turkey-Lurkey luncheon tomorrow, 11-17-11!!
Poinsettia orders due into the office by December 11 please.
November 20, 2011
Liturgist: Barbara Dadd Shaffer
1st Hour Coffee Hosts: No one
2nd Hour Coffee Hosts: Helen Smith
Flowers: No one
November 27, 2011
Liturgist: Claudette Cody
1st Hour Coffee Hosts: No one
2nd Hour Coffee Hosts: No one
Flowers: No one
December 4, 2011 (Communion Sunday)
Communion Server, 1st Service:
Communion Server, 2nd Service:
Liturgist: Chris Fredericksen
1st Hour Coffee Hosts: No one
2nd Hour Coffee Hosts: No one
Flowers: No one
Sunday, November 20, 2011
8:30AM Worship Service
9:30AM Sunday School
10:45AM Worship Service
11:45AM Fellowship Hour
Monday, November 21, 2011 —Office Open, Pastor's Day of Rest
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
1:30PM First Service Worship Planning Meeting
6:00PM Handbell Choir Rehearsal
7:15PM Chancel Choir Rehearsal
Thursday, November 24, 2011—Thanksgiving—Office Closed
Friday, November 25, 2011—Church Office Closed; Pastor's Holiday
10:00AM Lectionary Cancelled today
Saturday, November 26, 2011
9:00AM Hanging of the Greens
Sunday, November 27,2011
3:00PM SPRC Meets
4:00PM Charge Conference with Supt. Daniel Foster (Please note these times are earlier than previously published)
Handmade All-Occasion Cards Available
The United Methodist Women have been busy crafting a delightful variety of handmade cards for all occasions and they will be for sale. Look for their table in Wesley Hall; they will be selling before first service and will continue selling during Fellowship Hour after second service. Proceeds benefit Mission projects.
Hanging of the Greens
Saturday, November 26 at 9AM
All are invited to help decorate our church for Christmas. Afterwards enjoy a soup and bread lunch and admire your handiwork!
Helpers Needed to Count Offering
Enjoy working with figures? Sarah Everett, our Financial Secretary, would like to start training several people to help with the money count on Monday mornings. Two people are always required when counting money. There are times when only one person is available so a trained back-up who could step in as needed is essential. Please call the office at 629-9555 if interested.
Save the Date
Saturday, November 26—Hanging of the Greens (decorating for the holidays)
Sunday, November 27—First Sunday of Advent. Also Charge Conference at 4PM in Wesley Hall. All invited to meet our new Superintendent, Daniel Foster. SPRC members will meet at 3PM. Note: These times are a change from previously published times.
Thursday, December 8, Fifth Thursday trip to Molbaks. More info later.
Friday, December 9, 6PM Annual Neighborhood Christmas Party and Potluck. Please bring food for the local Food Bank also!
Thanks from the Pooles
We arrived safe and sound and still trying to find a place for all the stuff!!!! Want to thank you for the lovely send-off with yummy cake and well wishes. We will always have fond memories of the wonderful people and staff that we met at Stanwood UMC.
Blessings, Wilma and Phill Poole
McCurdy School News below. We support this New Mexico School with our box tops and labels. For more info go to
www.mccurdy.org. There is a collection box on the counter in Wesley Hall for your box tops. Della Ashley is our liaison with the McCurdy School; talk to her for additional information.
McCurdy Box Top and Campbell's Labels News
Thanks for your continued supportof our Box Top for Education and Campbell Labels program. We recently shipped off 247,507 Campbell's
UPCs, V8 caps & front panels. Our Box Tops submission amounted to $800. Since 2002, we have
earned over $69,000 one dime at a time! Thank you to our donors and all those who are in charge of sending
them to us for UMW groups and churches. God bless you!
Martha Sanders has four new ink cartridges, HP 21-22, that she no longer needs and would like to sell; price negotiable. Call her at 939-0691.
"A Christmas Concert"
Sunday, December 4, 7PM. St. Aidan's Episcopal Church. Celebrating the season of Christmas with a mix of sacred, classical and celtic inspired music performed by the international ensemble of Jeff Johnson, Brian Dunning, Wendy Goodwin, Janet Marie Chvatal and Marc Gremm. General Admission is $17.50.
"Consider the Conversation"
In celebration of National Hospice Month, Hospice of the Northwest invites you to view a compelling documentary film, "Consider the Conversation," November 30 7-8:30PM, Lincoln Theatre, Mt. Vernon. The film examines multiple perspectives on end-of-life care and includes interview with patients, family members, doctors, and national experts from across the country. More info at www.hospicenw.org.