Ingite Youth - Light of a Luminary

December 23, 1-4pm, All Youth are invited to help us create a host of luminaries for the Christmas Eve service. No experience necessary, we will show you how.
Also, we'll be watching Veggie Tales while we work!

December 23, 1-4pm, All Youth are invited to help us create a host of luminaries for the Christmas Eve service. No experience necessary, we will show you how.
Also, we'll be watching Veggie Tales while we work!

Thursday, December 21, meet at the church at 4:30pm – back around 9:30pm. Bring a snack! Help us with serving a meal and the love of Christ with the neighborhood folks of the United Church of Rogers Park.
Please contact Howie Snyder, Director of Youth Ministries for more information.
Begins Wednesday, September 27
6:15 p.m.
Start your New Year’s Resolution early. Give yourself the gift of a better life!
Fit and Feast will meet once a month from 6:15 to 7:00 p.m. during the Family Fellowship dinner, childcare provided upon request. During that time you will meet with a group leader to choose a goal to commit to for a month in each of four areas; physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
The cooking team of Don Safford, Bill Chalberg and Susan Newman returns for more Home Cookin’! All are invited to join us for this special family meal between 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. Cost is only $6 a meal.
Please register by emailing John Smoke at [email protected]. You may pay that day.
What do you buy the person who has everything? How about a goat, a colony of honeybees, or a beautiful handmade craft?
Save the Date for Christmas Carol Singing!
Join us December 16 for family caroling to our homebound members. We will meet in the church parking lot at 2:30 p.m. We hope you can join us anytime during the trip. For the schedule and to RSVP, please contact Tom and Rosie Roose at 630.204.1565. We hope to have you join our singing merriment!
Stan and Maria Clements will present Lion, a 2016 film about a young Indian boy who gets separated from his family and winds up living in the streets of Calcutta before being rescued and taken to an orphanage. At age 5 he is unable to explain where he came from or to know how to return to his family, so he is ultimately adopted by an Australian couple and taken there to live.
Celebrate the holidays with UMW!
Thursday, December 14th - Rachel Circle - contact Stacy Klepper
Thursday, December 14th - Ruth Circle - 12:45 p.m. - Chapel Hall

Want to go deeper?
Sr. High Youth Bible Study, Wednesdays, 6pm
Grab some food and join us in the Youth Center as we go deeper into faith issues in God's Word.
The Lunch Bunch is a group of senior citizens who meet the second Wednesday of every month for fun and fellowship (and good food). Our December meeting will be at White Fence Farm, 1376 Joliet Rd., Romeoville. White Fence Farm will have their Christmas decorations up.
Our Annual Church Conference will be held Monday, December 11 at 7:00 p.m. in the sanctuary. All church members are invited to attend as we celebrate our accomplishments from the current year and look forward to our year ahead.

The Ignite group will be having a Christmas party from 6-8pm - Food, games,...
Bring a White Elephant Gift to Exchange. (A White Elephant Gift is something you have around the house that you do not want - hopefully something funny. Please do NOT purchase anything for this gift exchange.)
Please contact Howie Snyder, Director of Youth Ministries for more information.