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Events

Christmas Eve Services

Ignite Youth - Placing the Luminaries

Thursday, December 24, 3pm, Help us place the Luminary around the church!

Ingite Youth - Light of a Luminary

Wednesday, 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!

Wednesday Morning Women's Advent Book Study

Do you want to keep your mind steady amidst the Christmas shopping fever? Are you struggling to remember what this season is actually about? It can be nuts out there and we hear ya.

Why not take a pause and join the Women’s Bible Study group this December for a four-week Advent study? Beginning Wednesday, November 30, at 9:00 a.m. in Room 213, the group will gather to chat, pray, laugh and remember what Advent is truly about.

Chapel Choir Christmas Concert

Please join the Chapel Choir as they celebrate the holiday season with their presentation of Hallelujah, Jesus is Born. This program of uplifting sounds of Christmas is directed by Joy Belt-Roselieb and accompanied by Kevin Zehme.

UMW November / December Meeting Dates

Renew your holiday spirit with a visit to a UMW circle

Thursday, November 17th - 9:00 a.m. - Rachel Circle - room 213

Thursday, November 17th - 12:45 p.m. - Ruth Circle - Chapel Hall

Monday, November 28th - 7:00 p.m. - Sarah Circle - room 213

Wednesday, November 30th - Mary Elizabeth Circle - 1:00 p.m. - Chapel Hall

Tuesday, December 6th - General Meeting - 1:00 p.m. - Fellowship Hall

Thursday, December 15th - Rachel Circle - 9:00 a.m. - room 213

Thursday, December 15th - Ruth Circle - 12:45 p.m. - Chapel Hall

Alternative Gift Fair

What do you buy the person who has everything? How about a goat, a colony of honeybees, or a beautiful handmade craft?

A Piece of Peace

To help you get a little more done this holiday season or to perhaps just have a moment of quite, the Children and Family Work Area is hosting A Piece of Peace.

Children (infant through 6th grade) are welcome to come to the church for an afternoon of Christmas activities and fun! Cost is $5 a child or $10 for two or more children. Dinner will be served.

Please register in the church office by December 13.

Family Christmas Caroling

Save the Date for Christmas Carol Singing!

Join us December 17 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!

S.O.S. - Share Our Skills

Are you looking for a new way to get involved at church?

S.O.S. - Share Our Skills will now be meeting on the THIRD Saturday of each month to tackle fix-it projects around the church. The group meets at 8:30 a.m. for coffee and then works from 9:00 to Noon.

Only have an hour that day? No problem, just stop in and stay as long as you can. Many hands make light work.

Friday Night at the Movies

Concluding our Fall “Politics in the Movies” theme, We will view Lincoln, a 2012 historical drama starring Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role, supported by an all-star cast including Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, Hal Holbrook, James Spader, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt among others.