Announcements:
Sunday
School 9:00
Tuesdays
10:00 Bible Study
Wednesdays
3:00
Power Hour
November
6
Board meeting starting with commissions at 6:00
November
9
Our speaker is Shawn Cain.
Council Meeting follows
worship.
11:00 – 1:30 Stew Dinner at
Hammond UMC
November
16 Dawn
Blackman, Champaign CoB, is our speaker.
November
23
Bobby Murray is our speaker.
November
30
Hymn Sing; decorate sanctuary after soup lunch
--Please
sign up to help Stacie with Power Hour.
--Prepackaged
snacks for District Conference due by 11/2.
--The
Lord’s Storehouse is asking for help with Thanksgiving baskets ($30 each). Sign
up on the east bulletin board. Put check to TLS in the envelope or give cash to
Carol.
First
Sundays: Food Bank donations
Keep in Your Prayers
Leonard
Matheny; Pam and Tommy Trone; Bill Traughber; Martha Wood; Stacie Warren; Nancy
Fansler; Ruth Siburt; Dorthea Wood; Mike and Kathy Gentry; Steve Needham; Larry
Traxler; Nancy Gorrell; Ron and Kathleen Petersen; Doug Larrick; David and Jan
Bower; Debbie Garvey Leibrock; Mayo Hanaver; many unspoken requests; victims of
shootings and of natural disasters; shut-ins; the Nigerian church; the Haitian
church; the CoB in the Democratic Republic of Congo; those in the middle of war
and violence; military and other services and their families; Brethren
Volunteer Service workers; Disaster project workers; immigrants, the poor and
needy, flood victims and their families; those who will lose insurance and
Medicaid District Prayer Calendar: Pray
for District Conference and attendees this coming weekend in Bloomington.
Thanksgiving
We
walk on starry fields of white
And do not see the daisies;
For blessings common in our sight
We rarely offer praises.
We sigh for some supreme delight
To crown our lives with splendor,
And quite ignore our daily store
Of pleasures sweet and tender.
Our
cares are bold and push their way
Upon our thought and feeling.
They hand about us all the day,
Our time from pleasure stealing.
So unobtrusive many a joy
We pass by and forget it,
But worry strives to own our lives,
And conquers if we let it.
There’s
not a day in all the year
But holds some hidden pleasure,
And looking back, joys oft appear
To brim the past’s wide measure.
But blessings are like friends, I hold,
Who love and labor near us.
We ought to raise our notes of praise
While living hearts can hear us.
We
ought to make the moments notes
Of happy, glad Thanksgiving;
The hours and days a silent phrase
Of music we are living.
And so the theme should swell and grow
As weeks and months pass o’er us,
And rise sublime at this good time,
A grand Thanksgiving chorus.
Ellas Wheeler Cox, 1850 -
1919
Upcoming
Events:
November: order your candy
November 2: The Lord’s Storehouse—Amy and Serena, speakers
November 6: Board Meeting—Commissions at 6:00; Board at 6:30
November 9: Shawn Cain, speaker
Council Meeting after
worship
Stew Dinner at Hammond
UMC
November 16: Dawn Blackman, Champaign CoB, speaker
November 23: Bobby Murray, speaker
November 30: Hymn Sing
Decorate sanctuary;
soup lunch after worship
December 4: 6:00 Board meeting
December 6 10:00-12:00: candy pickup
December 7 4:00: Christmas Vespers
December 10 11:00: Women’s Fellowship Christmas brunch; reveal prayer
partners
District Conference is November 7 and 8 at the Chateau
Hotel and Conference Center in Bloomington. Delegates are Bobby Murray and Glen
Kussart. Kelly and Mike Timlin are serving as hosts, and Carol Kussart is
conference clerk. Worship is Friday night at 7:00.
