ANNOUNCEMENTS Christ Church United Methodist ADVENT CELEBRATION SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7TH FOLLOWING WORSHIP Mark your calendar for The Advent Event, our all-church celebration of the joyful expectation of Christ's birth. We will move right from worship into crafts and wreathmaking, a festive potluck meal, followed by a musical performance. Let’s mix and mingle and celebrate! If you have a musical, poetic or dramatic piece to share for the performance, please let Carol-Jean Boevers know. All persons are recipients of God's love and grace. Christ Church is a community that embodies God's love, grace, and justice for all people. We wish to carry out the example set forth by Jesus Christ to accept, affirm, celebrate, and love all. We, therefore invite and welcome persons of any age, gender, race, socioeconomic or ethnic background, sexual orientation, gender identity, and physical and mental ability as full participants in this community of faith. SUPPORT ELISHA’S PANTRY Sweet Things for Sale by Myra Gaiser and Gayle Pickrell will be available starting Sunday Nov. 9 for $5 per jar. Take home some of the abundance of summer to enjoy & help raise money for Elisha's Pantry. Don't forget that these make great gifts for the holidays. Meyer Lemon Marmalade Santa Rosa Plum Jam Plum Butter Apple Jelly Apple Butter CALLING ALL SINGERS! If you would like to sing with the choir for the Advent and Christmas season, we will soon be starting to work on those pieces. Please join us for rehearsal Thursdays at 6:50 p.m. We’d love to have you, even if you can’t commit for the whole year. WOMEN’S BOOK GROUP WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 7PM, ANITA PITZER’S HOUSE November’s book is ORPHAN TRAIN by Christina Baker Kline. The story is rooted in the historical moment of orphan trains in America between 1854 and 1929 and tells the captivating story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship: a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her to seek answers to questions no one has ever thought to ask. Statement of Reconciliation November 9, 2014 Christ Church United Methodist A Reconciling Congregation Christ Church United Methodist invites all persons to share God’s love through celebration and service in an open, spirit-filled community of faith. Greeter(s) Millie Burt Altar Arrangement Linda Carroll Coffee/Refreshments Stewardship Stew PowerPoint Gayle Pickrell CHRIST CHURCH PROGRAM STAFF Pastoral Lay Ministry: Music Director: Accompanist: Lay Leaders: Administrative Assistant: Custodian: Glo Wellman Carol-Jean Boevers Carl Sokol Linda Carroll & Anne Colby Cindy Piccinini Mary Barton 1717 Yulupa Avenue • Santa Rosa, CA 95405 • 707.542.2569 www.srchristchurch.org • [email protected] Office hours: Tuesday - Thursday 9:00am – 2:00pm Glo Wellman, Conference Lay Minister (707) 548-8911 • [email protected] We are glad you are here. Welcome!  WE GATHER  Gathering Music Welcome and Greeting Carl Sokol Glo Wellman Please sign the gray pads at the end of the row to let us know you were with us. If you are a newcomer, please know you are welcome, wherever you are on your spiritual journey. *Hymn “What Gift Can We Bring?”  WE RESPOND  Offering Offertory Carl Sokol Doxology UMH 95 UMH 87 *Call to Worship One: Glo Wellman Anthem “Fall Like Rain” Stan Pethel Time with Children Robin Brown Sunday school is available for children during the service after “Children's Time". Our teachers will bring them to room 8 where you can pick them up after worship. Bridge of Hands as children leave for Sunday School. Teachers: Anne Colby, Robin Brown Choral Call to Prayer “Kindness” SB 30, v.3 Prayers of the Community Glo Wellman Rev. Allan Jones Praise God from whom all blessings flow Circling through earth so all may grow Vanquishing fear so all may give Widening grace so all may live.  WE GO FORTH TO SERVE  *Hymn “The Journey is Our Home” on screen *Benediction *Those able are invited to stand Join us after worship for Stewardship Pastoral Prayer The Lord’s Prayer Our Creator, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy Kin-dom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kin-dom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. Prayer Response “Kindness” SB 30, v.4  WE REFLECT  Scripture Reading Reflection Hymn Corinthians 9: 6-15 “Sowing Seeds of Hope” Glo Wellman “God Whose Farm is All Creation” Tune: Ode to Joy Everyone is invited for Stewardship Stew following worship that morning. A variety of soups and stews will be provided. Plan to stay and enjoy! LET’S GET RID OF MALARIA! If every church member in the California Nevada Conferences donates one dollar every week, we will meet our goal of saving 200,000 lives Please feed our Imagine No Malaria bucket one dollar every week. A glance at this week... Sunday, November 9 - All Saints Sunday 8:15 am Choir Rehearsal, Sanctuary 9:00 am Worship, Sanctuary Dedication of Pledges 10:30 am Stewardship Stew Tuesday, November 11 10:30 am Sojourners, Conf. Rm Thursday, November 13 4:00 pm Food distribution, Elisha’s Pantry 6:50 pm Choir Rehearsal, Sanctuary Friday, November 14 1:00 pm Sunday, November 16 8:15 am 9:00 am HandiCraft Circle, Conf. Rm. Choir Rehearsal, Sanctuary Worship, Sanctuary Reconciling Sunday Rev. Lindsey Kerr preaching "FRIENDS, FICTION & FAITH" Women's book group hosted by friend of CCUM Emily Stockert, will meet again on Friday Nov. 21 at 7 pm at Knox Pres (1650 W 3rd St.) Our next book is Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand. For more info, please visit http://www.knoxchurchatwest3rd.org/friendsfiction-faith/ or email Emily at [email protected]. THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING! For those who haven’t turned in pledge cards, there is still time to lend your support. Pledge cards and envelopes are on the back table next to the Pledges basket. Your financial support is greatly appreciated!