Announcements December 23, 2011
Christmas Worship
Christmas Eve – 8:30 pm
Christmas Day – 9:30 am
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This Sunday’s Worship Information:
Preacher: SuzanIreland
Sermon: “Coming into the World”
Liturgist: none
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The Congregational Growth/Outreach Committee
will not be meeting in the month of January.
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The Church Office will be Closed
the week of December 25 as well as Monday, January 2 for the New Year’s holiday.
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Message from Joyce Food Shelf
Thank you for your donation of food that we received in November. It amounted to 180 pounds. We appreciate your support. Merry Christmas!
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Patches & Gretchen Concert
Friday, December 23 at 7:00 pm in Fellowship Hall. Bring a sock and leave with a sock puppet. Van & Katie Johnson will be serving soup, bread and hot chocolate. Family friendly. Come and enjoy a winter celebration!
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Fellowship Time on Christmas and New Year’s Day
While there won’t be adult education or Sunday school on the next two Sundays, we will have Fellowship Time. Please feel free to bring your extra holiday treats (cookies, fudge, candy, fruit cake) to share with others.
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All-Church Business Meeting
There will be an All-Church Business Meeting at 11:00, on Sunday, January 15, in Fellowship Hall. Agenda items will include temporary pastoral planning (for January and beyond), task force follow-up, and Pastoral Search Committee update.
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Mission of the Month
For the month of January, we are highlighting for your support, the TRUST Ministries. Listen carefully over the next few Sundays, and you will learn of just a few of the programs offered through the cooperative efforts of the TRUST Churches. Your gift can be made by identifying TRUST on the memo line of your check or on the offering envelopes available. Volunteers in all the program areas are always welcome. Thank you for your prayerful consideration of this opportunity to support our local community.
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Transportation Ministry
The transportation service ministry team is offering rides to and/or from church on Sundays and special services. Please contact George Burbie, (651-668-2338 or cell 651-442-6704) to let him know your need. Also, we are looking for willing persons from the faith community to volunteer to provide rides. You may volunteer on a weekly, monthly, occasionally or on an emergency basis. Please contact George to offer your services. We are grateful to those who have been providing rides thus far, and for their continued service.
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Year End Donations
I will be making a special end of the year deposit on Saturday, December 31 at 11:00 am. If you have a donation for this year, please make sure it is at the church by that date. To be counted for tax purposes for the 2011 year, your check needs to be received by the church in the mail (postmarked by December 31, 2011), put in the offering plate on Sunday, December 25 or delivered to the church in person. It will not work to date your check in December and put it in the offering on January 1, 2012. Please feel free to call me with any questions. Judson thanks you for your contributions. I will be sending out end of year statements during the second week in January. ~ Eileen McLaughlin
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From the Pastoral Search Committee
In January the Pastoral Search Committee will host series of listening sessions. Our objectives are to help us discern what the Judson community is looking for in pastoral leadership and then describe that vision for potential candidates. We will do that by exploring:
What is your story at Judson?
- What do you want Judson to be for you?
- What is your vision for our community? What are your concerns?
- What do you want in pastoral leadership?
- What staffing models will help us to be the community we want to be?
You will find sign-up sheets for the listening sessions in the back of the sanctuary each Sunday. Each group will meet three times in January starting January 8 and all meetings will be in the Library. Here’s the schedule:
Sundays (8th, 15th, 22) — 12:00-1:30 pm
- Mondays (9th, 23rd, 30th) – 10:30am -12:00 pm (skipping the Martin Luther King holiday)
- Mondays (9th, 23rd, 30th) — 7:00-8:30 pm (skipping the Martin Luther King holiday)
- Wednesdays (11th, 18th, 25th) — 11:30 am-1:00 pm
- Wednesdays (11th, 18th, 25th) – 7:00-8:30 pm
- Thursdays (12th, 19th, 26th) — 7:00-8:30 pm
If you want to sign up but won’t be in church, please contact Jackie Thureson (jthureson@comcast,net or 612.802.9663) with your preference. We will also provide an opportunity for those unable to join a group to provide us with written information (or a visit or telephone conversation).
We appreciate all your efforts so far in supporting our search for new pastoral leadership. Following the listening sessions, the Search Committee will prepare a recommendation, based on your feedback. That will go first to the Executive Council and then to the congregation. We will then be ready to start the formal search by posting profile information withAmericanBaptistsChurchesand other groups.
