December 8th
9:30 AM Worship
"Ezekiel"
Scripture Reading:
Ezekiel 37:1-14
Important Dates
December 22nd at 9:30am - ChristChurch’s Annual Christmas Program
We would love for you to join us after the Christmas program to go caroling at local assisted livings.
December 24th at 4pm and 6:30pm - Christmas Eve Service
Barrel of the Month Club
You are invited to join The Community of ChristChurch Barrel of the MonthClub! Each month we will fill out barrel with designated items to be shared with the community. For December, we are asking for new,
unwrapped toys. They will be given to the Hillsboro Fire Department for them to distribute for Christmas. Let's fill our barrel, located in the entryway, and say "Merry Christmas" to the local children in need. If you have any questions please contact Melaine Heffner at
(503) 351-5119 or heffnerjm@gmail.com
Christmas Give-a-Gift Program
During the Christmas season we will be supporting the Hertel Center Food Bank. You can make a donation in a friend or loved one's name, and receive a card from the Hertel Center to give as a gift to that friend or loved one. (A much better gift than a fruitcake or new tie!) We will be available in the Commons after the service on December 8th, 15th, and 22nd to take your donations. This is Christmas shopping made easy! Thank you for your help in feeding the hungry. If you have any questions please contact Melaine Heffner at (503) 351-5119 or heffnerjm@gmail.com
Have YOU thought of being in the ChristChurch Christmas program?
The Christmas Program will be during worship on Sunday, December 22nd, 9:30am. We are looking for anyone who would like to participate (kids through adults)! There will be no parts to memorize. If you have family or friends coming into town for the holidays they are welcome as well! We will have one practice on Saturday, December 21st from 10am to 11:30am (approximately). Please contact Rhonda Eppelsheimer or Kris Hoggard if you are interested.
WINGS Advent Breakfast
WINGS (Women in God's Serivce) invites the women of ChristChurch to an Advent breakfast on Saturday, December 7th, at 9:00am. Please sign up at church or email Kris Hoggard at khpigsfly@msn.com. We would love you to invite a friend and/or bring your daughter! If you can provide a breakfast dish to share, thank you! We are planning a fun morning. Hope you can be there!
Learning and Caring/Sharing Group Meeting
The Learning and Caring/Sharing Group will be meeting on Tuesday, December 10th from 6:30pm-8:30pm.This is a work session of the Learning and Caring/Sharing group to review the draft community spiritual gifts and engagement survey and to develop next steps for supporting our members to feel connected to our community and the larger community. If you have any questions please contact Chris Radford at chrisrad4d@gmail.com or Tammy Gomez at tgomez@pdx.edu.
News from the Open & Inclusive Group
Members of the Open & Inclusive Focus Group are coming up with creative ways to get the word out to the surrounding community about what’s happening at ChristChurch. One idea is a two sided banner for the outside wall facing Hwy 26 – one side, an invitation to Christmas Eve Worship and the other side, an invitation to Easter Worship. Making a two sided banner saves on the overall cost. Two members of the O & I group are pooling their funds together to match any donations toward this banner up to $250. So, if you are interested in helping to fund this banner (over and above your general fund offering, please), know that your money will be doubled by this matching gift! Just write the word “banner“ in the memo line of your check. Let’s do all we can to let people know about this awesome faith community!
Creation Care in the New Year
Do you find yourself wondering how your faith might intersect with the issues of climate change and the current state of the environment? EcoFaith Recovery, the Wilderness Way Community, and Leaven invite you to join in this important conversation by signing up for a course entitled Organizing in the Biocommons. The course begins in January 2014. It is designed for people of faith who are asking the difficult questions about our call to care for the precious gift of creation all around us. Check out the display in the Entry to learn more about this opportunity. The deadline to register is December 15th. If you have questions or would like to register, go to www.ecofaithrecovery.org for more information. You can also ask Pastor David or Gary Graunke, who both attended this course last year.
A brief note about our web site...
Some of you may have noticed that our web site is not as up to date as we have all come to expect. We know that this web site is an important communication tool, not only for all of you, but also for folks who are looking for a place to worship or a faith community to call home. We have recently procured the software needed to maintain and update the site and we assure you we have folks who are working on it and we will have it current as soon as we are able. In the meantime, the calendar is still being updated weekly with new events. We thank you for your patience.
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