Welcome to Christ Lutheran e-news, a weekly electronic newsletter which highlights programs and activities of our congregation. Feel free to .
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Thanks are due for Music Director Tom Berryman, the CLC Choir, and everyone who helped set up the parish hall, prepare and serve the meal, and clean up afterwards, for a splendid service of Vespers on Sunday, the final event of our year-long observance of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. With an ecumenical assembly at worship, Father David Michael of St. Joseph Roman Catholic Parish in Needham invited us to consider how our two communions might change if we gathered for Vespers each Sunday evening for ten years.
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 We are grateful to the thirty five individuals or households who completed pledge cards, and twenty five who returned "Time, Talents, Interests and Loves" forms on Sunday. Thank you! Those members and friends who were not at worship Sunday morning, or did not have a chance to make their commitments for 2018, are encouraged to do so in the next week or two.
We are blessed to be a congregation of people of diverse abilities and financial capabilities, and no one is asked to give beyond their means; but everyone is asked to contribute what you can.
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Music Notes
Tom Berryman, Music Director
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We welcome the CLC Bell Choir on Sunday, November 19, as they play music for the Prelude, Offertory and Postlude. The Bell Choir is thriving and growing under the leadership of Kim Petot.
Thank you to our CLC Choir, guest singers and Karin Gustafson for their outstanding musical leadership in the Reformation Evening Prayer Service on Sunday, November 12. The CLC Choir is now busy preparing for the Festival of Christ the King on Sunday, November 26 and for the Advent and Christmas seasons. New voices are always welcomed.
Tom Berryman, Music Director
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Youth News
Nate Pearson, Youth Director
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Hello Church! The lock in and Veterans dinner this past Friday night was a huge success! Celeste made an excellent meal, Denis Ortelli and his friend had great things to share, and the kids had oodles of fun! We packed up 30 or so care packages with toiletries and other essentials for veterans beyond our community! Thanks to everyone who helped make the event a success!
I will be hosting a holiday potluck at my house (30 Edgewater Lane, Needham) for all youth, family and friends. It will start at 4 pm on December 9th. Contact me to let me know what you are bringing!
Nate Pearson
Youth Director
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Adult Forum
In the adult forum we continue our series on "Unlearning Racism." Last week we discussed the Black Lives Matter movement, and the church's relationship to it. This Sunday the post-confirmands and leader Nate Pearson join us as we consider whether white people can combat racism without incurring some personal cost. Join us at 9:00 in the Memorial Room!
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Bible Study
Led by Pastor Richard Hurst, the Bible study group meets each
Thursday
at the church. We invite you to join with us as we gather for coffee and refreshments at
9:45 a.m.
in the Memorial Room so that the hour discussion/study can begin promptly at
10:00 a.m.
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CLC @ the MOVIES: I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO, this Sunday at 4:00 pm in the Memorial Room
Another timely, powerful and provocative documentary to help us understand racism in America. Based primarily on writer James Baldwin's unfinished novel Remember This House, Baldwin tells the story of race in America through reminiscences of his close friends and civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. Directed by Raoul Peck; narrated by Samuel L. Jackson.
1 hour, 33 minutes. Rated PG-13
Followed by discussion and a French food themed potluck in honor of Baldwin's life in Paris. No time to prepare food? Come anyway. There is always enough.
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Nearly all of the ornaments with gift suggestions for young people in Ascentria Care Alliance's Unaccompanied Refugee Minors have disappeared from the Christmas tree in the narthex. You are a generous bunch! As soon as the last couple are taken, we'll fill the tree with ornaments from the ELCA Good Gifts program. Starting at $10, these gifts of bees, chicks, goats, and so on make wonderful selections for teachers, co-workers, and anyone and everyone who has everything they need, and more than they want.
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Advent is just around the corner! (Yes, really!) You may or may not have observed that the calendar is a little funky this year: the fourth Sunday of Advent will also be Christmas Eve, leaving only two Wednesdays between the beginning of Advent on December 3, and the week leading up to Christmas. Consequently we have not planned any mid-week gatherings for this year. We have, however, ordered some wonderful, oversized Advent coloring pages (in the currently popular "adult coloring book" style), which we'll have out in the parish hall, along with markers, on the Sundays of Advent for some intergenerational coloring.
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On Sunday, November 19th, we celebrate the
Twenty-fourth
Sunday after Pentecost
. 9:00 a.m. Sunday School, Adult Forum, 10:00 a.m. Worship, Pastor David Buehler preaching and presiding.
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READINGS FOR THIS WEEK
November 19, 2017, the Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Some people do a good job of using their talents to benefit others, but some persons never employ their talents to the full. Come to worship this coming Sunday. Hear the parable about talents; receive God's blessing; and at the table be strengthened to become an ever more creative and faithful servant in God's kingdom.
First Reading Psalm Second Reading Gospel
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Sing For Joy
Enhance your understanding of the weekly scripture readings by listening to Sing For Joy
http://www.stolaf.edu/singforjoy/
from St. Olaf College. The Sing For Joy radio program, produced by
St. Olaf College
, has a simple mission: to explore the weekly themes of Christian worship by providing the best in sacred choral music and thoughtful commentary. The musical performances eloquently "do the talking," while the concise remarks from host
Pastor Bruce Benson
illuminate the meaning of the texts.
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