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THE NEWSLETTER Vol 49, No. 51 December 21, 2016
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Christmas Eve Worship, 6:00 pm
December 24
- Candle Light Service in the sanctuary. Join your Parkway family, our neighbors, and other guests as we await and celebrate the birth of our Lord!
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Christmas Day Worship, 10:55 AM
It is a rare occasion to celebrate Christmas Day together as a church family. This is such an occasion! Sunday we will gather together for worship on Christmas morning. The service is at the normal time, 10:55 AM. Education classes will not meet. Feel free to dress in casual clothes, or your new Christmas jammies, and bring JINGLE BELLS, too! We will have a festive time of worship with scripture, prayers, sermon and jingle bells during the hymns. Stay afterwards for cookies and hot chocolate in the Narthex. It will be a joyous morning of worship with our church family as we celebrate Christ's birth.
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Donations for Refugee Families in San Antonio
Recently, hundreds of women and children refugees were released from detention centers in Karnes City and Dilley, TX.
Note from Carlene Schlieder:
They have enough clothing at the moment. I will be traveling to San Antonio on the 27th to make a donation of items and money directly to IWC. If anyone wants to donate they can write a check payable to University Presbyterian Church/Interfaith Welcome Coalition and the funds will be used for food, bedding, cleaning supplies and any other things needed immediately by the women and children. I have been involved with t
his organization for the past 2 years; they co-ordinate all of the backpacks supplied
by Parkway
to the refugees.
They were also the group that picked up the women and children left at the bus station with no travel arrangements and took them
to the Mennonite Church where cots were set up in the sanctuary.
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Permanent Name Badges 
The Member Care Committee has purchased permanent name badges for everyone to wear every Sunday, not just on "Name Tag Sunday." The new badges have a magnetic tab to go inside a shirt, blouse, or dress and attach to the name badge without making any holes in the cloth.
However, the magnetic name badge should not be worn by someone with a pacemaker or other devise that could be affected by the magnetic field. A limited number of clip-on badges were purchased for those needing an alternative to the magnetic badges. If you need a clip-on name badge please email
Cheryl in the church office (or call her at 852-7349).
Initially, name badges have been made for everyone who has attended worship ten times in this calendar year. Badges have been made for children who are in the third grade or above. If you would like to help defray the cost of these badges the cost is $4 each or a family maximum of $12.
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Mission Market 2016 
Thank you to all who gave gifts through the Mission Market this year! Here is the impact you made:
Heifer International $990
Mission of Mercy $720
Tree4Hope $886
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Year-End Contributions
Thank you for your continued generosity to Parkway Presbyterian Church. The breadth of our ministry can be seen when you walk in through the doors of the church. There are three trees in the narthex decorated with bright yellow stars and on each star is the name of a mission project from this past year.
You are invited to make year-end contributions to a variety of helping organizations. Please remember Parkway in your year-end giving.
To help ensure we get your 2016 contributions to the bank in the correct year for tax purposes, please have your checks to me by Wednesday, December 28, 2016. The New Year begins on Sunday, January 1, 2017, thus for tax purposes donations received on that date are considered a 2017 contribution. So please help me keep your tax contributions in the right year by getting them to the church by the above date.
Sincerely,
Viktoriya Ehlers
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Flower Calendar for 2017 
Please
email me your preferred date(s) or look for the calendar on the kiosk in front of the office doors.
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December 25 - December 31
Sunday - Merry Christmas
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0:55 Worship
Monday
* Office Closed *
Tuesday
6:30 Darn Yarn Group
Wednesday
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Thursday
1:00 Bridge
Friday
5:30 Loaves and Fishes
Saturday
9:00 Coastal Bend Woodturners Meeting
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Loaves and Fishes (Metro Ministries)
Loaves & Fishes is a free cafeteria that serves nutritious dine-in meals for the homeless, poor, working poor, disabled, and elderly. This program provides lunch and dinner Monday through Friday. Parkway has committed to serving in the soup kitchen every Friday, from 4:45 to 6 pm. A food handler's permit is required and quite easy to obtain. If you would like to participate in this ministry, contact Irene Jones at 993-9106.
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If you would like to be a part of the prayer chain to lift up concerns of the congregation, contact Karen Wesson at 815-2099 to be added to the distribution list. You can also go to
www.parkwaypc.org
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Peggy Clark
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Lynae Wagner
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Walta Ocker
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Peggy Miller
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Carol Nolan
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Shannette Hoelscher
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Opal Bacak
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Dallas Marek
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Cindy Richardson
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