Your pledges are important to being able to continue the mission of Saint Matthew. You should have received a stewardship packet in the mail including a letter, pledge card, and return envelope. If you did not receive these, extras are available at the Welcome Center or you can email your pledge to Paula in the office. In the email include your name(s) and the weekly, monthly or annual dollars you are pledging. Please know that Paula will continue to keep all pledge and giving information in strict confidence.

Please return paper pledge cards on Sunday by placing them in the offering basket. Help us to fulfill our goal of receiving 200 pledge cards this year. Thank you to the 53 families whose pledge cards we have received so far.

The Church Council is hosting a budget forum on Sunday morning between services in Fellowship Hall. If you would like to find out more about what our plans are for 2018 and the budget to complete those plans, come to the forum. This is the place to get your questions answered.

Please bring new or very gently used (washed, please) throw blankets (approximately 48" x 48") for the residents at Derek Silva Community to the Welcome Center on Sunday or to Tami Gomez's office by 2:00 p.m. on Monday. All blankets will be delivered on Wednesday by Cheryl Jennings. The Derek Silva Community provides 68 units of affordable housing for people living with HIV/AIDS, and is the largest residential AIDS housing facility in San Francisco.

Carolyn Bryant and the family of Lanning Bryant invite you to join them for a memorial service celebrating Lanning's life. The service starts at noon and is followed by a luncheon reception.

Each Thanksgiving Eve, we gather in worship to give thanks to the One who gave it all to us. This year's message is "We are a Grateful Family" and will be given by our Worship Leader, TJ Burke. After worship, join us for pie in Fellowship Hall. We ask that each family bring one pie of any flavor to share. Homemade pies will be eaten that evening and store-bought pies will be taken to Thanksgiving for Everyone to share with the needy people they serve on Thanksgiving Day.

If you would like you or your child baptized, we have specific Sundays throughout the year in which we baptized people. The next Baptism Sunday is December 10. There is a required meeting for all participants on Sunday, November 26 at 11:30 a.m. Please contact Jack in the office to register for the meeting.

You are invited to Hope & Healing in the Holidays - a warm community gathering in the Teen Center. A lunch of homemade soup and bread will be provided immediately following the 10:30 a.m. worship service, approximately 11:30 a.m. A service of hope and healing with communion will begin at 12:15 p.m. Please sign up at the Welcome Center or contact Tami Gomez for more information or to let her know you can attend.

The Weekly Good News is published by Saint Matthew Lutheran Church. Items may be submitted for publication by emailing Gail (click on the link below). Submissions are subject to editing or exclusion.

 

Phone: 925-932-1955 x106

 

Saint Matthew Lutheran Church
399 Wiget Lane
Walnut Creek, California 94598
925-932-1955
Website: www.saintmatthew.org