Word and song came together in a wonderful way at Sunday's gospel style service with Nick Page! Thank you to Tom Berryman, our choir and soloists, and those who helped move pews out and in. We won't have that task much longer: our new church chairs arrive in a few weeks!

Hello there, CLC Youth and Families!

We finished a couple child-sized quilts for Cristo Rey in El Paso on Sunday and have a couple more in the works, so we're starting to build up some steam!

Now that we have our own sewing machines, thanks to Kaye and Norman Bolles, and are being taught how to use them by Dorothy Nail and other quilters, thank you so much, we should set a goal for how many quilts we want to build by the time the mini bus drives down to El Paso!

We need to meet to discuss that and your logistics and calendars for these textile engineering sessions. I'd also like to know whether you'd like to track these volunteer hours for school, and whether you have friends or acquaintances who'd like those, or simply want to be part of this beautiful work to give comfort to the detained children in Texas. Plus learning how to operate a sewing machine and create your visions with textiles! We are                                                                                     liking these machines!

Please email, call or text me as soon as possible about your Saturday and Sunday times available. We had a great time last Saturday.

Peace be with you! Gail W-R, your faithful Coordinator.

  BOOK GROUP

Join Metrowest neighbors who are environmental activists in reading  Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Fish  by Paul Greenberg. Our two groups will gather together on Wednesday, October 16 at 7:00 p.m. to  discuss this highly-recommended book.  Note the earlier starting time.

This Sunday is Pledge Sunday at CLC! We are grateful to everyone who makes a written commitment of regular giving, whether it is $3 a week or $300 a week. Every pledge counts, and provides the Resource Commission and Congregation Council the very best estimate of income and sound basis for developing a budget (spending plan) for the coming year. Approximately 96% of our annual budget of over $300,000 derives from adult contributions.

Gifts of time and talent are crucial, too. Can you stretch and try something new in 2020? One way to approach your offering of time and energy is to choose something you love to do-if you love numbers, serve as a counter or Resource Commission member, or if you love to sing, join the choir or serve as a cantor-and something that needs to be done that you are able to do.

Forms for both kinds of pledges will be received during the offering on Sunday.     

                                                                                 

READINGS FOR THIS WEEK - Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost

October 6, 2019  

A little faith goes a long way is our Lord's point in the gospel. A mustard seed's-worth has miraculous potential. The patience, tenacity, and endurance required for the life of faith are the blessings received in water and the word (holy baptism), bread and wine (holy communion), the word read and proclaimed in this assembly. Anticipate them. Receive them with thanksgiving.

            First Reading                           Psalm                     Second Reading                     Gospel

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.