Decorating help needed!! All church and school families are invited to help us decorate for Christmas festivities. We'll be setting up outside for our Drive Through Christmas Nativity; and inside in the gym and sanctuary for services and choir performances. Contact Kari Larsen klarsen@ilcsbatavia.org to volunteer and she'll assign you to a decorating team.

Prepare your hearts and minds for the birth of our Savior. The Lessons and Carols service features beautiful performances by our choir, string ensemble, french horns, and handbells. The service consists of 9 scripture readings with musical performances in-between including special anthems and congregational hymns. Come enjoy this delightful musical event! Register online at immanuelbatavia.org/Christmas.

This giving Tuesday, help us reach unchurched families in our community! We understand that not everyone enjoys the classic form of music performed at our traditional church services. In fact, many youth and young families in our surrounding communities prefer the contemporary music like that played on today’s Christian radio stations. That’s why we hired a new contemporary worship leader and are in the planning stages for a new contemporary service. We want to use the music at this service to connect with our neighbors. However, because of space constraints, the service will need to be held in the gym. This is not the ideal space for worship, but with the purchase of additional sound and visual equipment we can make significant improvements. We have raised some funds for this purpose, but much more is needed! This Giving Tuesday, we’re asking for donations to fund the purchase of audio/visual equipment that is so important to the success of any contemporary service. Donate online at immanuelbatavia.org/GivingTuesday to make a difference in our community! Don't want to wait until Giving Tuesday; donate here today.   Prefer to support Immanuel youth directly? Our youth will be traveling to Houston in 2022 for the triennial LCMS youth gathering. This gathering provides thousands of youth and adults the opportunity to come together as a community of God’s people to be encouraged in their walk with Jesus Christ and learn about the Christian faith and their Lutheran identity. Donations can be made online at immanuelbatavia.org/GivingTuesday.

Add Immanuel to your holiday lights and sights list. Stop by the parking lot to drive through our nativity scenes featuring live actors and hear the true story of the first Christmas!

Mission and Ministry Council The governing board of Immanuel Lutheran Church and School is the Mission and Ministry Council, comprised of four officers and seven at-large members. The current members are: Dan Nottke, Chairperson; Matt Hagar, Vice Chairperson; Larry Durrant, Treasurer; Nancy Radtke, Secretary; Keith Bartelmey, Erica Ciro, Paul Dauksha, Geoff Falk, Kate Kersten, Terry Rueffer, Bob Schmidt.  Reach out anytime to Congregation Chairman Dan Nottke at chairman@immanuelbatavia.org.

Website News

To see a complete listing of current announcements visit immanuelbatavia.org/announcements. For News and Notes archives see immaneulbatavia.org/news-archives.

Immanuel is a family of faith encouraging each other and our neighbors in ever-deepening faith and community in Christ.

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