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--and Update Your Fourth Connect Profile
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Are you looking to meet new people at Fourth Church? Engage in learning and conversation? Share your gifts with others? Grow in faith?
Come explore the host of opportunities we have for you that we are highlighting during this Sunday's special "Get Connected" Coffee Hour!
Coffee Hour will feature information about upcoming and ongoing educational, fellowship, and community outreach opportunities, including details about fellowship groups and other ways you can get involved with the church community. Fourth Church representatives will be available to talk about volunteer needs, mission activities, Academy for Faith and Life classes, and more.
As part of getting connected--and reconnected!--we also invite you to visit the Volunteer Ministry table during Coffee Hour this Sunday for assistance with your Fourth Connect profile. Fourth Connect is an online tool that helps us better communicate with you while connecting you with various congregational activities that match your interests. During Coffee Hour this week you will have opportunity to create, update, review, or manage your Fourth Connect profile.
"Get Connected" Coffee Hour will take place in Anderson Hall and the Commons following the 8:00, 9:30, and 11:00 a.m. worship services.
We hope to see you there as we welcome all to Fourth Church this autumn and celebrate ways to deepen connections and serve others!
Time:
Sunday, September 17
9:00, 10:30, and 12:00 Coffee Hours
Place:
Anderson Hall and the Commons
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An Associates Board Bake Sale
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Treat yourself to a sweet--and support Chicago Lights--at a bake sale hosted by the Chicago Lights Associates Board this Sunday, September 17 in the Commons during "Get Connected" Coffee Hour.
All proceeds will support the five programs of Chicago Lights, the community outreach arm of Fourth Church: Tutoring, Summer Day, Dance Academy, Urban Farm, and the Elam Davies Social Service Center.
Time:
Sunday, September 17
9:00, 10:30, and 12:00 Coffee Hours
Place:
Gratz Center Commons
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Thank You for the 2,205 Snacks Received!
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We are continuing to chip away at our goal to collect 10,000 individually packaged snacks by October 1--the quantity our feeding programs need for their outreach work in September and October.
These items--single servings of granola bars, chips, pretzels, and fruit cups--are added to the bag lunches served on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays by Fourth Church Meals Ministry and to the emergency snack packs given to guests of the Chicago Lights Elam Davies Social Service Center.
Thank you to all whose contributions have brought our total so far to 2,205 snack items for our neighbors in need!
Boxes of snack items can be dropped off during Coffee Hour on Sundays or, during the week, at the reception desk.
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Paul Roberts to Launch Reformation Series
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Preaching and Teaching on September 24
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Join us next Sunday as Paul Roberts, President of Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary, kicks off our observances of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.
During the 9:30 and 11:00 a.m. services on September 24, Paul Roberts will deliver the inaugural sermon in our "Always Reforming" sermon series. Then, following the 11:00 a.m. service, Mr. Roberts will host an open forum in Borwell Dining Room, in which he will explore topics related to the future of Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary and the Presbyterian Church (USA) in this new century of Protestant Christianity.
Johnson C. Smith Seminary is one of the ten theological schools of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the only one that is historically African American. Paul Roberts has been president of that seminary, located in Atlanta, since the spring of 2010. He graduated from Princeton University in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in architecture and African American studies and worked for eight years in advertising in New York City. He later received a Master of Divinity degree with a concentration in New Testament studies from Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta. He is also an Academic Fellow of the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey in Celigny, Switzerland.
Time:
Sunday, September 24
9:30 and 11:00 a.m. worship
12:00 p.m. forum
Place:
Sanctuary (worship)
Borwell Dining Room (forum)
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Carol Moseley Braun to Speak
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Hosted by Cornerstones and the Academy
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The Academy for Faith and Life--our adult education program--and Cornerstones--a fellowship group hosted by those fifty and older--have teamed up to cohost a special forum on Friday evening, October 6:
Carol Moseley Braun, the first black woman elected to the United States Senate, former ambassador to New Zealand, and current small business owner, will be with us to talk about "Christianity and Capitalism."
In her time with us she will focus on the importance of Christian values as she quotes Adam Smith, Dickens, and the pope. She notes that in every person there is a reflection of God and that we should be the change we want to see in the world.
Prior to her 7:00 p.m. presentation in Buchanan Chapel, Cornerstones will host their monthly dinner in Borwell Dining Room, this month at 5:30 p.m. Prepaid reservations for the dinner are required by Wednesday, October 4 and can be made with
Anne Ellis.
Time:
Friday, October 6
5:30 p.m. dinner: reservations required
7:00 p.m. program: no RSVP necessary
Place:
Borwell Dining Room (dinner)
Buchanan Chapel (program)
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Needed: Your Officer Recommendations
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Help Identify New Fourth Church Leaders
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The Nominating Committee needs more recommendations for officer positions with Fourth Church or Chicago Lights!
Nominating forms for the offices of Elder, Deacon, Trustee, and Chicago Lights Board are available
online. Paper forms are also available at the church in the pew racks and literature racks.
Please take a moment this month to send your officer suggestions our way!
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Worship This Week
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Sunday, September 17, 2017
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8:00 a.m.
Communion
Victoria G. Curtiss,
Associate Pastor
9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
New Members at 11:00
Shannon J. Kershner,
Pastor
4:00 p.m.
Jazz Communion
Shannon J. Kershner,
Pastor
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Concerts at Fourth Church
All concerts are free unless ticket information is noted.
Friday, September 22
John W. W. Sherer, organist
12:10 p.m. in the Sanctuary
Friday, September 29
Kateri Gormley, soprano
Jason Weisinger, tenor
Brian Locke, piano
12:10 p.m. in Buchanan Chapel
Friday, October 6
Ludmila Lazar and Mary Scanlon, piano duo
12:10 p.m. in Buchanan Chapel
Friday, October 13
Natalie Mann, soprano
12:10 p.m. in Buchanan Chapel
A complete concert schedule is available online.
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Volunteer at Fourth Church
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There are several ways to get involved in the mission and ministry of Fourth Church. See below for just some of the details!
Current Volunteer Needs
Tutors to work with students of the Chicago Lights Tutoring program one evening a week, October through May, at the church
Individuals to staff the Book Nook during the 12:00 noon Sunday Coffee Hour
Greeters for Jazz at Four, the 4:00 p.m. communion service on Sundays in the Sanctuary
Sunday School teachers for 11:00 a.m. classes
Unless otherwise noted, to sign up for volunteer opportunities or to learn more about them--as well as additional volunteer opportunities--stop by Coffee Hour on Sunday morning or email Robert Crouch, Director of Volunteer Ministry.
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