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News from Fourth Church


Sunday Worship
Sunday, December 29

8:00 a.m.
 Communion
Preaching:
Edwin Estevez,
Pastoral Resident
"Learn to Count"
Scripture texts:
Psalm 148
Isaiah 63:7-9

9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Preaching:
Victoria G. Curtiss,
Associate Pastor
"In the Midst
of Nightmares"
Scripture texts:
Psalm 148
Hebrews 2:10-18
Matthew 2:13-23

4:00 p.m.
Jazz Service
with Communion 

Preaching:

Edwin Estevez,

Pastoral Resident
"Learn to Count"
Scripture text:
Isaiah 63:7-9  

             

 

 

Communion will
be celebrated
during 8:00 a.m.
and 4:00 p.m.
worship services
this Sunday.

 

  

 

To learn more

about worship at

Fourth Church this

Sunday, read a copy of
the worship bulletins,

which will be 

available online 

Friday afternoon at 

www.fourthchurch.org/ 

worship/this-week.html

 

 

 

The publication  

"News and 

Opportunities," 

distributed on 

Sundays with the 

worship bulletin 

and containing   

information about

upcoming Fourth 

Church events, will 

be available online 

Friday afternoon at 

news/2013 

 /122913no.pdf 

 

In this issue
:: Year-End Gifts
:: New Year's Eve Taizé Service
:: No Sunday School This Weekend
:: "Endings and Beginnings"
:: Music at Fourth Church
Year-End Gifts

 

Our online giving page makes it easy to fulfill 2013 Annual Appeal pledges--and to make Light Up a Life gifts to thank friends and family.

This can also be done through the Sunday offering or by mailing a check to the attention of Katy Frey Bever at Fourth Presbyterian Church, 126 E. Chestnut Street, Chicago, IL 60611.2014.

 

Please note that for those wanting to make gifts or year-end contributions by credit card, charges must be made to the card by 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, December 31 in order for those gifts to be listed on 2013 giving statements.

 

For those wanting to make a year-end gift or pledge fulfillment by check and have the gift listed on 2013 giving statements, please be sure the envelope is postmarked December 31.

 

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New Year's Eve Taiz� Service

 

Join us in Buchanan Chapel on New Year's Eve as we pause to reflect on the year past and look ahead to the year to come.

 

We will gather at 7:30 p.m. in a candlelit setting for a Taiz� service of contemplative prayer, meditative singing, and silent reflection at the close of the year.

 

Opportunity to walk the labyrinth in Anderson Hall between 6:00 and 7:30 p.m. will precede the service. This meditative walk takes approximately twenty minutes.    

 

Time and place

   Tuesday, December 31

   Labyrinth walk

   6:00 to 7:30 p.m. in Anderson Hall

   Taiz� service

   7:30 p.m. in Buchanan Chapel


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No Sunday School This Weekend

   

Sunday School classes will not meet this Sunday, December 29 or next Sunday, January 5. The Nursery on the first floor of the Gratz Center will be accepting preschoolers and kindergartners on those days, and older children are encouraged to attend worship with their parents. 

 

Sunday School will resume on Sunday, January 12 during 9:30 and 11:00 worship services.

 

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"Endings and Beginnings" 
 

Attend a day of recollection and renewal at "Endings and Beginnings," a spiritual retreat led by Vicky Curtiss, on Saturday, January 4 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Pilgrim Congregational Church (460 Lake Street, Oak Park).

 

Incorporating worship, silence, guided meditation, collage-creating, and journaling, participants will focus on such questions as What was your greatest joy in the past year? What was your greatest sorrow? How do you want to create the new year? What kind of commitment do you want to make: to yourself? to your family? to your community? to God?

 

To register, contact Nancy Davis by this Sunday, December 29.

 

Time and place

   Saturday, January 4

   9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Pilgrim Congregational Church

     (460 Lake Street, Oak Park)

 

To register

   Contact Nancy Davis by this Sunday, December 29

 

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Music at Fourth Church
 

Free Friday Noonday concerts continue next Friday, January 3 with the Cecilia Guitar Duo at 12:10 p.m. in the Buchanan Chapel.

 

Friday, January 3, 2014

12:10 p.m. in Buchanan Chapel
Cecilia Guitar Duo
Pamela Kimmel
Helene Rottenburg
Cosponsored by the Musicians Club of Women

Friday, January 10, 2014
12:10 p.m. in the Sanctuary
Mike Brozick, trumpeter

Friday, January 17, 2014
12:10 p.m. in Buchanan Chapel
Mark Alan Longo, flutist

Friday, January 24, 2014
12:10 p.m. in Buchanan Chapel
Michael Patilla, guitarist

 

A complete concert schedule is available online.

 

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