Week of November 14th eNews -- Emmanuel Lutheran Church

Emmanuel Lutheran Church eNews

Consecration Weekend

Week of November 14, 2021

Today, Thursday, November 11th

This week at Emmanuel...

Consecration Weekend & WELCA Thankoffering

NEW Children's Clothing and Food Pantry Drives Continue

November 14: Worship @ 8:30am and 10am (aBRIDGEd)
November 14: Sunday School, 9:45am, Room 103
November 14: Youth Group, 5-8pm
November 15: Soul Sisters cancelled
November 16: Torah Tuesday, 1pm - PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE!
November 16: Dorothy Gula Funeral @ 11am
November 17: Joyful Ringers @ 10am
November 17: Confirmation Class, Zoom @7pm
November 18: Thursdays Together, Pastor Hall @10am
November 19: Pumpkin Pie order deadline
November 19: The World is about to Turn, Zoom Book Study @10am
November 20: Worship @ 5pm

Click here to SIGN-IN for worship

November 13/14

We have resumed in-service communion.

Please use the link above to SIGN-IN for worship - this is how we are keeping accurate records.

Thank you.

Consecration Weekend -Emmanuel Needs YOU in 2022

Your Time; Your Talents; and Your Donations are needed to continue God's Work at Emmanuel.

Click here to complete your Time & Talent Sheet for 2022. We need your talents to continue "God's Work with Our Hands".

Click here to complete your Pledge Card for 2022. Your monetary donations are important to the work at Emmanuel.

Need a paper form? They will be available inW

Your Stewardship Committee

“For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life."

John 3:16

GIVE THANKS FOR GOD’S BLESSINGS

WELCA’s Annual Thankoffering

This weekend as we celebrate the ministries of Emmanuel’s women.

Your generous Thankoffering provides Women of the ELCA with the resources to change lives every day through our many ministries, and to inspire, support, and mobilize women to act boldly.

Making a Thankoffering is gratitude in action. The Women of the ELCA are grateful to you for taking that action. Join us as we make a difference in our church, community, and the world. A list organizations receiving your gifts will be available in the worship folders.

Please feel free to use the WELCA envelopes provided in the pews this weekend or you may write WELCA on the memo line on your check. If you give electronically you can contact the office to place a financial gift to WELCA. Thank you.

Dear Father, you have given us gifts of grace and abundance, entrusting to us the ministries of Women of the ELCA. Help us to grow in faith, affirm our gifts, support one another, and engage in ministry and action. Amen

God bless,

Dr. Marlyce Holbach, WELCA President

Worship Studies...

Thursdays Together

with Pastor Hall

10am via Zoom

Click the picture

to join!!

Centering Prayer

Introductory Workshop

Zoom on Saturday, Nov. 20^th from 9-noon. To sign-up please contact

Bob Ferkenhoff bferken@verizon.net

(941-350-6920) or

Noreen Delaney noreen@joveagency.com

(941-228-1799).

Torah Tuesdays with Donna Batchelor

1PM in the Sanctuary

PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE FOR THIS WEEK ONLY

Visit our website, the Ministry & Outreach/Christian Education page,

to see all of the

Torah Tuesday videos.

Copies of the

Daily Discipleship

are available in the wall holders in the

Sanctuary and Narthex.

This is a self-study that focuses on the Gospel for the following week.

Click on the picture below to view online.

Would you pray better if you were sure God was right there with you? Fr. Thomas Keating thinks you would. This Cistercian monk and founder of the Centering Prayer practice says modern Christians are hungry for a deeper relationship with God. “As you regularly practice centering prayer, you develop the capacity to let go of things in daily life that are harmful or upsetting to you, “says Keating. Eventually, “when a person reaches a mature level of contemplative prayer, reality is seen in a new perspective. One discovers that God is present in every experience.”

Centering prayer is a practice of silent prayer within the contemplative prayer tradition. It is an ancient method of prayer based on the conviction that God resides within us and not separate from us way out in the cosmos somewhere. In centering prayer, we open our minds and hearts to God’s presence and action within us.

Centering prayer is a process by which we start to regularly hang out with God. We learn to develop a loving relationship with God beyond thoughts, feelings and concepts. This loving knowledge of God’s presence within us leads us to establish good habits and makes us more sensitive to the movement of the Spirit and humanity’s own basic goodness.

Please join us for a Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop via Zoom on Saturday, Nov. 20^th from 9-noon. To sign-up please contact Bob Ferkenhoff bferken@verizon.net (941-350-6920) or Noreen Delaney noreen@joveagency.com (941-228-1799).

Be "In the Know"...

Thanksgiving Food Drive for the

South County Food Pantry

Place your contributions on the long tables in the Fellowship Hall the next 2 weekends.

Thank You for making a difference for others.

Items requested:

Peanut Butter
Cereal
Dry Pasta
Pasta Sauce
Canned Vegetables
Non perishables

The church library has reopened!

Come by and check out a book!

They have all been cleaned for you.

We are also looking for volunteers to staff the library as we did before. There is a sign up sheet by the computer, or you can call Kathie Winemiller for information.

Looking forward to seeing you!

Joyful Ringers is rehearsing on

Wednesdays at 10:00 a.m. in the Sanctuary

What joy and fun to come together again to praise and worship our Lord!!!

For more information,

please contact

Kris Bowker at

kbowker@emmanuel-elca.org

Come on – Let’s have FUN!!!!!

CHILDRENS' CLOTHES CLOSET

Collecting NEW children's clothing ONLY!!

Now through December 5th

Bins for donations are located in the library and at the church office.

The clothing will be delivered to a local charity in time for Christmas!!

We are looking for donations of new clothing, pj's, socks, and undies for children 5 years through 12 years.

Every Sunday between Services

Coffee and Donuts

at both exits of the sanctuary

Stay after or come early between

9:15-10:00am to catch

up with fellow members!!

Support Our Youth

If you are interested in sponsoring the

Youth Group Meal on a Sunday evening,

please contact Nick Sperry. Youth Group is averaging 10 students each week!

Awesome!

THANK YOU!

The Christmas Wreath Sale was a success with 20 orders this year - almost $500 for our youth!

Wreaths will be delivered between November 29^th and December 6^th. You will be contacted when they have arrived and to make arrangements for pick-up or delivery.

Nick Sperry, Youth Director

December 1 - 5--New Children's clothing collection

December 1 - 12--Giving Tree Donations

December 4--Horns Concert, 5pm Worship

December 5--Advent by Candlelight

December 17-18--Living Nativity

More details for each event will be in future eNews editions.

Look What's Been Happening at Emmanuel!!

Blessing Bags

Pet Blessing

GWOH

Library Cleaning

Reformation Weekend

Oktoberfest

Click here to see more images of these and other events on our website!!

Readings for the Coming Weeks:

November 14

Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost

Daniel 12:1-3

Psalm 16

Hebrews 10:11-14 [15-18]19-25

Mark 13:1-8

November 21

Christ the King

Daniel 7:9-10,13-14

Psalm 93

Revelations 1:4b-8

John 18:33-37

Jan Aker, Donna Anderson, Barb Authier, Pat Crary, Hugh Holmes and Bill Igel

Blessings to Ed Bassler as he moves permanently to Pennsylvania to be closer to family. We'll miss you!!

Barb's Medical Minute...

Here’s some good news we can “sing” about:

People who listened to VOCAL music while recovering from a stroke showed more improvement in language than those who listened to audiobooks or

instrumental music.

These stroke survivors participated in the usual rehab treatments, but they also listened to music they enjoyed for at least an hour a day for two months. The researchers say that vocal music stimulates the brain more than words alone or just instrumental music. This is why I’m in the choir. I may not have a great voice, but I need all the brain stimulation I can get!

For your convenience, the current weekend announcement slides viewed on the screens in the sanctuary are also available on our website, the Events page.

You can view the current issue of the eNews by going to our MyUCD App (which you use to view the directory) and click the Announcements button. The eNews can also be viewed through our website.

To those who had their pictures taken for our new directory and ordered additional copies, you should received your prints around the first part of December, just in time for Christmas!!