Immanuel Newsfeeds
for the week of November 26 - December 2, 2021
Sunday Hybrid Worship, Church Announcements,
Community Events & Resources
Immanuel Newsfeeds is a weekly e-blast where you'll find the spiritual and the latest information about our church & community for the upcoming weeks. If you have announcements or news to share, send it to parish-admin@immanuelevanston.org.
SUNDAY HYBRID WORSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT
The First Sunday in Advent
Advent is about the “coming days.” God’s people have always lived in great expectation, but that expectation finds specific, repeated enunciation in the texts appointed for these four weeks. The ancients anticipated a “righteous Branch to spring up for David.” The Thessalonians awaited “the coming of our Lord Jesus with all the saints.” Jesus’ contemporaries hoped for the time “to stand before the Son of Man.” With them we eagerly await the coming days: another Christmas celebration, a second coming, and the advent of Christ in word and supper.
Sunday Hybrid Worship
November 28th Prelude begins at 10:20 a.m.,
Service at 10:30 a.m.
If you would like to participate in Holy Communion and you're participating via Zoom, you are invited to prepare a small bit of bread of any sort, and wine or juice if they are accessible to you, creating sacred space.

If you're joining us in-person, for safety we have individually packaged communion with either wine or grape juice that you can pick up at the entrance of the sanctuary. We will commune all together in the pews at the designated time.

For the worship service meeting via Zoom, click on the button (or click on this bold link: https://zoom.us/j/95133316087?pwd=NmZVMW9wSHR3eUp4azFKNUZkejFZdz09)

Meeting ID: 951 3331 6087; Passcode: 461416
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Special Note from Church Leadership & the Reopening Team
With the colder months, Leadership and the Reopening Team are working to maintain a safe and comfortable worship environment. If weather permits, cracked windows and fans may be used to increase air circulation. But on most Sundays, worshippers should expect windows in the Sanctuary to remain closed. Our goal is to create a safe, comfortable, and welcoming worship experience for all whether you are worshipping in-person or via Zoom!
Poinsettia Orders
Help decorate the sanctuary for the upcoming Christmas season! Poinsettia order forms are inserted into the worship bulletin or you may use this electronic fillable form. Flowers are $20.00 per 6" pot. Please put your completed order form & payment either in the offering collection plate or send them to the church office. The deadline to submit orders is Dec. 12th.
Coffee Hour After Worship
The City of Evanston's Health & Human Services Department has updated its masking guidelines and individuals over 2 years of age are required wear a mask in all public indoor settings, regardless of vaccination status. We encourage those who attend Sunday worship in-person to come to the Social Hall for conversation, announcements and celebrations. There will be no food or drink, so that we can all remain masked. Please value this time for sharing between those attending worship in person and online. Sharing food and drink after worship may resume in the future. Taking these safety precautions is one of the ways that we actively love one another.
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OTHER CHURCH GATHERINGS
Join! Feeding Our Faith Adult Hybrid Study
Sundays 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Join us every Sunday, both in-person in Fellowship Hall and/or live streaming, for a lively discussion to share together in feeding our faith. Gatherings will begin with viewing a video clip to grease the wheels of our discussion.

November 28: Dr Wil Gafney, Biblical Language for a God Who Transcends Gender

***Thanks to new technology - a 360-degree view video camera - online attendees will experience an enhanced session by being able to see and hear all of the in-person participants!***
Midweek Adult Spiritual Growth Discussions
Tuesday, November 30, 2021, 7:00 pm
Midweek Adult Spiritual Growth Discussions are a time of gatherings for prayer, check
in, and conversation around the lectionary readings for the upcoming Sunday.
  • 7:00 – 7:45 pm: Brief check in and gathering prayer, and time around the Word.
  • 7:45 – 8:00 pm: For those who would like to extend, a time for prayer on our thanksgivings, sorrows, personal and communal needs closing with a compline prayer.

We’ll take up lessons from our lectionary readings for the upcoming Sunday. Bring a
bible if you are able, any version or translation is great, hard bound or on the web such as
https://www.biblegateway.com. Click the button below to join Zoom Meeting.
Special Advent Services on Wednesdays
December 1, 8, 15, 22, 2021

Lectio Divina Prayer Services
From Noon to 12:45 pm on Wednesdays during Advent, I will facilitate a Lectio Divina group, using an Advent text assigned for the day. Lectio Divina is a prayerful listening encounter with Scriptures.

Holden Evening Prayer Services
Worship begins at 7:00 pm on Wednesdays, which will include a time of silence together following a Scripture reading. 

For both of these Wednesday events you may attend either in-person with masks and social distancing, or click on the buttons below to join via Zoom.
--Pastor Mark
Community News & Resources
Indigenous Peoples/Native American Heritage Day
Friday, November 26, 2021
On this day we honor and pay tribute to the tribal nations and peoples upon whose land we gather. For other resources from the ELCA including A Declaration of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to American Indian and Alaska Native People, and a Land Acknowledgement Guide prepared by Vance Blackfox, Desk Director for American Indian Alaska Native Tribal Nations with the ELCA, click on the photo. Immanuel Lutheran Church of Evanston gathers on the ancestral homelands of Myaamia, Bodéwadmiakiwen (Potawatomi), Kaskaskia, Peoria, and Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo) tribal nations and peoples. To determine whose land you presently occupy or have occupied in the past, visit https://native-land.ca/.




Water Delivery for Stateville Prison
Thank you for your generous donations which allowed this first batch of water to be delivered to Stateville Prison. Another water run is being planned before Christmas, and donations are still needed. If you'd like to donate, please see Christine Imhoff or Susan Ross of the Anti-Racism Task Force.
MCS Kids: Submit your drawings!
The synod office would like to decorate our walls with children's drawings based on the prompt: What does it mean to proclaim the gospel? Please mail your drawing to the synod office:
1420 W Dickens Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Or email a digital copy to Gaby.

Drawing size: 5x7 or 8x10
Medium: any
Submit any time before December 1
Vaccination Updates - City of Evanston
Find a Covid vaccine appointment
Protect yourself and your family! Whether you’re seeking a booster shot or your first dose, vaccinations are free and widely available:
IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH
616 Lake Street + Evanston, IL 60201 + Bodéwadmiakén(Potawatomi) Territory
847-864-4464
www.immanuelevanston.org
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