November 15, 2007 Volume 18, Number 21
Advent
At
First Christian
v 9:00
a.m. Continental Breakfast and
“Hanging
of the Greens” at FCCafé and Worship
v Caroling
Party to follow sanctuary worship
v
“Common Tables: Celebrating Differences”
at FCCafé
v
Worship Led by Youth
December Sixteenth (Joy Sunday)
v “Building
Gingerbread Houses” at FCCafé
v A
Service of Christmas Music
v Special
Christmas Offering
December
Twenty Third (Peace Sunday)
v
“Learn More About Our New Organ” with
Jeff Hogan at the FCCafé
v
Christmas Sunday
v
Special Christmas Offering
v Candlelight
Services
o
Sanctuary, 6:00 p.m.
o
Golden West Aspen Room, 7:30 p.m.
YET ANOTHER REASON TO GIVE
THANKS
“Count your blessings, name them one by one…”
And our most recent blessing is named Dustin Adkins. Dustin, our new youth director, joined our staff the first Sunday of November. You hopefully had an opportunity to meet and get acquainted with him following worship that day—or perhaps have seen him up front during the Children’s Time. (He’s the one who is as big as our “permanent” child, Dale Abel.)
Dustin received his bachelor’s degree in Ministry (with a
minor in Psychology) from
This enthusiastic young man fills a very important role in our congregation: ministering to – and
through – our youth. Make it a point to welcome and support him as we work and fellowship together.
THANKSGIVING SPECIAL
OFFERING
The annual Thanksgiving Special Offering goes to support Ministries of Higher Education through the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). The offering helps to ensure that Disciples institutions of higher learning will continue to train the future leaders of the church.
Fourteen Disciples colleges & universities and seven theological institutions receive support from the Thanksgiving offering which will be received on November 18th.
Thank you,
The Outreach Committee
WE REMEMBER IN PRAYER
Joann Dennett, Bob Holden (friend of Joann Dennett), Doris Howell (mother of Gary Howell), Glenn Riemer (friend of Louise Roth), Hilton Silverman (friend of Eleanor & Dennis Hubbard), Bill Wagner (father of Helen Wagner), Lulu Belle Wendling (aunt of Bob Wendling), Norm Wiegold (friend of Jane Byers), Betty White (friend of Dorys Lester), Peace.
SAVE THE DATE
Please save Saturday, January 12 for the All-Church Conflict Management Seminar.
It’s time for the
We have “adopted” 3 children. We were assigned 3 boys and have received the list of needs for each one. Carol Ashmore and Kay Lowe-Wendling are the most careful shoppers you can imagine.
They found a day when the local Kohl’s department store had a huge sale: 50% off plus an in-store “Senior’s Discount.” (Do you suppose Kohl’s should have asked for their ID’s?) FCC donors to the Dress-A-Child program surely got the most for their money! Besides the clothing, we are asked to provide $40.00 per child for shoes. Can you visualize the joy “our” boys will experience with new sweaters, jeans, pajamas, and shirts – Plus new shoes?
Disciple Women budget $200.00 each year for this cause and the Deborah-Rebekah group also gives from their funds. All other gifts are generously contributed by members of the FCC community.
Checks made out to Disciple Women may be placed in the offering trays or given to Louise
Johnson. Merry
Christmas for 3 boys at the
Disciple Women
PRAYERS STILL NEEDED FOR
AIDAN IMMROTH
Many of you may recall Aidan Immroth, the grandson of a friend of mine who has spent most of his young life battling brain tumors. The original one was conquered with chemotherapy, but he’s developed another one on the optic nerves. So, now his family has the specific worry of him losing his eyesight, in addition to the general threat to his life. Following is a report from his grandmother, Prof. Barbara Immroth, which she asked me to pass along to all of those who have prayed for Aidan during his many turns on our prayer list.
Keith Lance
Aidan update: He's in
weekly chemo at M.D. Anderson - the tumor on the optic nerves is shrinking and
he'll probably be in chemo until spring.
He's in 4th grade - still in dual language and doing well with
Spanish. He's also studying mythology
which he's enjoying. He's taken up the
flute and is learning some Christmas carols - which he began in the summer
because his teacher wanted him to know some carols by Christmas! He's also taking tennis lessons at
Please share with your church members and thank them from the family for keeping him in their prayers.
Very best, Barbara (Grandmother of Aidan and friend of Keith Lance)
BAG MAKERS, BREAD BAKERS AND
HAND SHAKERS
Only visitors to FCC receive the
gift of Brown Bag Bread (try saying that three times fast!). This important ministry is made possible by a
small group of very dedicated volunteers from our church family.
In this season of Thanksgiving I would like to recognize each of the ones who serve as greeters or do the labor behind the scenes. Vera Jones prepares the bags, beginning with attaching small rope handles to the bags and tucking a sheet of red tissue inside them. She then adds a card which reads:
YOU BROKE BREAD WITH US THIS MORNING - LET US BREAK
BREAD WITH YOU THIS WEEK
THE MEMBERSHIP OF FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH
303-442-1861
THERE'S A PLACE FOR YOU AT OUR TABLE.
Jeannine Henderson is kept quite busy baking small loaves of bread and small loaves of bread and……….. to keep the church freezer supplied.
On Sunday morning, the designated Greeter places a loaf of bread in the bag and adds a copy of the latest issue of The Ram’s Horn. Greeters are rewarded with big smiles and pleased expressions when a visitor is presented with our gift.
This important ministry adds to our
commitment to be a “
Vera Jones Jeannine Henderson Martha Mason
Mary ann Pinon Marcie Geissinger The Dale & Melanie Abel Family
Jean Crowder Jan and Bill Einert
And during the choir’s summer hiatus Erik Mason, Milton and Carol Ashmore, and Jane Byers also served as greeters.
God bless you, each one.
Louise Johnson
ADVENT DEVOTIONS
Please remember to submit your Advent booklet devotions to Becky Campbell-Howe by November 26 via e-mail, if possible.
SELECTED TEXTS
November 18 November 25 December 2
Isaiah 65:17-25 Jeremiah 23:1-6 Isaiah 2:1-5
Isaiah 12 Luke 1:68-79 Psalm 122
2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 Colossians 1:11-20 Romans 13:11-14
Luke 21:5-19 Luke 23:33-43 Matthew 24:36-44
FOOTBALL PARKING
Friday,
November 23, 10:00 a.m. – CU vs.
November 18 – No FCCafé – Annual Thanksgiving Dinner
November 25 – Conversation Café
December 2 – 9:00
– Continental Breakfast and Hanging of the Greens
December 9 –
December 16 – Willie & Mary Rios – “Annual Gingerbread Houses”
December 23 – Jeff Hogan – “Learn More About Our New Organ”
December 30 – Conversation Café
BOOK FAIR
Sunday, November 18 is the last Sunday to purchase your books in the narthex before and after the sanctuary worship service.
ELDERS
Following the 10:45 a.m. worship service on December 2 the Elders will meet in Riley Hall.
The next regularly scheduled FCC Board meeting is Sunday, December 9 following the sanctuary worship service.
NEW WOMEN’S GROUP
All women are invited to the next New Women’s Group brunch meeting at 9:30 a.m.
on Saturday, December 1 at the home of Kay
Lowe-Wendling. Louise Johnson will facilitate the discussion.
CAROLING
PARTY
Following the sanctuary worship
service on December 2 there will be a Caroling Party. More details to follow.
DWCC
Thursday, December 6 at 9:30
a.m. the Disciple Women Coordinating Committee meets.
The next regularly scheduled FCC Board meeting is Sunday, December 9 following the sanctuary worship service.
NEW WOMEN’S GROUP
All women are invited to the next New Women’s Group brunch meeting at 9:30 a.m.
on Saturday, December 1 at the home of Kay
Lowe-Wendling. Louise Johnson will facilitate the discussion.
WOMEN’S BOOK GROUP
The Women’s Book Group will meet on Sunday, December 9 at 4:00 at the home of Priscilla Gifford. They will discuss For the Time Being by Annie Dillard.
DEBORAH-REBEKAH GROUP
The next Deborah-Rebekah Group meeting is Thursday, December 20 at 9:30 a.m. in the Spruce Room at Golden West.
Thursday, December 20 is FCC’s night to serve at Community Table.
LIFE & NEWS OF THE
CONGREGATION!
Watching
grandchildren play sports is a wonderful reason to travel! Just ask Marcie
Geissinger and Neil Ashby who flew
to
A
sadder reason for a trip is to visit an ailing grandmother. Jen Sullivan recently made a trip
to
It
will be an especially nice Thanksgiving for Cindy and Terry Zimmerman. Terry’s sister, Barbara, will be visiting
from
Linda
Abel seems to be magnetic and it isn’t a good thing! Twice in the last 2 months her car has been
hit from behind. Luckily, she wasn’t
hurt on either occasion.
Congratulations
to our Youth Director, Dustin Adkins, and his partner, Justin Wilcox,
who celebrated their 5th anniversary on November 11th!
Thank
you to Carol Ashmore for being our Table Hostess at the
A
BIG THANK YOU to Hugh Crowder who has served as our Café
Committee (property relocation) chairman for the last 2 years!
Another
long list of “thank you” goes to the following from our church family who were
presenters at the FCCafé in 2007: Laura
Burright, Hugh Crowder (twice), Marcie Geissinger
& Neil Ashby, Maggie Haseman, Keith Lance, Kay Norris,
Erik Mason, Martha Mason (twice), Mary ann
Pinon, Sady Swanson, Alie Wilkins-Crowder, Cindy
& Terry Zimmerman, and rounding out the year Jeff Hogan and Mary & Willie Rios!
Congratulations
to Daniel Abel upon being selected by his teacher to be on the
Student Council! Daniel is a first grader
at
We
received a cheery note from Dorothy Rosenberger along with their
order for a poinsettia. She stated that
she still misses the church, choir and bell choir. She asks that we give greetings to all
members she knew in the church.
Our
love and sympathy are extended to Lois Wright upon the death of
her sister, Josie Brown Williams, who died in
IN SYMPATHY
Our prayers and love go to the family of Ferne Denton who died on October 26th. Ferne’s husband, Al, died just one year and two weeks earlier. A Celebration of Life was shared on November 9th in our sanctuary with Rev. Zimmerman officiating. Their daughter Pat and son Jere survive.
COMMON TABLES
“When millions of people
gather to break bread and discover common stories, they create space in which
new stories can be written together.”
Today there is good news! A new organization has been formed which presents each of us with the opportunity to take an active role in determining our collective destiny. The organization is called Common Tables. The fundamental idea is to empower each of us to be “the change we want to see in the world.”
Common Tables was created to start at the grass roots level and to help create environments in which friendships can be built which transcend religious, cultural, ethnic, political and lifestyle differences.
What does Common Tables do? We provide opportunity and encouragement for people of differing religious, spiritual or philosophical beliefs to come together in relaxed social settings and to get to know one another as individuals.
How does that work? Briefly, when you join Common Tables as an individual or with a partner you will be introduced into a diverse group called a “Table” located in your general geographic area. Over the following six months you will get together four times – usually for dinner and usually in a Table member’s home. There is of course more to the process and you can find out a lot more about Common Tables by visiting our website at www.CommonTables.org.
Founder
Common Tables
THANK YOU!
A very
special thank you to all the people from First Christian Church who attended
and contributed to the
It was a wonderful evening with cocktails, dinner, a program, and dancing. $503,000 was raised. This amount exceeded their goal of $450,000.
The
We are always amazed at how many people for First Christian Church have attended these dinners over the years.
Thank
you again for all your support, both past and present, for
Milton & Carol Ashmore
Table Hosts
ANNUAL THANKSGIVING
DINNER – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18
Don’t
forget to bring your dish to share and your tableware!
NEXT RAM’S HORN DEADLINE: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26
Your
Church Staff Welcomes You:
Terry Zimmerman, Pastor Linda Abel, Administrative Secretary
Rebecca Hirsch, Director of Music Jeff Hogan, Organist
Dustin Adkins, Youth Director Robyn Wodiuk, Nursery Attendant
Jaime & Leticia Alvarez, Custodians
An open and affirming congregation.
E-mail: fccboulder@fcc-boulder.org, Terry’s E-mail: terryzimmerman@fcc-boulder.org
Linda’s E-mail: lindaabel@fcc-boulder.org
Office Hours: Monday – Friday - 9:00 am – 4:30 pm (303) 442-1861 Fax: (303) 442-6413
Keep up with what’s happening at FCC on the website, www.fcc-boulder.org.