Christ’s Community Moravian Church November 2017

Mark Your Calendar Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, It is finally here, one of the greatest times of the year, Pumpkin Spice Latte season, World Series baseball, Football in full swing, and the excitement for Wild Hockey. I suppose this would be the short list of the little things that I am thankful for. Top of the list would be the family and friends that I am surrounded by, including my church family. The last month has brought about change in our congregation, and it has been incredible to see the people of our church family come together and look to the future. I am thankful for all of you and for all of the gifts and talents that you share with us. Thank you for all of your passion and love of serving the Lord. In the season of gratitude we have much to be thankful for. "For the Lord your God is living among you. He is a mighty savior. He will take delight in you with gladness. With his love, he will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs." (Zephaniah 3:17, NLT) With Gratitude, Casey Langseth

11.1, 11.8, 11.15, 11.22, 11.29 7:00 pm Choir Rehearsal

11.12 9:30 am Joyful Noise Offering 10:45 am Kid Pack Packing

11.5 10:45 am Operation Christmas Child Packing

11.16 12:00 pm Bible Study @ MGLC

11.7 10:00 am Comforter Ministry

11.17 2:00 pm Kid Pack Delivery

11.9 7:00 pm Joint Board Meeting

11.18 10:00 am Baby Shower

8:00 pm Elders Board Meeting

11.19 10:30 am Potluck

11.10 6:30 pm Game Night Simpson Sandwiches Church Fellowship with Darryl & Jackie Bell

11.23 Thanksgiving OFFICE CLOSED

11.11 8:00 am Men’s Breakfast

11.24 OFFICE CLOSED 11.25 9:00 am Christmas Tree Set-up

11.28 8:00 am CROSS Mobile Pantry

2017 Congregational Watchword: For there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord. I Corinthians 12:4-5

Birthdays 2-Brenda McIlveen 5-Deb Hjermstad

PACKING DAY!!!

6-Karen O’Rourke

Sunday November 5th at 10:45 am

8-Mike Newman 9-Ethel Ziah 16-Pat Jones

Daylight Savings Time Ends on Sunday, November 5th. Turn your clocks back on Saturday.

27-Laura O’Rourke 30-Greg Jones

Anniversaries PRAYER OPPORTUNITIES

25-Kelly & Karen O’Rourke

While we at CCC believe that war is never good, we acknowledge that there is a need for our country to have a strong military presence. Below is an area where we honor our brave men and women serving in the military, to pray for them and to pray for peace. Sean and Kristi O’Rourke, Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville, NC. Nephew and niece of Kelly and Karen O’Rourke. Chris Muskalla, Captain Air Force, pilot C17 planes, active duty in Afghanistan. Prayers for his family Nina, Caiden (8) and Brandon (5) while Chris is deployed for 45 days overseas then home in Seattle WA for 10 days before the deployment rotation begins another cycle. Ross Hjermstad’s nephew. Nick Muskalla, Petty Officer First Class, Coast Guard, active duty stationed in Key West, FL. His family Julie, Matthew (4) and Logan (1). Ross Hjermstad’s nephew.

Happy Thanksgiving! The Church Office will be closed Nov. 23rd and 24th.

Outreach Opportunities For the month of November, CROSS food shelf needs: Spaghetti Sauce

CHRIST’S COMMUNITY MISSION

Canned Tomatoes CORE VALUES

Simpson Sandwiches will be made on Friday, November 10 at 6:30 pm Please join us on Friday, November 10 at 6:30 pm for GAME NIGHT SIMPSON SANDWICHES CHURCH FELLOWSHIP WITH DARRYL & JACKIE BELL All are welcome! Please plan to join us! Bring a snack to share and a game to play. Bring pictures to share with Darryl and Jackie and Bryce who are visiting from Michigan.

If you have questions, ask Barb Kalland. Sponsored by the Flourish Team. Potluck for Skylar Ellingson Enlistment Send-Off Sunday, November 19 10:30 am

A Joyful Noise Offering will be collected on Sunday, November 12th

Discipleship Come as you are! Family Community Outreach Children / Youth CCC VISION We see Christ’s Community Moravian Church as a caring and accepting church, equipping people to serve, reaching out to the community, and sharing God’s love as we invite people into the family of God. Purpose: We will start a focus group around our congregational vision. Worship: We will reevaluate and develop our worship volunteer list, including incorporating children as appropriate. Community: We will develop a plan for Elders to make connections with new visitors and guests, in addition to ways the pastor already connects. Mission and Service: We will host a congregational potluck to invite ideas for outreach and growth. Leadership: We will establish and staff a youth program. Stewardship: We will explore grant opportunities for funding a youth director position. Spiritual Formation: We will organize a young adults fellowship group.

Christian Education

Adult Sunday School: The Adult World Religions Sunday School class will NOT continue meeting in 2017-2018. Please watch for other Adult Bible study opportunities.

Worship Opportunities 11.5 | 9:30 am Holy Communion

Sunday School New!!! Families will start in Worship together. After the Children’s Message, children will then leave to go to their classroom. Parents can then pick up their children after the worship service and enjoy Snak & Yak together. On Communion Sunday’s, children may stay in worship to partake in communion.

11.12 | 9:30 am

Joyful Noise Offering

11.19 | 9:30am

11.26 | 9:30 am

From the Ecumenical Officer

November 2017

“First Fruits,” a painting by the eighteenth-century Moravian artists John Valentine Haidt, portrays Jesus Christ surrounded by representatives of Moravian mission work around the world. Some years ago, when I was visiting in one of the former Moravian mission fields, I was impressed by the work of the church there. On reflection, I was aware of how little I expected, how racist my reflections were! (For the record, while some of my ancestors have been in what is now the United States since the 1600s, three of my grandparents grew up speaking German and emigrated to the United States in the late 1800s.) As ecumenical officer of the Northern Province, I represent the Moravian Church in several different settings. In most of these, the central issue, whether explicit or implicit, is race: How do white Christians relate to the experience of African American, Asian, and Hispanic Christians? How do we see issues such as immigration and relations with police? A major role of our ecumenical contacts is to help us to feel more at home in our multicultural world. In the United States and Canada, in the Northern and Southern Provinces, About 15 percent of Moravians are black, primarily in congregations of Moravians with roots in Central America, islands of the Caribbean, and northern South America. If we include the Moravian provinces of Alaska (United States) and Labrador (Canada), the non-white proportion increases slightly. Worldwide, Moravians are about 90 percent black, mostly in Africa. In the United States we are faced with an increase in white nationalism, a belief that those of us are white are superior to those who are not and that those of us who are white should be running things. Do those of us who are white believe we are wiser than those who are not? Are we uncomfortable when people of color are more visible and closer to us? As Moravians, and as followers of Jesus, I hope that we can honestly answer “No.” Are we willing, in our own communities, to try to understand the lives and concerns of people of color, the majority of those who live in the United States and Canada are fellow followers of Jesus? I hope that we can honestly answer “Yes.” May our ecumenical relations help us in this work. Lord Jesus, our Chief Elder, your ways are not the ways of the world. The world seeks to divide. You seek not to divide but to unite. May we live your welcome, in our ecumenical relations, in our congregations, and in our individual lives as your followers. Amen. Hermann I. Weinlick, Ecumenical Officer Moravian Church, Northern Province

Nursery volunteers will no longer be provided at this time during worship. Please feel free to worship with your children, or supervise them in the provided nursery. Thank you!

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Christmas Tree Set-Up Saturday November 25

Hat’s and Scarf’s donated to Simpson Shelter by Jane Phelps

Save the Date

December 3 Advent Workshop

December 6 Unity Prayer Watch

Feed My Starving Children

THANK YOU!!!

Adult Church Retreat October 7, 2017

November 5

November 12

November 19

November 26

Worship Leader:

Janet O.

Karen O.

Casey L.

Janet O.

Welcome & Announcements/ Offering Prayer:

Casey L.

Kristi B.

Karene H.

Casey L.

PowerPoint: (8:45 am)

Karen O.

Alan C.

Jim H.

Norm B.

Scriptures:

Karene H.

Bob M.

Janet O.

Bruce K.

Ushers / Greeters (2):

Kris K./Kay G.

Ross H./Deb H.

Brenda E./Kelly S.

Kelly O./Karen O.

Children’s Chat:

Rev. Glasser

Rev. Glasser

Rev. Glasser

Rev. Glasser

Snak & Yak Host:

Brenda E.

Joni C.

Potluck

Kristi B.

Treats:

Brenda E.

Joni C.

Potluck

Kristi B.

Prayers of the Church:

Communion

Kris K.

Karen O.

Kris K.

Praise Singers:

Kristi B.

Kelly S./Terre S.

Kristi B.

Kelly S./Terre S.

September 2017 Operating Accounts

October 2017 Worship Attendance Date

Kids

Staff

Adults

Total

October 1, 2017

8

3

41

52

October 8, 2017

14

2

56

72

October 15, 2017

3

3

30

36

October 22, 2017

0

3

24

27

October 29, 2017

5

2

33

40

September 2017 Designated Funds E-Giving:

Occasion/Cause

Total

District Loan Principal Fund

$200.00

Kid Pack Fund

$50.00

Youth Fund

$485.00

Adult Church Retreat

$643.34

Total:

$1,378.34

If you would like to sign up for e-giving (have your tithe/ donation go directly from your bank account to the church’s account on a weekly, bi-monthly, or monthly basis) please see Janet Ohrt for a form.

Date

Weekly Receipts

9/1/17

$1,140.96

9/3/17

$2,127.00

9/5/17

$300.00

9/8/17

$750.00

9/10/17

$1,076.25

9/12/17

$152.58

9/15/17

$1,000.00

9/17/17

$1,611.25

9/22/17

$750.00

9/24/17

$455.72

9/25/17

$0.00

9/29/17

$750.00

General Fund/Operating Account Month

Beg. Bal.

Receipts

Disbursements

Balance

July

($94.88)

$10,475.27

$9,803.18

$577.21

August

$577.21

$27,080.19

$23,869.04

$3,788.36

September

$3,788.36

$9,941.35

$9,503.11

$4,226.60

YTD

$1,544.42

$112,960.16

$110,277.98

$4,226.60

At the end of September, we are 6 months behind on the Pastor’s Insurance Package: $7,700.00 and 9 months behind on the District and Provincial Quotas: $11,629.50 credit for Oct.-Dec. pension payments: $1,337.14 for a total of $17,992.36

Office: [email protected]

Hours: 9:30 am to 2:30 pm Monday—Thursday

CHURCH ADMINISTRATOR:

Kim Rapp

[email protected]

CHURCH TREASURER:

Bruce Kalland

[email protected]

CHURCH MUSICIAN:

Sara Milberg

[email protected]

Casey Langseth (2018)

(612) 816-4200

[email protected]

Jackson Ziah (2018)

(763) 268-9958

[email protected]

Norm Buchta (2019)

(763) 425-8264

[email protected]

Colin O’Rourke (2018)

(612) 616-8013

[email protected]

Joni Cragoe (2019)

(763) 441-0678

[email protected]

Bruce Kalland (2018)

(763) 425-2440

[email protected]

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