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Help Needed for PADS Lunches
Help is needed to prepare lunches for Wednesday, December 23rd. January, 2010 is also open and assistance is needed. We will be making between 35 and 50 lunches and your help will be much appreciated. Please sign up in the Connecting Link. It only requires a little of your time and the lunches provide a meal for someone living with homelessness.
Choir Cantata
December 20
The adult choir will present “Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28” by Benjamin Britten, December 20, during 9:30 and 11:00 worship. Written for treble voices and harp, in 1942, the work was so popular, the publisher Boosey & Hawkes requested the composer Julius Harrison to make an SATB arrangement of the work. It was first published in 1955. We will be accompanied by harpist, Ms. Molly McKenzie.
Teacher Assistants Needed
If you can assist the teacher in the Kindergarten & 1st grade classroom on Sunday mornings, please contact Karen Nelson or Patti Hill. No lesson planning is required, only your assistance please.
Thank you.
Help Needed
We are in need of $20/$25 Jewel gift cards which can be used for gas and/or food. People are hurting and our need to assist people who come in during the week is growing. If you feel you could purchase a gift card or two, please place them in an envelope with your name marked on it in the offering plate. These cards will be turned into the church office where we can allocate them as needed and you will receive a letter confirming your donation. Thank you for your generosity.
PowerPoint Ministry
Team
Needs Help
If you can help create and run PowerPoint, then please contact the church office at 815-459-1132 or email office@rclpc.org. Thank you.
Coming Soon!
“Read with the pastor” Book Group!
Have you ever wondered where your pastor learns these things, what your pastor does with her time, or what kinds of things pastors are reading these days?
Well, here’s a chance to find out! The pastors will tell us what they are reading, and we can join them in discussing those books on the third Tuesdays of the month, beginning in November.
The first Read-With-The-Pastor book will be An Altar in the World by Barbara Brown Taylor. The book is available at the Crystal Lake, Woodstock, and Cary public libraries, amazon.com, in the Crystal Lake Barnes and Noble, and at the McHenry Borders. See you November 17th at 7pm!
2010 Food Pantry Service Dates
MONDAYS
(10am – 2pm):
April 26
May 24
August 23
October 25
WEDNESDAYS
(10am – noon):
March 24
June 23
November 24
December 22
FRIDAYS
(10am – 2pm):
January 22
February 26
July 23
September 24
Please mark your calendars for the above service dates. NOTE: The Wednesday service dates are shorter (10am – noon) as the pantry is now open four days a week. Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers. ~ Nancy Vazzano
18th Annual
RCLPC Cookie Walk
December 12, 2009
9am to 11am or until cookies disappear
You’ve never been to the Cookie Walk?
My, my, my, I love cookies. The aroma of butter cookies wafts through the entry, then you see tables of beautiful, delicious cookies.
Cookie Monster says: All you do is simply pick up a cookie box and start selecting cookies. You take them home and eat cookies ... what could be better? They are only $8 per pound.
You say you want to help?
Workers get to eat broken cookies
You can bake a dozen or 10 or 20 dozen—any amount will help.
Make it a kitchen party with friends and family—it is fun to bake
You can help decorate Fellowship Hall
You can set up the tables
Real men bake cookies
You can clean up—hmmm,
maybe more broken cookies to eat
You can help make this a great year—sign up in the Connecting Link.
What do you want to do?
Set up,
clean up,
bake,
decorate,
donate cider or
just eat cookies?
Be a part of
something
Deliciously
Great.
The RCLPC
Cookie Walk
Why do we bake?
Because proceeds are given to:
25% - Fairhaven School in Egypt
25% - RCLPC general fund
10% - Crystal Lake Food Pantry
10% - PADS
5% - Turning Point
5% - Home of the Sparrow
5% - Faith in Action
5% - Northern IL. Hospice
5% - Girls on the Run
5% - Church Youth
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November 11, 2009
The Spirit
of Ridgefield Crystal Lake Presbyterian Church
Global Gift Shop - Sunday, November 22
Fellowship Hall, 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
The RCLPC Global Gift Shop will feature a variety of fairly traded items that you can purchase:
coffee and tea from Equal Exchange
olive oil from Palestine
Divine chocolate
Guatemalan woven articles
and gift items from Global Hands, a fair trade shop.
Global Hands works with artisans from more than 35 countries to bring handmade pieces, traded fairly, to consumers. Their inventory is made up of unique, high quality products.
When we buy fair trade products, we purchase goods bought directly from producers, artists, and families. They are guaranteed fair prices and paid ahead for their products to ensure an ongoing source of income. Products are crafted responsibly, using sustainable natural resources and often recycled materials.
Global economic conditions have severely impacted the poorest people in the world, including those who produce fair trade items. Their ability to care for their families and earn a decent living has been further compromised.
There is nothing more practical and effective we could do this Christmas season to bring hope to the artisans than to support fair trade. So join us to purchase gifts that have a double impact – enriching the receiver as well as the creator or grower of the product.
Payment at the gift shop will be received separately by RCLPC and Global Hands; you may use either checks or cash, and Global Hands can also accept credit cards.
~ sponsored by the Mission Outreach Ministry ~
The Advent Conspiracy
Worship Fully. Spend Less. Give More. Love All.
Wednesday, December 23 – Noon to 2:00pm
RCLPC Mobile Food Pantry / Distribution
YOU will want to be a part of RCLPC’s alternative giving project this year as it will offer hope to hundreds of hungry people in our community at this Christmastime!
Plans are already underway to have a truckload of food from the Bethlehem Food Bank delivered to RCLPC on December 23rd for distribution to those in need from noon to 2pm. Cost for the truckload of food is about $750. Our Event Coordinator is Nancy Vazzano.
We will need at least 21 volunteers to perform a variety of tasks so check out the signup sheet in the Connecting Link, indicating a specific job in which you are interested or if you wish to volunteer in whatever capacity is needed. You will be contacted by the Task Leader or Nancy Vazzano as assignments are made.
In addition, we need donations of currency and checks payable to RCLPC with Dec. Mobile Food to pay for the food as well as plastic bags, empty cartons and grocery bags to fill with the foodstuffs delivered.
YOU will find an Ark in Fellowship Hall to fill with your financial donations. If more money is collected than needed for this shipment, we can either donate it to the CL Food Pantry or arrange for another mobile food pantry.
Please answer the call from Isaiah 58:7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter – when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
Conspire with God to do something amazing this Advent season.
‘Tis the Season for Good Cheer
Unfortunately, many families don’t feel that way but YOU can help to spread the joy and hope of Christmas by participating in The Advent Conspiracy this year. On Wednesday, December 23rd, RCLPC will be hosting a food truck, and along with the food distribution we want to spread a little cheer with gifts for the children ages Infant through 17 years of age. If you have any lightly worn toys /books or a reasonably priced new toy/book that you think would put a smile on someone’s face, wrap it up and bring it to the church before the 23rd of December so we can pass on the spirit of the season to someone in need of some Christmas cheer. Please be sure to label your gift with the age and gender so it gets to just the right person! Older kids may appreciate books or a cool piece of clothing! Any questions or if you would like to participate in other ways please call Melanie Wesa about gifts and Joy Martin or Teri for everything else. OR you can always call the church @ 815-459-1132. Thanks so much! Worship Fully. Spend Less. Give More. Love All.
Conspire with God to do something amazing this Advent season.
An Update from Your Pastor Nominating Committee
The PNC has been busily moving along with the process of finding a new pastor for RCLPC. If you have looked at the “W” lately on the bulletin board in the Connecting Link, you will notice that we have interviewed some candidates and even heard some preaching in neutral pulpits. We are excited about the progress that we are making. We ask that you continue to pray for us and for the folks we have interviewed. Pray that God puts us together with the right candidate for us. We rejoice that God is with us all the time. ~ The Pastor Nominating Committee
The 2010 Stewardship Campaign is Wrapping Up
Thank you for your kind attention during the month of October when the 2010 Stewardship Campaign – Yes, I Will! -- was in full swing.
We hope you have a better understanding of financial Stewardship and its importance to the church. Your gifts to the church are transforming in two ways -- they change others, and they change you.
Commitment cards can still be mailed into the church office. With abiding faith and trust in God, we look forward to the coming year!.... The Stewardship Team
Mission Worker in Colombia to Speak at WEAVE
The Rev. Alice Winters will lead us in Bible study for WEAVE on December 2nd and 9th. She will speak about the situation in Colombia and about the work of the Colombian Presbyterian Church and the university where she teaches. Rev. Winters teaches Bible and biblical languages in the School of Theology of the Reformed University of Colombia. She is also on the editorial council of RIBLA (acronym in Spanish for the Journal of Latin American Biblical Studies), and participates in ecumenical Bible study programs for the Latin American Society of Biblical Scholars. She has translated several Old and New Testament textbooks into Spanish and has numerous publications in Spanish and English in the areas of biblical studies and mission.
In response to the increasing violence in Colombia, Rev. Winters, along with others in the Presbyterian Church of Colombia, has become involved in the struggle for human rights. She is active in the Ecumenical Network of Churches and Christian Organizations for Human Rights and in the work with displaced persons in the area of Barranquilla, where she lives.
You don’t want to miss this opportunity to meet Alice and participate in Bible study with this renowned Biblical scholar and teacher.
Men’s Breakfast Group
Hey men, winter is coming! Snow will soon be falling!! Time to get our lives oriented for what's coming. Jim Holder will help us do just that at our next December Men's Breakfast. Jim is an active member of the Ski Patrol and he will share that aspect of his life for all of us. Come on out and join in our fellowship and sharing. Drive, slip, slide, or ski on over, but come and join us. It all takes place at Colonial Café in Crystal Lake on Saturday morning, December 5 at 8:00am.
Ladies of RCLPC
You are cordially invited to an
Advent Dessert Night
Friday, Dec. 4, 2009
7:00 P.M.
in Fellowship Hall
of Ridgefield Crystal Lake Presbyterian Church
Come and share a relaxing evening -
Hearing the message of Advent,
Enjoying a wonderful homemade dessert,
Being entertained and served by the men of RCLPC,
and Relaxing in the fellowship of friends.
PLEASE RSVP
Sign up in the Connecting Link starting November 8th
or contact the church office at 815-459-1132.
Please let us know if you will need a ride.
Childcare will not be provided.
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Caroling Party
Saturday, December 5, 5:00 PM - ?
Come join us for an evening of Christmas caroling to RCLPC members and friends! Depending on the number of singers, there may be more than one caroling group. Meet at 5:00 PM at The Maples at Woodstock Clubhouse, 2011 Olmstead Drive, which is on the south side of McConnell Road.
We will be taking cookies to those we are singing for, and also doing a short warm up before we leave. After the caroling, there will be chili and other goodies provided back at the Maples Clubhouse. You do NOT have to be a great singer to participate - enthusiasm and the spirit of Christmas are the most important! Caroling books will be provided. If you have questions, call Jean Joslyn.
Directions to The Maples at Woodstock:
From the East: Take Country Club to McConnell Road, go west on McConnell, past the water tower.
From the West: Take 47 to McConnell, go east on McConnell about two miles; The Maples is just past the Applewood subdivision.
The Maples is on the south side of McConnell Road; there is a large stone entrance sign. The clubhouse is right inside the entrance and there is a sign. You may park in the small lot to the east of the Clubhouse or anywhere on Olmstead Drive (it’s a circle), but NOT in the driveway in front of the Clubhouse. Please SIGN UP IN THE CONNECTING LINK!
About Native American Heritage Month
Courtesy of the Bureau of Indian Affairs; U.S. Department of the Interior
“What started at the turn of the century as an effort to gain a day of recognition for the significant contributions the first Americans made to the establishment and growth of the U.S. has resulted in a whole month being designated for that purpose.
One of the very proponents of an American Indian Day was Dr. Arthur C. Parker, a Seneca Indian, who was the director of the Museum of Arts and Science in Rochester, N.Y. He persuaded the Boy Scouts of America to set aside a day for the “First Americans” and for three years they adopted such a day. In 1915, the annual Congress of the American Indian Association meeting in Lawrence, Kans., formally approved a plan concerning American Indian day. It directed its president, Rev. Sherman Coolidge, an Arapahoe, to call upon the country to observe such a day. Coolidge issued a proclamation on Sept. 28, 1915, which declared the second Saturday of each May as an American Indian Day and contained the first formal appeal for recognition of Indians as citizens.
The year before this proclamation was issued, Red Fox James, a Blackfoot Indian, rode horseback from state to state seeking approval for a day to honor Indians. On December 14, 1915, he presented the endorsements of 24 state governments at the White House. There is no record, however, of such a national day being proclaimed.
The first American Indian Day in a state was declared on the second Saturday in May 1916 by the governor of New York. Several states celebrate the fourth Friday in September. In Illinois, for example, legislators enacted such a day in 1919. Presently, several states have designated Columbus Day as Native American Day, but it continues to be a day we observe without any recognition as a national legal holiday.
In 1990 President George H. W. Bush approved a joint resolution designating November 1990 “National American Indian Heritage Month.” Similar proclamations under variants on the name (including “National American Heritage Month” and “National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month”) have been issued each year since 1994.
Theme for this year’s heritage month is “Celebrating Tribal Nations: America’s Great Partners”.”
For more information go to http://www.loc.gov/topics/nativeamericans/about/
Life Line Screening
at Ridgefield Crystal Lake Presbyterian Church
We will be hosting a community preventive health screening on Thursday, January 21, 2010. Life Line Screening will be offering ultrasound screenings for the prevention of stroke and vascular disease.
Life Line Screening includes an ultrasound of the carotid arteries in the neck to determine if you are at risk for stroke. The majority of strokes are linked to blockage caused by the buildup of plaque in the carotid arteries. A new screening is now available to detect atrial fibrillation, an irregular heart rhythm that is linked to up to 20% of strokes. A screening of the arteries of the legs is offered to check for peripheral arterial disease, which is the leading cause of diabetic amputations and an indicator of heart disease. Lastly, a test is performed to detect abdominal aortic aneurysms. All results are reviewed by a board certified vascular surgeon and sent directly to you with all the information you need to take to your own personal physician for any needed follow up.
These screenings are non-invasive, painless and affordable; the Stroke, Vascular Disease and Heart Rhythm Package (4 tests) is only $139. Also, a finger stick blood package including cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL/LDL, and glucose is available for an additional $50 with that package. Osteoporosis-$10 additional with ultrasound package.
PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Appointment times begin at 9:00am and fill quickly; please call Life Line Screening directly at 1-800-324-1851 for your appointment or for more information.
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