Reserve this date to join a spectacular group of RCLPC performers as we
“Celebrate Our Story”.
Anticipate an evening that starts with a potluck supper followed by a storytelling that will introduce us to the wonderful history of our Church as told by those members who have lived through it. Look for a sign up in the Connecting Link to help plan for the evening. All are welcome and encouraged to attend (childcare will be available for those little ones). Hope you will be able to join us!
Speaking of Stories...
We are a community called together to be part of God’s story. One of our tasks is to pass that story on to our children. On Sunday, November 9 at 8:30 and 11:00, we will present Bibles to our 3rd graders so they can begin to learn the story for themselves.
Please join us in fellowship fun at Joey T's at 6:30pm on November 8th. We'll have dinner, beverages, and a few laughs! The address for Joey T's is 1202 N. Riverside Drive, in McHenry.
Please sign up in the Connecting Link so we can make reservations. Thank you! Rebecca Floyd
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Join us in Fellowship Hall on Sunday, November 2, at 10:30 and at noon, for a reception welcoming new members and our new interim minister. Treats and a chance to meet these new members of our RCLPC family will be provided!
In an effort to get to know each other better, we have prepared name tags for all regular attendees and encourage everyone to wear them. The name tags can be found in the clear boxes on top of the table in front of the church office. If you need a new name tag, please let the church office know and we will make a permanent name tag for you. Putting a name with a face makes it personal.
As we welcome new
members and a new pastor, name tags are particularly important!!!
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Mission In and Around the Community |
135 N. Main Street, Crystal Lake
(Next to La Rosita)
Oct. 29th – Nov. 2nd, 2008
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
100% of the proceeds will benefit Project: Build a Dream
and our current mission to assist a school in Matehuala, Mexico.
* buildabledreams@aol.com * (847) 669-2850
Project: Build a Dream is program sponsored by the McHenry County Latino Coalition
a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization.
Your donation is tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.
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This is the weekend to drop off your donations
We are in need of donations of gently used items such as: fall/winter clothing, coats, shoes, dishes, cookware, household goods, baby supplies, furniture, etc. Please contact Wayne Prindiville if you need help getting your items to the sale.
Donation Drop Off dates and times
(135 N. Main St.):
Sunday, Oct. 26th: Monday, Oct. 27th:
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM
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As the holidays approach, the Crystal Lake Food Pantry will provide Thanksgiving and Christmas baskets. They will contain a 12-14# turkey, vegetable, potatoes, dessert, etc. enough for a family of 6-8. The cost will be $15 this year and I hope you will be able to share a Thanksgiving or a Christmas dinner (or both) with those less fortunate. Historically the Salvation Army has provided the Christmas meal, but this season the pantry is providing the Christmas meals. This year is a difficult year for many but especially for the unemployed, single parents, seniors, etc. that come to the pantry. We are setting new records for the number of families served. If you can help one family or more, please make your checks payable to RCLPC and mark “Food Pantry” in the memo line. You may also write the check directly to the CL Food Pantry and put it in my box. If you have any questions, please call me. Thanks for all your kindness. ~ Nancy Vazzano
We are involved in mission in many different ways one of those ways is the Meals on Wheels program, this is hands on involvement that costs us only a little bit of our time (1-1/2 - 2 hours). Meals on Wheels provides regular contact with the elderly, and the primary goal is to help people remain in their home as long as possible. This is a ministry that would not be able to operate without volunteers from this and other congregations, currently 11 churches deliver meals. Our participation is a vital contribution to this program.
If you feel you could join others from this congregation in providing delivery service during the week of November 3-7, please call me at or sign up in the Connecting Link. Write your name and telephone # on the date you would like to volunteer for. Thanks in advance for your participation. Marina Hoffman
On Wednesday, November 12, the WEAVE program will offer us a chance to view Buyer Be Fair, a documentary film that looks at the benefits of fair trade goods for people and the environment. Paul Rice, the president of TransFair USA, likens U.S. and European consumers to a sleeping giant that has the power to affect change through its purchasing decisions. These decisions often leave the world’s desperately poor people far behind. How can we awaken that giant? Does each of us have a role? Our WEAVE hour will include time to share thoughts on fair trade and the ideas the film presents. Please join us to view Buyer Be Fair on November 12.
~ Mission Outreach Ministry
Need to do some Christmas shopping? Take a look at the products available at our third annual Global Gift Shop. These special items provide a way to use your dollars in a manner that offers the world’s desperately poor both justice and dignity.
Our shop will be held in Fellowship Hall on Sunday, November 16, from 9 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. This year the Ten Thousand Villages store from Grayslake will bring fairly traded home décor, personal accessories, and gift items handcrafted by artisans from around the world. Handmade articles from Hands Along the Nile and Fairhaven School in Egypt will also be available. The shop wouldn’t be complete without Equal Exchange coffee and tea, plus Divine chocolate bars.
You can join the growing worldwide movement for fair trade right here at RCLPC. Each purchase you make is a small step toward making a difference for our world. ~ Mission Outreach Ministry
RCLPC is hosting this year’s Interfaith Thanksgiving
Service! Join us in the sanctuary on Sunday, Nov. 23, at 7pm for a worship service giving thanks for our many blessings, followed by a time of treats and fellowship. We will have guests from many faith communities—the various Christian churches around the area, our neighbors from the McHenry County Jewish Congregation, the Muslim Association of McHenry County, the Blue Lotus (Buddhist) Temple in Woodstock, and more! We look forward to gathering for prayer, readings, songs, and conversation. Bring a friend! See you here!
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2009 Crystal Lake Food Pantry Service Dates
We have one remaining work day in 2008: Monday, November 24. These are the dates that our church runs the food pantry in the coming year. Please mark your calendars: Mondays: Jan. 12, March 2, April 20, June 8, July 20, Oct. 19, and Dec. 7, and on one Friday, Sept. 11. Thanks.
RCLPC members raised $2692 for the CROP Walk. We were below our goal, but I am very, very pleased that we had so many walkers and supporters. Teri did a superior job of igniting the Youth to participate. Cheryl Lilly started them off with delicious lasagna before the Walk. It rained during our entire Walk, but the enthusiasm and spirits were high. The Food Pantry, PADS, Church World Services and I thank you all for your donations and support. MJ
Please let us know if you can come to Fellowship Hall on Friday, Nov. 7 at 1:00 PM to stuff the Christmas stockings for the National Guard unit that deployed from the Woodstock Armory to Afghanistan. We still need these items: comedy DVDs, CDs, paperback Word Search and crossword books, skin creme in plastic tubes or jars (no pumps please), and money for postage. We will celebrate with Christmas music and cheesecake! Thanks, Mary Moltmann and Ed Bennett
Thanks to all of you who enjoyed the Pastries in Fellowship Hall on October 12 and donated money to the Cookie Lift Fund. Thanks to Deacon Rebecca Floyd who organized an Apple Picking and Baking Fellowship Event the day before – Rebecca and Cassie Floyd; Sue and Fred Neuschel; Lydia, Vincent, and Andrew Horvath; Laura and Andrea Bauman; Denise, Ward, James, and Rebekah Sokoloski; Jodi, Scott, Emma, Ryan, and Joshua Iddings; Hope, Jonathan, Levi, and Aiden West; Pastor Teri; Sarah Metivier, and Cheryl Brincks all baked delicious apple treats. Thanks also to Cookie Lift Volunteers who joined me in baking or buying pastries: Doug Crane, Cindy Borre, Julie Baser, Jodi LeFevre, Joyce Lande, Jayne Zoerner, and Ed Bennett. People donated a very generous $470.00, and half of that was given in PEAPOD.com and DIAPERS. com gift certificates to Michele Fowles who is battling melanoma, has a 5 ½ week premature baby who joins three siblings, and her husband will deploy to Afghanistan in the near future. Look for the pastries again on Sunday, Nov. 9!
The Mission Strategies & Resources Board is coordinating another presbytery-wide mission trip April 25-May 3, 2009. The Blackhawk Presbytery team will work again through Presbyterian Community Outreach in New Orleans and surrounding communities. Contact Bill Pittenger to express interest. Many details depend on how many people sign up for the team. Bill will keep everyone who expresses interest informed as plans firm up.
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The Cookie Walk is coming! It is time to think about baking and decorating festive cookies! This is the 17th year that RCLPC has hosted this wonderful event. If you have not yet been to our Cookie Walk, you have been missing out. To continue our tradition, we are counting on our wonderful church members to bake and festively decorate Christmas cookies so that on Friday, Dec. 12th, you can deliver them to Fellowship Hall. On the big day, Saturday, Dec. 13th starting at 9:00am, the shoppers will be greeted with a church filled with wonderful smells of Starbucks coffee, cider, and tons of beautiful cookies to choose for their celebrations. Fairhaven School, PADS, Home of the Sparrow, Faith In Action, Turning Point, RCLPC and our Youth Groups receive the proceeds. Our Cookie Walk is a wonderful event to be involved in. Sign up sheets are now in the Connecting Link. Thank you in advance for your support.
Cookie Decorating Fellowship Event
Do you want to learn how to decorate your cookies for the annual cookie walk, and would you like some pointers from a professional pastry chef? Then sign up for this class on Saturday, Nov. 22 from 1:00 – 3:00 PM with Debbie Mindham, pastry chef at Tarts n Truffles, 140 Cass St., Woodstock (across from La Petite Creperie). Included in the registration fee of $10.00, she will provide each student with three baked cookies (a stocking, a Christmas tree, and a present), and all of the supplies needed to decorate the cookies: icing, colorings, and a disposable decorating bag, coupler, ring, and piping tip that you can keep. Debbie will also give pointers on easy ways to turn those plain brown cookies into festive treats. Class is limited to 30 people, so sign up in the Connecting Link now! The $10.00 registration fee may be paid when you come to the class. Questions? Contact Ed Bennett |
Please come to a double birthday party at 12 noon on Sunday, October 26 in Fellowship Hall to celebrate the birthdays of Rev. Teri Peterson and Lt. Col. Amy McCall (sister of member Steve Dayon). Amy will turn 40 in Afghanistan, and when she deployed recently she left her husband and two sons - 10 yr old Galvin and 5 yr old DJ. Sarah Metivier will lead the singing of “Happy Birthday” twice – once to honor Pastor Teri and once more to honor Amy. Rick Thompson will record everyone singing to Amy so that she can play the DVD when she receives her Birthday Party in a Box complete with a piñata, birthday plates, napkins, party hats, and gifts. Party-goers are invited to sample the birthday cakes and turtle cheesecake, to take a swing at the candy-filled piñata, to visit Lori Thompson at the face-painting table for a festive decoration, to visit Mike Downes at the apple-tasting table where he will provide samples of unusual apple varieties from the More Than Delicious Orchard that he owns with his wife Velma, and to stop by the 6-foot blow-up monkey where people can write birthday wishes to Amy.
Right around the corner is the holiday time. That means shopping, wrapping gifts, baking, family visits, and a very busy schedule for most people. Well, we would like to give a gift this Advent season to the women of our church . . . the gift of time. Time to slow down your hectic calendar a little bit, time to relax with other women of the church, and time to welcome in the Advent with a lovely, meaningful, and fun evening.
It is a night just for the women, and it will be held at 7:00pm on December 5 in Fellowship Hall. There will be festive Christmas decorations, a wonderful dessert, music, and time to focus on the true meaning of the season. Please mark your calendars now for an evening to enjoy . . . our gift to you! Questions? Contact Kathy Rabe or Dale Prindiville.
Halies Halloween Party! Saturday, November 1. Wear your costume! Admission price: a food item (for the food pantry) whose name includes a body part (ie kidney beans). We’ll have treats and games and a costume contest with prizes! If you don’t have a costume, we’ll give you one at the door!
Fall Retreat! We still have a couple of spots on the “Hangin’ With God” fall retreat at Stronghold. If you’d like to come, turn in your form and check ASAP. Need a scholarship? Talk to Teri!
Middle School Youth Ministry
Lock-In! This Friday, October 24, it’s time for the fall lock-in! Wear your costume and bring a food pantry donation as well as a snack and beverage to share. No nuts, please! Don’t forget your sleeping bag, pillow, and pjs!
$20 per person*
(Includes dinner & bid number)
McHenry County Jewish Congregation
8617 Ridgefield Road, Crystal Lake, IL
(815) 455-1810
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YES, of course you do, everybody loves to sing!! If you like singing you should join the choir at RCLPC! Come to a Wednesday night practice and try singing with the choir to see if it is something you would enjoy.
Little Lambs Choir
Children ages 3 through Kindergarten
Practices Wednesdays from 5:30 – 6:00
Sounds of Joy Choir
Children in 1st grade through 5th grade
Practices Wednesdays from 6:30 – 7:30
Join the choir, have fun singing and hang out
with your friends at the same time
Contact Julia Mick
Our very own Janet Kvaam-Holub will be playing on Sunday, Oct. 26th
Atonement Lutheran Church in Barrington
990 East Main Street Barrington, IL
(847) 381-0243; 2:00 – 4:00pm
presents
The Inaugural Northern Illinois
“Beginning Bioneers” Symposium
“Raise Your Environmental E.Q.”
Learn about saving water, energy,
sustainable agriculture, green business and much, much more!
Saturday, November 8, 2008
9:30am – 3:00pm
McHenry County College
8900 US Highway 14, Crystal Lake
Fee: $25 for advance registration
(includes lunch)
$10 for students
$30 at the door
For more information, call Pat Dieckhoff, Waste Reduction Assistant
at 815-479-7817
To register with credit card, call 815-455-8788 (use ID number when registering...
Symposium ID: NCC S50 001)
The Green Alliance of
The Green Business Referral Exchange (GBRE)
The Lou Marchi Total Recycling Institute
(LMTRI) at MCC and the
McHenry County Environmental Alliance (MCEA) |
There is no doubt that the Indian held medicine close to spiritual things, but in this also he has been misunderstood; in fact, everything that he held sacred is indiscriminately called “medicine” in the sense of mystery or magic. As a doctor, he was originally very adroit and often successful. He employed only healing bark, roots and leaves with whose properties he was familiar, using them in the form of a distillation or tea and always singly. The stomach or internal bath was a valuable discovery of his, and the vapor or Turkish bath was in general use. He could set a broken bone with fair success, but never practiced surgery in any form. In addition, the medicine man possessed much personal magnetism, and authority, and in his treatment often sought to reestablish the equilibrium of the patient through mental and spiritual influences – a sort of primitive psycho-therapy.
The Sioux word for the healing art is “wah-pee-yah” which literally means readjusting or making anew. “Pay-jee-hoo-tah” literally root, means medicine and “wakan” signifies spirit or mystery. These three ideas were carefully distinguished. No payment was
received for his services which were of the nature of an honorable function or office. When the idea of payment and barter was introduced and valuable presents or fees began to be demanded for treating the sick, the ensuing greed and rivalry led to many demoralizing practices and the modern “conjurer”, generally thought of as a fraud of the grossest kind. ~ The Native American Connection
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Thank you! Thank you for welcoming me warmly into the life of Ridgefield-Crystal Lake Presbyterian Church. In my first days, your hospitality has been most gracious. I hope that our interim time together will be rich in learning and ministry.