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Sunday, January 9: Congregational Meeting
A Congregational Meeting will take place on Sunday, January 9 during
service. The congregation is to place in nomination from the list of nominees
two elders and two deacons. Church members, please put an "E" for Elder after
two names and a "D" for a Deacon after two names on the ballot handed or mailed
to you. Ballots should be returned by Sunday, January 2, 2005. Please hand to a
consistory member.
Thank you!
Our thanks to Elder Louise Fabiszak, the Outreach Committee and the many,
many members who made our Living Nativity come to
life! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Our thanks also to Deacon Deborah Siciargo
for helping the homeless and to Bill Nicotra for bringing toys to the homeless
this Advent!
Thanks to the Thanksgiving volunteers!
Michelle Paredies, coordinator of the Thanksgiving Dinner, gave a special
thanks to all the volunteers at service today. She said that 18 people,
including several Boy Scouts, participated and that all the volunteers enjoyed
contributing or serving at the dinner on Wednesday, November 24 at
Project Hospitality's two
locations on Staten Island.
Study series for new believers
This week we begin an education series for new believers! Join us after
church at 12:30 PM for a half hour study time.
Commissioning
event postponed
The commissioning event on October 17 celebrating the Rev. Terry Troia's 10th
anniversary as minister of this church has been postponed until May 2005.
Extra envelopes for the Restoration Fund
Extra envelopes will be provided for the New Utrecht Reformed Church
Restoration
Fund at each Sunday service. Please contribute generously.
Ongoing food drive
Deacon Debbie Siciargo has started a ongoing Food Drive. The donations are
somewhat less than expected. Please buy a little
extra of nonperishable food for the needy and bring the items to the collection
basket at the Parish House before service.
Pray for...
Alice Hightower;
Marion Hodgman who is seriously ill;
Rose Lood;
Fr. Jack Ryan's mother;
Anna Schroeder;
Debbie Siciargo and
the Rev. Bob Peterson, our organist, who suffers
from Parkinson's Disease.
Christmas 2004
Let the stable still astonish:
Straw-dirt floor, dull eyes,
Dusty flanks of donkeys, oxen;
Crumbling, crooked walls;
No bed to carry that pain,
And then, the child,
Rag-wrapped, laid to cry
In a trough,
Who would have chosen this?
Who would have said: "Yes,
Let the God of all the heavens and earth
Be born there, in this place?"
Who but the same God
Who stands in the darker, fouler rooms of our hearts and says,
"Yes, let the God of Heaven and Earth be born there in this place."
- Leslie Leyland Fields
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