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WILTON PRESBYTERIAN

December 9, 2007

Website: www.wiltonpresbyterian.org

Sermon manuscripts from each service are available at the website.

Four listening devices are available on the table in the Narthex

Wear your name tag and say “Hello” to at least one person you don’t know!

 

INVITATION TO NEW MEMBERS. We welcome friends and visitors at worship this morning. Should this be the right time and season for you to join this family of faith, please speak with the Elder Greeter, Mike Jenkins, the Pastor, or call the church office (762-5514). The next regularly scheduled Session meeting to receive new members will be next Sunday, December 16, 9:30 AM in the Quiet/Meditation Room.

 

GOD’S PEOPLE HERE.  We hold close in prayer Bob Graham, erstwhile WPC member who is recuperating at home from major surgeries. Bob and Maureen’s home address is: 8 Grove Lane, Daniel Island, Charleston, South Carolina 29492; and telephone: 843-278-2900…We hold close in prayer Betty Hazenfield, Ellen Mann’s mother, at Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, having suffered a stroke while in rehabilitation for a broken hip in a recent fall. Ellen is in Nashville with her mom…Bill and Susan Mathews are the proud grandparents of new granddaughter, born to Rob and Tara Mathews at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor last Tuesday, December 4…We extend our Christian sympathy to Rachel and Peter Masters, former WPC members, at the death of their mother, Becky Masters, in Wichita, Kansas last Sunday, December 2. Both Rachel and Peter were with Becky at the time of her death. A memorial service was held this past Thursday, December 6…Laura Andrews, mother of Nancy Kelley, a friend of WPC, was transferred from Meadow Ridge Medical Center back home to Tennessee last Sunday, December 2…Both Wilton Social Services and Pivot Ministries have written notes expressing their thanks for the food WPC members and friends donated to them through Rob Wilkinson’s Foodmobile.

 

STAFF NOTES.  Youth and Children’s Director Jane Field is worshipping at Zion’s Hill Methodist Church this morning.

 

TODAY IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING MORNING WORSHIP

Session has called

A MEETING OF THE CONGREGATION

 

  1. To hear the report of the Nominating Committee of the Congregation concerning nominees to the Offices of Ruling Elder and Deacon;

Office of Ruling Elder (Class of 2010)

            Steve Connor, Max Gabrielson, Nancy Gorkin, Phil Jacoby, Malcolm Keers

Office of Deacon (Class of 2010)

            Claudia Halsey, Katie Nugent, Barbara Quincy, Carole Telyan

Office of Deacon (Class of 2008)

            Mary Marquardt

  1. If the way be clear, to proceed to elect members to serve in these respective offices;
  2. To conduct any other business growing directly out of the above.

 

WEDNESDAY EVENING POT-LUCK SUPPERS

Every Wednesday (till Christmas at least!), 5:30 PM in the WPC Gathering Space

All you need to bring is yourselves and some food to share with others.

 

PASTOR DROP-INS, Mondays, December 10 and 17, 5:00 – 7:00 PM. Once again this Advent, the Pastor is hosting Pastor Drop-Ins in his office at church. People wishing to come by to visit informally, to share an experience, to tell a story, to make a suggestion, to ask a question, whatever - either in person or by phone - are invited any time between these hours. No appointments. Just come as you have time and inclination.

 

2007 FINANCIAL INFORMATION (Monday, December 3, 2007)

            2007 Budget Approved:                                                 $398,475

            Pledges Received To Date:                                $354,434

            Received Last Week:                                                    $    6,165

            Required Weekly:                                                          $    8,808

 

2008 STEWARDSHIP UPDATE (Monday, December 3, 2007)

            Pledges Received to Date:                     119 adult member pledges

                                                                        $382,531

                                                                        $3,215 average pledge

            Remaining:                                            13 adult member pledges

                                                                        $167,469

 

ALBAN INSTITUTE: The session has engaged with the Alban Institute to help us develop plans for the next generation of our growth as a congregation.  Alban is a recognized leader in the field of congregational guidance and has a broad range of experience in helping churches recognize the strengths they need to leverage and the gaps they need to fill to grow and prosper as a community of faith.  In preparation for this dialog, we’ve been gathering opinions from many of you via survey and interview, and Ed White from Alban will be with us on December 17th and 18th to listen and learn.  If you’d like to participate in a roundtable discussion on the evening of the 17th at 7:00, or meet with Ed 1-on-1 during the day on the 18th, please contact Mike Jenkins at mjenkins@trinsum.com to coordinate schedules and logistics.

 

CHRISTMAS FLOWERS AND MUSIC: Contributions are being accepted in memory/honor of loved ones for both the Music Fund and the Flower Fund. Their names will be listed in the bulletins for the 4 PM and 9 PM services on Christmas Eve. Please have your contributions (of any amount) to the church office no later than Monday, December 17. Remember to include your name as well as the names of those people you wish remembered. Be sure to stipulate either the Flower or Music Fund.  

 

GIFTS OF CHRISTMAS  2007: It is that time of year when we receive numerous catalogs in the mail, but the most important catalog in your mailbox is the Gifts of Christmas!! We have 28 organizations and 197 items to choose from that will bring much happiness and meaning to many deserving people throughout our community. You still have 3 Sundays to buy your amazing angels: Today, December 16th and December 23rd.  Please help to remember the true meaning of Christmas this holiday season!!

 

 

UPCOMING ADVENT/CHRISTMAS SERVICES

 

Sunday, December 16            10:00 AM         Choral Christmas Offering

Sunday, December 23            10:00 AM         Christmas Pageant

Monday, December 24           4:00 PM           Family Christmas Eve Service

                                                8:30 PM           Christmas Prelude

                                                9:00 PM           Candlelight/Communion Service       

 

CALENDAR

 

Sunday                         10:00 AM         Morning Worship

                                    11:30 AM         Church in Action Committee

                                      4:30 PM          Congregational Christmas Party

Monday                        10:00 AM         Staff

                                    11:30 AM         Joint Staff Christmas Luncheon

Wednesday                     5:30 PM          Wednesday Night Supper

Thursday                        7:30 AM         Morning Prayer

                                      4:15 PM          Pageant Rehearsal

                                      5:00 PM          Sixers

                                      7:30 PM          Sanctuary Choir

Saturday                         9:30 AM         Sanctuary Choir

Sunday                           8:30 AM         Sanctuary Choir

                                      9:30 AM         Called Meeting of Session

                                    10:00 AM         Morning Worship/Choral Christmas Offering

                                      4:30 PM          Koinonia & Katalysta