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LENT SOUP SUPPERS

Wed, 11 Feb 2015 16:29:28 +0100

If your group would like to host a soup supper, please call the church office to sign-up. Soup suppers will be served Feb.18 – Mar.25 at 5:30 to help foster fellowship and to make it convenient for us all to come to our Lenten services.

SHORT-TERM MISSION OPPORTUNITY

Wed, 11 Feb 2015 16:28:52 +0100

This is your opportunity to be a missionary short term. Our LCMS Board of Missions is seeking volunteers who will go to Poland for one week (July – August) to lead English Bible Camp. More info on the hallway table for those interested.

Share Your Favorite Recipie

Mon, 29 Dec 2014 15:11:53 +0100

Danville Lutheran School, along with Immanuel and Trinity churches, are putting together a tasty cookbook. Please

submit your favorite recipes (whether main dish, specialty salad, appetizer, dessert, etc.) either on a recipe card {from the hall table} or a photocopy of your recipe. We have received some great recipes; please keep sending in your favorites.

CHRISTMAS TREE FOR OUR MORTGAGE

Mon, 29 Dec 2014 15:10:29 +0100

It is certainly not too late to give a special Christmas gift to our congregation this year! We want to pay down our mortgage! Please visit our beautiful tree in the Narthex entryway and take an ornament from our tree to yours! Pick an ornament with a tag that has an amount you could give to help us pay down the mortgage and keep the ornament as a reminder of your gift to our congregation.

Still Time to Get Your Yankee Candle

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:53:38 +0100

Great news! Danville Lutheran School has made$1327.00 from their Yankee Candle fundraiser! If you didn’t get a chance to

order, you still can!

There is still time for you to order a candle for yourself or someone else. (They make great gifts!) Order now thru Dec. 31 at www.yankeecandlefundraising.com. Enter group number 990070451. DLS will still receive a percentage of the purchase.

Nominate Someone for District Office

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:50:04 +0100

DISTRICT & CIRCUIT CONVENTION BUSINESS... We have forms in the church office from the Central Illinois District Nominations Committee. All members of the congregation have the opportunity to nominate individuals to serve in the

various district offices.

Please stop by the office to pick up a copy if you are interested in nominating someone for a district office. We also need a delegate and alternate to represent our congregation at upcoming Circuit Forum and District Convention. Thank you.

Free Books & Videos to Help Christmas Focus

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:32:23 +0100

Christ lay in a manger. No decorations. Simple food. Yet that was the best Christmas some shepherds ever had! We too can focus on the One who came. Perfection is there -- not in anything we do.

Ideas for celebrating simply and well can be found in Unplug the Christmas Machine: a complete guide to putting love and joy back in the season, by Robinson and Staeheli, and Celebrate Simply: your guide to simpler, more meaningful holidays and special occasions, by Twigg.
If grief haunts the season, check out The Empty Chair, by Zonnebelt and DeVries, or the DVD Handling the Holidays, by Grief, Inc.

Find these and other resources in our Wellness Library, across from the mailboxes. As Charley Brown and friends finally saw, it wasn't the beauty of the tree, but of the Love that decorated it. That Love, His Love, came and comes to us -- freely. It requires no stressful preparations. Have a Holy holiday!

Two Giving Trees This year!

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:26:18 +0100

Our Hat & Mitten Giving Tree is nothing new at Immanuel. Please joy us in decorating it with warm hats, gloves and scarves for children how could use an extra layer of warmth this winter.

This year, we've added a new giving tree... this one to help our own church family. What we want for Christmas is to pay down our mortgage! Please visit our beautiful tree in the Narthex entryway and take an ornament from our tree to yours! Pick an ornament with a tag that has an amount you could give to help us pay down the mortgage and keep the ornament as a reminder of your gift to our congregation! Thank you.

Caroling Party - Dec. 21

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:22:16 +0100

HERE WE COME A-CAROLING! Come to our Christmas Caroling party on Sunday, Dec. 21. We’ll meet at 3:00 pm at the church, and then visit the homebound with songs of cheer. We’ll plan to return to church by 5:30 to enjoy some soup. Look for a sign-up sheet on the chapel hall bulletin board.

Need a little inspiration to raise your voice in song? Check out Pastor's message for December!

Cookies for Home Bound - Need by Dec. 17

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:19:04 +0100

Remember our home bound and members with health concerns this season with a gift of Christmas cookies. Please sign up on the hall bulletin board to bake cookies and/or deliver them. Bring cookies to the Multipurpose Room Dec. 16 or 17.

For more info, contact Diana Pratt or Janet Terry.