WEEKLY ANNOUNCEMENTS JANUARY 17/18, 2015 REAL . BALANCED . LIFE Gloria Dei’s Annual Luncheon and Meeting January 25, 2015 12:30PM in Fellowship Hall 4501 Main Street Downers Grove, IL 630-968-6231 If you would like to attend Gloria Dei’s Annual Luncheon and Meeting, please sign up on the blue sheet. If you have any questions or concerns to be addressed at the meeting, please fill out the question section of the blue sheet. Thank you. www.gloriadeichurch.org This Week at Gloria Dei STAFF THE ALPHA COURSE Individual email links are on our website. The phone extensions are : Senior Pastor Timothy S. Robertson (101) Associate Pastor Rhonda L. Kral (102) Director of Music Ministries Elizabeth Waldon (103) Director of Youth & Family Ministries Aaron Shoppa (105) Parish Nurse Jean Runge-Versaci (110) Communications Coordinator Liezel Pallasa Office Assistant Mary Rakowski In Our Prayers This Week: Beth Dunlop Pat Krepelka Edythe Nelson Jacque Ortegel John Rudy Milton Schultz When: Wednesday’s Evenings Where: Church Library Who: Anyone, feel free to bring a friend Why: Because you are tired of the same old/ same old life THEOLOGY ON THURSDAYS- THE BOOK OF MARK Come join us as we study the book of Mark. Join the conversation as we discuss; scripture, life and faith. We meet Thursdays starting January 15th, in the church library at 1:30. Books will cost approximately $12. Come join the conversation. Please sign up on the Blue Sheet. Director of Kids of the Kingdom, Festive Strings, Hope Bells Suellyn Scharping Office Administrator Joyce Pauly (go to alphausa.org to learn more) (106) ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL - THE BOOK OF MARK (107) Come join us as we study the book of Mark. Join the conversation as we discuss; scripture, life and faith. We meet Sunday, starting January 25th in the Chapel at 9:45. Books will cost approximately $12. Come join the conversation. Please sign up on the Blue Sheet. 1st ANNUAL CHILI COOK-OFF! Sunday February 8, 2015 4:30pm—Fellowship Hall One of the HOTTEST events of the year! Whether you want to COOK & COMPETE….or just want to EAT, you’re bound to have a whole lot of FUN!! Join us for a night full of good eats, prizes for great chili, and lots of fun. Will your Chili be a winner??? Get your recipes ready! Sign up on the blue sheet. FESTIVE STRINGS FESTIVE STRINGS IS STARTING UP AGAIN and we are looking for anyone with two years of experience playing violin, viola, cello or string bass. We meet about once or twice a month and will play about six times a year. Please e-mail Sue Scharping at [email protected]. SUNDAY— 7:30, 8:30, 9:43, 11:00AM WORSHIP 9:45 AMAdult Sunday School 10:00AM Mission & Justice—203 10:05AM Sunday School 10:30AM Spirit Choir-Nave 12:30PM 1st Communion Instruction-201 12:30PM More Than Bread Alone 12:30PM Bros@Work MONDAY 12:15PM 60 Min. Book Club-202 TUESDAY 9:00AM Labor of Love –F Hall 10:00AM 3rd Tuesday Women’s Grp-201 6:30PM New Member Constln-202 7:00Pm 9:43 Band—Nave 7:30PM Council Meeting-202 WEDNESDAY 10:00AM Scripture Circle—202 4:30PM Hand Chime Choir—Nave 5:00PM Kids of the Kingdom—114-115 5:15PM Cherub Choir—Lounge 5:45PM Church Night Supper—FH 6:30PM Word for the Week—203 6:30PM Alpha Class—202 6:30PM Confirmation —116 6:30PM Hope Bell Choir—Nave 7:00PM H.S. Youth Group—Youth Room 7:00PM Gloria Dei Bell Choir—Nave 8:00PM Faith Choir Rehearsal—CL THURSDAY 1:30PM Theology on Thursdays-202 7:00PM WELCA Nominating—201 FRIDAY 9:15AM Mom’s Morning Out— Nursery & 101-102 SATURDAY— 9:00AM Diakonia—201 5:00PM WORSHIP 6:00PM Super Saturday 6:30PM Theology on Tap NEXT SUNDAY: 7:30, 8:30,9:43, 11:00AM WORSHIP 9:45 Adult Sunday School 10:05 Sunday School 10:30AM Spirit Choir-Nave THEOLOGY ON TAP CONTINUES! Saturday, January 24, 6:30 pm at Rockwood Tap House 3131 Finley Rd, Downers Grove http://www.rockwoodtaphouse.com/ RSVP kindly requested by Monday, January 19. Sign up on the blue sheet or email Betsy Waldon ([email protected]). Come and join the lively and stimulating conversation as we discuss faith. This month’s topic: True or False? For more information, contact Pastor Tim or Betsy. Next date: February 28. WOMEN SINGERS AND INSTRUMENTALISTS WANTED FOR SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22, THANKOFFERING WEEKEND! We are looking for women to participate as special musicians and/or sing in an all-women’s choir on Sunday, February 22. The choir will sing at the 8:30 am service and will rehearse on Wednesdays, February 11th & 18th from 6:30-6:55 p.m. in the Lounge. Please sign up on the Blue Sheet in February or contact Betsy Waldon. SUPER SATURDAY Super Saturday, January 24: Going to Theology on Tap, but need someone to watch your kids? Or maybe you just want a few hours to go out without the kids on a Saturday night. Drop the kids off at church for a low cost babysitting option from 6:00 3RD TUESDAY WOMEN'S GROUP -9:00PM. Sign-up in the blue sheet indicating your name, con3rd Tuesday Women’s Group will meet on Tuesday January tact info, and number of kids (with ages) that you will be bringing. Contact Aaron for more information. 20th. Our theme this month will be: The Joys of Winter! Let's make this a brighter season by sharing pastimes, such as hobbies or crafts, poems and stories about winter. And, this SOUPER BOWL OF CARING, Sunday, February 1: meeting would not be complete, without warm and cozy reEach year, students from across the nation help to fulfill the freshments! All women are welcome to come. So please join us, deep needs of the nation’s food pantries. One this, a day when in the church lounge from 10 to 11:30 am. so many celebrate a football game with excesses in food, we pause to remember those without. Our students, who will have 4 FOOT WOODEN LADDER learned plenty about hunger issues around the world, will be Do you have a Four-Foot wooden ladder you could loan the standing with soup pot in hand at the end of each worship serKids of the Kingdom until March 8th? We are doing a musical vice that Sunday. Please consider helping out by having your stu(The Tale of the Three Trees) and need one more four-foot laddent stand with others against hunger, or by donating some der as a prop. Please let Sue Scharping know if you can loan it money into their soup pots. to the KOK for the month of February so we have it for rehearsals. Sue will be happy to pick it up at your home. Thank FAFSA WORKSHOP [email protected]. HANDCHIME CHOIR The Handchime Choir is looking for four more people to join. It is an easy and fun instrument to play and makes a beautiful sound. We practice on Wednesdays from 4:30 to 5:00 in the Nave or room 114-115, depending upon the church schedule for the Nave. We welcome anyone from third grade through grandparenthood . Please contact Sue Scharping if you would like to join us or . . . just come to rehearsal. [email protected]. MEMORIAL LIBRARY We will be featuring “The Color of the Month” this year, with January starting out as “Blue Book Month”. Come and see what blue book might be the one for you! We are starting a middle-school-teen reader section. It is just one shelf to the right of the children’s collection where videos used to be (we just moved them to the other side!). Come and see our small collection of books by Madeleine L’Engle, Tim Shoemaker and Travis Thrasher. Let us know if we should keep buying more! And, for our fiction readers, we will spotlight a series each month – this month it is Julie Klassen and her English Regency mystery/romance titles. Tell us is you have a favorite series to spotlight. Wednesday, February 4: Have a student heading off to college next fall? Filled out a FAFSA form for student financial aid, but still have questions? Wondering what in the world a FAFSA actually is!? Gloria Dei will be hosting a representative from College of DuPage who will be offering her services to us on Wednesday, February 4, from 6:00 - 8:00PM. Come and receive some individualized attention in the Computer Lab (downstairs) that evening. Students and parents should attend this together. Feel free to stop by at any time during those two hours, mindful of the time it takes to work through the form. Contact Aaron to sign-up now. Church Night Supper January 21, 2015 Sloppy Joes Celery, Carrots & Chips Dessert
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