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Rally Round Rummage 2010! SALE DATE - Thursday, May 13, 2010, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Among the forty agencies we support, Barreto Boys’ and Girls’ Club, part of the Union League Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago www.ulbgc.org, serves boys and girls, ages 5 - 19, in the Humboldt Park and West Town areas of Chicago, providing a “variety of programs specifically geared towards developing a child’s character, instilling discipline all the while encouraging experimentation and growth.” The “Club programs and services promote and enhance the development of boys and girls, by instilling a sense of competence, usefulness, belonging, and influence.” We also support Juvenile Protective Association, Chicago, www.juvenile.org, whose mission is to “provide service to children and families with very young children, from birth to five years; to prevent child abuse and neglect; and to treat families where child abuse and neglect have already occurred, toward the end of protecting children and ameliorating the adverse effects of emotional damage done.” “Through comprehensive counseling and treatment, JPA helps children resolve their anger, improve in school, take pride in their appearance and develop friendships. Please look around home for things you would like to donate to the sale! While we don’t accept luggage, baby furniture, or mattresses, we welcome almost anything else in good salable condition, including cars and other vehicles (call Rummage at 847-446-0575 for details). Rummage departments include Toys, Sporting Goods, Treasures (really nice household and gift items), Books of all kinds, Clothing for men, women and children, Furniture, Jewelry, Hardware, Kitchenware, Computers and office equipment, Radio/TV/Stereo/Cameras, China/Glass, Accessories, Linens, Lamps, Pictures, Garden, Sewing, Vintage, the French Room (special occasion and designer clothes) and a Flea Market, and MORE. We thank the many people who have called to volunteer to work and we are still taking names of those willing to help on the day of the sale, May 13, in the checkroom or as a cashier. One requires stamina, the other lets you sit! We also need ushers, as well as people to help in the departments. To learn more, please contact JODIE STEWART (847-433-1783), our volunteer coordinator. Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity for fellowship and service! And please come to shop – you will be sure to find a treasure for yourself or to give as a gift!
Adult Enrichment Adult Enrichment is delighted and honored to welcome Margaret Mitchell, PhD, the newly appointed Dean of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago where she is Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature.
Dr.
Mitchell’s research and teaching span a range of topics in New Testament and
early Christian writings. She is interested in their relationship to the
wider Greco-Roman world and literary culture in which they were composed, as
well as in the legacies of those texts as sacred scripture for Christian
communities in later antiquity and beyond. She is also editor (with Frances M. Young) of The Cambridge History of Christianity, Volume 1 (Origins to Constantine), and wrote the forward to Augustus to Constantine: The Rise and Triumph of Christianity in the Roman World by Robert M. Grant (1970). Her 2008 Speaker’s Lectures at Oxford University, Paul, the Corinthians and the Birth of Christian Hermeneutics, will be published this year by Cambridge University Press. Dr. Mitchell will discuss Paul on May 2 and Constantine on May 9 at the 9:00 hour in the Centennial Room or TFH. We are indeed grateful to our own Carl Boyer, Trustee at the Divinity School, for arranging and underwriting this 2-session series! Adult Enrichment invites you to join us for both or either of these sessions. In the meantime, Rev. Jennifer Gleichauf and Joshua Sawyer, M.Div., respectfully and respectively suggest the following supplemental titles: A People’s History of Christianity by Diana Butler Bass (2009) and The Spirit of Early Christian Thought by Robert Louis Wilken (2003).
Notice of 2010 Annual Meeting
Bob Smith, the Clerk of
Winnetka Congregational Church, has called our Annual Congregational Meeting
for Sunday, May 16, 2010 ,
Topics
for the meeting include:
Please plan to attend this
important meeting on Sunday, May 16th Bylaw changes In order to serve a greater number of deserving Protestant Churches in the Chicago area through the Centennial Loan Fund, a change to the ByLaws of The Winnetka Congregational Church will be proposed at the Annual Meeting for Article X, Item 3 to allow low interest loans to be made to Protestant churches in the Chicago suburbs as well as the city of Chicago. also Article VIII The Membership Committee shall consist of at least three (3) Active Members of the Church, appointed by Council to serve at its pleasure, who shall have the responsibility of determining the application process for membership in the Winnetka Congregational Church. A member of the pastoral staff shall act in an advisory capacity as an ex-officio member of the Committee. The application process shall be structured in such a way as to ensure that the membership goals and objectives of the Church are accomplished with specific adherence given to Article II of the bylaws. The Membership Committee shall assist the Clerk in overseeing that lists of Active and Inactive Members of the Church are accurate and current. The Committee shall also report to the Council from time to time on an annual basis. Music in May:
Music Sunday is May 2nd.
Our Chancel Choir will be presenting Mass in G by Franz Schubert at the 10:00
am worship service. The movements of this piece will be sung as a part of the
Worship Service rather that as a continuous work. Sunday, May 9, will be our annual WCC celebration of Long-term Members. Those who joined the church in 1970 or earlier, please watch for your invitation in the mail. We hope you will be able to be present in the sanctuary that morning. (If you are a Long-term Member and do not receive an invitation, please call Reverend Bill at the church office--847-441-3400, ext. 23.)
Mission Moment This is an occasional series highlighting one of the 20+ agencies funded by the Mission Giving Committee. Traditionally, 10% of WCC’s budget goes to Outreach, providing the majority of funding for Mission Giving. Our guidelines require that the organization’s net expense budget is less than $1,000,000 and that their programs provide for their client’s basic human needs, which we define as food, clothing, shelter, education and individual human rights. Humboldt Park Social Services Begun as an outreach program of Humboldt Park United Methodist Church in the late 1980s, HPSS was incorporated in 1994 and has experienced strong growth in the past 16 years. They provide a continuum of services to the largely Hispanic communities of Logan Square and Humboldt Park. Programs include a food pantry, soup kitchen, daily drop-in center for men, job and housing assistance through the Center for Changing Lives and 12 low-rent apartments that are rented at below-market rates to those in need, generally mothers with children. WCC is providing financial support to the food pantry and soup kitchen. They serve dinner every night except Sunday and project serving 35,000 meals to 750 families, an increase of 20% in the number of meals that they will serve this year. www.hpsschanginglives.org.
7th Annual Rock &
Rally Walkathon is scheduled for May 23rd. Save the Date!
The Glenview Community Church will host a Senior Housing Fair on Sunday, May 2, from 9 am to 12:30 pm in the Mayflower Room of the church. Representatives will be present to give information about Retirement, Assisted Living, Nursing Homes and Continuing Care Retirement Communities. This is an opportunity for seniors and their families to become informed, ask questions, gather information, consider options, and see what is available. The church is located at the corner of Glenview Road and Elm Street in Glenview (1000 Elm Street). The Fair will be held on the lower level of the church and is accessible by elevator. All are welcome and admission is free.
Senior Housing Fair
THE MENTAL HEALTH CORNER The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) recently presented a TV documentary series on This Emotional Life that is now complimented by an excellent website http://www.pbs.org/thisemotionallife which provides resources to build social support networks around topics: •The importance of early attachment •How to heal strained or damaged relationships •Stress in general and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in particular •Depression •Grief •Resilience •Our pursuit of happiness. Pastor Mueller plans to review this 6-hour DVD with his clinical social work students this summer and possibly recommend it for group viewing and discussion at church and/or private viewing at home. For more information, contact him at 441-3400 x.23 or bill@wcc-joinus.org, or see the website above.
May 2: Peggy Mitchell, Cary Cochrane, Jeff Smith, James Jacobs, Phoebe Brown 3: Bob Baker 4: James Kracum 5: Sam Fifer 6: Anne Kuzel, Cameron Wray 7: June Reimer, Lyn Sills, Samantha Hinners 8: Kenneth Tuman, Katherine Powell, Felicity Yost, Gardner Yost. WCC Residents at Presbyterian Homes, Evanston The pastors will host their annual spring luncheon there in the Garden Room on Wednesday, May 5. We’ll meet at 11:30 am in the Calvin Circle reception area, followed by lunch at Noon. More details forthcoming in the Messenger and mailed invitations. For more information, contact Rev. William Mueller 441-3400, ext. 23 or bill@wcc-joinus.org
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