Announcements for November 20

• Vestry
  The vestry meets Monday, November 21, beginning at 7:00 p.m.
  
  
• Holiday Cookie Walk
  If you didn’t get a call asking you to bake your festive cookies or make candies for our Cookie Walk sale on December 3rd, please know it was an oversight. We need your help! Our Cookie Walk fame is spreading.
  
  
• Stewardship: Annual Pledge Campaign
  This Sunday, November 20, is stewardship Sunday. Please bring your pledges of time, talent and treasure and offer your pledge cards as part of the offertory during worship.
  
  
• Cathedral Shelter Christmas Baskets
  Information on this year’s Cathedral Shelter Christmas basket program is available in the parish office. Both families and seniors are available for adoption. Pick up day is December 8.
  
  
• St. John’s Thanksgiving Service
  The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, at 10:00 a.m.
  
  
• Little Hands Advent Project
  Little Hands, St. John’s children’s outreach ministry, will meet this Sunday, November 20, from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. in the Undercroft for our annual Advent pastoral inreach project.
  
  
• “Blue Jeans” Sunday: This Sunday, November 20
  Wear work clothes to church this Sunday, November 20, and stay an hour after church to help with fall landscaping work on the parish grounds.
  
  
• Help Provide Clean Water around the World
  This is the last Sunday the Little Hands “Praying Well” will be up in the undercroft. Please offer your prayers and your contributions to help provide clean water wells in areas of need.
  
  
• Make Your Own Advent Wreath
  Next Sunday, November 27, we will have materials available to make Advent wreaths for home use. Come to the undercroft during the 9:00 education hour.
  
  
• Holiday Concert Sunday, December 11
  The Grande Prairie Singers present "A Winter Serenade" at 4:00 p.m., Sunday, December 11, at Faith United Protestant Church in Park Forest. The performance opens with J.S. Bach's oratorio Magnificat with soloists and orchestra. The second half includes Schubert's "Ave Maria," "Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head," "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," and even Tom Lehrer's "I'm Spending Chanukah in Santa Monica"! Tickets are $20 at the door ($18 in advance); season tickets, $50. But they're available from Betsy Burgwald for the special price of only $10 each.