Christmas
Services
Friday, December 21st Blue Christmas Service,
7:00 p.m.
Monday, December 24th Family
Service with Pageant, 4:00 p.m.
Music
& Christmas Carols, 10:00 p.m.
Christmas
Eve “Midnight” Mass, 10:30 p.m.
Tuesday, December 25th Christmas Day Service, 9:00 a.m.
FMSC:
Thank you, people of St. John’s!
The very generous donations from our parish (just
shy of $550) paid for 2,196 meals—enough to feed 6 children for a full
year. Twelve of your fellow parishioners went on to pack 5,508 meals in
just two short hours at the Aurora facility of Feed My Starving
Children this past Saturday…that’s enough food to feed 17 children for
a full year. We were part of a group of roughly 200 volunteers who
together packed 41,472 meals for malnourished and starving children. That
massive number feeds 114 children for a full year. Please seek out these people
and ask them about their experience and consider joining us the next time we go
to FMSC: Laurie & Jack Zielinski, Margi Strombeck, Lita Morgan, Ann
Moser, Ted Stone, Eric Turnquest, Mike & Catherine Madden, Elliot McManamy
and Rob & Dee McManamy. You’ll hear just how fun it was and how the
Holy Spirit was with everyone there, helping us move a mountain of food.
[To learn more about this highly rated and respected organization, please go to
www.fmsc.org]
Fundraising
Coupon Booklets
The Vestry is supporting a new easy and fun product
to sell as a fundraising campaign for St. John’s. We are selling fundraising
coupon books for $20.00 from a company called Simple Qpons. The books allow
individuals to save money with things like buy-one-get-one-free and 50% off
discounts at tons of our favorite local merchants. These books make for great
small gifts and stocking stuffers. There are two editions of the book: one for
Northwest Indiana and one for Southland Chicago. You can contact Vestry members
or the church office to either purchase books yourself OR to help in selling books for this
fundraiser.
Christmas
Pageant
We will be having a pageant at the 4:00 pm Christmas
Eve service this year, and children of all ages are encouraged to participate.
There are up to 15 parts. If you are
interested, please see Pat Smith-Huntoon after the 10:00 am service, phone her or email her.
