Announcements for November 29

Fall Pledge Campaign
If you have not already done so, please turn in your pledge cards as soon as possible. You may place them in the alms basins on Sunday or mail them to the parish office.

The Holiday Cookie Walk is Coming Soon: Bake and Bring Your Cookies! 
The annual holiday cookie walk is Saturday, December 5, from 9 – 11:30 AM. Please bring your cookies to the church on Friday, December 4, anytime between 9 AM and 7 PM. Questions? Call Alison Deniston.

Make Your Own Advent Wreath 
Keeping Advent at home with simple prayers and an Advent wreath is the best way to prepare for Christmas. Information and materials to construct an Advent wreath will be available in the undercroft during the 9:00 AM hour on Sunday morning. Please stop by.

Best Buddies Pet Pantry
What will some elderly people do when they don’t have enough to eat for themselves and for their only companions, who often are their pets? They share, of course, but then no one gets enough. Next to the food pantry collection baskets there is a collection box for the Best Buddies Pet Pantry. Please donate pet food and treats to help food pantry clients and their best buddies get the food they need.

Yarn Ministry still needs the congregation’s assistance
We will be collecting some winter clothing articles for the PADS Ministry. Donations of hand or machine made (store bought) scarves, hats, gloves, and mittens for men, women and children. PADS is also accepting coats and socks for all their people in need. Donated items, if not new, should be clean and gently used. We urgently request all the crocheters, knitters, and shoppers in the parish, to please help the Yarn Ministry make this another very successful project. Collections bins are located in the undercroft and at the office entrance. There is a PADS collection bin located in the undercroft, as well. Deposit items in any of the containers, Thank you.

ReVive (Cathedral Shelter) Christmas Baskets Drop Off
Wrapped and packaged gifts need to be dropped at the parish office BEFORE 9:00 AM, Friday, December 4.

Handel’s Messiah
Illiana Oratorio Society is pleased to announce its performance of Handel's Messiah which will be held on Sunday, December 6, 2015. It will be held at First Christian Reformed Church of South Holland (16248 South Park Ave, South Holland, IL) at 2p.m. This year's soloists will feature: Elaine DeYoung, Maria Bouwhamp-Luttjeboer, Jack Cotterell, and Douglas Anderson. All are welcome to attend!

Grande Prairie Singers Holiday Concert
The concert will be held at 4:00 pm, Sunday, December 13, at St Lawrence O'Toole Church in Matteson. Great selections from "In the Bleak Midwinter" to Britten's "A Hymn to the Virgin" to "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." See Bob or Betsy Burgwald for tickets.