Parish News

OUR NURSERY

We are in need of additional nursery volunteers to help with the Nursery during the Worship Services.If you are interested, please contact: Dawn Franklin (410) 760-3680.

Thank you in advance for your help and support.

LUNCH BUNCH

We will meet January 8th, at 12:00 noon . Bring a sandwich.
Drinks and dessert are provided! Everyone is welcome.

Please call Bob and Ida Dennett (410)757-5268) if you have any questions.

ANYONE INTERESTED IN BEING ON OUR PRAYER CHAINS, OR IF YOU HAVE PRAYER REQUESTS FOR THEM: Please Contact…

For e-mail chain:

Kathy Butler at jkbutler@comcast.net .

For the Telephone Prayer Chain,

Call BETTY ZICK at (410) 987-0420

CANNED FOOD DRIVE

Our canned food drive that began this past summer has now become a continuing ministry program. So please bring a canned food item to be brought forward during Communion each Sunday. We are again supporting the Lutheran Mission Society. We have collected over 6500 pounds of canned goods for distribution. Thank You for your generosity.

ALTAR GUILD

The Altar Guild needs volunteers to help set-up communion one Sunday a month.

Please call Rebecca Lawrence at (410) 975-0062.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR Help!

Come Sing With Us

Anyone interested in singing in the 8:15 Chancel Choir, please see me on Sundays, or come to choir practice on Wednesday nights at 7:00 p.m. in December. Come and make a joyful noise, we have much to celebrate!

See you Sunday! Cindy Berger

WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!!!

Please schedule all new plans for meetings and events through the Church Office so that they may be advertised in the Bulletins and the Messenger as well as assuring that there will be a room available. Please remember that many outside events are on our calendar that you may not know about so checking with the office before scheduling is very important.

Please call the Church office at (410) 647-0340 for assistance in your scheduling needs. If Joanie is not there, leave a message. THANK YOU!

Dear Christ Lutheran Church,

Thank you for your generous donation of non-perishable food items to the Worldwide Freedom Harvest Food Drive for the Anne ~ Arundel County Food & Resource Bank. It was greatly appreciated and welcomed in our effort to help the citizens of Anne Arundel County.
It is through your support that we are able to continue our efforts to help prevent hunger and to help provide for those in need.
Thank you for your gift. Together, we can make a difference in the lives of those families that are less fortunate.

Bruce Michalec
Executive Director
Anne Arundel County Food & Resource Bank, Inc.

Thanks from all the women and friends of the Church to Celia and George Poteet, for opening their lovely home to us all for the Women’s Christmas Party! Everything was beautiful. The Luminaries lining the walk and ali the lights looked like a fairy tale come true. Inside the house every room was decorated! What a beautiful sight. And we all had so much fun with the “Gift Exchange” (more like ‘a stealing the gifts from each other’ exchange). And, of course, someone (whom we all know and love), had to bring one of her famous gag gifts! Everyone brought their finest dishes of food and desserts to share. It was a truly memorable occasion.

Again, thanks, from all Women and Friends of CELC!

Special thanks to everyone who helped put together this year’s Christmas Program. The kids worked hard and it would not have been possible without the help of the parents and other adults who stepped up to help out. A special thank you to Mary Kassebaum for playing the music!

I hope everyone had a happy holiday!

Kim Ryan

Thanks So Much

On behalf of the Women’s Bible Study Group, we would like to thank all of you that participated in the Seafarers’ project whether it was the purchasing of items needed, monetary contributions, shoeboxes or helping wrap the shoeboxes. In addition, we thank Thrivent Financial for Lutherans for their monetary contribution of $200 to help purchase the items to fill the boxes. Due to your help, we delivered 42 shoeboxes to the International Seafarers’ Center.

This annual project provides a much needed lift to those seamen who are away from their families during the Christmas season. When we delivered the boxes to the Seafarers’ Center, the Pastor and volunteers were so grateful and appreciative (this time they gave us hugs).

Joann Chirdon

LADIES—MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
22nd ANNUAL DAY OF RENEWAL
Saturday, January 17, 2009
(Snow Date — January 24, 2009)

All ladies are welcome! St. Martin’s Lutheran Church at 1120 Spa Road, Annapolis, will be hosting our Day of Renewal. Rev. Mark Huffman of St. Paul’s Church in Lutherville will be our presenter of “Hunger and Thirst — God’s Call - Our Response”. Come and listen how God still feeds us and gives us his mission to feed our brothers and sisters around the globe who hunger and thirst.

Registration (cost is $5 each) starts at 8:45 am. Bring a sandwich (soup, beverage and dessert will be provided) for lunch.

Offerings: 50% to Women of the ELCA, 25% to ELCA World Hunger, and 25% to Tanzania Well Project. Household & personal hygiene items for DoVE Project, nonperishable food to the Annapolis Light House Shelter and Food Pantry.

Gardening Committee

Our all new Gardening Committee is looking for volunteers to help take care of the landscaping around the Church. As a volunteer, each person or family will take care of a particular flower bed. They will be responsible for the routine weeding, watering, and pruning. Feel free to contribute any new flowers of your choice.

The Church will have a Spring and Fall clean-up to take care of leaves and to mulch. Please contact
Tara Fontz for more information. Call (410) 544-2391 or e-mail: Tfontz@comcast.net.

WE ARE IN NEED OF HELP EACH SUNDAY…

Please Volunteer as a SUNDAY SERVANT

Check the Sunday Servants list in the back of the Messenger and see where help is needed, and then please consider volunteering.

If you would like to volunteer for just one time ~ or more, here is what to do:

For Acolytes/Crucifers call: George Poteet at (410) 255-1209.

For Altar Guild call: Rebecca Lawrence at (410) 975-0062.

For Communion Assistants, Greeters/Presenters or Lay Readers See: Trisha Jacobs, or Sign-up on the Calendar in the Narthex.

For Nursery call: Dawn Franklin at (410) 591-9225.

For Ushers call: Roger Fontz at (410) 766-5286. THANK YOU!

Flowers are needed for the Alter each week. Please check the Flower List on the Revolving Bulletin Board in the Narthex to plan your gift of flowers in honor or memory of a loved one. Thank You!

The Messenger deadline is now the 18th of January for any items to be included in the February 2009 issue. You can put your items in the Messenger mail box or email to Debbie Lloyd: micgend@verizon.net, or call the Church Office at (410) 647-0340

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