Thanksgiving in a Box

Again this year the Mission Committee will be putting together Thanksgiving dinners for a few local families in need.  As we did last year we will be taking monetary donations to provide the meals.  Next Sunday, November 6^th, there will be a donation envelope in your bulletin that can be used to make a donation.  The Mission Committee will do the shopping to get the boxes ready and Bob Carlsen will deliver them to their recipients.  Any help you can give us with this worthy mission is greatly appreciated!

Holiday Happenings--November 5, 2016

Next Saturday is Holiday Happenings!   Our Craft & Vendor show will be held from 9 AM until 3 PM.   Be sure to come and start your Christmas shopping and also stop by the bake sale & Chinese Auction.  This year will be our biggest event yet as we have many new vendors.  Breakfast & lunch will be available for purchase—enjoy a delicious bowl of homemade chili or soup!  All profits from the event will benefit our general fund so we hope you will come by and support our event!   Be sure to tell all of your friends and family about this fun event!  If you have not already made a donation to the Chinese Auction and would like to, please see Roberta Tracy, June Shafer or Susan Boyle.  Any new item or gift card would be greatly appreciated.  Also, bake sale items are needed!  Aggie Smith will be running the bake sale so please see her if you are able to help out.  Any cookies, cakes, pies, breads, etc. that you can donate will help to make it a big success!  Thanks in advance for your help!

Cantata 2016 Practice Schedule

Cantata practices have begun!!   This year’s Cantata will be held on Sunday, December 18^th during the worship service.   If you are interested in participating, contact Mark Barie.  Please ask your friends and family who like to sing if they would like to join in on the fun!  Anyone from 5^th grade to adult is invited to participate.  It is important that you plan to attend the practices listed below.  The December practice schedule will be available soon.

Nov. 1, 10, 15 & 21 at 7:00 PM

November 6 at 12:15 PM

2018 Session & Deacons

2018 Session and Deacons

Session

Cassie Carlsen (Clerk)
Susan Boyle
Roberta Tracy
Doug Heywood
Dave Carlsen
Connor Boyle

Deacons

Cathie Carlsen
Sharah DeMena
Audrey Kellogg
June Shafer
Aggie Smith

Book Club--November 14th

The book club will be meeting on Saturday, November 14th at 9:30 AM at Coffee Culture in Batavia. All are welcome!! The book we are reading is below. We would love for some new people to join us!

From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.

In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.

Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, a National Book Award finalist, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).

Christmas Cantata Practice Schedule

For anyone who might be interested in participating in our annual Christmas Cantata that will take place on Sunday, December 20th, the practice schedule is listed below. All are welcome!!! For more information contact the church office at 344-2931 or Mark Barie.
Practice Schedule:

Wednesday, October 21st at 7 PM
Sunday, October 25th at 11:45 AM
(there will be a light lunch provided at this practice)
Wednesday, November 4th at 7 PM
Tuesday, November 17th at 7 PM
Sunday, November 22nd at 11:45 AM
Tuesday, December 1st at 7 PM
Wednesday, December 9th at 7 PM
Sunday, December 13th at 11:45 AM
Saturday, December 19th at 9 AM

The day of the Cantata, December 20th, please plan
to be at the church by 9:45 AM.

Fall Foliage Train Ride

Sunday, October 4^th

12 PM/Noon:  Bus departs from EBPC

   12:45-1:30:  Lunch at Hidden Valley Resort     

                            

                 2:30:  Check in at Arcade & Attica Railroad

     3:00-5:00:  Train ride with stop at Curriers Depot

                6:00:  Dinner at Tom Wahl’s Restaurant in Avon

                            (NOT included in your ticket price)

                7:30:  Arrive back at EBPC

Tickets are $25 each.   Ticket includes bus and lunch.

This was a great trip last year and we hope that even more people will decide to join us this year.  Feel free to invite your friends and family.   

RSVP to Bob Carlsen (356-4906) or Susan Boyle (704-2495) by Friday,

 September 25^th.  Payment is due in advance.

Thanks to Bob Carlsen for putting this trip together for us!!