Calendar and Announcements for the Week of Oct. 11

WEEKLY CALENDAR

TODAY
11:15 a.m. SYG to Worcester Fellowship
11:30 a.m. Junior Choir
3:30 p.m. SYG returns to EW
MONDAY
9:00 a.m. Community. Kitchen
7:30 p.m. AA Group
TUESDAY
10:30 a.m. Bible Study
7:30 p.m. Church Council WEDNESDAY
10:00 a .m. Women’s Fellowship
7:30 p.m. Boy Scouts
THURSDAY
7:00 p.m. Sr. Choir
FRIDAY/SATURDAY B & B Weekend
NEXT SUNDAY Church School Classroom Dedication
11:30 a.m. Jr. Choir
3:30 p.m. Youth in Grades 5 - 12 to Corn Maze


SPECIAL THANK YOU to all those who donated yummy confections to the Youth Planned Autumn Bake Sale. Thank you, too, to those youth and adults who helped out at this semi-annual event. All proceeds from the sale were given to the Women's Fellowship.

CHRISTMAS ON THE HILL will be here before you know it. Plan now to pre-order your holiday Dried Fruits & Nuts. This year you will be able to order Holiday Medley which contains cashews, pecans, dried cherries & dried cranberries. Also available are walnuts, pecans, cashews, pistachios, apricots, and chocolate covered cranberries. Each comes in a 1 pound bag and all items freeze well. Look for the order form in church bulletins or the SHARE for October & place your order now by adding a check for the total and leave with the form in the church office or with Linda Chase who can be reached at 928 5838. Early orders must be completed now for pick up at the Fair. Mark your calendar now for the Fair---Saturday, November 21, 2009, 10-2 p.m.

The October Outreach project for Youth Group is ministry to the homeless through the Worcester Fellowship. Youth in grades 8-12 are meeting at East Woodstock this morning to make sandwiches for the program. We leave at 11:15 to drive to Worcester where we will share worship and a meal with the homeless. Please keep our youth and our neighbors who live on the street in your prayers. You can get more information about the program at www.worcesterfellowship.org

ARACHNOPHOBIA!!! All youth in grades 5-12 are invited for fall fun on Sunday, October 18. We’’ll find our way through the Pomfret Corn Maze and enjoy a cookout after. Speak to Jen John today or email Debby Kirk to reserve your spot. Cost is $5 per person and friends are welcome. Meet here at the Hill Church at 3:30 PM and plan to get picked up at 7:30 PM.

MANY THANKS to all who worked or supported the Rummage & Bake Sales through purchases! It was great fun and so nice to be able to hold the event in the "new basement!"

THE MONTHLY MEETING OF THE WOMEN’S FELLOWSHIP will be held at 10:30 on Wednesday, October 14, 2009. The business meeting will be followed by an exciting program, entitled, "Egypt_a National Geographic Adventure" with Lois & Bill Brower. We would like to invite gentlemen to attend this program of interest & stay for a simple lunch, hosted by Lib Putnam, Chloe Puffer & Ruth Stevenson, with Deb Kirk offering worship.


FALL CLEAN-UP - It’s all part of the plan: every year at this time the leaves fall from the trees. As is our tradition, the Grounds Team invites your help in removing them from the church lawns and yard. Other necessary tasks include light pruning and sweeping. Please join us on Saturday, October 24th , 9:30 a.m. (rain date of November 7th ) for a joyful stint in good company. Bring your rake, pruners, or a broom. We’ll have coffee, cider, and some sort of crumpet to sustain you. You can sign up with Bob Kirk or Bruce Lyman, call 928_9187 (Lyman), or write your name on the sheet at Coffee Hour. Thanks.

This Morning’s Church School "Tabernacle" Rotations: Science Room with Laurie Trudeau –– Pre-K / Kinder/Gr 1 Kitchen with Karen Cloutier and Dylan Girardi –– Grades 2 & 3 Computer with Ellie Donahue –– Grades 4 & 5 Art with Kelly Bottieri and Sammi Miller –– Grades 6/7/8

THANK YOU Laurie, Karen, Dylan, Kelly and Sammi for your leadership these past four weeks. Your manna and quail tasting, weaving and incense making truly brought our Tabernacle to life! A special thank you goes out to the Cloutier family for their dazzling Ark of the Covenant they construced for us, and to the John family for the very realistic Ten Commandment tablets they created! We will use these props many times over in the future. Thank you!

October 18th is a BIG DAY for Church School! Come join the celebration! Our new classrooms will be dedicated and we will thank all of the skilled craftspeople who transformed our downstairs into an amazing and exciting new space for children’’s worship and education. Plan to stay for coffee hour. It will be a gala event!

October 18th –– November 15th - "Dig Into The Bible" rotations! In the monastery listen to Gregorian chant while scripting in calligraphy at your bench with Kate Donahue. Put together a library of 66 books and test your knowledge on those books through Bible baseball with Jill O’Neill. Sit around the campfire under the stars and listen to the storyteller, Jill Eichner. Bible food, fun and facts abound in the kitchen rotation with Jennifer John and Sammi Miller. All of this surrounds Bible Sunday which will be held on November 1st. Third grade children will receive the gift of a Bible from our church family during this worship service. The Junior Choir will sing.
October 18th –– A great day to bring friends! With all of the excitement of the new classrooms, the stewardship visits, and the delightfulness of these crisp autumn days, there’’s never been a more inviting time to welcome friends and family members into our church community than next Sunday! We all have gifts we can use to help fulfill the Great Commission. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations…………Matthew 28:19-20. God is still speaking. Who will you bring next week? Make it your priority to invite someone! We will be waiting at the door to greet them (-: