Notes for Sunday, October 18, 2009

The auction date is drawing near!

Tell your friends and neighbors that we'll be at the Community Building from 10:00 to noon on Saturday, October 24 with lots of great items going to the highest bidder. Brent communicate with all of us this week regarding when he wants to begin moving items into position. Plan to be flexible because there is still corn to be cut. Thursday or Friday evening will be the most likely candidates.

We've also moved the cookie baking date to Thursday, October 22 at 4:00 p.m. at Three Tiers. We'll sell these cookies at Harvest Fest with proceeds going to fund our baritone project. With Juanita's tamale sales, we under $400!

As for other projects . . .

Rachel is working closely with the secretaries in each building in our school district to gather names for our Christmas angel tree. We plan to have this tree up and ready by the bazaar, which is on November 18 this year.

Because we'll need some funds for our annual Christmas gift giving, we've also decided to have a 21st Time Sweet Shop in the narthex the five Sundays before Christmas: Nov. 22, Nov. 29, Dec. 6, Dec. 13, and Dec. 20. Karen's mother, Agnes, has begun gathering containers for us to sell our goodies in. More details to follow . . .

Finally, we discussed beginning a new book study for the winter. Agnes is checking into seeing whether Trinity Lutheran Church in Hays would be willing to loan us their copies. Here's the product description from amazon to give you a hint of what's to come:

Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You'll want everyone you know to read this book!