This week in worship:
Date: 1-Jan
Theme: Weep for the Children
Plan: Heather Featherstone
Speak: Ray Taylor
Piano: Heather Featherstone
PA: Amy Ragland
Acting Deacon: Eldora Engebretson & Mary Ragland
PPT: Heather Featherstone
Greeters: Leonard & Eilene Speer
Nursery:
New announcements are purple.
There will be no Adult Sunday School class on January 1 (“The Road Less Traveledâ€) as both Dulcy and Gabriel are out-of-town. Please join us for coffee and pastries starting at 9:15.
Don’t forget – the worship committee is looking for people to volunteer to plan/preside and speak for the services in February and March. The Themes are below – if you want to plan, preside or speak for anything of the themes, please let Heather know.
Themes:
5-Feb: Light of the World
12-Feb: Reconcile with One Another
19-Feb: Turn the Other Cheek
26-Feb: Listen to Him
5-Mar: Into the Wilderness
12-Mar: Be Born of Water and Spirit
19-Mar: Come, Drink Living Water
26-Mar: I Was Blind and Now I See
The 2017 Directory is in the process of being edited and proofed – please see Eldora to double and triple check your information to insure its accuracy. We will also be doing a photo directory after the New Year.
It has been requested to make the TBW Congregational Blessing done several years ago available for those that would like to read through it. Click here – http://tinyurl.com/pkr3367 – for a copy of the Thunderbird West Congregational Blessing.
December 30-Jan 1: Yuletide Retreat @ Whispering Pines Campground. Jr & Sr High, $60. Contact Amber Pope at amber.pope777@gmail.com or 623.776.6829. Registration forms are here.
February 19-24: Winter Reunion at Phoenix Central. Guest Ministers: Apostle Robin Linkhart; Tom Morain, Historic Sites Foundation; Larry McGuire, AZ Mission Center President. Theme: Fully Awake and Ready to Respond. Registration forms are here.
Schedules are here – http://tinyurl.com/zsczltf (If you wait for the page to load, you should be able to see tabs either at the bottom or at the top of the page with the month names – you click on the month you are interested in and it should open. If you still are having problems, please let me know)
Want a printable calendar of events for your fridge? Click here – http://tinyurl.com/z72jlcu, and then click “print†in the upper right corner. Want a different month? Click the down menu on the left side with the month name.
Any announcements that you want in the weekly updates should be sent to this email address (thunderbirdwest.cofchrist@gmail.com) with the subject line “For Announcements”. The Weekly Update goes out on Wednesday evenings so any submissions for the email should be sent no later than Noon on Wednesdays.