Announcements for the week of October 19, 2008

"Fr Larry has been released from the hospital in Mexico and they are returning to Omaha at 7:30 pm on Saturday night. Mother Ruth will be in for the Sunday Services". If anyone has any questions/concerns please contact the Senior Warden Dean Olander at 339-7984.

Mary Ruth Sullivan will provide an Evening Prayer Service on Saturday evening (5pm service).

Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost

MISSION STATEMENT
The Church of the Holy Spirit (Episcopal) shares the love of Jesus through being a friendly community, participating in liturgically rich worship experiences, and by empowering individual ministries.

WORSHIP NEWS
WELCOME NEWCOMERS
You are welcome to join us at the communion rail when it is time to receive Holy Communion. Our ushers and any member are happy to assist if you have any questions during our worship. Jesus loves you! We are glad you are here.

CHRISTIAN STEWARDSHIP - HONORING GOD
In preparation for Thanksgiving Day through Christ’s Birthday and the start of the New Year, we take this time to reassess our lives, our blessings, and the gifts God gives each one of us on a daily basis. We evaluate our personal Stewardship and how we can grow in the coming year. We consider our dedication to our church community and what it will take to sustain and grow in the coming year.
Our Consecration supper will be a potluck.
If your last name begins with:
A-F: Desserts Q-R: Bread, Muffins, etc.
G-L: Salads S-Z: Veggie or Potato
M-P: Chips, Fruit, or relish tray, Casseroles

Sign-up sheet will be ready for next Sunday!

YOUTH
Attention Youth; Today we will make our annual pilgrimage to Shady Lane Ranch Youth grades 5 - 12 and adult chaperones are welcome. Fall is sure to be fun at CHS. Also, mark your calendars for next Sunday, Oct 26 (5-7:30pm)! We’ll be going to the Bellevue Pumpkin Patch for our annual Haunted Hayrack Ride, there will be hot dogs, s’mores and LOTS of “spooktacular” FUN! There is a cost of $4 per person for this event (the Youth Group will cover the rest). Please be sure to sign the sign-up sheet in the undercroft and pay the $4 to either Jennifer Wilson or Wendy Lee. We also need hot dogs, buns, chips, and s’more items donated - if you can help, you’ll find the sign-up sheet in the undercroft. Please call Wendy Lee @ 214-5001 with any questions. Be sure to come bundled up and ready to have fun!

CHRISTIAN ED OPPORTUNITIES

COMMUNICATIONS
Reminder: Deadline for the Advent issue of the Flame is Sunday, Nov 2. Pictures of the Renaissance Faire and the picnic are needed. Black and white is good, but we’ll take what we can ger (and return them later). If anyone has other pictures you’d like to see in the paper, we’ll use all we can. We’re working on making them clearer and better. Any help with that would be much appreciated.

Be Bold!! Join the greeting Ministry!! Members of this ministry connect with people by making them feel welcome as they enter church. The goal is to welcome every single person who walks through the door with a warm handshake and smile. You can sign up on the clipboard located on the clipboard table. The time commitment is minimal: a briefing on the new greeter process and being “at the door” 15 minutes prior to the service you signed up for. Make a difference in someone’s life today!

Anyone interested in being an Acolyte please call or email Christine Brockinton, 291-1274 or scbamanda@cox.net.

The Flame needs a photo person to help with final copy photographs (produced on the office copier). If you can help, you will receive another star in your crown!

The CHS Shop “Dollar Off Days”For the month of October all religious items over $5 will be one dollar less - ie: prayer books, religious jewelry, episcopal items, cookbooks, aprons, house blessings and more (excluded are all consignment items from our parishioners. We need to give them the monies earned by their items.

Reva & Ruth are looking for new shop manager(s). The person(s) would open the shop after the 10:30am service - and we will give the new person training . Interested people, please stop by the shop and we will explain more fully about the job. Questions? Call Ruth at 291-1437.


If you contribute to the United Way Please help the Fricke
Pantry financially by designating your United Way giving to the Dean Fricke Memorial Episcopal Food Pantry Inc., Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 113 N. 18th St.. Omaha, NE 68102 - 342-7013. We are not on the list, so ask your United Way volunteer for a Donor Designation form. Fill in the space for a non-affiliated agency indicating Episcopal Food Pantry. You do not need an ID#, even though the form may ask for it. To ensure proper credit, please check the box to receive acknowledgment of your contribution. United Way funds are important to this mission of the Omaha-area Episcopal churches – in the year 2006 the Fricke Pantry received over $16,500.00 from this source. For Federal Employees: Please help the Dean Fricke Pantry by designating your Combines Federal Campaign giving to the Dean Fricke Memorial Episcopal Food Pantry (address & phone number above). The Fricke Pantry is part of the Combined Federal Campaign. All Federal employees can now designate our pantry, a mission of the Omaha-areal Episcopal churches, on their CFC pledge forms. To insure proper credit. Please check the box to receive acknowledgment of your contribution. Our CFC # is 41889.

Calling all bakers, candy makers and crafters. Do you have a special craft, special holiday cookie or sweet you would love to share, then please contact Karen Sterzer with your recipe or volunteer to help with our first “Holiday Express” to be held at the Church of the Holy Spirit on November 1. We will be making Christmas cookies, candy bark, fudge, fruitcakes, breads, and many other holiday sweet treats, as well as treats for the pets using our “new kitchen”. I am hoping this will be a great fund-raiser for our church and I will be advertising with pictures of our volunteers. More information to follow as we get closer to October, but please let me know if you would like to participate in the baking or have recipes to share. Contact Karen Sterzer at 597-8779.

Younker’s Community Day is November 15. Our church is going to continue with the fund raiser sponsored by Younkers at Oakview Mall. We can start selling the books now! The books which we sell for five dollars, has a ten dollar coupon in it for the purchaser and the church gets to keep the entire five dollars. So, if anyone would like to take some to work or have neighbors or friends who might be interested in buying them, let Karen Sterzer know. Younkers also allows us to sell in the store and if we sell over fifty books, we can receive a percentage of the money from the books sold by Younkers up to the event. P.S. you can shop early and pick up your packages any day on or after Nov 15, when Christmas will be right around the corner! If we sell just 200 books, the church will make $1,000.

Our prayers of thanksgiving are offered with those who are celebrating birthdays this week, especially: Kristi Smith (Oct 22), Jennifer Wilson (25).