Meetings, practices, study times and more!
See Bulletin notes for the week of March 7, 2010
ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
ALL CHURCH TALENT SHOW
Saturday, March 13th
6:00pm in the Sanctuary
Admission = FREE!!
We welcome all who would like to share a talent to do so, and we also welcome those who just want to have a good time and cheer on the folks who will share their talents. (If you’re interested in sharing a talent of your own, please see Rev. Jennifer Whipple or Dan McKee.) This opportunity will help the SYF Mission Team make it to Eagle Butte, SD this summer. There will be a free-will donation collected and concessions sold during intermission at the Talent Show.
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Spring Ice Cream Social on Sunday, March 21st
6:00 to 7:30pm in Fellowship Hall
With spring starting, it’s time to think about summer camp. We will be showing a video about the Silver Lake Conference Center and singing some Silver Lake songs led by our youth.
Silver Lake Conference Center (SLCC) is the CT United Church of Christ camp that has served as a home away from home for a week at a time for over 1000 youth from across the state for over 50 years. Camp weeks are for kids entering 4th grade through high school. To see a listing of camp programs for this summer or to register visit SLCC on line at http://silverlake.ctucc.org. Scholarship monies are available through our church and our association of churches. For more information please speak with Pastors Bryn or Jen.
Silver Lake participates in mission and outreach during each camp week, so in honor of their commitment to others, we would like to collect paper products to donate to Brookfield Social Services. Please bring toilet paper, paper towels, napkins and tissues for donation if you are able. We hope you will join us for a fun evening.
Church House is looking for hands to help tidy up the church buildings and grounds on Saturday, March 27, from 9am to 1pm. Come join the fun – no heavy lifting required!
Holy Week Services
Palm Sunday, March 28—worship at 8:30 and 10:30am in the Sanctuary
Sermon Title: “Cost and Joy”. Rev. Jennifer Whipple preaches on Luke 19:28-40. There will be the annual procession of palms at both services, with the Adult, Alleluia, and Cherub choirs singing at the 10:30am service. We will also have a special Godspeed for our Refugees, Thomas & Bassma Janabi.
Maundy Thursday, April 1—worship from 7:30 to 8:30pm in the Sanctuary
Our traditional observance of the Last Supper in a service of candlelight and scripture. Child care will be available for younger children. Sermon Title: “Servants in the Service of Others”.
Good Friday, April 2—10:00am Cross Walk
Walk a symbolic “Stations of the Cross” through our community with an ecumenical group from other Brookfield churches. The walk begins at CCB.
Easter Sunday, April 4th
Sunrise Service — 6:00am at Weighart’s Tree Farm – 23 Whisconier Rd. (Route 25)
Rev. Jennifer Whipple will preach. In the tradition of the ancient Vigil of Easter Eve, this ecumenical worship begins in darkness and ends in daylight, bringing Christians together from all over town. The sunrise offering will go to the Emergency Fund at Brookfield Social Services.
Easter Worship in the Meetinghouse at 8:30 and 10:30am
Sermon Title: “We Are Witnesses”. Rev. Bryn Smallwood-Garcia preaches on the resurrection narrative from Luke 24. Our 8:30am service will be a chapel style contemplative service with communion and special music. Our 10:30am service will feature our Adult choir, and we will have a special program for our church school aged children.
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Tuesday Lenten Devotions – February 23rd, March 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, and 30th
Join us in Fellowship Hall from 12:00 noon to 1:00pm for a mid-day prayer and a light lunch. Please call the church office (203-775-1259) if you will need child care at any of these lunches.
Lenten Health & Wellness Challenge
You are invited you to take part in this challenge once again this year to create healthy habits in your life to benefit mind, body, relationships, and spirit. There will be a sign up sheet and packets available outside the main office with more information. We hope you will join us!
Prayer Eggs
During Lent we invite you to take a Prayer Egg which will have the name of one of our children inside. We invite you to hold this child in prayer throughout the Lenten Season.
Have a Little Faith – A 4-week Lenten Study about Mitch Albom’s newest nonfiction book. Mitch Albom’s first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have A Little Faith has him interacting with both an 82-year-old Rabbi from his childhood and a Detroit pastor – a reformed drug dealer and convict who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church. Moving between their two worlds, Albom sees how they both use their faith for survival.
As America struggles with hard times and people turn more to their beliefs, Mitch and the two men of God explore issues that perplex modern man: the importance of faith in getting through difficult times; intermarriage; what heaven is; forgiveness; doubting God, etc. Although the texts, prayers and histories are different, Albom begins to realize a striking unity between the two worlds – and indeed, between beliefs everywhere. It is one man’s journey, but everyone’s story.
Join Pastor Jen and others in discussing this book on Mondays March 1st, 8th, 22nd, and 29th from 9:30-11am or 6-7:30pm. Please sign up outside the church office if you plan to attend. There will be a few copies of the book available for reading/sharing in the church library.
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Attention internet shoppers!
Now the church can receive a 2-40% commission on every on-line purchase you make, if you use CCB’s new internet shopping portal. There are stores like Macy's, Toys-R-Us, Babies-R-Us, Drugstore.com, Kohl's, Target, Home Depot, Best Buy and 1,400 more. Just visit http://www.shoptoearn.net/uccb and click on Retailers, scroll down and find your favorite store to shop in. IMPORTANT: Enter this web address directly into your computer browser. Close all tabs when doing this, and be sure you do not use any default search engine (Google, etc.), or the church will not receive its commission when you shop. If you have questions, more information on how this works is in the December issue of CrossWays, or you can call Margitta Savo.
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2010 WOMEN’S RETREAT
At Silver Lake Conference Center
223 Low Road, Sharon, CT 06069
March 26th – 28th
Arrival Time carpool up Friday evening – enjoy pizza, salad, snacks,
programs, wonderful meals, conversation, reflection, walking, fair crafts,
reading, movies, girl time!Massage and Reflexology of course!
Departure time is Sunday after Breakfast
Cost: $95 per adult (if cost prohibitive – please see Bryn or Jen)
Lodging in the Retreat Center at Silver Lake
The Retreat Center can hold up to 28 sleeping—all are welcome.
If you are interested please contact Sue Slater ASAP!
