Christ in their own ways. If you would like to attend worship we encourage you to share this holy day with a neighboring congregation. C h a p e l-b y - th e - La ke
CHURCH NEWS N e ls o n C o n g re g a tio n a l C h u rc h n Sunday, December 11, New Members will be welcomed into our church fam ily during worship. Following worship the Church council will be meeting. Rehearsals are on in earnest for this year’s Christmas Pageant under the direction Becky Snow and Jane Beauregard. The pageant will be presented during worship on Sunday, December 18th. Each year we have a “Giving Tree” in the narthex upon which are tags with suggestions for gifts for a needy child in ours or a nearby community. Gifts are to be dropped off at the church by Sunday December 18, wrapped and in a bag with the tag attached to the bag. This year our Candlelight Christmas Eve Service will be officiated by Rev. Bill Beardslee as Dawn and her family will be spending Christmas with her mother in Berkino Faso, Africa. Please come and join us for this traditional and festive service at 7 PM Saturday, December 24. On Christmas Day there will be no worship service to allow families to recognize and celebrate the birth of
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I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. ~Charles Dickens
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Saturday, December 10 at 9:00 am come and do your Christmas shopping at the Munsonville Ladies Annual Country Christmas Bazaar. There will be a Silent Auction for a watercolor, a fleece blanket, an indoor/outdoor Christmas Wreath and a crystal vase. There will be tables of Christmas Ornaments, knitted items, hand crafts, and miscellaneous items. There will also be a lunch from 11am – 1pm. Come and share Christmas Eve with us at 6:30p.m. Visit our website at: www.chapelbythelakeumc.org
SCHOOL BOOK PALS (continued from page 1) This year our theme is “making the world a better place”. The book selected is the ever popular children’s classic, Anne of Green Gables. Part of our school curriculum is learning about our community. We believe that our children should have an awareness of their town and the people who are their neighbors. Wonderful stories were exchanged between book pals last year. Students have much to gain from you, and you from the children. Our Book Pal project will begin the first week of January. Community book pals will have the opportunity to exchange several letters about the book before meeting their student pals at our culminating celebration which will be held during the week of February 6-10. Last year was such a success! We will need twenty-five adult volunteers. If we have more names than we need, we will pull from a hat. Make a difference in the life of a Nelson School student and join us in this program. Please respond by December 16th to Kim Keating at kkeating@sau29.org or Nelson School at 847-3408.
D ECEMBER 2011
NELSON EVENTS December 10, 2011: • Annual Country Christmas Bazaar (9:00 am) • Contra Dance | Mary Wesley ~ caller | Music by Carey Bluhm, Max Nunnemaker, Gordon Peery (8:00 pm) December 13, 2011: • Library Trustees Meeting (7:00 pm) December 17, 2011: • Nelson Solstice Party (7:00 pm) December 18, 2011 • Nelson Town Band, (4:00 pm) December 19, 2011: • Library Book Group ~ The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush (10:30 am) • Nelson School | Community Holiday Sing Along (1:30 pm) December 31, 2011: • Pancake Breakfast at the School (8:00 am) January 9, 2012: • Nelson PTO Meeting (6:45 pm) January 10, 2012: • Library Trustees Meeting (7:00 pm) January 13, 2012: • Concert with Sally Rogers and Claudia Schmidt | Town Hall (8:00 pm) February 6, 2012: • Nelson PTO Meeting (6:45 pm) February 11, 2012: • Contra Dance | Adina Gordon ~ Caller | Music by Trip to Nelson (8:00 pm) February 14, 2012: • Library Trustees Meeting (7:00 pm) February 17, 2012: • Children 's Stage A dventures Performance (5:00 pm) March 5, 2012: • Nelson PTO Meeting (6:45 pm) March 10, 2012: • Contra Dance | Luke Donev ~ Caller | Music by Celticladda (8:00 pm) For more information on all of these events check the Town Of Nelson Website at www.townofnelson.com
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