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Resound the Glad Tidings! ANNUAL CANDLELIGHT CHRISTMAS CONCERT Friday, November 30 at 7:30PM & Saturday, December 1 at 4PM in the Sanctuary Consider it an early gift of the season. This year’s program features music from around the world and over the centuries such as “Fum, Fum, Fum” and “A La Nanita Nana” from Spain, and “The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy” from the West Indies. The concert also includes audience favorites: “The Dream Isaiah Saw,” “One Child,” and “The First Noel,” and will feature the Chancel Choir singing “O Magnum Mysterium” (O Great Mystery) by Giovanni Gabrieli, a classical antiphonal piece that will be included in concerts during the singers’ spring tour in Italy. More than 200 talented singers and instrumentalists from the Chancel Choir, St. Luke’s Orchestra, St. Luke’s Children’s Choirs, New Song, organist Charles Manning, the Wesleyan Ringers and guest handbell ensemble, The Circle City Ringers, will collaborate to make this wonderful musical experience possible. The concerts are free and open to all. Think about friends and neighbors who could be blessed by this gift, and invite them to join you!
NOVEMBER 2012
MONTHLY
COMMUNION UMW Collecting Donations for Fletcher Place Christmas St. Luke’s United Methodist Women are collecting donations for the Fletcher Place Christmas Shopping Program now through Monday, November 26. Additionally, cash donations will be accepted through Christmas. This program serves up to 300 needy families with low/no income. All donations must be NEW AND UNWRAPPED. Clothing and gifts for children of all ages and parent gifts such as blankets and items for the home and bath are all needed. Need more ideas? Pick up a shopping list at the Welcome Center. Donations can be placed in the wooden collection bins in the West Passage. Eve Circle will be delivering the items on Tuesday, November 27. To make a cash donation, please make your check payable to St. Luke’s UMC with “Fletcher Place Christmas” on the memo line. Please contact Beth Edwards-Goff at 625-2395 or beth.edwardsgoff@ yahoo.com with any questions about this program. We ask that you prayerfully consider giving to these families in need this holiday season.
ALL SAINT’S DAY SERVICE
Thanksgiving Day SERVICE OPPORTUNITY
St. Luke’s will again be volunteering to feed the homeless of downtown Indianapolis. Chef David Mitchell will be cooking up wonderful food for them, but we need your help to make sure that all who walk through the door can be fed, and all the shut-ins who need a meal can be fed as well. You can help this year by stopping by the table in the West Passage each Sunday in November and sign up to volunteer to help cook and carve turkeys, deliver food the night before Thanksgiving to the shelter, work at the shelter on Thanksgiving day, or deliver meals to shut-ins. OR, you can make a financial contribution or donate food items. For information or questions, please email Jamalyn Peigh Williamson at williamsonj@stlukesumc.com. Thank you for your kind gifts of volunteering, prayer and contribution.
Interfaith Thanksgiving Services Join a diverse group of people of faith to give thanks and help feed those who do not have the luxury of a bountiful Thanksgiving through offerings received fo the Interfaith Hunger Initiative. Everyone is invited. All services begin at 7PM.
Thursday, November 1 at 7PM in Robertson Chapel An annual memorial service for all those who have lost a loved one, especially in the past year, but all who have experienced loss are welcome. This candlelight service is led by Rev. Marsha Hutchinson.
Second Presbyterian Church Wednesday, November 21 7700 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis