| Notes from Monthly Meeting for Business 12/7/05
Monthly Meeting approved of a $500 donation for medical expenses for a young boy in the community who is suffering from Cystic Fibrosis. Allen’s Neck received an anonymous gift to establish a Peter J. G. Endowment Fund. Contributions in memory of Gordon are being received. A letter has been sent to the Choctaw Indians asking for information on the two students that Allen’s Neck Supports. Peter is pleased the Meeting is growing and members need to nurture the new people. December 18 there will be a family Christmas Program followed by brunch. December 20, Neighborhood Caroling; gather at Meetinghouse at 6:30. Dec 24 Christmas Eve service, 7 PM; December 25 Family Service. Pastor will be away right after Christmas. Ministry and Counsel seeks input from others on how to encourage attenders to become members. There will be four Sunday events this winter to promote membership. Monthly Meeting approved continuing support for Kakamega student Samuel in the form of $500 and to co-sponsor Purity, another student. Monthly Meeting also approved sending $1,000 to Market Ministries in New Bedford.. The new directory for next year will be revised soon. If you need to correct your information, please tell Sharon now. Appreciation was expressed for the work of Betty and Richard who has been assisting her, Peter, Ernie for the yard work and Sharon W for providing our music. Let Ministry and Counsel know your opinion of the new seating arrangement in the Meetingroom. |
We hold in the light
The Family of Gordon, who died December 1, 2005
Steve, Dawn and Jack on the birth of Ivan Noel November 27, 2005
Letter from Dawn and Steve
Through November we continued our exploration of Bible stories from the Old Testament, and we spoke about those stories in terms of ‘unseen’ gifts; giving, forgiveness, Thanksgiving. We read Isaac Singer’s retelling of Noah’s Ark, and we made doves as symbols of peace and symbols of how each of us has a different and special gift to give and how, at the same time, we are all the same. In the middle of the month, Peter told the story of Joseph and the multi-colored coat, and we spoke about how that story is a story of forgiveness. On Family Sunday, we did our traditional reading of Stone Soup. The children made a cardboard pot to hang on the bulletin board and in the pot, along with cut-out vegetables, they put the words of the ‘unseen’ ingredients that went into the making of that soup" ‘love,’ ‘sharing,’ ‘friendship,’ ‘generosity toward strangers.’ On the last Sunday of November, we read the legend of the Poinsettia and talked about invisible gifts, and how it is the love behind a gift that makes that gift special.
For the first several Sundays of December we will be reading different tellings of the Christmas story, and making crèches out of clay figures and driftwood mangers. Each child’s family will have a crèche to take home. Sunday, December 18th will be family Sunday with the Christmas Pageant and a brunch afterward.
On Sunday, December 25, Christmas Day, First Day School will be combined with meeting-for-worship.
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