Hey everyone! There is a lot of Foundations News this week from our Servant Team concerning Missions, Social, Prayer, Logistics and Hospitality as well as information regarding Wednesday Worship tonight. We hope that these newsletters are keeping you informed on all that is going on with our GREAT class and church. Read on so you won't miss out!
Hospitality:
Congratulations to the Oberdings on the birth of baby Sam! Let's show them how excited we are and take them a meal!
name: Oberding
password: 1234
Let Katherine (kwturnage@yahoo.com) know if you have any questions regarding meals for the Oberdings. Thanks!
Our class will also be assisting other classes at Covenant in providing meals for TJ and Martha Jane Wolters who recently welcomed baby Benjamin into their family. If you would like to sign up, you can access the meal schedule by clicking here, or by visiting TakeThemAMeal.com and locating the schedule by recipient last name (Wolters) and password (7927). Please contact Rebekah Fitts at rebekah.fitts@gmail.com with questions regarding meals for the Wolters.
From Danny Giffen:
We can't encourage you enough to attend tonight's Wed Worship service. We have been excited about hosting Scott Roley for over 6 months and tonight has finally arrived. Dinner is at 5:30 in the Fellowship Hall with the service immediately following at 6:30 p.m. Come and bring a friend!
About Scott www.scottroley.com
There’s something special about the way Pastor Scott Roley tells a story - it hits you in several places all at once: your heart, your mind, and your gut. He can make you cry, and then laugh inside of two minutes, and you walk away considering your own walk of faith and what it means to those around you.
As a founding member of Christ Community Church, Scott has served the church over the past 25 years in various capacities including his role as Senior Pastor as well as Pastor of Community Life and Missional Living. Based on his experiences in local mercy ministry, Roley authored God’s Neighborhood: a Hopeful Journey in Racial Reconciliation & Community Renewal which traces his personal call to racial reconciliation and community renewal and shares the powerful narrative journey of a white pastor’s identification within an African-American community. He followed that book with its sequel, Hard Bargain, A Beautiful Place to Live. He is also author of The Will of the Nation: a Fishing Journal , full of stories and descriptions of Scott’s fly fishing adventures. Scott helped pioneer a unique redevelopment project in Hard Bargain, a low-income residential neighborhood in Franklin. The vision is to provide work force homes for purchase, thus transforming a 100-year-old neighborhood into a vibrant community. The aim is to revitalize a specific area, while keeping its residents intact and enhancing this piece of Franklin, Tennessee’s history. Roley’s life-long love for music developed into another integral part of his ministry throughout the years. He has released eleven recordings of his own and has co-written songs on numerous projects. He continues to write music and perform on occasion. Roley earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bannockburn College and is completing a Masters of Divinity degree from Whitefield Theological Seminary. He also attended DePauw University in Indiana and Spring Arbor University in Michigan. Scott and his wife, Linda, live in Franklin and have five children: Michelle, Matthew, Emily, Jeffrey, and Samuel; as well as six grand-children.
Prayer requests:
Elliot Williams - the start of chemo (& now answers & peace regarding the unknown mass)
Sherry Zorn, Alan Spooner's mother - diagnosed with breast cancer this past week
Mary Stegall, Sarah Squires' mother - continue prayers as she battles cancer
New Members:
Please give a warm welcome to Libby and Robb Crumpton who have recently joined our class! They are parents to Miller and Harris.
Social:
Join us for the Foundations Fall BBQ Supper at the Williamson's on Sunday, November 6 from 5:00-7:00 p.m. 608 Euclid Avenue in Crestline. Checks ($8 per person) may be mailed to Kelli Threadcraft (1991 Ves Trace Cirlce, 35216) and nursery reservations may be made with a $10 donation per family with Laura Tucker at lauraptucker@gmail.com. Please contact Kelli (305-4914) or Bethany (262-9695) with questions.
Logistics:
If you still need to submit a family picture for our classroom (please include children's names and ages and how long you have been in our class), please contact Kerry Leasure at kerryleasure@gmail.com This is a great way for our new members and visitors to put names and faces together!
Missions: Saturday, November 19th we will again come alongside Christian Service Mission and deliver Thanksgiving Baskets of Kindness to those our local missionaries minister to as well as tornado victims. Saturday night we will have a church wide dinner honoring our home missionaries. Sunday morning (11/20)John Croyle with the Big Oak Ranch will be our Guest Speaker and we will have our home missionaries sharing in the Sunday School Classes. Covenant members will then host our missionaries for Sunday lunch. There are only three weeks left and the church has received funding to cover 53 of the 300 baskets. OUR GOAL AS A CLASS IS 10 BASKETS at $25 each! The Taylors will be collecting money in the next couple of weeks. Last year, Daniel took our then six year old twin boys to help in assembling and delivering these baskets - wonderful and fun opportunity for our children! Everyone plan on coming and bring your kids! Please contact our class Missions and Outreach coordinators, Katherine and Roddy Taylor, with any questions or if you would like to donate to our class goal.
Church wide announcements:
Christmas in the City
Again this year we are partnering with Mission Birmingham in providing Christmas gifts for inner city children and families. Stop by the display in the church foyer today to pick up an instruction packet with a child’s name and “wish list” items. Gifts must be dropped off no later than November 20 under the Christmas trees located in the Sanctuary foyer and 1st and 2nd floor lobbies of the Children’s Building.
One Day, One Voice, One Purpose - Orphan and Adoption Sunday – November 6
This will be one of the most exciting events of our church year – you will not want to miss it! Join us for morning worship at 8:30 and 11:00 a.m. followed by a church-wide lunch at 12:15 p.m. in Fellowship Hall ($6 per person).
Annual Student Ministries Chili Cook-Off – November 10
Let the competition begin – Wednesday, November 10. This year’s event will take place in the parking area just outside our newly renovated youth space (1st floor/Education Building). Watch for more details but make plans now to be present. Everyone is invited.
This Sunday there will be All Adult Sunday School in the Sanctuary with a teaching time lead by Rev. Bill Boyd.
Have a great week,
Cary and Daniel Murray
