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Christmas Week Services We are offering three special worship services this week.
Our 6:00 service on Christmas Eve is for
everyone but is particularly family-friendly. Our Children’s Choir will sing,
plus we will have our traditional telling of the Noisy Nativity. The service
will include communion.
Our 11:00 service on Christmas Eve is a bit
quieter, and our Adult Choir will be singing. The services includes communion
and ends in candlelight.
Since Christmas falls on a Sunday this year, we will also have Worship on Christmas morning at 9:30. The time of our service is conveniently
scheduled between when most families open gifts and when they begin
preparations for the big Christmas meal. And for you parents, what better way to
remind your children of the true meaning of Christmas in the midst of all the
focus on presents?
These services are open to everyone and all are welcome. Please join us!
In Our Shoes You’ve heard the stories in
the news: teenagers committing suicide as a result of being bullied. Unfortunately,
bullying is not a random or isolated problem. Some educators have even referred
to bullying as an epidemic. And it is growing.
Bullying happens
when a person or group repeatedly and intentionally hurts or scares another
person, and the person being bullied has a hard time defending himself or
herself. Bullying includes a wide variety of behaviors, such as physical
violence or threats of violence, malicious teasing, name-calling, stealing
belongings, spreading rumors, and campaigning for others to exclude or ridicule
the individual as well.
One of the steps toward
addressing a problem is raising awareness, helping people to see the scope of
the situation and the number of people involved. This is what the AIDS Memorial
Quilt and the Clothesline Project (for domestic violence awareness) both have
done so well. With these examples in mind, we have created a project to raise
awareness of bullying. It is called In Our Shoes. All middle school and high
school students in the area who feel they have been bullied will be invited to
submit a pair of shoes to the project, preferably an old pair they no longer
wear. They may decorate these shoes in whatever manner they wish, and we will
attach different color shoelaces for different reasons people are bullied, such
as race and ethnicity, ability or disability, LGTBQ issues, gender expression, appearance,
or simply for being one’s self. These shoes will become part of a display that
travels to area schools, churches, or other organizations to help people
visualize the experiences of children and teens affected by bullying.
This project is beginning in
the Danbury area, but we hope it will expand quickly as word
spreads. To learn more about the project, or to get instructions on submitting shoes, please visit our page on Facebook or
contact Jackie McNeil at 203-791-1862 or inourshoes@kingstchurch.org.
Needed
Volunteers Needed for
Fellowship Time
Please consider signing up for Sunday Fellowship Time (coffee hour).
This is a very important time after the worship service when we come
together as a church community and welcome visitors as well.
You
need
only arrive a little early, start the coffee, set out the
supplies, and clean up afterwards; you also need to bring some milk or
cream for the coffee. Refreshments are always welcome, but not
necessary.
If
you
have never volunteered to help with the Fellowship time, please
let Laura Thompson know, and she would be happy to help you. Dehumidifiers - for our downstairs area
Always Current
Got Any
Staples or OfficeMax Coupons?
Our church office can use those $10-, $20-, and
$30-off coupons to help defray the cost of supplies. Please leave any
that you aren't using yourself in the church-office mailbox.
Make Your
Church Smile
Say �thank you� to God by placing a bouquet on
the
altar for Sunday worship. A number of Sundays are still open on the
signup board on the bulletin board opposite the church mailboxes.
Celebrate anniversaries and birthdays, special occasions, or �just
because." Call upon the bounty of your own garden or bring in
a professionally made arrangement -- or leave a $25 check to "KSUCC" in
the office cubby for the church secretary to order flowers for you.
Your gift will lift all our spirits!
Free
Storybooks for Kids
The Religious Education Team is giving every
family in our church with young children a free Bible story book.
Parents should pick up their copy in the office. (People who don�t
have
children but would like a copy may purchase one for $10.)
Desperately
Needed
The Daily Bread Food Pantry, located behind St
James Episcopal Church in Danbury (25 West Street) desperately needs
donations -- especially cereals, meals in a can (stew, for example),
pasta and pasta sauce, canned corn and green beans, baked beans, tuna,
macaroni-and-cheese, and rice. Please drop your donations at the pantry
or bring them to church next Sunday for delivery afterwards.
Your
Neighbors Are Hungry
On the fourth Saturday of each month, members and
friends of King Street Church volunteer to help feed the homeless at
the Dorothy Day Hospitality
House in downtown Danbury. Please help us serve dinners from
1 to 5 p.m. or prepare bag lunches the day before. Sign up in the
church's Martin Room or see Outreach Coordinator Val Fuller.
Older
Items
See the Scrapbook.
Got
News?
office@kingstchurch.org
or 203-748-0719
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