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Christmas Party – Sunday, December 8^th, 5:00-8:00pm The best birthday party of the year! Bring your most delicious holiday dish, your craziest Christmas sweater and your friends and family to this year’s bash. Childcare is provided. To sign up to bring goodies or help, follow this link: https://livinghope.memberhub.com/hubs/1520/whiteboards/20450

Cookie Exchange – Friday, December 20^th, 7:30pm – Heather Ellis is hosting what has become a favorite holiday event. Bring a batch of your favorite holiday sweets to share and a container to take a variety of deliciousness home! This evening is a wonderful time to relax and connect during the season’s craziness. Bring your friends and neighbors! You can find Heather’s address on Memberhub.

Christmas Eve Service – Tuesday, December 24^th – 6pm – Please join us for a beautiful but brief worship service on Christmas Eve. We’ll sing, pray and read scriptures honoring the birth of Jesus. Invite friends and family to be part of the celebration.

Living Hope is looking for a new (well . . . new to us) fridge for the church kitchen Wishlist: Top or bottom freezer (we need the larger storage area than a side-by-side offers), icemaker that works. If anyone has one or knows of one, get with Susan Spencer. We welcome all your super shoppers’ suggestions!

Looking to connect, looking to serve here at Living Hope? Check out https://hope336.com or visit one of our Next Steps Kiosks in the back of the auditorium.

Support the Bodeanus – Thank you for all your donations of Christmas gift items for kids in the hospital in Kenya. Alisa and Victor were so thrilled by your generosity. As you think about them in the coming month, please pray. Alisa and kids travel this Sunday, the 24^th and Victor will join them on December 14^th. They’ll come home together on Dec. 28^th after serving for a month.

Benevolence Need – THANK YOU to all who donated toward this need within our church family. You have blessed this family TREMENDOUSLY!! They are so grateful for the love shown to them through your generosity.

Men’s Bible Study – Saturdays, 8am-10am Weekly meetings are a great time to get together for study and support. Eat before or BYO Breakfast – It’s a great way to start your weekend! Last meeting for 2019 – THIS Saturday, the 23^rd.

Ladies’ Worship Night – Saturday, Nov. 23^rd, 7:30pm @ Heather Ellis’ home. Please join us this wonderful evening! We worship, we pray, we connect with God and each other. It’s been so wonderful to gather and worship through contemporary Christian music, original music, and spontaneous songs. Bring your Bible and an open and hungry heart. Please let Heather Ellis or Pauline know if you have any questions.

Ladies’ Connections – Last 2019 meeting – THIS Sunday, Nov. 24^th, 6:30pm Last Wednesday noon meeting, Dec. 4^th. We’ve had a great time dipping into God’s Word, sharing and praying with each other these past few months and we’re taking a break over the holidays. We’ll let you know what’s up for Ladies’ Connections in 2020.

Christmas Decorating Day – Sunday, December 1^st, right after the service – Hang out for a few minutes after the service and put up a few wreaths and ornaments. It’s a lot of fun and the more the merrier to get the building ready for the Christmas season.

Christmas Party – Sunday, December 8^th, 5:00-8:00pm The best birthday party of the year! Bring your most delicious holiday dish, your craziest Christmas sweater and your friends and family to this year’s bash. Childcare is provided. To sign up to bring goodies or help, follow this link: https://livinghope.memberhub.com/hubs/1520/whiteboards/20450

Looking to connect, looking to serve here at Living Hope? Check out https://hope336.com or visit one of our Next Steps Kiosks in the back of the auditorium.

Support the Bodeanus – Alisa and Victor Bodeanu are heading to Kenya to assist Victor’s brother-in-law in a hospital there for a month from 11/24 thru 12/28. They’d like to take some items for the children there. If you’re able, please bring in thin coloring books, matchbox cars, crayons, puzzles or Christmas cards with verses and notes for the next two Sundays. Consider small scale and light weight items. We’ll have a box set up for you to drop off your items.

Ladies’ Worship Night – Saturday, Nov. 23^rd, 7:30pm @ Heather Ellis’ home. Please join us this wonderful evening! We worship, we pray, we connect with God and each other. It’s been so wonderful to gather and worship through contemporary Christian music, original music, and spontaneous songs. Bring your Bible and an open and hungry heart. Please let Heather Ellis or Pauline know if you have any questions.

Benevolence Need – We have a need within our body for financial assistance. If you feel led to contribute to this anonymous need, please do so over the next few Sundays. Questions? See Heather Cotten or Susan Spencer.

Men’s Bible Study – Saturdays, 8am-10am Weekly meetings are a great time to get together for study and support. Eat before or BYO Breakfast – It’s a great way to start your weekends!

Ladies’ Connections – meeting NOW on Sunday evenings 6:30-8:00pm and on Wednesdays 12:00-2:00pm – We’re offering weekly stand-alone teachings, fellowship and prayer. No homework, no workbooks, just us gals and God’s Word. Bring your kids and let’s get into the Word together. Let Susan know if you need childcare. Bring your lunch on Wednesdays, if you’d like.

Operation Christmas Child Warehouse – Saturday, November 23 – 8am-6pm – Shoebox-sorting time is coming up soon and the OCC organization has got it down to a fine art. Join in the fun with a day of filling and sorting shoeboxes that will go all over the world! We’ll meet at Living Hope at 8am, carpool down to Charlotte and be back at the church around 6pm. Reply to this email or let Chris Hubbard know if you’d like to be part of this year’s 15-person crew. Must be 13 years old or older to participate, even with a parent.

Kaitlyn Cotten would love to hear from us! She’s missing us as much as we’re missing her. If you’d like to correspond, her address is: N1707 County Road N, Columbus, WI, 53925-9766

Looking to connect, looking to serve here at Living Hope? Check out https://hope336.com or visit one of our Next Steps Kiosks in the back of the auditorium.

WE NEED AUDITORIUM USHERS!! – You can reply to this email to let us know that you’re interested in hearing more.