Post-Thanksgiving News

1. THANKS - A big thank you to all who helped make the Thanksgiving Eve Dinner and Service a success.  Great food!  Great worship!  Great message!  Rev. Tolbert said people from New Hope were still talking about it on Sunday!  We will do this again next year!

2. CHRISTMAS EVENTS

• SUNDAY - It is time to begin ramping up toward Christmas!  Among all of the festivities, we sing Christmas carols.  In our new Sermon series we will look at 5 famous Christmas songs.  They didn't hit the top 40 countdown but they help us celebrate Christmas! Invite a friend to worship Sunday as we sing: "Songs of Advent."  This Sunday: "Zechariah: The Song of Freedom" (Luke 1:67-75).
• MITTEN TREE - Take a mitten off the tree in the Worship Center and buy the item listed for our adopted family from LoveINC.  We want to make sure they have a great Christmas!
• Christmas Cookies Sign Up - Another tradition we have is for families to sign up to bring 2 dozen on Sunday morning for church.  Sign up at the info booth for your week!

3. ADVENT DEVOTIONS - Sometimes we need help to focus on the reason we celebrate Christmas.  The busyness of the season overwhelms us.  So, each day of Advent until Christmas we will send out an email devotion from John Piper's book "Good News of Great Joy."  We hope this will benefit you and those around you!

4. EVENTS TO REMEMBER

Nov. 30, Student Ministries at Calvin Church on Norton Ave, 6:30PM.
Dec. 4, Adult Sunday School, 9:00AM

Dec. 5, Vision Team Meeting, 6:30PM.

Dec. 7, Baby Basics/Women's Bible Study, 10:00/10:30AM.

Dec. 7, Book Club meets at Denny's at 6:30PM.  We're reading "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr.

Dec. 11, Youth Sunday - Grades 4 and up.  Let Ed know if you want to know more.

Dec. 25, Christmas Day Service!

5. PRAYERS

• Please pray for Walt Jones and his family as his Stepfather's health is deteriorating.
• Duane Gray will have surgery on Tuesday at 10:30AM at the Michigan Pain Association to relieve pain from his hernia surgery.
• Jill Bennett is at Hackley Hospital getting rehab after a set back in her mobility. She will most likely be there for another week.
• "Pray for peace for those feeling stress this Christmas season."
• Praise God for employment, even with the stress and headaches at times.  Praise God for family who also add stress and headaches at times.
• Pray for students under-achieving at school.
• Pray for marriage plans and lives to be joined together.
• Praise God for Matthew DuRose who earned Honorable Mention at statewide orchestra competition playing his viola!  We praise God for his talent and we are very proud of him.
• Amie Anderson's cousin in Kansas passed away recently.  Pray for comfort for her and the family members.
• Pray for loved ones who are already struggling with the upcoming holidays due to loved ones who have passed away. 
• Praise God for Chloe Alexandra, the new grandchild to Brian and Sue Vredevoogd.  She was born 11/22/16 at 7:54am. 6 lb 15 oz and 19 1/2 inches.  Cassie (the mother) and Chloe are doing well.
• Pray for the ministry of Brenda Lange and her team through Orphans Unlimited in Balama Mozambique.  May God continue to bless her ministry!
• Pray for mended family relationships after Thanksgiving dinner "dramas".
• Reyes Hinajosa praises God for his mother’s improved health.  She is home now and doing much better.
• Terry Lacy also asks for the safe return of their dog Candy who ran away recently and who has not returned.
• Pray for those in the middle of the adoption process.
• Pray for Carla (a friend of Paula Blohm) who fought throat cancer a few years ago but now has another spot in her throat.  She will have a biopsy this week. 
• Paula Blohm is having back pain which makes it very difficult to walk.

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Pastor Matt Eenigenburg
Celebration Community Church
1260 W. Sherman Blvd.                            
Muskegon, MI 49441
www.celebrationmuskegon.org
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