Eden NewsEden Presbyterian Church                                                                                                                                      641-395-2628 church   

3102 Glass Avenue                                                                                                                                                  641-395-6005 fax

Rudd, IA 50471-8505                                                                                                                                              www.edenchurch.info

 

Our Mission Statement:

Rejoicing in the power of the Holy Spirit, we love and serve the Lord.  We are a

compassionate family of believers who hold God’s message close to our hearts; we

accept God’s call to spread the Good News, and to serve others as we go into the world.

 

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Ushers:

 

November:

               20:  Joyce Toppin

               27:  Brad & Linda Toppin

December:

                 4:  Mike & Lisa VerHelst

               11:  Wendy Waters & family

               18:  Ken & Marylynn Aalderks

               24:  Susie Brandau & family

               25:  Pete & Shelly Apel

 

 

CROP Walk:

 

The Mitchell County CROP Walk raised $6,095.59 for Church World Service Projects.  Church World Service Projects will receive basically $4,500 of the above donations for their projects wherever they see fit.  The balance of $1,500 will come back to help local Food Banks in Mitchell and Floyd Counties.  $1,300 will go to the Mitchell Co. Food Bank and $200 to the Food Bank in Floyd County.  Thanks to everyone for your donations and to those who walked.

                                                            L.  Dean Pohren

 

 

Lord’s Lettuce

 

Thanks to everyone for participating in the Lord’s Lettuce project. $2856.25 was raised.  We will be partnering with the Osage Middle School during the next year in a garden project, teaching students gardening skills, with cooks using the produce in school lunches.  Hopefully, the name of the project will be ‘Garden from Eden.’

 

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Looking Ahead:

 

Sunday, November 20:

               Thank Offering collected

               Community Thanksgiving Service at Rudd

               Methodist Church at 7 p.m.

 

Sunday, November 27:

               1st Sunday of Advent, Church decorating

               And pizza party.

 

Sunday, December 4:  Advent Afternoon,

                lunch provided.

               Allison (Bates) and Aaron Schutte will

               Share some of their experiences in Tanzania          over the last 6 months.  They’ll be home for the         month of December before they return to              Africa for another year.  (Allison and Aaron have      a site where they post a blog occasionally:

               the-schuttes.blogspot.com   Their November

               entry makes a baseball father proud.)

 

Sunday, December 18:  Caroling , 5 p.m. at the church,

               Party afterwards TBA.

 

Sunday, December 24: 

               Christmas Eve Candle Light Service, 7 p.m.

 

 

Thank Offering

 

This year the Thank Offering will help support 26 projects , 14 in the U.S. and 12 projects internationally that relieve pain, provide clean water, alleviate homelessness, provide educational opportunities and lift up the lives of women and children throughout the world .  Forty-three percent of the offering will support health ministries.   The Thank Offering will be collected Sunday, November 20th.