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Please join us today for coffee, juice and donuts in the fellowship EVANGELICAL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST hall. Our host is the Memorial Board. Our coffee host next week is the Mission Board. THE WEEKLY WORD

Welcome Team (8:00) Carl Baumann Delores Halbe Lynn Haller Janet Krause April 17, 2016 Welcome to Evangelical United Church of Christ! We encourage (10:15) Tim Marti Barb Marti you to return soon. Please stop at the visitors’ desk. Please sign the Lydia Marti Friendship Pad and pass it to the outside aisle where an usher will Valet Team (8:00) Kerri Reilson (10:15) Karen Munie pick it up. Nursery care is available today in Room 38 for infants and toddlers (3 Lay Reader (8:00) Kay Whitecotton (10:15) Paula Redman years old and under). Our volunteers are (9:00am) Tracey Zobrist and (10:00 a.m.) Jan Tebbe. Our nursery staff attendant is Katie Sound/Slides (8:00) Connor Mortland and Kay Whitecotton (10:15) Ron Mortland and Denise Clayton Henricks. Prayers, Concerns and Joys - Please include in your Prayers Attendance for April 10 - 242 Connie Louer Abert, Bob Barney, Marilyn Barth, Daryl Bense (Barb Bray’s brother-in-law), Marie Bimes, Jane Carrillon, Florence Hearing Devices are available. Please ask one of the ushers. Collmann, Don Cornell, Jeanne Dankenbring, Viola Deibert, Gene and Debra Dilley (Marsha Rinderer’s sister and brother-in-law), Marlene Senior Pastor – Christopher Hill ([email protected]) Dickerson, Rev. Tom Drewer, Jared Emig (nephew of Jerry and Karla Associate Pastor – Will VerDuin ([email protected]) Zurliene), Alma Erwin, Shirley Federer, Ellen Gelly, Ida Gorrell, Office Business Manager – Barb Bray ([email protected]) Robert Goth, Elaine Grundhoefer (Harold Byers’ sister), Norma Bookkeeper – Patti Kohlbrecher ([email protected]) Haberer, Maurie Henricks, Chrissy Knebel Hoeflinger, Carol Choir Director – Lisa Cleveland ([email protected]) Hoffman, Don Hundsdorfer, Curt Iberg, Dorothy Johnson (Aunt of Organist – Joan Schuetz ([email protected]) Ron and Kathy Schneider), Betty Kamm, Vera Kunz, Rev. Jim Contemporary Worship Director – Chris Swed Langdoc, Betty Legier, Herman Louer, Marion Marcus, Wayne ([email protected]) Marcus, Ava Martin, Joe Michaelis, Becky Morris (Shirley Hug’s Director of Children’s Ministries – Darlene Nagel niece), Daniel Morris, Richard Moser, Dale Nagel, Alicia Rayner (Al Radio Ministry – Casper Heichelbeck, Jacob Plocher and Zach Plocher & Shirley Flath’s daughter), Sandra Reinacher, Don Rinderer, Rita EvUCC Communications Ministries Rinderer, Sandy Rinderer, Amy Schneider, Tyler Simpson, Doris Radio Station WGEL 101.7 FM Greenville (mother of Barb Stallard), Gloria Stuckwisch, Elva Tucker, Alvin Church Phone: 618-654-7459 Whitsell (Florence Collmann’s brother-in-law), Dale Wiesemeyer (Niala Keilbach’s brother), and Kathy Wilsman (Nancy Byers’ sister), Barb Winters, Judy Wise, and Shirley Zbornak.

Watch our services online @ ALL 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders – Crosswalk has begun!!... and will continue evucc.org/sermonsservices each Monday through May 23rd from 3:30 - 5:00. We meet in front of the you to plug into: Elementary School by the flagpole, and walk to the church. Or you can be dropped off at the church if you have a ride. Crosswalk is a time for snacks, A Feed 10,000 Food Pack is happening in our community on May 1st, character building conversation, and games in a Christian atmosphere. For benefitting starving youth in Guatemala. Contact Missy Loyet for more info. more info, call/text Angela Smith @ 618-304-2848 or [email protected] Also, EvUCC is taking another group of our friends to Food Outreach on The Women’s Guild will be selling the silver plated silverware that has been May 7th to create meals for folks with HIV and Cancer in the St. Louis area. stored in the kitchen for many years. Some of it is initialed with an F.V., Want to go? Contact…yep, Missy Loyet! which we believe stands for Frauen Verein, the original name of the ladies organization. It will be sold in packages of eight (settings) for $10 before th th New scout sign up will be May 12th in the Social Hall starting at and after church on April 17 and 24 . Proceeds will be donated to the Love 6:30pm. Know someone who wants to be a SCOUT?? Fund.

Annual Mothers & Other’s Banquet is also coming up on May 6th. It will This Week’s Schedule begin at 6:30 in the social hall, with a buffet meal followed by the YMCA Sunday: 10:00 a.m. God Squad Practice Ladies Chorus, “The 60’s Chicks”. Tickets will be sold on April 24th and 6:00 p.m. unMute 737 May 1st, before and after church. The cost is $8/adults and $4/children 4-8 7:00 p.m. AA (children 3 and under are free). Please plan to attend, tap your feet, and sing Monday: EVANGELINES ARTICLES DUE along to your favorite songs from the “60’s”. 7:30 a.m. Quilters The Guild Board will meet on May 6th at 9am and will be setting-up the 10:00 a.m. 1st Place for Health dining room for the banquet. 3:30 p.m. Crosswalk 6:00 p.m. Hitchhiker’s Bible Study Please note that Vacation Bible School will be June 6th – June 10th this 6:30 p.m. Grief Share year so mark your calendars for this week of adventure for students and adults. We are looking for volunteers to help us in all areas with a class, Tuesday: 6:00 p.m. Personnel Committee crafts, decorating, games, food prep) as we prepare for this over-the –top 8:00 p.m. AA underground adventure Cave Quest. Please let us know asap if you can help Wednesday: 9:00 a.m. Followship Bible Study with any part of VBS by contacting Darlene, Lynn, or the church office 654- 6:30 p.m. Next Step Confirmation 7459. 6:00 p.m. Bell Choir 7:00 p.m. Stewardship Board All are invited to the Highland Home Open House Sunday, May 1st between 2 – 4pm celebrating the completion of recent renovations and new 7:00 p.m. Chancel Choir furnishings. 1600 Walnut Street. Thursday: 7:00 p.m. Consistory Friday: 8:00 p.m. AA/Alanon Want to save paper and ensuing paper-CUTS? Get our monthly Sunday: 10:15 a.m. Confirmation newsletter, the Evangelines, sent to your email instead of receiving the hardcopy. Call or email the church to make the Worship Memorials/Honorariums to the Glory of God easy switch! The Radio Ministry is from Steve and Bonnie Thiems and Family in We’re really excited to welcome Missy Loyet as our new Volunteer Mission memory of Elmer and Melba Thiems. Coordinator! She already has multiple service and mission opportunities for