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P U R S U I N G G O D \ \ L O V I N G P E O P L E \ \ D E V E L O P I N G D I S C I P L E M A K E R S THIS WEEK'S NEWS - A community Thanksgiving service will be held at Westview Methodist Church this Sunday Community at 6:30 pm. All are encouraged to attend. There will be fellowship following the service, so please bring a pie to share. Those who attend are also encouraged to bring a Thanksgiving Service canned good item to donate to the local Food Pantry. Westview Methodist Sunday, 6:30pm - 180° youth group will not be meeting next Wednesday, November 22 due to Thanksgiving. It will resume for a game night (board games, large group games, etc.) on the following Wednesday, November 29th! All 7th-12th graders are welcome to join us! Bring friends and a few snacks to share!

- The church office will be closed on November 23-24 for Thanksgiving. Regular office hours will resume the following Tuesday, November 28th. Membership Class Dec. 10 - A new small group bible study is starting on Tuesday, November 28th at 7:00 pm at Les & 12pm-2pm Georgia John's home. The study will be about the book of Daniel, and the book they are using is Living a Spiritual Life in a Secular World, by Douglas Conley. If you are interested in joining, please call Les or Georgia at 763-2650.

- Save the date! A CEFC membership class has been scheduled for Sunday, December 10th from 12pm-2pm. More details to come. If you would like to talk with a Leadership Team Time of member about membership or would like more information on membership at CEFC, please Prayer contact the church office. Dec. 17 6:00pm - The Leadership Team will be hosting a time of corporate prayer on December 17th at 6:00pm in the Worship Center. Please save the date for this time of prayer together! “For where two or three gather in My Name, there am I with them." - Matthew 18:20

Thank you to all of you who provided for, packed, and prayed over the Operation Christmas Child boxes. This year 116 boxes were filled from our church! Please continue to pray for these boxes as they are processed and sent along with the Good News of Jesus to children around the world!

C O M M U N I T Y / / E V A N G E L I C A L / / F R E E / / C H U R C H MISSING LIBRARY ITEMS Please help the library! The following items have been checked out from the church library without the cards having been signed. Please glance through the list and see if any may have come home with you and are ready to come back. Thank you for your help!

ADULT BOOKS DVDs AFTER “I BELIEVE” by Mark Roberts BIBLE IDIOTS: ARE WE IDIOTS FOR BELIEVING EXPOSITOR’S BIBLE COMMENTARY: VOL 9 by THE BIBLE? Frank Gaebelein HERMIE & FRIENDS: HERMIE THE UNCOMMON JESUS FREAKS by DC Talk DJ MISSION COMPROMISED by Oliver North LAUGHING IN THE DARK: A TRUE STORY TOLERATE THIS by Brad Stine ELEMENTARY BOOKS BACKYARD HORSES: COWBOY COLT by Dandi ADULT CDs Mackall Barlow Girl, HOME FOR CHRISTMAS DUDE, GOT ANOTHER JOKE? by Bob Phillips Hawk Nelson, SMILE IT’S THE END OF THE FRIENDLY FOAL by Dandi Mackall WORLD copy 2 STARLIGHT ANIMAL RESCUE: DARK HORSE by Lucado, Max, 3:16 THE NUMBERS OF HOPE Dandi Mackall (audio book) STARLIGHT ANIMAL RESCUE: WILD CAT by Mercyme, COMING UP TO BREATHE Dandi Mackall Mercyme, UNDONE STARLIGHT ANIMAL RESCUE: RUNAWAY by Meyer, Joyce, BATTLEFIELD OF THE MIND (4 cd Dandi Mackall audio book set) Mullins, Rich, HERE IN AMERICA YOUNG ADULT BOOKS Smith, Michael W., THE SECOND DECADE HOLLY’S HEART COLLECTION ONE by Beverly Toby Mac, THIS IS NOT A TEST Lewis WOW WORSHIP ORANGE (2 cds and 1 dvd)

BIBLE STUDY BOOKLET CHILDREN CDs IS THIS THE END? HILLSONG KIDS ULTIMATE COLLECTION Pure NRG, HERE WE GO AGAIN WORSHIP JAMZ

C O M M U N I T Y / / E V A N G E L I C A L / / F R E E / / C H U R C H REMINDERS

- CEFC's November Food Pantry focus is:any items for - Through hundreds of online Bible study curriculums and Thanksgiving dinner preparation such as cranberry sauce, training tools, RightNow Media encourages Christians to live gravy mixes, canned vegetables, canned sweet potatoes or like Jesus in their homes, neighborhoods, at work and around instant potatoes. . As always, feel free to donate in a general the world. This resource is available to all CEFC attendees. We manner as well. Please help us fill the grocery cart in the encourage you to please sign up at the Information Desk to foyer with donations for the local food pantry. Thank you obtain access to this valuable online resource. for your donations! - In order to make sure our congregation is informed about their - If you have a prayer request that you would like sent out opportunities for donating to CEFC, we would like to make you through the CEFC Prayer Email, there are three ways you aware of the various options available. Offering is taken during can communicate those requests to the church office: the worship service every first Sunday of the month. For the 1) add your request to the Connection Card in the bulletin Sunday mornings in which we do not take offering, checks may during the Sunday worship service, be dropped off in the wooden boxes located just inside the 2) email them to the congregational prayer chain Worship Center doors. For your convenience, we also have the ([email protected]) option of setting up a monthly auto deposit for either the 1st or 3) call the church office (348-7330) to talk to staff during 15th of each month. If you would like to set up an auto deposit office hours or to leave a message. account, please contact the church office for the proper We value hearing your prayer requests and pray for them paperwork. Your gifts to the church are vital to what happens during our staff meetings each week. here at CEFC throughout the week, and are so very much appreciated. Thank you! - During this time of transition at CEFC we lift up the Leadership Team and the future Pastor God has for this - Do you want to leverage your gas purchases for a good church. Please pray for the Leadership Team as they meet ministry cause? If you purchase Kwik Trip gas cards through the continuously to pray, discuss, lead and make decisions 180° Student Ministry Scholarship Program, 5% of your fuel during this transition period. The members of the purchases and 10% of in-store purchases will go towards our Leadership Team include: Ken Wiegman (chair), Dan Flesch student scholarship account. This account allows students to (vice-chair), Derek Hall, Randy Rogers, Joe Welter, Mark get a discount on the various youth events that occur Wilson, and Renee Winkler. Please also pray for our new throughout the year. You get 100% of your fuel value and we Senior Pastor and his wife, Larry & Lisa Lloyd, as they get to put a percentage towards student scholarships! Gas prepare to move to Platteville and as Larry prepares to cards are available through the church office in the amount of begin as Senior Pastor here at CEFC in December. Thank $20, $50, or $100. you for your prayers! They are heard and appreciated! COMMUNITY SECTION

- A hymn sing will be hosted at Lutheran Church of Peace on Sunday, November 19th from 3:00-4:30pm. This hymn sing is not sponsored by any one church, and anyone who would like to sing hymns is invited.

- The Salvation Army is looking for volunteers to help ring the bell for their donation kettle. If interested in helping out with this ministry, please call Nancy at 608-778-2679 for more details. Thank you! G A L A T I A N S 5 : 2 2 - 2 5 BUT THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS LOVE, JOY, PEACE, PATIENCE, KINDNESS, GOODNESS, FAITHFULNESS, GENTLENESS AND SELF-CONTROL. AGAINST SUCH THINGS THERE IS NO LAW. THOSE WHO BELONG TO CHRIST JESUS HAVE CRUCIFIED THE FLESH WITH ITS PASSIONS AND DESIRES. SINCE WE LIVE BY THE SPIRIT, LET US KEEP IN STEP WITH THE SPIRIT.

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