I nside th is issue:

Caroling 2

Giving Tree 2

Altar Flower

Sign Up 2

Prayer List 3

Calendar 4

Birthdays 4

Financial

Report 4

December 7-8, 2019

Upcoming Events:

Midweek Advent Worship December 11 & 18

Children’s Christmas Program December 22

Christmas Eve Worship December 24 4 pm 7 pm (Holy Cross) 9 pm

Midweek Advent Services Wednesdays thru

December 18

Dinner at 6 pm

Worship at 7 pm

If you have not had the oppertunitiy yet, we invite you to sign the

board in the office hallway with words of welcome for our new friends

from Holy Cross Santa Cruz and see their words of welcome in return.

Our evening meals at 6 pm also feature activities relating to the week’s worship theme and discussion and lessons about being prepared for disasters from

the Health Ministries Committee! So make sure to join us for good food and fun learnings!

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The Giving Tree has

arrived! This year’s giving tree has tags for

My Father’s House and Boxes of

Love. Please attach your tag to your

gift when you return it so that it

goes to the correct organization.

Gifts can be returned through

Christmas Eve!

Christmas Caroling Once again we will be going Christmas Caroling to our homebound

members. You are all invited to join

us as we bring them some

Christmas Cheer.

We will be caroling Saturday,

December 21st and Sunday, December

22nd in the afternoon, probably from

1 to 4 pm. Please sign up in the church

hallway. The more the merrier.

2020 Altar Flowers

The sign up sheet for Altar

Flowers in 2020 is up now

in the office hallway.

Make sure to sign up for

your special date before

someone else does!

Work on the roof of the ramp was completed

this week. Thank you to Jim Gearheart, Horst

Jeddeloh and the Property Committee for

coordinating this project!

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Altar Flowers

In loving memory of Diane Kindell.

Chuck & Connie Meservy

Additional Concerns and Pressures Children with Mental Illnesses — Marriage Problems —

Mentally Ill Persons — Parents of Children with Special Needs — Recovering Addicts — Refugees —

Student Debt — Unemployed/Homeless

For those not able to worship with us: Peggy Gunderson — Pat Johnson — John Liepold — Marge Olson —

Roz Pariseau — Audrey Peterson — Joan Rittel — Marilynn Ruppert — Donna Sather — Donna Thoman

We keep in prayer the friends and families of:

Walter Behn — Orville Cole — Lori Fields — Jerry Fitzsimmons — Greg Thompson

We keep in prayer all service men & women and their families,

including: Dom Calata

Leslie Joan Allen Mark Amen Baby Aurora

Harry Baeckel Barbara Barton Chase Bennett Tami Burton

Caleb & Ashley Michael Coy & Family

Chuck Currier Maradee Davis Sandy Deeke

Darrold & Rosemary Dickson

Mary Eastman Ellie & Amy

Pennie Evenson Lorraine Fagerberg

Teresa Ford Pastor Jerry Furgurson

Bob Geisler Bill George

Roger Germundson Ken & Vickie Horn

Lyman Houlk Gene Huft

Margaret Jillson Sally Johnson

Liz Hatfield Keller Bob Kennedy Loretta Kriens

Rachel Lape Jenynn Lewczuk Kimberly Long

Shirley Marl Ladine Marquardt

Michele Adriane Miller

Toni Minus Tanner Morgan

Lisa Barton Mullins Greg Painter

The Reis Family Hannah Serniotti

Mardy Stevens Geri Stobart

The Family of David Strutz Cathy Swanson

Chalmer Swanson Bill Truswell Teri Willman Teri Willman

Death Jerry Fitzsimmons

Pra

yer List

Today’s Sunday

Coffee Hour is hosted

by Linde Eidenberg!

If you can host a Sunday coffee

hour, please sign up on the

clipboard in the Fellowship Hall.

Church Council meetings are always open to the public and they would love congregational input. They are held on the 2nd Tuesday of each month and the

next meeting is December 10 at 6:30 pm.

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Trinity Lutheran Church

507 W. Powell Blvd., Gresham, OR 97030

Phone: 503-665-3197 Fax: 503-661-6100

Website: www.tlcgresham.com E-Mail: office@tlcgresham.com

Office hours: M-Th, 9 am to 4 pm

Weekly Calendar

Sunday Dec. 8

Church Office Closed Worship w/ Youth Sunday

@ 9:30 am Holy Cross/Santa Cruz Worship

@ 11:30 am Holy Cross/Santa Cruz Class @ 1 pm Music Fun at Courtyard @ 3 pm

Monday Dec. 9

Grief Group @ Noon Worship Team @ 5 pm Boy Scout Meetings @ 6:15 pm Bell Choir @ 6:30 pm

Tuesday Dec. 10

Bible Study @ 9 am Esther Circle @ 1 pm Church Council @ 6:30 pm

Wednesday Dec. 11

Staff Meeting @ 10 am Midweek Advent Dinner @ 6 pm Compulsive Eaters Anon @ 6:15 pm Midweek Advent Worship @ 7 pm

Thursday Dec. 12

Private Grief Group @ 2 pm Prayer Shawl @ 7 pm Holy Cross Virgen de Gudalupe Mass

@ 7 pm

Friday Dec. 13

Church Office Closed TLT: Writing Group @ 7 pm

Saturday Dec. 14

Church Office Closed Holy Cross First Communion Mass

@ 10 am Fitzsimmons Memorial @ 1 pm Worship @ 5 pm

Sunday Dec. 15

Church Office Closed Worship w/ Youth Sunday

@ 9:30 am Holy Cross/Santa Cruz Worship

@ 11:30 am

Weekly Attendance

Saturday — 20 Sunday — 74

Courtyard — 14

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Happy Birthday!! 8 Eva Kramer

Janice Miller

11 Hank Stevens

Sandra Wright

Cathy Yost

13 Larry Tullius

14 Hayden Osborn

Oct. Financial Report October Income $ 24,530.77

October Expenses $ 25,388.00

October +/- $ (857.23)

Year to Date $ (16,584.57)

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