Announcements for November 22, 2020
This Sunday’s worship online service is at 8am on YouTube and is a recorded service from the NJ Synod.
You may view the service any time or day after it premieres at 8am.
Links to the service and the service bulletin can also be found as
posts on our Facebook page, facebook.com/hclutheranchurch. Alternatively, please go to the church website at hc-lutheranchurch.org
and click the link for the streaming worship service information page
for links to the service on YouTube and to download or print the
service bulletin.
Please continue to give your offering.
Your generous support continues to make mission and ministry possible
in addition to providing salaries for staff and the upkeep of our
facility. Offering can be dropped off, sent through electronic fund
transfer via Vanco or Venmo (details at www.hc-lutheranchurch.org),
by texting the amount of your offering to (833) 309-0143, mailing
your offering to the office, or you can request your bank to send a
check. Church mailing address: 68 Sand Hill Road, Sussex, NJ 07461.
Please note all zoom meetings are cancelled this week for Thanksgiving.
Wednesday- 10:00 am Adult Education (CANCELLED)
7:30pm Adult Education (CANCELLED)
Thursday- 8:00 pm Choir Hangout (CANCELLED)
Friday- 8:00 pm Youth Group Hangout (CANCELLED)
Saturday- 8:30 am Sisters in Prayer (CANCELLED)
The Thanksgiving Ecumenical service will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 24, at 7pm at St. Francis de Sales. Masks are required.
We are now taking orders for Poinsettia plants, which will beautify the altar for our Christmas Eve services. Each plant will cost $8.50;
the color choice is either red or white. Plants cannot be ordered
without payment in advance. Please click or go to this link to order
your flowers online, http://bit.ly/hc-flowers. Please mark “poinsettias” in the memo. The deadline for ordering is November 29.
Rev. Fred Becker
of Trinity Lutheran Church in Dover is serving as our Vice Pastor
during this time of pastoral vacancy. Please contact him if you need to
speak to a pastor at 617 642-6557 or email him at fred3becker@gmail.com.
Day to day congregational tasks remain
under the direction of our Congregation Council. If you have any
concerns or matters requiring attention, please direct them to Margaret
Kranz, Roy Wherry, Steve Ahrendt, Steve Baumann, Matt Moller, Emilie
Dupont, Karen Duryea, or Denise Urbaniak.
2021 Offering envelopes are now available FOR PICK UP.
If you are presently using envelopes to give your weekly offering,
please pick up your box in the narthex. If you prefer to use an
electronic method for your offering and have no need for envelopes,
please contact the office.
Please give today to Lutheran Disaster Response.
Your gifts will ensure help and hope for those whose lives have been
devastated by hurricanes Eta and Iota. Gifts designated for “Hurricane
Response” will be used entirely (100%) for direct response until it is
complete. Click here to directly donate to this program, https://bit.ly/LDR_help.
How can I
donate to Holy Counselor electronically?
Users of Venmo (by PayPal) may
donate to us by searching for @HolyCounselorLutheranChurch.
GIVE+ Text
(by Vanco Payment Solutions) lets you donate to us by texting the
amount of your donation to (833)-309-0143.
Follow the instructions
texted back. If you need to make changes to your previous set up, text
EDIT to the same number.