Announcements for December 5, 2021
Altar flowers
Blessings to All!
donated by Dawn McCormick
Our Sunday morning worship service is held at 9am each Sunday. Please bring a mask to wear even if you are vaccinated. Today we welcome Rev Erin Rishon Kinahan .
Please pick up your 2022 offering envelopes and a new calendar located in the narthex. Please note envelope numbers have changed for next year.
Angels and Star forms are now available in your bulletins. Deadline to order is December 19.
Christmas food basket donations are now available. Please take a few items to donate for the baskets. ALL WRAPPED ANGEL GIFTS AND FOOD IS DUE TO HC BY DEC. 12!!
Sisters in Prayer
We will resume in January on 1/8 at 8:30 on Zoom. Our study and prayer run about an hour. Please consider joining.
Adult Education
We will
meet each Wednesday at 10:00am on Zoom through 12/22 and resume on
1/5. This Study of “The 52 Greatest Stories” by Kenneth Boa and
John Allen Turner has been excellent and if you cannot make the group
consider an independent study in the new year!
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.
The parking lot and parsonage driveway has been repaired.
You may contribute to help pay for the repairs by indicating "parking
lot" using any of the methods mentioned above. Thank you for your
generosity.
Check out Zoom meetings during the week to keep in touch with your church family.
1st Monday- 8:00 pm Youth Group Hangout
Wednesday- 10:00 am Adult Education
Saturday-
8:30am Sisters in Prayer (resume 1/8)
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, Damian Vince or Denise Urbaniak.
WE NEED LAY ASSISTANT VOLUNTEERS for our service. Click here or go to https://bit.ly/HCservicevolunteers1.
Choir rehearsal is held every Sunday after the 9am service. Anyone interested in joining choir
please contact June Tarantino.
The total given so far this year given to the Vernon Clergy Fund is $2615. Thank you to all who continue to contribute to this very important cause!
Help is STILL needed for area families to help with bills. Send all
offerings to Holy Counselor and mark in the memo “Vernon Clergy fund”.
All donations will be forwarded and deposited monthly in the Vernon
Clergy Fund. Thank you in advance for helping those in need in our area.
If you are not receiving HCLC emails
please be sure to check the “junk, spam or promotions folders in your
email. Many have found that mail coming from
office@hc-lutheranchurch.org, is going to those folders. If you find an
email there, open it, most email services then display a button at the
top that you can click to identify that the message is NOT spam. Once
you do this HCLC mail should appear in your inbox.
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.
