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Emporia Presbyterian Church

Weekday Office Hours: Downtown Campus Tuesday – Friday, 9:00am-3:00pm

Office Phone: 620-342-0375 Office Email: businessoffice.epc@gmail.com Website: www.emporiapresbyterianchurch.org

Pastor: Rev. Phyllis Stutzman Email: pastorphyl.epc@gmail.com

Address: Downtown Campus - 802 Commercial Street West Campus - 1702 W 15th Avenue Emporia, KS 66801

Inside This Issue

Advent Devotions…………………..2 Hanging of the Greens……………3 Online Christmas Pageant…..….3 Anniversaries…….…………….....…4 Birthdays………………………….…...4 AmazonSmile…………..……….……6 Order Poinsettias……………………7 Zoom Retirement Party………….7

Join us for indoor worship at

West, 1702 W 15th Ave

9:30am

Join us for

Online Worship

Go to our EPC website:

www.emporiapresbyterianchurch.

org

click on the Worship tab

or watch from our Facebook

page:

https://www.facebook.com/Empo

riaPresbyterianChurch/

.

THE PRESBY NEWS November 2020

November Events

Sunday, Nov 1 All Saint’s Day

Daylight Saving Time Ends

Tuesday, Nov 3 Election Day

Wednesday, Nov 11

Veterans Day

Sunday, Nov 22 Christ the King/Reign of Christ

Hanging of the Greens

Thursday, Nov 26 Thanksgiving Day

Church Office Closed

Friday, Nov 27 Church Office Closed

Sunday, Nov 29

1st Sunday of Advent

Information needed by

November 16 for the

December 2020 Presby News.

To submit or suggest articles, contact Diana Hizar, Business Manager, businessoffice.epc@ gmail.com, 620-342-0375.

Monthly Mission Food Collection

Please donate food items at West in the Little Blessings Box located

outside. Be mindful of the weather as you pick non-

perishable items. Take a selfie of you and your donation, and email

it to the church at: businessoffice.epc@gmail.com

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Advent Devotions – Embodying Christmas Elder Nickie Edwards recently wrote:

Christmas is rich with those things we do every year as a family and church family. Traditions are something we look forward to, expect, enjoy, and remember. This year we are faced with changes in plans and traditions, but we can still make magic. I know I plan to try!

Nickie’s words are a powerful reminder of the true spirit of Christmas. Christ the King entered into our human lives, turning everything the world expected on its head. This year, the expectations we have for Advent and Christmas might need to change, but the coming of Christ, the presence of holy hope, peace, joy, and love, the Light of the world remains. Drawing from Nickie’s words, the Worship Committee is putting together a family Advent Devotional, and we hope you will consider sharing your thoughts with our church family. We have two sets of questions to help get ideas flowing. Prompt #1 – What tradition(s) embodies Christmas for you? How does that tradition help connect you to the hope, peace, joy, love and/or light of Christ? How might embracing your tradition or creating a new tradition help you welcome Emmanuel (God with us) this year? Prompt #2 – What tradition(s) embodies Christmas for you? Have you ever had a year when plans or traditions had to change? If so, was that a hard or easy change to make? How have changed plans or traditions blessed you, particularly during the Advent and Christmas seasons? Please consider sharing your Christmas story with our church family. Submissions should be short (between 100-175 words or about 3 short paragraphs), include your name, and be returned to Pastor Phyl no later than November 11th. A fill-in-blank form is also available, if that’s easier for you, just check the Sunday bulletin or email Pastor Phyl.

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Hanging of the Greens Advent comes early this year. Christ the King Sunday is November 22, the day we traditionally deck the sanctuary in seasonal finery as we await the coming of Christ our King. Due to Coronatide continuing on into Advent, we will bless three spaces this Advent Season – the West Campus sanctuary, the Downtown sanctuary, and our sacred online space. The traditional symbols will already be in place for our in-person Hanging of the Greens service, but we need your help to make our online worship space holy and holiday ready. Please submit pictures of any or all of the following from your own homes to be shared during online worship – Advent Candles and Advent Wreaths; Paraments, Tapestries, and Banners; Wreaths and Greenery; Christmas Trees; Poinsettias; and Creches / Nativity Scenes. Pictures can be of this year’s decorations for the holiday-eager among us or from previous years for those of us who trim the tree as late as Christmas Eve. Digital photos are easiest to work with. Please send yours to Pastor Phyl by Wednesday, November 11.

Help Us Decorate Sunday, November 22

This year we’re taking our Christmas pageant online so that our whole church family can participate. We need KIDS. We need YOUTH. We need God’s children of ALL AGES. In short – WE NEED YOU!

Following recent tradition, our Christmas Pageant will be “No Rehearsal” style. The lines are taken directly from Scripture. The costumes are taken from the upstairs closet Downtown. You can record a video clip from the comfort of your own home or sign-up for a recording time with Pastor Phyl in the sanctuary. A sign-up sheet for recording times will be emailed out once all parts are covered.

What role would YOU like for this year’s pageant? You can dress up and read the part yourself, or you can dress up and have a loved one (parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, older sibling) narrate, or you and a narrating loved one can both dress up! Email Pastor Phyl with your top two preferences, so we can get costumes, parts, and recording times organized. We would like to have all pieces recorded and to the video editor (thanks, Jacob Stutzman) by December 9th.

Available Roles: Mary, Joseph, Inn Keeper #1, Stable Animals (non-sheep … animal noises, no formal lines), Shepherd #1, Shepherd #2, Shepherd #3, Shepherd #4, Sheep (animal noises, no formal lines), Angel #1, Angel #2, Angel #3, Angel #4 (or family group of angels reading together), Magi #1, Magi #2, Magi #3.

Online Christmas Pageant – We Need YOU

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Serving Schedule continued:

VAN DRIVERS No van drivers for the month of November

NURSERY ATTENDANTS No nursery attendants for the month of November

LITURGISTS No liturgists during the month of Nov USHERS

No ushers during the month of Nov GREETERS (front & side doors) No greeters during the month of Nov

NOVEMBER 2020

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

8 9 10 11 12 13 14

15 16 17 18 19 20 21

22 23 24 25 26 27 28

29 30

Jodi & Kent Heermann Nov 3 Arlene & Ronald Dodge Nov 12 Michelle & Brett Stewart Nov 24

Chuck Hanna Nov 2 Kelsey Gordon Nov 3 Gordon Ames Nov 7 Valerie Conrade Nov 10 Robert Stewart Nov 15 Andrew Rees Nov 19 Richard Winter Nov 21 Art Gutierrez Nov 21 Takako Iyadomi Nov 21 Ana Chapman Nov 24 Valerie Parish Nov 28 Gwen Lorenz Nov 30 Rosalinda Atchison Nov 30

Local Mission Assistance Fund Update

Our Local Mission Assistance Funds are to help out locally for those in need. Funds are used primarily to pay for food vouchers and some utility bills.

Thank you to those who have offered their gifts to keep the fund going.

In the month of October, we disbursed $597.38.

Currently, the Local Mission Assistance Fund balance is at $7,173.88.

Wednesday,

November 11, 2020

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SESSION

Meets Second Monday of the Month Downtown at 6:00 P.M.

Pastor Phyl moderator

Kathie Buckman clerk of Session (620)412-1971 email: kbuckman@hotmail.com

Rhonda Gordon (620)366-5169 rgordon7713@gmail.com

Amanda Gutierrez (620)794-7770 email: flick25_2000@yahoo.com

Becky Hadicke (620)343-5547 email: rhadicke18@gmail.com

Connie Jobe (620)255-3441 Email: connie_jobe00@hotmail.com

Linda Miller (620)342-5448 email: lemiller_2214@yahoo.com

Lois Schrock (620)757-0249 email: loischrock@yahoo.com

Brett Stewart (620)340-9590 email: brett@trustpointservices.net

Ken Weaver (620)757-1920 email: knweaver51@gmail.com

Church Treasurer – Tammy

Cheeseman email: tammy_cheeseman@yahoo.com

MISSION AND BUILDING FUND

TRUSTEES

Dean Edmiston and Don Miller,

Financial Administrators. Tom Fowler, Temporary Financial Administrator. Chair, Carolyn Turney; Vice-Chair, Brett Stewart (Session) Secretary, Jodi Heermann; Members: Nickie Edwards, Martha

Shook, Rhonda Gordon (Session)

STEWARDSHIP & FINANCE

COMMITTEE Chair, Rick Buck; Tammy & Michael Cheeseman, Connie Jobe, Mitch Moorman, Carolyn Turney.

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AND

NURTURE COMMITTEE Co-Chairs, Amanda Gutierrez & Connie Jobe; Amanda Cunningham, Karen Moorman, Laura Parish.

PERSONNEL COMMITTEE Chair, Brad Stewart; Kathie Buckman; Linda Miller.

PROPERTY COMMITTEE Chair, Lois Schrock; Tammy Cheeseman, Amanda Gutierrez, Max Stewart, Sharon Stewart.

NOMINATING COMMITTEE Becky Hadicke, Susan Severin, Martha Shook, Brett Stewart, Jennifer Stewart

WORSHIP COMMITTEE Chair, Ken Weaver; Karen Moorman; Margaret Davidson, Nickie Edwards, Becky Hadicke, Katherine Weaver

VISITATION COMMITTEE Chair, Sue Jones; Rick Buck, Betty Campbell, Margaret Davidson, Nickie Edwards, Pat Ireland, Maxine Mitchell, Karen Moorman, Max & Sharon Stewart

MISSION & OUTREACH

COMMITTEE Chair, Amanda Gutierrez, Amanda Cunningham, Lois Schrock

EMPORIA CHILD CARE BOARD Board Member, Nickie

Edwards

COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP

COMMITTEE Betty Campbell, Lee Tucker

Daylight Savings Time Ends Sunday, November 1, 2020

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AmazonSmile. You shop, Amazon gives. Are you shopping for Christmas gifts on Amazon.com?

Now you can achieve your favorite shopping on Amazon and also donate a portion of your purchases to our church.

Here’s how: Start all of your shopping on the website www.smile.amazon.com. Type in your Amazon email address and password, click the “Sign in using our secure server.” You will be prompted to select an organization. Search for First Presbyterian Church. (Make sure it is Emporia, Kansas!) Click on the “Choose” button. You can save this choice so every time you shop on Amazon using smile.amazon.com it will remember your charity.

There is no additional cost to you or to the church. Funds donated to EPC will go toward the local mission assistance fund.

Treasurer’s Report for Session-October-2020

1. As of the end of September, 39 Sundays (or 75% of the calendar year) have passed. 2. Pledges received in September totaled $13,595.60. Loose offering received was $215.00. 3. Operating expenses for September totaled $32,408.17. 4. We received a check from Wells Fargo for $11,643.86. 5. Utility cost for September were $2,237.60. 6. Through the first nine month of the year, here are the percentages of budget expended (see the

Budget Comparison report for dollar figures). Business Operations 86.9% Christian Education 30.2% Mission Giving 100.6% Personnel 70.7% Congregational Care 17.0% Property 68.4% Stewardship 65.2% Worship 48.9% Total Church 71.3%

Treasurer’s Report

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Katherine Weaver Retirement Zoom Party Tue, Nov 17, 11am to 1pm

I/We request ____ Poinsettias at $15.00 per plant qty

In Memory of: circle this if same as last year, Otherwise_________________________________________

Or, In Honor of: circle this if same as last year, Otherwise _______________________________________

Given by: __________________________________________________ As you prefer name to appear in bulletin

Attached is a check in the amount of $_____________________

Help us celebrate Katherine Weaver’s retirement on Tuesday, November 17, 2020, from 11:00am to 1:00pm with a Zoom party. Below is the information to join in:

Phyllis Stutzman is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Katherine W. Retirement Zoom Party Nov 17 @ 11am Time: Nov 17, 2020 11:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 890 1030 8316 Passcode: 380379 One tap mobile +12532158782,,89010308316#,,,,,,0#,,380379# US (Tacoma) +13462487799,,89010308316#,,,,,,0#,,380379# US (Houston)

Dial by your location +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) Meeting ID: 890 1030 8316 Passcode: 380379

Order Your Christmas Poinsettias

Members may order poinsettias to decorate our sanctuary throughout Advent. Plants may be purchased in honor of someone or as a memorial. Deadline to order is November 9, 2020. Make your check payable to Emporia Presbyterian Church. Cost is $15 per poinsettia.

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