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M E S S A G E S A publication of Calvary United Methodist Church, Brownsburg, Indiana

Volume 49 December 2009 Number 12

Todd Outcalt Senior Pastor

Michelle L.

Knight Associate Pastor

Jennifer Evans

Director of Outreach Ministries

Mark Herris Director of

Music Ministries

Alison Camillo Assistant Director of

Music Ministries

Andrew Attwood Director of

Youth Ministries

calvaryunited.org 317-852-2541

Christmas Greetings! Well, for the Christian, it’s always Christmas even though we are making our plans for the full celebration on December 24/25. We already know that Christ has been born anew in our hearts, and for that we give thanks.

I hope you will join me and my family for one of our four Christmas eve services, this year. I am inviting other people in our community, and I hope you will invite others, too. Especially those who don’t have a church home or who may not know God’s love. Let’s show them God’s favor! We will also have communion at all worship times, and I will have Christmas stories for the congregation this year: One spoken and one written! Don’t miss it!

Let’s also bring the best of our gifts to give to Christ!

This year, Christmas Eve Services are: 5:00 pm Family Worship 7:00 pm Candlelight, Carols and Message

Christmas Carol Hymnsing at 6:50 pm Brass Choir, Guest Musicians

9:00 pm Candlelight, Carols and Message Christmas Carol Hymnsing at 8:50 pm

Brass Choir, Guest Musicians 11:00 pm Candlelight, Carols and Readings

Holy Communion will be served at all services.

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Advent Devotionals Advent devotionals are now available. You will find them at the display table in the main hall.

Christmas Poinsettias It is time to order Christmas Poinsettias. The cost for each poinsettia is $10 and may be purchased in memory or in honor of a loved one. Money from the flowers will go toward music for the Christmas Eve services. At the 7:00 and 9:00 pm services, a Brass Choir will be our guest musicians. Order forms are available in the Sunday bulletin or you may call the church office. Orders are due by Sunday, December 13.

Walking to Bethlehem This Advent Season, you are invited to walk along the path to Bethle-hem with Joseph, Mary and the Magi as they follow God’s leading. In his book, “A Labyrinth Year – Walking the Seasons of the Church”, Richard Kautz encourages us to consider the perspective from those who followed God’s call with prayerful meditations as we walk Cal-vary’s Renewal Labyrinth. Join us on Sunday nights from 7:00 until 8:30 pm beginning November 29 in Choir Room. Call Shirley Toth at 892-3745 with questions. November 29 – The Call December 20 – Encountering God December 6 – The Road January 6 – Go Forth! (Please note, December 13 – Obstacles this is a change of date.)

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WORSHIP PARTICIPANTS FOR DECEMBER

Ushers 5:00 pm Jeremy Baugh, Marilyn Brinduse, Gary Irwin, Mark Munroe, Mike Weddell 9:00 am Chuck Clendenen, Greg and Jayne Ann Hill, Greg Moore, Ron Trent, Jim Snapp, Bill Unruh 11:11 am Phil Burkholder, Robyn Maynard, Musick Family Communion Servers 5:00 pm Debbie Irwin, Gary Irwin, Volunteers 9:00 am Jim and Sandy Bettner, John and Pattie Hammerle, Jim and Kahla Snapp, Chuck and Linda Weddell 11:11 am Volunteers

Acolytes Intercessory Prayer Dec 6 9:00 am Spencer Cobb 9:00 am Larry Dunkerly 11:11 am Sawyer Powell 11:11 am Mary Sparling Dec 13 9:00 am Leigha Lawhead 9:00 am Frances Unruh 11:11 am Savannah Powell 11:11 am Cherie McKay Dec 20 9:00 am Adam Hammerle 9:00 am Bill Unruh 11:11 am Kendra STiers 11:11 am Brian Keeney Dec 27 9:00 am Rebecca Fifer 9:00 am Tracy Krutz 11:11 am Hannah Rizzo 11:11 am Tom Wenrick

Greeters PowerPoint Dec 5 5:00 pm Bill / Rakie Hueber 5:00 pm David Fifer Dec 6 9:00 am Bill / Frances Unruh 9:00 am Aeron Hylton 11:11 am Steve / Donna Wantz 11:11 am Logan Camillo Dec 12 5:00 pm Steinman Family 5:00 pm Mariah Truax Dec 13 9:00 am Surufka Family 9:00 am Emily Rigsbee 11:11 am Tom / Martha Wenrick 11:11 am Ross Geddes Dec 19 5:00 pm Marilyn Brinduse 5:00 pm Will Hoggatt Dec 20 9:00 am Paul / Cathy Roche 9:00 am Mark Surufka 11:11 am Marty / Denise Wagner 11:11 am Becky Lheureau Dec 26 5:00 pm No Service 5:00 pm Dec 27 9:00 am Dodie Onken 9:00 am Ethan Truax 11:11 am John / Anita Morrison 11:11 am Andrew Attwood Liturgist Dec 6 9:00 am Frances Unruh Dec 13 9:00 am Katie Starks Dec 20 9:00 am Martha Wenrick Dec 27 9:00 am Sharon Jayne

REMINDER NO 5:00 PM SERVICE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26

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Calvary Women’s Breakfast Club Saturday, December 4, 8:30 am

Elegance Restaurant Join us for fellowship, fun, and good food

the first Saturday of each month.

Writers for Lenten Devotional

We are interested in you writ-ing about the words of Jesus. Please contact Pastor Michelle at mknight@calvaryunited.org, if you are interested in writing for our 2010 Calvary Lenten

Devotional. All contributions to the devotional are due to Pastor Michelle or church office by February 1.

Enough:  Discovering Joy  Through Simplicity and Generosity Begins Tuesday January 19, 7:00 pm 

Ends Tuesday, February 16 Facilitators—Eric & Pastor Michelle Knight 

Five week course for married couples or singles is an invitation to discover the Bible’s wisdom on prudent financial practices.  Find the keys to experiencing contentment, overcoming fear, and dis‐covering joy through simplicity and generosity.  This little book could change your life by changing your relationship to money.  Workbook cost is $12.00.  Please register by Sunday, January 10!   

Financial Peace University will return in summer/fall of 2010!  

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Christmas Eve December 24

5:00, 7:00, 9:00, & 11:00 pm Rev. Todd Outcalt

Charlie’s Chip Luke 2:1-20

1st Sunday of Advent November 28 & 29 Rev. Todd Outcalt

When Jesus Came for Harry Loomis

Luke 21:25-36

3rd Sunday of Advent December 12 & 13 Children’s Cantata Shepherds, Sheep

and a Savior

2nd Sunday of Advent December 5 & 6

Rev. Todd Outcalt The Treasure Luke 1:68-79

4th Sunday of Advent December 19 & 20

Rev. Michelle L. Knight Mary’s Story Micah 5:2-5a Luke 1:39-55

Women’s Angel Tea Saturday, December 5, 2:00-4:00 pm

Fellowship Hall Ladies, bring your teacups to share a cup of tea, and your special angel or two to decorate the table. It will be a time to relax and fellowship between the holidays. Hope to see you there!

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The Calling Committee is busy verifying the names, addresses and sizes of our assigned children. When verification is complete, An-gels will start appearing on the tree. As you pick an Angel from the tree, place your name and telephone number on the Tracking Sheet beside the child’s code. This code is used to match the gifts to the child. Please return the wrapped gift by Thursday, December 10. Thank you all for showing your Chris-tian love to these children whose parents are spending Christmas in prison. If you would like more information or to help deliver their gifts, contact Debra Sims – (317) 294-4330.

Family Ministry December Events Ornaments / Pizza / Movie Friday December 4, 6:00 pm

Fellowship Hall

Caroling / Craft Delivery Sunday, December 13, 5:30 pm

Brownsburg Meadows

Roland Retirement Home Immediately following

This has always been a big hit with the children and the residents.

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Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s “Yuletide Celebration” & Dinner

Sunday, December 13 All Inclusive Cost: $89.00 per person

Leave the church at 12:45 pm “Yuletide Celebration” at Circle Theater Fried Chicken Dinner at the Iron Skillet

Arrive back at the church at 6:15 pm Sign up in the office.

Calvary Computer Clinic Sunday, December 27, 12:00–4:00 pm

Monday, December 28, 8:30 am-4:00 pm Tuesday, December 29, 8:30 am-4:00 pm

Fellowship Hall

Bring your personal computers to Calvary where vol-unteer technicians will install hardware, (you bring), in-stall software (w/original packaging), trouble-shoot is-sues, virus elimination, pc security recommendations with FREE software provided by Microsoft (Security Es-sentials), AVG Anti-virus software, and Spybot Search and Destroy malware protection.

Signature on a Release of Limited Liability form along with a minimum donation to Calvary are needed. All proceeds from the PC Clinic benefit Calvary UMC.

Want to help? Email Eric Knight at eknight@indycar.com

Have a question? Call Eric at 492-8544

First come, first serve

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Got MILK? Yes, we do! Thanks to everyone who donated boxes of dry milk during the month of October for the Kissy clinic in Sierra Leone! Through your generosity, we were able to send 40 boxes toward the collection pro-ject of the United Methodist Women in Indiana. The boxes were picked up by Vickie Newkirk who traveled to Sierra Leone in February 2008 to deliver the 2007th box of milk. She was very appreciative of our assis-tance in keeping this project going!

Calvary collected a total of 152 shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child. Thirteen of the 152 came from the SPARC group! THANK YOU, ALL!

NO 5:00 PM WORSHIP SERVICE Saturday, December 26

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With winter approaching it’s time for the Valet Parking Ministry to start again.  Our first Sunday will be  December 6.  This is a free parking service to make your Sunday morning a little easier.  Anyone who needs a lit‐tle assistance for the morning can drive up to the front entrance and we’ll park your car.  After the service, we’ll 

drive the car back to the front entrance for you.  Our min‐istry team will be there 25 minutes before each service in‐cluding Sunday school.  We look forward to servicing you!  

Volunteers are needed:  Contact Mary Hayes at 852‐9052 or merryhaz@gmail.com. 

Severe Weather Procedures

When the Brownsburg School Corporation closes school for the day due to severe winter weather, all EVENING meetings and activities at Calvary will be cancelled as well.

Should severe winter weather occur on a Saturday or Sunday please check with Channel 13 or Channel 8 television stations or the local radio station for cancellation information. Our church will be identified with “Brownsburg” in the name.

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You’re invited to the “Happy Birthday,

Jesus!”Party

Sunday, December 20, 10:10 No need to RSVP for this party.

Just come to your regular Sunday School Class.

Please bring a gift of a canned or boxed food for the food pantry as we celebrate Jesus’ birthday.

We’ll make a birthday card and ornament, we’ll hear the Christmas story,

and we’ll learn and do other fun things! Of course, there will be birthday cupcakes!

Come join us for a great Sunday School hour!

SPARC (Calvary 4th and 5th graders)

Sunday, December 20, 4:30 pm We will meet at the church to assemble Christmas baskets and then go caroling. Girls bring fruit and boys bring cookies. We should be returning to Calvary around 7:00 pm. Please RSVP to Karen Bettner at 858-0462 or email at pkbettner@aol.com.

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I just wanted to thank your church for the Back-2-School help for my kids. Thank you! Tory, Marvin & Mariah

Thank you so much for the delicious casserole. Larry and I enjoyed every bite. Thanks again for your great ministry. Larry & Judy Dunkerly

This is a message of appreciation to the congregation of Calvary for the great response to the food collection of Sep-tember for Fletcher Place. You are a generous and compas-sionate congregation and Fletcher Place has expressed their appreciation and thankfulness for your help. A special thank you to the staff, the Hoffman’s, and the Waymire’s for their support and help Women’s Ministry of Calvary

Please convey my thanks to those who provided the casserole you brought. Aside from the gift of convenience, it made us feel included and loved! Kendra Smith

Thank you! I just wanted to say thanks to all the ministry teams who participated in the 2009 Annual Ministry Fair “Sign up, Sign up for Jesus” held October 31 and November 1. It was so awesome to see how many ways there are here at Calvary for God’s disciples to live out their faith. A special thanks to all who com-pleted and returned forms pledging to get involved in Ministry. It is not too late to volunteer! In His service, Jennifer Evans

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I am so sorry I have been so long in thanking you for the great chicken/noodle casserole. It has been some months since Pastor Michelle delivered to me. I told her at the time that my appetite was in very bad shape so we put it into my freezer. Finally at the end of September, the chemo treatments were stopped until February. Right now, I’m feeling so much bet-ter complete with improved appetite. Yesterday, I baked the casserole—yummy! Not only was it delicious, it was so gen-erous I have at least 4 or 5 more servings. How very, very nice of you dear ladies to take the time and make the effort to pick up the flagging spirits of an ailing member of the church. I shall not forget your kindness. Thanks again. Meredyth (Merrry) Hollingsworth

We wanted to thank Michelle for stopping by with a yummy casserole and to see our new little family member...Brynn! Fixing dinner is definitely one of the many things that I need to figure out with the 3 kids and hubby. So the casse-role came at the perfect time! Thanks again to our Calvary Family for all of the love and support! We are truly blessed! The Jones Family Stephanie, Tom, Blake, Nathan, & Brynn

I just found the small piece of paper that told about the blessing your VBS was to the pantry. Wow!! Two vans loaded with food. I can just imagine the excitement of the kids as they brought in their can goods for the Pantry. There was joy here as needy families received groceries from the Pan-try. The Lord provides and sustains us in time of need. Thanks, Kids. David Lee Keith, Administrator Cornerstone Christian Church

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For information check out CalvaryStudentMinistries’ website at: www.cumcsm.wordpress.com

YOUTH Sundays 6:30-8p 7-12th grade

Ugly Christmas Sweater Party Dec. 20th 6:30pm

Band of Brothers Tues. 6:30p

Andrew’s House

Women on a Journey

Mondays 7p

Katie Starks’ House

THE CRAZE 7-8th graders Wed. 6-7:30p

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The Calvary family welcomes the arrival of

Katie Ryann Schwein Tuesday, October 27, 2009

8 lbs. 12 oz. 21 1/2 inches long Born to

Will and Erin Schwein and

Sister, Ryleigh

Confirmation 2010 is Coming! Future confirmands (6th grade students who have not been baptized or were baptized as infants/children), please return your registration forms to the church office by Sunday, December 13. If you have not re-ceived a registration form, call the church office today or email Pastor Michelle at mknight@calvaryunited.org. Registration form is available on our website: www.calvaryunited.org.

Important Dates Orientation Class

Sunday, January 10, 10:10 am Choir Room for Parents, Confirmands, & Mentors

(All classes will be held on Sundays at 10:10 am in Choir Room)

Service Project Sunday, January 24

Retreat Saturday, February 27-Sunday, February 28

Confirmation Sunday May 2, 11:11 am

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Carl and Evonne Sutton

Gregg Spellman

NEW MEMBERS