November and December 2024 Specific Calendar Events:


* Friday, November 1: All Saints Day

* Sunday, November 3: All Saints Day (observed)

* Sunday, November 3: Daylight Saving Time ends (turn your clocks 1 hour back) 

* Sunday, November 3 (11:30 a.m.): Church Council meets. We will have Fellowship Hour prior to the meeting start

* Monday, November 4 (9:00 a.m.): Women’s breakfast at Brady J’s

* Monday, November 11: Veterans Day

* Sunday, November 17 (after service): Fellowship, treats & board games

* Thursday, November 21 (9:30 a.m.): The church book club meets in Pastor Sue’s office; they will discuss the novel Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane.

Amazon synopsis:
In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of “Southie,” the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart.

One night Mary Pat’s teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn’t come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances.

The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched—asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who don’t take kindly to any threat to their business.

Set against the hot, tumultuous months when the city’s desegregation of its public schools exploded in violence, Small Mercies is a superb thriller, a brutal depiction of criminality and power, and an unflinching portrait of the dark heart of American racism. It is a mesmerizing and wrenching work that only Dennis Lehane could write.

* Sunday, November 24 (7:45 a.m.): Men’s breakfast at Brady J’s

* Sunday, November 24 (after service): Christmas decorating 

* Thursday, November 28: Thanksgiving Day 

* Sunday, December 1: First Sunday in Advent

* Sunday, December 1 (11:30 a.m.): Church Council meets. We will have Fellowship Hour prior to the meeting start.

* Monday, December 2 (9:00 a.m.): Women’s breakfast at Brady J’s

* Sunday, December 8: Second Sunday in Advent

* Sunday, December 15: Third Sunday in Advent

* Saturday, December 7: Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

* Thursday, December 19 (9:30 a.m.): The church book club meets in Pastor Sue’s office; they will discuss the novel Where Angels Go by Debbie Macomber.

Amazon synopsis:
Shirley, Goodness and Mercy are back! These three irresistible angels love their assignments on Earth. They especially love helping people who send prayer requests to Heaven (even though the Archangel Gabriel, their boss, knows they’re going to break his rules)!

This Christmas, Mercy is assigned to bring peace of mind to an elderly man who discovers an unexpected answer to his prayer.

Goodness is sent to oversee the love life of a young woman afraid to risk commitment a second time.

And Shirley has the task of granting a little boy’s fondest Christmas wish.

Shirley, Goodness and Mercy go wherever they’re needed. These three charming angels often find themselves in trouble, but somehow things always work out for the best, especially at Christmas.

* Saturday, December 21 (7:45 a.m.): Caroling at the ARC

* Sunday, December 22: Fourth Sunday in Advent

* Tuesday, December 24 (7:00 p.m.): Christmas Eve service

* Wednesday, December 25: Christmas Day

* Sunday, November 29 (7:45 a.m.): Men’s breakfast at Brady J’s

* Tuesday, December 31: New Year’s Eve

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