November and December 2025 Specific Calendar Events:

* Saturday, November 1: All Saints' Day

* Sunday, November 2: All Souls' Day

* Sunday, November 2: Council Meeting

* Sunday, November 2: Daylight Saving Time ends

* Monday, November 3 (9:00 a.m.): Women’s breakfast at Brady J’s

* Tuesday, November 4: Election Day

* Sunday, November 9: Stewardship Sunday 

* Tuesday, November 11: Veterans Day

* Thursday, November 20 (9:30 a.m.): The church book club meets in Pastor Sue’s office; they will discuss the novel Tom Lake by Ann Patchett.

Amazon synopsis:
In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.

Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.

* Thursday, November 27: Thanksgiving Day

* Sunday, November 30: First Sunday of Advent 

* Sunday, November 30 (7:45 a.m.): Men’s breakfast at Brady J’s

* Monday, December 1 (9:00 a.m.): Women’s breakfast at Brady J’s

* Sunday, December 7: Second Sunday of Advent

* Sunday, December 7: Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

* Sunday, December 7: Council Meeting

* Sunday, December 14: Third Sunday of Advent

* Thursday, December 18 (9:30 a.m.): The church book club meets in Pastor Sue’s office; they will discuss the novel A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci.

Amazon synopsis:
Jack Lee is a white lawyer from Freeman County, Virginia, who has never done anything to push back against racism—until he decides to represent Jerome Washington, a black man charged with brutally killing an elderly wealthy white couple. Doubting his decision, Lee fears that his legal skills may not be enough to prevail in a case where the odds are already stacked against both him and his client. He quickly finds himself out of his depth when he realizes that what's at stake is far greater than the outcome of a murder trial. 

Desiree DuBose is a black lawyer from Chicago who has devoted her life to furthering the causes of justice and equality for all. She enters a fractious and unwieldy partnership with Lee in a legal battle against the best prosecutor in the Commonwealth. Yet DuBose is also aware that powerful outside forces are at work to blunt the victories achieved by the civil rights era.

Lee and DuBose could not be more dissimilar. On their own, neither one can stop the prosecution’s deliberate march towards a guilty verdict and the electric chair.  But together, the pair fight for what once seemed impossible: a chance for a fair trial and true justice. 

Over a decade in the making, A Calamity of Souls breathes richly imagined and detailed life into a bygone era, taking the reader through a world that will seem both foreign and familiar. 

* Sunday, December 21: Fourth Sunday of Advent

* Sunday, December 21: December Solstice

* Wednesday, December 24: Christmas Eve

* Thursday, December 25: Christmas Day

* Sunday, December 28 (7:45 a.m.): Men’s breakfast at Brady J’s

* Wednesday, December 31: New Year's Eve

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