November & December Specific Calendar Events

* Sunday, November 1: All Saints' Day 

* Sunday, November 1: Council meeting (meets after the worship service)

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

* Tuesday, November 3: Election Day

* Wednesday, November 11: Veterans Day

* Thursday, November 19 (9:30 a.m.): The church book club meets in the Memorial Room; they will discuss the novel The Correspondent by Virginia Evans.

Amazon synopsis: 
“Imagine, the letters one has sent out into the world, the letters received back in turn, are like the pieces of a magnificent puzzle. . . . Isn’t there something wonderful in that, to think that a story of one’s life is preserved in some way, that this very letter may one day mean something, even if it is a very small thing, to someone?”

Filled with knowledge that only comes from a life fully lived, The Correspondent is a gem of a novel about the power of finding solace in literature and connection with people we might never meet in person. It is about the hubris of youth and the wisdom of old age, and the mistakes and acts of kindness that occur during a lifetime.

Sybil Van Antwerp has throughout her life used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings, around half past ten, Sybil sits down to write letters—to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to audit a class she desperately wants to take, to Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the letter.

Sybil expects her world to go on as it always has—a mother, grandmother, wife, divorcee, distinguished lawyer, she has lived a very full life. But when letters from someone in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life, she realizes that the letter she has been writing over the years needs to be read and that she cannot move forward until she finds it in her heart to offer forgiveness.

Sybil Van Antwerp’s life of letters might be “a very small thing,” but she also might be one of the most memorable characters you will ever read.

* Thursday, November 26: Thanksgiving Day

* Sunday, November 29: First Sunday Of Advent

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

* Sunday, December 6: Second Sunday Of Advent

* Sunday, December 6: Council meeting (meets after the worship service)

* Monday, December 7: Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

* Monday, December 7 (9:00 a.m.): Women’s breakfast at Brady J’s

* Sunday, December 13: Third Sunday Of Advent

* Thursday, December 17 (9:30 a.m.): The church book club meets in the Memorial Room; they will discuss the novel The Widow by John Grisham.

Amazon synopsis: 
Simon Latch is a lawyer in rural Virginia, making just enough to pay his bills while his marriage slowly falls apart. Then into his office walks Eleanor Barnett, an elderly widow in need of a new will. Apparently, her husband left her a small fortune, and no one knows about it.
Once he hooks the richest client of his career, Simon works quietly to keep her wealth under the radar. But soon her story begins to crack. When she is hospitalized after a car accident, Simon realizes that nothing is as it seems, and he finds himself on trial for a crime he swears he didn’t commit: murder.

Simon knows he’s innocent. But he also knows the circumstantial evidence is against him, and he could spend the rest of his life behind bars. To save himself, he must find the real killer….

* Sunday, December 20: Fourth Sunday Of Advent

* Thursday, December 24: Christmas Eve

* Friday, December 25: Christmas Day

* Sunday, December 27 (7:45 a.m.): Men’s breakfast at Brady J’s

* Thursday, December 31: New Year's Eve

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