LATE BREAKING ANNOUNCEMENTS
(More announcements are in the monthly newsletter, available in the narthex)

Here is today’s Sunday school schedule:

2-3 year olds Room B-202

Pre K & KRoom B-203

1st and 2nd gradersThe Welcome Table (B-119,

Kitchen)

3rd gradersGood News Games (B-210)

4th gradersCreation Corner (B-206)

5th gradersGood News Games II (B-214)

6th and 7th gradersLile Hall (C-106)

8th gradersStay in worship

9th -12th graders57 New England Ave.

(house next door)

PROGRESSIVE DINNER, February 9th, 2007:

All adults are welcome, members, new members or prospective …

We hope you can join us for the annual progressive dinner. Invitations are being sent out this week. Let us know if you do not receive one (more available in the office).

Don't miss this fun event which starts at 6:00 with cocktails and appetizers at the home of Stacey and Gage Olcott, 194 Oak Ridge Avenue, Summit.

We then break up into smaller groups for dinner at 8:00. Dinner Hosts include Cynthia and Terry Baker, Ann and Dennis Bushe, Mary and Tom Cummins, Kay and Sherman English, Karen Holland & Mark Jenkins, Nora and MikeMacMillan, Brooke and Tom Loughlin, Deborah & Richard Previdi, Sandi Schroeder& Richard Poole, Carolyn & Dave Sebastian, Deanna Smeltz and Jamil Nazarali, and Penny and John Vigilante (*we will assign guests ).

Kate and Chuck Rush at 10 Stony Hill Court, Summit host dessert at 10:00.

Don't miss this fun evening. It's a great way to spend time with old friends and make some new.

Please RSVP to Kristi Wagner.

(Kristi_m_wagner@yahoo.com or 277-2726)

Please let us know if you will bring an appetizer or dessert. Dinner and wine will be provided.

Price per person is $35

Thanks from Bridges: This year, with the help of many donors and volunteers, Bridges distributed over 1,200 gifts – that’s about 300 more than last year !On behalf of our homeless friends who received gifts thoughtfully purchased and beautifully wrapped by members of Christ Church, thank you. Enthusiasm around the truck escalated as the decorated packages were handed out one by one. Six shelters or groups working with children in need in Newark, Irvington and Summit, representing over 500 children, received hundreds of new toys and new pajamas. The children and their parents were overjoyed.

We offer a special thanks to the Christ Church Sunday school children who were especially busy this holiday season making fleece pillows for sheltered children, breakfast bags and toiletry kits for our homeless neighbors.

Through your generosity this holiday season, you have made our homeless friends, who may not otherwise have received a gift, extremely happy. Thank you for helping us to make this a season of joy and heartfelt giving. Best wishes for the new year.

Lois Bhatt, Executive Director, Bridges

NEW ACOLYTE TRAINING: If your child is in the 3rd grade or older, he or she can take part in the church service as an acolyte. There will be a training session for interested children on Sunday Feb 3rd at 10:45 am, which should only take a few minutes. Please sign up in on the bulletin board (between the sanctuary and the atrium) to participate.

Volunteer Opportunities Available at Christ Church: Please visit the church webpage at www.ccsnj.org/volunteering.html for volunteer opportunities through the Board of World Fellowship, such as World Vision, Nicaragua and UCC in Plainfield and also opportunities with organizations at the church such as The Summit Learning Academy, Bridges and Good Grief.