epulse: November 27, 2009

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Advent Dinner and Congregational Meeting

Celebrate the advent season and enjoy a delicious meal at 2PC with your church family. Doors open at 4:45pm. Adult tickets are $7, children under 12 are $4 and the family maximum is $24. Tickets are on sale at the Welcome Center and front desk. The meal will be followed by a congregational meeting at 6pm for the installation of new 2PC officers. Childcare is available for children up to 5-years-old during the meeting. Following the meeting, there will be a program featuring 2PC's children and youth choirs.

Everyone's Invited

Christmas Memorial Poinsettias For Sale (Going on Now)
It's time again to place an order for Christmas poinsettias. If you would like to honor someone's memory with a poinsettia, order cards are located at the Welcome Center and front desk. Poinsettias will be displayed in the Sanctuary for the Christmas Eve services. The order deadline is Sunday, December 13 and the suggested donation is $10. Please contact Terri with questions at 828.6297 or terri.thede@secondpres.info.

Illinois Symphony Orchestra Candlelight Concert at 2PC (12/5)
Take time to slow down and experience the season with ISO's annual Candlelight Concert. Music by Handel, Haydn and Ferrandini will transport us to Christmases of yesteryear, and we join together for our first Messiah sing-along followed by seasonal carols. Call 434.2777 to reserve your tickets today! The concert begins at 7:30pm on Saturday, Dec. 5. 2PC's Chapel Choir will assist in leading the sing-along portion of the concert.

Lessons and Carols Services (12/13)
Hear the Christmas story told through music and scripture in our Lessons and Carols worship services, and please invite your friends! (There will be no 8:15am service, only 9 and 11am.) The morning will include a unique display of Nativity scenes in Fellowship Hall. If you have a special or unique nativity scene you would like to display, please email nancy.harvey@secondpres.info by December 6.

Adult Events

Parents' Morning Out (Event: 12/12, sign up deadline: 12/2)
Kids enjoy a great morning of crafts, games and cookie decorating while parents enjoy some time for Christmas errands! This event is open for children six-months-old through fifth grade. Sign up at 2PC or email ashley.barnish@secondpres.info. The sign up deadline is December 2 and the cost is $10 per child with a $25 family maximum.

Pastors' Open House (12/6)
Enjoy a meet and greet with fellow 2PCers, and get to know the 2PC pastors. Andrea and Dean Kladder will be hosting this year's open house at 609 E. Monroe St. in Bloomington on Dec. 6 from 2-5pm. The Kladders' home is 4 blocks east of the church and parking is available in the 2PC lot. A shuttle will run between 2PC and the Kladder home.

Advent Conspiracy Class (December 6, 13 and 20)
Learn and discuss how to engage more meaningfully in the advent season and Christmas. Worship Fully. Spend Less. Give More. Love All. This class is hosted by dot.com and Merge, but is open to all. This class will meet at 10am in the Parlor on December 6, 13 and 20.

What You Need to Know about Accedia Class (December 6, 13 and 20)
During his sabbatical, Dr. Don Crittenden traversed the unfamiliar ground of accedia, a soul-weariness and an inability to care. Come explore and find the way to care again. This class will meet at 10am in F204.

Presbyterian Women's Christmas Tea (12/9)
All the women of 2PC are invited to a Christmas Tea at Westminster Village. Please join us for entertainment (a special singing group will be featured), carols and fellowship from 1-3pm on Dec. 9. Please contact Linda Schaefer with questions at 662.2030.

Youth Events

High School Christmas Party (12/13)
Get ready to experience the fun of the advent season at the High School Christmas Party on Dec. 13. We'll meet in Grace Hall from 5-7pm for cookie decorating, tree trimming and other Christmas fun. Please email josh.erickson@secondpres.info with questions.

Powerhouse Schedule
Powerhouse will not meet on Dec. 2. Powerhouse will meet on Dec. 9 and Dec. 16. Please email janice.bauder@secondpres.info with any questions.

Kids' Events

Kids of the Kingdom Schedule
Kids OK will not meet on Dec. 2. Kids OK will meet on Dec. 9 and Dec. 16. Please email miranda.frank@secondpres.info with any questions.

Wanted

Unique Nativity Scenes
Do you have unique or special nativity scenes? If so, we would like to put it on display Dec. 13 to accompany the Lessons and Carols services. Please contact Nancy at nancy.harvey@secondpres.info by Dec. 6 if you are interested.

Clad Tidings Donations
2PC's donated clothing supplies for Clad Tidings are in need of replenishing. 2PC is in serious need of Large, XL and 2XL winter coats for men. We also need jeans and boots for men of any size.

Volunteers Needed for H.O.P.E.
Volunteers are needed to work as facilitators in the H.O.P.E. (Helping Others Parent through Education) Program. There are more women in the program than can be currently scheduled, and phone calls are received every day from more young women wanting to enroll. Would you be willing to give three hours a week to help us reach out to these women and their unborn babies? Go to www.hopeforafuture.com or email volunteer@hopeforafuture.com for more information.

Holiday Helpers for YWCA McLean County Senior Citizens
The YWCA will again be providing over 150 holiday gifts to senior citizens participating in their Home Based Services program throughout McLean County. If you are interested in making a donation (either monetary or a requested item) or volunteering to help deliver the gifts, please contact Vicki Hightower at (309) 662-0461 ext. 265 or vhightower@ywcamclean.org.
Deadlines: November 30, contact needs to be made with Vicki Hightower
December 14, gifts needed at YWCA (1201 N. Hershey Rd., lower level)
December 16-December 22, gift deliveries