The OPEN DOOR General Program Budget presented for approval. Assessment Report presented for approval.

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1 The OPEN DOOR LAKEWOOD CHRISTIAN CHURCH (Disciples of Christ) An Open Door to a Vital Faith Celebrations and Happenings Sunday, November 12 Veterans Sunday - Recognition of Veterans Mission Moment Story Book Christmas Thursday, November 16 Steering Board 6:00 pm 2018 General Program Budget presented for approval. Assessment Report presented for approval. Saturday, November 18 Holiday Bake Sale 8:00 am 1:00 pm Cakes, Cookies, Pies - Quilt Raffle Sunday, November 19 Thanksgiving Sunday Thanksgiving Special Offering Thanksgiving All Church luncheon after worship The church will provide turkey, ham, dressing, gravy and drinks Members are asked to bring vegetables, salads and desserts Congregational Nominating Team Report for 2018 church officers General Program Budget for 2018 Assessment Report Presentation Sunday, November 26 Mission Waco/World Biker Toy Pickup Sunday Worship Sunday, December 3 Sunday, December 24 Advent The Coming of the Christ Child Advent Candles of Hope, Peace, Joy and Love Sunday, December 10 Choir Cantata Sunday, December 24 Sunday Worship Special Christmas Offering Christmas Eve Worship 5:00 pm Christ Candle Lit - Carols, Communion and Candle Lighting December 31 Sunday Worship - Welcoming the New Year November 9, Bosque Blvd. Waco, TX Phone: (254) Fax: (254) office@lccwaco.org Rev. Richard Roland Interim Minister Carrie Forehand Choir Director Brad Forehand Handbell Director Cristina Garcia Organist/Pianist Pam Huffstatler Director, CDC Brandi Goddard Administrative Assistant OFFICE HOURS: Monday Friday 7:30am 4:00pm MINISTER S HOURS Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday 9:30am-12:30pm 1:30pm-3:30pm October 29 Sunday -14 Morning Worship 106 Offering $3,333 November 5 Sunday 10 Morning Worship 95 Offering $5,857

2 CWF/DW CORNER Executive Board : Tuesday, November 14, 10 a.m. in the church Fellowship Hall. Lynette and Sue will bring refreshments. Prayer Group: Tuesday, November 21, at the church. Priscilla Group: No meeting until January. BAKE SALE: November 18! We are relying on your baked goods to make this a good fundraiser. We ask each of you to provide 3 items. Valetha will be at the church on Friday, November 17, to accept baked goods. If you want to price your baked goods, that will be helpful. Quilt Raffle: Tickets are $2 each and available Sunday mornings from Valetha Ermoian in the Narthex area. The drawing will be held at the close of the Bake Sale. Christmas Party: Tuesday, December 5, at the Waco Federated Clubhouse on Bosque. It will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a short general meeting to vote on the 2018 proposed budget and officers/committees. A catered dinner will follow; tickets are $15 each and available now from Valetha Ermoian. We will have the traditional ornament or Christmas item exchange. Cost of items is up to $10. It is always an enjoyable evening. Get your ticket and mark your calendar! HAPPY THANKSGIVING--WE HAVE MUCH FOR WHICH TO BE THANKFUL!!! LOAF LOAF will meet on Thursday, December 7, 10 a.m. in the church Fellowship Hall. Ethel Biddle and Jean Vestal are hostesses and they have arranged for entertainment--ralph Sparks will play for us! Plan now to join us for this potluck get-together. Youth Car Wash Our thanks to everyone who let our youth wash their cars after worship on Sunday, October 29 and to everyone who drove by or in church made a donation for the cause. To date, our youth have received over $200 for their efforts. Out thanks to Jennifer Scott, our youth and to everyone else who helped with their event. Lakewood Christian Church, Thank you so much for your generous donation of $ for HEB gift cards, to HOT Veterans One Stop. As you know, needy veterans and their families in our community go without proper food, shelter, and many basic needs, medical care, job search, legal aid. While all of us are susceptible to hard times, veteran s children and older veterans are at most risk, and they make up the largest number of clients we serve. With the generous support of people like you, we will be able to help many of these veteran s families and individuals not only to meet essential daily needs, but to work toward a brighter future with our programs in job search, education, counseling, veteran benefits, civil legal assistance, and finding temporary housing. Sincerely, Delisa Russell

3 Serving Schedule November 12, 2017 OFFERING/LOAF: Roger Bailey CUP/OFFERING PRAYER: Jim Young COUNTING TEAM: Phil Roach Valetha Ermoian SCRIPTURE READER Thad Barker November 19, 2017 OFFERING/LOAF: Thad Barker CUP/OFFERING PRAYER: Phil Roach COUNTING TEAM: Jim Young Sue Lowry SCRIPTURE READER Jim Young * Jennifer Roach visits for Hazel Martin Joe Kendrick Jr., Kirby Pickett, Susan Pardaen, Jarod Baugh, Brenda Kirkpatrick, Rachel Scott, Heath Mosley, Terry Ermoian, Debbie Leaman, Kevin Barker, Everett Alexander, Kris Radcliffe, Rachel Roach, Brett Cook, Janice Kriegel, Stevie Strickland, Alice Young, Nancy Vinson, Cody Rexford Roger & Teresa Bailey C. C. Sirkel, Jr., a colleague and friend of Sue Lowry s, died on Tuesday, October 31 after a long battle with cancer. He was a member of the Waco Founder Lions Club and managed the Lions Park and Kiddieland. Funeral services were on Saturday, November 4. Let s remember his wife Linda and others in the family as well as Sue in our times of prayer. Donya Aviles, Ted Bailey, Charles Beaty, Lawrence & Melba Bowers, Sunny Brous, Jay and Linda Brower, Bill Collins, David Coody, Elizabeth Cordero, Becky Cornett, Casey Daugherty, Earl Delaney, Jerry Dobiyanski, Judy Drivdahl, Betty Dungan, Bill Dyess, Alex Ermoian, Ann Faulkner, Sarah Fielding, Joy Flowers, Calvin Ford, Marian Fraser, Weldon Gibson, Pam Huffstatler, Richard Johnson, Ellen Julsen, Dorothy Kendrick, Janice Kriegel, Nathan Lackey, Lois Landis, George Lange, Barbara Lewandowski, Dale Mautz, Lucretia Meer, Carl Miller, Family of Margaret Needham, Corrin, Joey and Peii Pardaen, Thomas Peasley, Kelly Pickworth, Sandra Raley, Pat Rash, Pat Scott, Nell Sharp, Family of Cindy Shehorn, Michele Siglar, Family of C.C. Sirkel, Russell Snider, Emily Stephens, Jerry Stephens, Betty Wallace, Emily Wettland, Please contact the office with your birthdays, anniversaries, joys, or prayer requests! The MISSION WACO TOY DRIVE is underway! There is a tub in the Narthex marked for toy collection. Jimmy Dorrell's biker group will collect the toys before church on Sunday morning, November 26. Please join this worthwhile project by bringing unwrapped toys for boys and girls, young ones through teenagers. Remember to leave the price tag on the toy. The Toy Store is open December 1-2 allowing low income families to purchase toys for their children. The Store allows struggling families the dignity of purchasing toys at an 80% discount. Parents attend an orientation session to receive their discounted vouchers. Let's make this a big success! New Member We are happy to welcome Mrs. Joyce McCrary into our Lakewood family by transfer from the Church of Christ. She joined on Sunday, November 5 th. She lives at 1101 N. 65 th Street, Waco, Her telephone number is Thank you to Sue Lowry and her two grandchildren, for hosting November s Hospitality Sunday! Our Bell Choir Thanks to our Bell Choir for two beautiful pieces of music, Amazing Grace and More Precious Than Silver, played for our All Saints Sunday worship service on November 5. Their music added greatly to our celebration and the honoring of our families. Members of the Choir are Roger Bailey; James Browning; Carrie, Aiden and Calvin Forehand; Linda Jensen, Linda Mosley and Susan Pardaen. Brad Forehand is the Director of the group.

4 Minister s Insights and Inspiration Thanksgiving and Christmas are exciting, challenging, fun, exhausting and exhilarating times of the year. They are upon us, ready or not! The front page of this newsletter has vital information about Veterans Sunday, our Steering Board meeting, the Holiday Bake Sale, our Thanksgiving Sunday worship and lunch, the Biker Toy Pickup and Christmas. Please give these your careful attention. The other major event taking place is our Congregational meeting following our Thanksgiving worship and lunch on Sunday, November 19. This is a crucial meeting in the life of our congregation. Every member of Lakewood who can needs to be present. Three business items will be presented for consideration and approval. The first is the election of Church Officers for Our Nominating Team made up of Phil Roach, chair; Russell Scott, Gene Hall, Janice Kriegel and Alice Young has nominated a full slate of officers including receiving an affirmation from each candidate that they will serve. Three objectives have guided their work. First, securing adequate leadership for each area of our church life; Second, maintaining continuity to lead us during the transition time in which we find ourselves; and Third, giving new persons in our congregation an opportunity to serve along with the faithful who have served before. The second order of business is the approval of our General Program Budget for The Proposed Budget includes member giving, pledged and non-pledged, of $244,600; additional income from our Child Development Center and restitution of $38,500; Special Outreach giving of $2,100 and Other income of $2,600, a total of $287,800. Expenditures are projected as Mission, $7,100; Congregational Life including worship, Christian education and membership, $13,700; Physical Resources including utilities, insurance and debt retirement, $105,796; Administration, $33,284; and all Staff and childcare (including full funding of $74,120 for a new Senior Minister), $127,920. This is total Expenditures of $287,800. Our General Program Budget for 2017 is $303,974. The Proposed total of $287,800 for 2018 is $16,174 less than for our current year. There will be more detailed information about the Proposed Budget shared in the congregational meeting. The third business item will be the Assessment Report. The Report being submitted to the congregation has been compiled from the information in the original seventy three page Report submitted by our onsite Assessor, Roger McKinney; the responses of the forty seven persons who participated in the Appreciation Inquiry Session; the input from the sixty-five members who participated in the five church/home groups which met four times each during the summer; and a deliberative meeting of Phil Roach; Thad Barker; the Group Leaders of the five Church/Home Groups; Rick Cross, Terry Ermoian, Sue Lowry, Jennifer Roach, and Jim Young; and myself pulling all of the information, comments, and feelings about the future together. The Report being submitted to the congregation consists of an Introduction explaining the process, the History and Current Status of the church, Options related to the future, Recommended Actions and the names of the persons who attended the Appreciation Inquiry Session and participated in the five Church/Home Groups. The information to be shared on Sunday, November 19, 2017 is vital to deciding a future direction for Lakewood Christian Church and calls for action to achieve this objective. There will be no final decision made in the meeting on November 19. Some observations as we approach this significant congregational time together. There is a great love of and commitment to Lakewood Christian Church among its current members and friends. There is a deep, heartfelt concern about the future of the church. There is the realization among many that things cannot continue as they are but an understandable reluctance and hesitation to articulate or discuss what may need to be done to insure a meaningful, ongoing ministry. There is a normal wish that things would stay as they are along with a predictable fear of the unknown to come. So how do we go forward? Remembering that we are God s people, Lakewood is God s church and we are never out of His Holy presence. Loving and caring for each other above all else. Gathering information, raising the vital questions, sorting it out and making the best decision we can with God s guidance. See you in church! Richard

5 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thur. Fri Sat 9 9:00am Waco B Quilters 7:00pm Boy Scout Leaders Veteran s Day 1:00pm Guild Sit and Sew 12 10:30am Veterans Sunday Worship 13 5:00pm Homespun Quilters Guild 14 10:00am CWF Executive :00pm Steering Board 17 10:00am CWF Bake Sale SET UP 18 8:00am 1:00pm CWF Bake Sale 8:00am Foster Parent (Forum) 19 10:30am Sunday Worship Thanksgiving Lunch Congregational :00am Women s Prayer Group Thanksgiving Day Office Closed 24 Office Closed :30am Elders 10:30am Sunday Worship :00pm CDC Program Group 6:16pm Priscilla Group Advent Begins 10:00am Cookie Fellowship 10:30am Sunday Worship 4 6:00pm Quilters Guild Board 5 5:30pm Women s Christmas Party Waco Federated Club House :00am LOAF 8 9

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