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Announcements - November 26, 2017

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Agape Meal Next Sunday: Next week is Communion Sunday and we will share a meal together after the service. See the back of the announcements for full details about this monthly, all-church meal.

All-Church Prayer Meeting Wednesday November 29: Join us from 6:30-8:00 p.m. at the Handke Center on Wednesday, November 29 for a concerted time of prayer for the ministries of GCF, our cities, and the spread of the gospel among the nations. If you have any prayer requests you’d like us to lift up before the Lord during this time, contact Carmen Gunderson at admin@gcfmn.org. Child care will be available.

Advent Devotional: This year for Advent, we will be offering a four-part, eight-page devotional on the traditional themes of Advent: hope, peace, joy, and love. Each part of the devotional can be used in your families or community groups, and each theme will be emphasized on Sunday mornings beginning on December 3. We have several hard-copies available on the family table, or we can send you a copy of the PDF if you’d prefer. 

Women's Christmas Party Thursday December 7: Ladies, join us for a night of fellowship and celebration on December 7 at 6:30 p.m. We’ll gather at the home of Susan Fergus - 19352 Carson Circle NW, Elk River. Soup and amenities will be provided, but please bring an appetizer, bread, or dessert to share. Also, bring a $5.00 gift for a gift exchange game! Text or call Susan Fergus (763-614-4606) or Shelley Herzog (612-867-9353) to RSVP by December 6. 

Operation Christmas Child - Samaritan’s Purse: We will be collecting shoeboxes for children each Sunday through December 10. Would you like to bless a child in great need? There will be a table with supplies for the boxes, including the red and green shoeboxes. See Samaritan’s Purse suggested gifts for each age group on their website. If you have any questions, contact Julie Springfield, julie.springfield@comcast.net.

Christmas and New Year’s Services: Please join us for our Christmas service on Sunday, December 24 from 9:00-11:00 a.m., our Christmas Eve service on Sunday, December 24 from 5:00-6:00 p.m., and our New Year’s Eve service on Sunday, December 31 from 9:00-10:30 a.m. All services will be at the Handke Center. If you have any questions, you can check out our website, www.gcfmn.org or contact Pastor Charlie, charlie@gcfmn.org.


Next Week's Fighter Verse
For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.
For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord.
So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.
[For to this end Christ died and lived again,
that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.]
Romans 14:7-8 [9] 







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