Hosanna Cyberline - December 7, 2007

“I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, complete in knowledge and competent to instruct one another.” (Romans 14:14)

Here is the link to This Week at Hosanna for December 9: http://www.welcometohosanna.com/weekly_news.pdf

Here is the link to the December Hotline: http://www.welcometohosanna.com/monthly_news.pdf

This year, the gospel lessons are taken primarily from Matthew. You are invited to read a chapter per week. Here is a link to chapter 1 on BibleGateway.com: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%201;&version=31;
Don’t rush through the genealogy. Here is a link to a Bible Encyclopedia to check out the backgrounds of some of Jesus’ ancestors: http://www.christiananswers.net/dictionary/home.html

This week…

• This Sunday @ 12:30 PM, is the Seniors (50+) Christmas Potluck.
• Also this Sunday: Deadline for returning NAM Holiday Toy Drive bags.
• This Sunday: The Men of Hosanna help CREW pack the Seafarer’s Christmas Boxes @ 6 PM in the Fellowship Hall. Thanks Hosanna! You contributed $1,428; Thrivent contributed another $1,400 for a total of $2,828, enough to fill 105 boxes. (There were 96 last year.) About 8 more men are needed @ 5:15 PM to help organize materials, fill boxes and clean up afterward. Please sign up in the Narthex.
• Rehearsals for the 4:30 PM Christmas Eve children’s service have begun... Sundays @ 9:30 AM in the children's choir room. All children grades pre-k through 6th grade are invited to sing! See you there!
• Hosanna Book Discussion, Saturday, December 15 @ 6 PM in the Conference Room, for a discussion of the medical thriller Crisis, by Robin Cook.
• Saturday, December 15—Deadline for January Hotline Submissions
• Hosanna’s next IHN rotation is Sunday, December 16—Sunday, December 23. Our guests will be staying at the InTown Suites, not at the church. See the back of the green “Welcome” insert to sign up to provide meals, juice and milk. Some dates are still open, especially for lunch ingredients.

Family Life notes from Amber Walker…

• Confirmation Christmas Party—December 15 @ 3 PM at Main Event, 19441 I-45 North, Shenandoah, TX (near The Woodlands). Contact Theresa White for information.
• College Student Get Together—We have missed you! Please join Amber December 18 from 7-8 PM for coffee and conversation in Classroom 5. I want to hear all about what you have been doing.

Other items…

• Good news about the missing steam cleaner... Debbie informed me that it has been returned. Thank you.
• Line up of services on Christmas Eve, Monday December 24:
• 4:30 PM - Service of Holy Communion with Candlelight-Child Friendly
• 7 PM - Festival Service of Holy Communion with Candlelight
• 9:30 PM - Christmas Eve Contemporary Service with Holy Communion and Candlelight

A Little Humor:

Top Ten Uses for Fruitcake

10. Use slices to balance that wobbly kitchen table.

9. Use instead of sand bags during El Nino.

8. Send to U.S. Air Force, let troops drop them.

7. Use as railroad ties.

6. Use as speed bumps to foil the neighborhood drag racers.

5. Collect ten and use them as bowling pins.

4. Use instead of cement shoes.

3. Save for next summer's garage sale.

2. Use slices in next skeet-shooting competition.

1. Two words: pin cushion.

Remember Pearl Harbor and all our veterans who served and are serving.

Dale Bargmann, Hosanna Communictions