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...........................................What's Happening at Oakdale TODAY AT OAKDALE (11-27-2005): Nursery: SS – Dixie Anderson Church – Charity Anderson Today’s Offering: General Fund Next Sunday: Missions TONIGHT AT OAKDALE: Small Groups THIS WEEK AT OAKDALE: WEDNESDAY Paullina Care Center 2:00 p.m. WEDNESDAY: 7:00 p.m. Midweek Ministries Ø Acorn Bible Club thru 6th grade Ø Jr. & Sr. High Student Ministries Ø Koinonia – College & Career Ministry Ø Adult Bible Study FRIDAY Women’s Ministries “A Christmas Cup of Tea” 7 p.m. NEXT WEEK AT OAKDALE: Next Sunday: Pastor John will continue a series for advent Greeters for Dec 4 : Dennis & Sharon Freed – East Door Al & Elaine Visscher – Name tags Ed Florine – South Door LOOKING AHEAD: SUNDAY EVENING SCHEDULE: Nov 27 – Small Groups Dec 4 – Small Groups PAULLINA CARE CENTER Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. Chairman: Jeanette Peters, Faith Brown, Lucille Haase, Eleanor Lundell, Laura Lundquist. TAKENOTE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO: Laura Lundquist, Cody Tjossem (28), Trent Wester, Eric McGill (29), Gertie VanderPLoeg, John Beier (30) THANKSGIVING OFFERING this year goes to seating for the new sanctuary. The amount was $9,653.86. NON-FINANCIAL ANNUAL REPORTS are due the first Sunday in December. POINSETTIAS FOR CHRISTMAS: If you would like to donate a poinsettia for the holidays, there is a sign up sheet in the foyer or you may contact Lynn Ivarson or Alice Anderson. The cost is $10 each with $5 of this being donated by the Beier’s to the building fund. A LADIES BLACK LEATHER JACKET was mistakenly taken from the foyer over the weekend. Contact Verdene if you know where it is. WORK AT THE NEW CHURCH: will resume Tuesday November 29th. CHRISTMAS PROGRAM 2005- Joy to the World: An Oakdale Christmas Celebration will be Sunday night, December 18th at 7:00pm. Prelude starts at 6:45pm and a time of fellowship will follow the program. DO YOU PLAY AN INSTRUMENT? Anyone (adult or youth) who plays an instrument and would like to play in the Mixed Bag Orchestra for the Christmas program (Dec. 18) is invited to a potluck and rehearsal on Sunday, Dec. 11th immediately after the morning worship service. Bring your family and some food to share for the potluck, then instrumentalists will stay for rehearsal. Contact David Brown for more information. EXCITING NEWS! Clint Hogrefe has accepted the call to be Oakdale’s new senior pastor! He and his wife, Greta, will begin serving at Oakdale in January. If you would like to send Clint and Greta a card for the holidays or for Clint’s graduation from seminary on December 16th please use the following address: Clint and Greta Hogrefe / 3067 Rose Street / Sioux City, IA 51103 OAKDALE CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS are still available for purchase. Cost is $15 per ornament. You can pick-up an order form from the display table in the foyer. Ornaments will be here for distribution the night of the Christmas Program(December 18th.) WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE the wedding of our son, John, and Lisa Heanssler on December 17th, in Naperville, Illinois. We will host an Oakdale reception for them in early February. All of us would appreciate your prayers as they begin their life together. Joan and Joe Traylor MINISTRY OPPORTUNITIES: The fall quarter of Adult Sunday School has begun Two classes are being offered, each beginning at 9:30. Joel Anderson is teaching a class entitled "Doing Life Together." This class is for college and career age students, young couples and couples with young families and meets in the parsonage. Gene Peterson is teaching a class in the church basement entitled "So You Want to be Like Christ," with material based on a Chuck Swindoll book. NEED ADDRESSES!! If you have a son or daughter who has gone to college, please inform the church secretary of their new addresses so that she can send them the monthly newsletter BUILDING BOX Finances Total cash received to date: $ 956,178.39 Total cash & pledged to date: $1,204,699.16 Are you aware of the Ketra act passed by congress recently? This could have a very good effect on ALL charitable giving. From now until December 31, 2005 it is possible to use charitable donations to reduce taxable incomes to zero. As it now stands, this is a one-time opportunity with only a few weeks remaining to take advantage of it. Consult your tax planner. Attention all Jr. & Sr. High Students! No Sr. High Small Group tonight. Wednesday Night Youth Group on Nov. 30th- We’ll spend the next 2 Wednesday nights listening to Focus on the Family’s acclaimed radio drama version of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. By doing this we’ll become very acquainted with the actual story before we see the movie. There will be plenty of junk food on hand as we turn out the lights and listen to this awesome story. Feel free to bring your own pillow if you want to get really comfortable! (These sessions will run a little longer than normal. Tell your parents we’ll be finished between 8:30-8:45pm.) Looking Ahead:
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