January/February 2012 Calendar of Events

7:30 – 9:00 Wed. nights Come sing with the choir-everyone is welcome	Choir rehearsal resumes on September 7th
Jan 1	-Women’s Breakfast, 8:00 @ Polimini’s -First Sunday Food Basket & special offering. -council meeting following coffee hour
Jan 6	Epiphany
Jan 8	All committee reports for the Annual Meeting are due today.
Jan 15	-Contemporary service at 10:00 AM -Family N Friends follows lite lunch & program
Jan 22	The Annual Meeting will take place following the church service.
Jan 23	Book Club @1:00-2:30-Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, Alexander Fuller
Jan 27	Free Last Friday Supper 5:00-7:00
Jan 29	Men’s Breakfast 8:00 @ Pam’s
Feb 5	-Women’s Breakfast, 8:00 @ Polimini’s -First Sunday Food Basket & special offering. -Council meeting following coffee hour
Feb 19	-Transfiguration of our Lord -10:00 Contemporary Service in Fellowship Hall -Family N Friends following church with light lunch
Feb 20	-Book Club 1:00-2:30 The Fairy Godmother, Mercades Lackey -President’s Day
Feb 21	deadline for March/April 2012 newsletter
Feb 22	Ash Wednesday
Feb 24	Free  Last Friday Supper 5-7 PM
Feb 26	-Men’s breakfast @ Pam’s 8:00 -First Sunday in Lent

  If you have any questions about these events please call the church at 585-657-7755 or email us at info@firstcongregationaleastbloomfield.org

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Call to Annual Meeting January 22, 2012

The Annual Meeting will be held on January 22, 2012 following the church service.

All committee reports must be in to Bob or Alice McConnell by January 8th.

A light lunch will be available for those who are attending the meeting.

 

Friends 'N' Family

Friends 'N' Family meets on the third Sunday each month with a potluck lunch after the contemporary service.

 

 First Sunday is Mission Sunday

On each first Sunday two offering plates are passed. The wicker plate is a Special offering for outreach to local missions.

You are also encouraged to bring can goods and paper goods for the community Blessings cupboard. Paper products and personal care items are not covered by food stamps and donations of these items is appreciated.

 

 Women's Breakfast is the First Sunday of the month

Women's Breakfast the 1st Sunday of each month. We meet at Polimeni's Diner from 8:00 to 9:00.

Women's Breakfast is open to any woman who enjoys fellowship over breakfast. You don't have to join the group--just come.

 

Book Club, January 23, 2012
We will discuss Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller. In Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness Alexandra Fuller braids a multilayered narrative around the perfectly lit, Happy Valley-era Africa of her mother's childhood; the boiled cabbage grimness of her father's English childhood; and the darker, civil war- torn Africa of her own childhood. At its heart, this is the story of Fuller's mother, Nicola. Born on the Scottish Isle of Skye and raised in Kenya, Nicola holds dear the kinds of values most likely to get you hurt or killed in Africa: loyalty to blood, passion for land, and a holy belief in the restorative power of all animals. Fuller interviewed her mother at length and has captured her inimitable voice with remarkable precision. Cocktail Hour Under Tree of Forgetfulness is as funny, terrifying, exotic, and unselfconscious as Nicola herself.

Free Friday Supper January 27, 2012

The meal is free and open to all who would like to attend. Meal hours are 5:00-7:00. Everyone is welcome. Handicap parking from the parking lot of 5 & 20.

Men's Breakfast last Sunday of each month (January 29)

Men's Breakfast meets from 8:00 - 9:00 on the last Sunday of each month. The breakfast is held at Pam's Diner on Main Street in East Bloomfield. You do not have to join, just come.

 

Book Club February 20, 2012 3:30-5:00

This month's book discussion is  The Fairy Godmother by Mercades Lackey. From the bestselling author of the Heralds of Valdemar series comes an enchanting new novel. In the land of Five Hundred Kingdoms, if you can't carry out your legendary role, life is no fairy tale . . .
 Elena Klovis was supposed to be her kingdom's Cinderella -- until an accident of fate left her with a completely inappropriate prince! Determined not to remain with her stepfamily, Elena set out to get a new job -- and ended up becoming the Fairy Godmother for the land.
 But "Breaking with Tradition" was no easy matter. True, she didn't have to sleep in the chimney, but she had to deal with arrogant, stuffed-shirt princes who kept trying to rise above their place in the tale. In fact, one of them was so ornery that Elena could do nothing but change him into a donkey.
 Still, her practical nature couldn't let him roam the country, so she brought the donkey -- er, the prince! -- home to her cottage to teach him some lessons. All the while keeping in mind that breaking with tradition can land everyone into a kettle of fish -- sometimes literally!
 And so begins a whole new tale . .

Free Friday Supper February 24, 2012

 The last Friday of each month is a free supper for the community. It is open to all who wish to attend. Meal hours are 5:00-7:00. Handicap parking is in the lot off of 5 & 20. All are welcome

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