Sunday, December 15, is Food Basket Sunday. All donations will support the Gifts of Love organization based here in Avon. If you can, please help those less fortunate by bringing in an item or two for the upcoming holiday season. While most non-perishables are accepted, the following is the wish list for the holidays: canned green beans, canned yams/sweet potatoes, gravy, stuffing, canned pumpkin, boxed pie crust, granola bars, diapers, particularly sizes 5 & 6, laundry detergent, toiletries, such as shampoo, deodorant, toothpaste and body wash. Please bring your items to be placed in and around the basket at the communion table on Food Basket Sunday or inside the yellow school bus outside of the office at anytime. They will be delivered to Gifts of Love.
WACC Choir’s Annual Christmas Cantata
Sunday, December 22, During Worship
Please join us for our Christmas concert of Lessons & Carols
featuring piano, string quartet and the WACC Choir.
We will also be debuting a work from our Composer in Residence, Francesco Blackmore.
Sunday, December 22, During Worship
Please join us for our Christmas concert of Lessons & Carols
featuring piano, string quartet and the WACC Choir.
We will also be debuting a work from our Composer in Residence, Francesco Blackmore.
| Soul Sisters Daytime Book Group Monday, January 20 at 12:30 p.m. in the church library. Book: Silver Bay by Jo Jo Moyes Please bring a bag lunch. Anyone is welcome! | Soul Sisters Evening Book Group Wednesday, January 15 at 7:30 p.m. Book: The Hearts Invisible Furies by John Boyne Please bring a snack or beverage to share. All are welcome! |
Bereavement Group: Pastor Brian leads a bereavement group which meets on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month. The next meetings are December 16 and January 6. The group will meet at 2:00 p.m. at The Residence at Brookside located at 117 Simsbury Road in Avon.
Epiphany Sunday: Sunday, January 5, we will have a special reflection in our worship service. Last year for Epiphany, we passed baskets with stars or "Star Gifts" around to the entire congregation. Again this year, everyone will pick a star by reaching into the basket. The Star Gift each individual receives will have a word on it that we will ask every person to reflect upon in the coming year. The congregation is asked to think about how God may be speaking through them with the gift of this word each with its own meaning.
Dining for Women: This program meets once a month to raise funds and support programs that help disadvantaged women. The goal of this organization is to “educate girls, teach women a skill, help develop markets for their products, and fight the prevalent gender inequality in the world. We give a hand up, not a hand out. Dining for Women celebrates the power of the individual to see an injustice and act to change it; to see need and act to fill it. Dining for Women’s members are deeply involved in the programs we support and the problems we seek to address. Our education component is equally as important as our fundraising.” Please contact Susan Lane at (860)675-8664 or selinavon@aol.com for details.
