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… With a flurry of predictions about “blizzard conditions” this week, it seems a little odd to mention planting trees and shrubs,but that is what the Memorial’s Committee talked about at length at its meeting last Saturday.  There isn’t room here to go into detail other than to let you know NCC is working with Landscape Architect and good friend Barbara Berend to solicit ideas to replace the Hawthorn trees and Buckthorn along the sanctuary walls and to tidy up the areas around the parking lot. Stay tuned.

 
… This edition of the Courier has information about the upcoming Talent Show on January 24th. Let me just say that I hope we will have a lively crowd of participants, both as performers and spectators.  This should be a lot of fun.

… There will be small groups meeting for five weeks in February and March. The focus is the book “One Month to Live” by Kerry and Chris Shook.  Please watch for more information in the next Courier and for places to sign up online and here at church.

 
… By now, most all of our members and friends are aware that our much beloved organist and choir director, George Williams, is in the hospital. George has been through the proverbial ringer” and, I am delighted to say, is on the mend. He is undergoing treatment for a reoccurrence of lymphoma, his infamous appetite has returned, and he soon will be getting into a rehabilitation program to gain back his strength and endurance. His wife Barbara has been a firm and loving supporter throughout. Please hold both George and Barbara in your prayers.

 
… I want to offer a word of thanks to all of volunteers for your dedication and faithfulness. Each day I watch you come and go, taking care of things great and small, and without any recognition or fanfare. Miraculously, when the church convenes for worship, fellowship, study or service everything, and everyone, is in good working order. Daily you demonstrate what scripture means when it says we are “the body of Christ.”

…. This coming Sunday, January 18th, at both 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., we will receive new members at Northfield Community Church. If you or someone you know is interested in learning more about church membership, please contact me at dmeyer@northfielducc.org or by calling the church at 847.446.3070.

 
… I don’t think it is an exaggeration to say that these are anxious times.  Know this dear members and friends: the church continues to be as a city set on a hill as a place of light, warmth, welcome and compassion. Certainly we are not immune or indifferent challenges of this world but our perspective is unchanging: it is still God’s world, we still belong to God and God’s are at work in us, among us and beyond us.   

Peace, Duayne