2025 October 12 Announcements
MONTHLY COLLECTION: Apostolic Christian HarvestCall
CALENDARS: Church calendar, yearly calendar, young group calendar, national church calendar
SERMONS: Audio/Video
SUNDAY SCHOOL COLLECTION ITEM: Dish soap (regular sized bottles) for the Heart House
THIS WEEK’S EVENTS:
Harvest Call sewing will be held this Tuesday from 9:00 to 11:00 am at the Fellowship Hall.
There will be ACTIVE this Wednesday evening. There is a letter with details about Operation Christmas Child in a link at the bottom of the announcements email.
Also, this Wednesday evening we plan to have small group discussions around our church mission and what we value. All attendees and members of our church are invited and encouraged to attend. You can view the discussion questions in the link at the bottom of the announcements email. If you are unable to attend the discussions on Wednesday evening, you can submit answers to the questions to Bro. Jeff Wiegand.
This Thursday, October 16th we will have a singing and activity night at the Eureka AC home upstairs activity room at 6:30 PM - It has been several years since our church family has been actively involved with the Eureka AC home residents, and we would like to rekindle that and continue to support our church family who reside there. The stewardship committee talked with the residents, and they said they desired a mixture of singing, and conversing or playing games with our church family. We’ve decided to have a 15-to-20-minute time of singing around the piano together. And then the rest of the time would be for conversing or playing games together. We will have tables with games set up. We plan to have these evenings 4 times per year on a Thursday evening. We look forward to spending time with our loved ones at the Eureka AC Home. Please contact Bro. Derek or Sis. Joy Roth with any questions.
It is Goodfield’s turn to have Sunday morning services at the Eureka AC Home each Sunday in October. These services begin at 8:45 a.m. Please come help sing and support our ministers if you are able.
LOCAL ANNOUNCEMENTS:
There are some dishes on kitchen counter that haven’t been claimed for over a month… they’ll be taken to goodwill if they’re still there at the end of this month.
The Eureka Home Auxiliary would like to thank the Goodfield congregation for their prayers, financial support, and help. This year’s Family Fest was a great success. We praise God!
When we approved the changes to our bylaws a couple of months ago, a portion of the packet that you were given to approve was accidentally left out when it was sent to the state of Illinois. By state law, to add that portion to our bylaws and constitution that is registered with the state, we must vote again. They consider this a new submission even though we approved the bylaws and constitution in its entirety. We plan to vote again on the same packet right after morning church on October 26th. We will give opportunity for the Sunday School teachers to vote as well. If you remember, we need 60% of the membership to vote to make it official.
Thank you for your patience yesterday as we tried cafeteria style church lunch. Here are a few points to remember:
· We are not insinuating that we are switching to this style of serving lunch. It has been suggested numerous times as many other AC churches are offering it, and we need to be open to the possibility.
· As we analyze our facility and try to plan for the future, we need to see current and potential pain points. Some things have to be experienced and not just imagined.
· If we choose to offer this style of serving in the future, it will be decided by a committee using the information that we collect this fall. Constructive feedback is critical. Please be aware that any feedback that is shared will be copied into a shared document word for word for various committees to sort and organize.
· Until a building committee chairperson is designated, you can send your feedback to Bro. Jeff Wiegand at successbyservice@gmail.com.
For our Goodfield church visioning and building remodel project, we will have a small group discussions on Wednesday, November 5th in place of our regular service. The discussion will be around our facility and how we can change or improve the facility to better accomplish our mission. All attendees and members of our church are invited and encouraged to attend.
NATIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS:
If anyone has an item to go to the Hospital Lumiere auction, they can get it to Bro. Greg or Sis. Jill Wagner and they will take it to Gridley. The Amazon wish list below allows items to directly be sent to Gridley.
Please mark your calendars for the Hospital Lumiere In person Auction on Nov. 14 in Gridley. Online auction will be Nov. 6 – 8. For questions, talk to Bro. Greg or Sis. Jill Wagner.
For more information about the Auction, both online and in person: https://www.harvestcall.org/benefit-auction.
Dates:
· Online/Virtual Auction will be held Nov 6-8, 2024.
· In Person Auction will be Nov. 14, 2024 – at The Water Tower, Gridley, IL
We are in need of items to donate – You can go to the Amazon link to buy and send items to Bro. Clark Stoller in Gridley. Thank you for any donation!
REPENTANCE ANNOUNCEMENT:
We are rejoicing that Annalise Wettstein has turned to the Lord in faith and repentance. Please pray for and encourage Annalise in her walk of faith. She is the daughter of Bro. Wade and Sis. Hallie Wettstein.