CHANTICLEER February 2021

Chanticleer First Congregational Church, UCC Charlotte, MI

FEBRUARY 2021 Volume 94 Issue 2

On the web at http://www.ucccharlotte.org

pg 2 Pastor’s News

pg 3 Book Discussion

pg 4 February Worship

pg 5 Annual Meeting

pg 8 Giving & Finance

pg 9 In Case You Missed it

pg 10 Mission Report

pg 11 Green Team &

Commons

pg 12 & 13 Devotionals

pg 14 Church Family

News

We continue in virtual worship. Sunday service will be available at 10am on Facebook

and will also be available on our website later in the day. http://www.ucccharlotte.org

Check out past services anytime, we are just a click away!

Coffee Hour and meetings will be at our ZOOM site https://zoom.us/j/5175431310 pass 1851

February Worship pg 4

Wednesday Feb 17 Pg. 6

Motown Discussion pg 7 February 16

Book Discussion pg 3 February 28

Annual Meeting 11:30am Sunday Jan. 31

pg 6

Missions Report pg 10

pg 8 & 9

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Dear Members and Friends,

February is known for its inconsistent weather. Likewise the important days of February are diverse. We have groundhogs and lovers. There is the focus on Presidents and even one for a scientist (Darwin Days and Charles Darwin). It is Black History month. This year we have the beginning of Lent. If this were a more normal year we would also be celebrating Nordic Days—the Vikings are coming. Thankfully in Michigan there is no pillaging in their wake. Many of these intersect with plans at church. There is even a groundhog that takes up residence in the pastor’s office at this time of year.

With all that variety, I find myself thinking about love. It’s a good churchy word that is not limited to February 14. It is one of the defining words used to describe the nature of God. God loves us. We love each other. We are called to love our enemy. We are to love. We are to be love.

We act, think, talk, pray, love.

We even like to sing about it. Think of “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” or the one we teach our children: “Jesus Loves Me.” Earlier, you probably thought I was beginning to quote “Jesus Loves Me”. Maybe I was. Maybe you are now singing it in your head.

Love is about God and it is about ourselves and God. I am also quite aware that it is often the best part of our relationship not only with God but one another.

In life we know of love with God, with friends, but also with that special other person. In church we don’t often talk about this kind of love. Especially the one that is called passion—all consuming. It’s a wonderful feeling. Sadly passion is all too often short lived and burns out. There is another form of love, usually reserved for that special “other” that is deep seeded and grows over time. Deeply rooted it can withstand drought and storm as it grows and grows. Ideally passion is the seed that grows into such love and that people who have deep seeded love for one another periodically are overwhelmed by passion. May you know or have known both kinds of love.

Most of you who read this have had a beloved in your life. I encourage you to think about and cherish that relationship whether past or present. Now a simple assignment that will apply to a few of you: Do you and your beloved have a special song that you think of as your song? If you do, send me a note with the title of your song and why it is important to you. I might just use a few of these in relationship to worship on Sunday, February 14—so I need them at least one week in advance. Virtual services are usually completed one week in advance.

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Another assignment—a little different in nature—many of you have had children. Do you remember holding your baby in your arms and being overwhelmed in love, so much so that you started singing. What did you sing? Do you remember your heart in your throat? Would you be willing to send those words to your pastor—he might use some of these in relation to worship on February 14. Again, he needs these at least one week in advance.

Final thought: I think of one of the phrases we use Christmas Eve, “Love is of God and everyone who loves, is born of God and knows God.” How beautiful.

As Paul said at the end of First Corinthians 13, “Faith, hope, and love but the greatest of these is love.”

Love,

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Pastor Bruce

The Truths We Hold An American Journey

By: Kamala Harris

A First Congregational Church, UCC Event Discussion led by Cea Noyes, J.D.; Olivet College

Sunday, February 28; 1:00-2:30 via ZOOM

https://zoom.us/j/5175431310 pass 1851

Consider yourself invited to locate, obtain, and read a copy of the book written by Kamala Harris. Kamala is the daughter of immigrants who is now Vice President. It seems relevant to engage with her book which highlights her core truths and values. This selection is also in honor of African American History month. Cea Noyes is the Chair of Social Science Department at Olivet College where she is also a professor of Sociology and Anthropology.

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February Worship By Pastor Bruce As I look ahead to February, I am uncertain as to whether we will be returning to in person worship or continuing with virtual worship. I have decided to operate from a model of assuming that worship will remain as it has been in December and January. If we return to in person, the themes will remain the same while the setting and elements will naturally change. Sunday, February 7: Healing--The Gospel lesson for the day from Mark (Mk 1:29-34) lifts up Jesus the healer. The setting for the day will be medical in nature. Bob Miller will be the liturgist. Sharon Oatman and Sylvia Bittner, accompanied by Bob Bitner, will be sharing the piece, “I Lift My Hands” by Chris Tomlin. Sunday, February 14: It’s Valentine’s Day, and of course the gift for your beloved is to share worship with them. Naturally, the theme will be love. The message will be developed around John 3:16-17 (the Gospel lesson for the day) and a few verses from The Song of Solomon. Don Sovey is teaming up with the soloist of his band, Alexis Stark, and possibly a few other band members and recording a love song for us. It might be religious, then again it might be some other kind of a love song or ballad. Sunday, February 21: Think Darwin. Think Evolution. About this time of year, I like to have a service that is in the spirit of Darwin, I often call it “Evolution Sunday”. This year I have been thinking about a 1925 court trial that took place in Dalton, Tennessee often referred to as “The Scopes Monkey Trial.” If virtual, expect the message to incorporate the historic courtroom next to our church. The historic case related to the “Scopes Monkey Trial” began as a publicity stunt has had long term impact. For homework, you might consider watching the 1960 film, Inherit the Wind. Sunday, February 28; Redemption Song. This is one of those “Uh Oh” services as I bravely or foolheartedly said to Curt Scott, “Sing a song in worship that you have wanted to sing, and I will make it work.” He and a friend of his, Adam Droscha, are going to be singing Bob Marley’s Redemption Song. If you do not recognize the name, Bob Marley, he was a Jamaican singer and songwriter who helped to pioneer reggae music. Many think of him as one of the great poets of the 20th century. Not only will worshipers have the pleasure of seeing Curt (and Adam) doing reggae, but also see if I successfully meet the challenge. Setting for the message? Currently, clueless.

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COVID-19 Survey For February, the COVID-19 Committee decided to continue with Virtual Worship as the primary worship experience. They will re-visit this in a meeting on February 10, discussing what to do in March. To assist with that process your input will be helpful. A link will be sent to you in the Tuesday E-mail to respond to the survey questions. If you are able to respond via the internet, that is most helpful for us. For those who do not have internet access please call the church office at 517 543 1310; send your responses via mail to the church at 106 S. Bostwick St., Charlotte, MI 48813, or drop them off at church during office hours. The deadline to submit responses to the survey is midnight; Sunday, February 7.

Following are the questions: 1. Your Name: 2. If we returned to in person worship in March, how comfortable would you be attending? Please rate it on a scale of 1 - 5 with “1” being “Not Comfortable” and “5” being “Very Comfortable”. 3. If we returned to in person worship in March, how likely would you be to

attend? Please rate your answer on a scale of 1 – 5 with “1” being “Not Likely to Attend at this time” and “5” being “Planning on Attending” 4. What can we do that would be helpful to you during this pandemic?

Annual Meeting Sunday, January 31 11:30 AM via Zoom

Zoom Meeting: 5175431310 Passcode: 1851 The plan is to send out Annual Meeting Reports with the Tuesday, January 26 E-mail

Hard copies should be available in the entrance to the Annex as of Tuesday, January 26

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Ashes with a COVID-19 Twist

Ash Wednesday, February 17 11:00am - 1:15pm

A Spiritual Experience: Burning of the Palms & Blessing of the Ashes

11:00 AM; The Commons

We will gather around a fire pit (moved under the shelter if raining); hear the story of last year’s palms and it is those palms that are used to make the ashes for this year. Burn

those palms so that they can be used for this year’s ashes. Bless one another as we share the mark of ashes on the forehead, the back of a hand, or not at all. These palms will then

be used for Part 2.

Part 2: A Drive Through: A Cup of Soup & The Mark of Ashes

Only a minute or two and you have been spiritually blessed and physically nurtured.

11:45-1:15 The West Side of the Church

It really is a drive through experience. We will be giving each person who passes through

a bowl of Vegetable Soup (gluten free) and the mark of ashes, optional (placed on the forehead or back of hand).

ALL are welcome. Its FREE. Really! No hidden offering.

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Motown Records was founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in 1959, and incorporated as Motown Record Corporation in 1960. Its name, a blend of motor and town, has become a nickname for Detroit, where the label was originally headquartered. Motown played an important role in the racial integration of popular music as an African American-owned label that achieved crossover success. Gordy's interest in the record business began

when he opened a record store where he hoped to "educate customers about the beauty of jazz", in Detroit, Michigan. Come enjoy the music and discussion in Curt’s Tuesday night class he shares his music expertise and historical hind sight Tuesday, February 16, 6:30 pm Annex Large Meeting Room.

From Curt Scott: The twin arrows that hit Motown were the blatant racism of MTV and deregulation. While six, suddenly unregulated media companies gobbled up local radio, all of them owned and operated by White men, MTV decided that black music was bad for business in Topeka and only showed black artists after the kids were in bed.

By 1982, everyone in America was beginning to hear national radio programming rather than local musicians, especially black musicians. Protest music was taken off the airwaves entirely, leaving Aerosmith and Journey singing about nothing bleaker than high school love. Soldiers shooting protesters in Ohio, the horrors of War, pointing out who was dying, and black people singing about how bad ghettos are was taken off the airwaves. Hip Hop was the image of black people that white executives, producers and owners wanted to project, and profit from. One music executive, Steve Barnett, who ran Capitol Music’s Motown acquisition, played an outsized role. Like generations of plantation owners, he preferred watching black people dance.

Al Greene took a day job in Atlanta. Sly Stone lost everything but his life. Stevie Wonder, arguably the greatest composer of his generation, disappeared to the dustbin of office music after "Songs in the Key of Life," despite that album being Certified Diamond for selling more that 5 million copies.

They were all too truthful for the Monopoly of 6. "Isn't She Lovely" was acceptable, (if listened to at office volume or without words in an elevator). "How Come, How Long" and "Big Brother" were silently and without a vote banned along with the other 30 protest songs Stevie Wonder wrote. Songs in the blood of millions, like "Living for the City," disappeared so that children and voters would not hear them. That's what happened. The beginning, middle and end of Motown all point to the systemic, corporate nature of racism in America. The loss of Motown was no less than the stifling of black musicians whose truths were getting too loud.

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2020 Expected ANNUAL Income from Pledges/Gifts etc: $193,035.00

Budgeted Expenses 2020 $199,730.00

Dec. 20, 2020 report:

December Unrestricted Income received: $ 25,706.41

December Unrestricted Expenses: $ 23,374.66

2020 Unrestricted Income received: $ 206,504.99

2020 Unrestricted Expenses: $ 197,902.46

2020 NET: $ 8602.53 Full Budget Report in Three -ring

binder located in the annex library

Advent happened, Christmas happened, New Years Day happened and there was so much to be thankful for, but it does just feel somehow like we were hibernating. So …. In case you missed it:

Wonderful sermons and songs can be revisited on our web site at the “Sermons” page.

Pastor Bruce did an excellent job and seemed to enjoy the opportunity of interacting with a location and allowing the location to help define a message. Matt Slot and crew worked to blend songs and messages and they came together wonderfully and are worth a revisit. "Among the Sheep", December 27, is one Sunday worth revisiting. Local shepherd, Pat Tirrell, shared her farm for this message. Watch this one for the special gift of Jeannine Scott singing a Japanese Christmas Carol (English version) acapella among the sheep.

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Financially Speaking If you fall into that category of being an individual who has IRA’s and are required to take money out or experience penalties; you may be able to make a gift directly to the church and minimize your tax exposure. Some IRA’s can write the check directly to the recipient, in this case the church or other not for profit. You get credit for the withdrawal. It does not count as income, thus you save any related taxes. The organization that receives gives you the credit.

Naturally, before acting on this suggestion, consult your financial advisor.

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On December 20th, the sermon “Ho Ho Ho”, Sharon Oatman and her sister Sylvia performed a ‘modern’ song “ "Light of the Stable”, which was first published in 1975 and originally recorded by Emmylou Harris. You can binge watch services and hear beautiful music and revisit some beautiful holiday decorations and heart warming messages.

Some events were not recorded but worth anticipating a repeat next year.

The Animals’ Christmas (in case you missed it) Submitted by Helen Schneider

One of the new outdoor activities Pastor Bruce created and organized to observe Advent 2020 in a safe way was an Animals’ Christmas at Camp Francis on December 13th. Ten of us met there, wearing face masks, and made bird feeder “ornaments” at the picnic tables. We spread peanut butter on pinecones, rolled them in bird seed, then tied loops of yarn at the top of each one. There were garlands of cranberries (thank you, Diane H., for stringing those) and rolls of pet store food for small critters.

Pastor Bruce gave us service bulletins containing passages from Isaiah, concepts to ponder, and the words to two carols. After a prayer, we followed a path that led around the edge of a large section of hardwood trees. He asked us to find a tree to decorate with our pinecones, etc. We stopped and listened at several points while people read the verses of Scripture aloud.

There were no evergreens in that section of the park. Instead, we found two young beech trees on opposite sides of the path and adorned them with our critter treats. We stood around them and sang “O Christmas Tree” and “Jesus Our Brother, Strong and Good” (a carol about animals at the manger scene). After we returned to the parking area, there was an opportunity for reflection and prayer.

The healing power of nature and the joy of being in it, surrounded by God’s creation, was so needed by some of us this year. Against a backdrop of loss, national tension and uncertainty, we experienced peace, beauty, and harmony. Our faith challenges us to be part of the effort to restore hope, good will, and peace.

Thank you, Pastor Bruce, for your creativity and all the time you put in to give us options to experience and think about Advent and Christmas in new ways. I hope the Animals’ Christmas will become a new tradition for our church.

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The Giving Tree is back! (now located in the Annex)

February - Sheets & Towels March - Shoe box Ministry supplies

Games Snacks Crafts

Monthly Giving Tree

Mission Moment White bags were delivered in early January. There were 24 bags that we divided between SIREN/Eaton, Helping Hands, and EFCC. Thank you to those who donated to this project. The Giving Tree for February will continue to be sheets and towel

sets. There are several already which is nice to see. Thank you. March will be spring shoe box supplies. We will need those no later than March 17. April will be items for a baby dresser. More information will be coming on the dresser as it gets closer. Spring Shoe ministry is shoe boxes filled with games, books, crafts and single serve snacks and what ever this creative congregation can imagine and donate. It is for students not fortunate enough to go on spring break vacations. The boxes will be assembled March 18 with delivery either that day or the 19.th The Nordic Fire Festival has been cancelled for this year. In the past we have given out free hot chocolate and cookies. The Home and Business Expo is planned for May this year and will be held at the fair grounds for more space and more air flow. We usually have a table set up for this. More information as this gets closer.

Walk for Warmth is usually held in Feb. It will be virtual this year. If you would like to make a donation to this you can send it to the church indicating what it is for or you can donate on line.

One Great Hour of Sharing is scheduled for March 14th this year. More information will come out in the March Chanticleer and the bulletin.

Stayed Tuned! Mary Normand, chair

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Donations Needed An Event in the form of an Auction to

Nurture the Arts in the Commons When: Second half of April

This is an idea in the early phases of development, we are putting this out early because some items take time to make and create.

Purpose: To raise resources for new summer programming that utilizes The Commons and highlights the Mission and Ministry of this congregation. It might support an individual or a group. It could be a story teller, musician, band, group.

Kinds of Items for Auction (let’s think creatively): quilt, wall hanging, afghan, art

piece, home crafted wood item. It could be a baked item made to order: baklava (a pan is already offered), a birthday cake, other baked item. Expand the idea, maybe you want to offer a home cooked meal; either in your home or to be delivered. Maybe you have a favorite, specialty restaurant at one of those distant places, to which you are willing to take two people as your guests (your Pastor might just do some research on finding a Lebanese Restaurant that serves Lebanese Mezza style); maybe you own a cabin for which you would be willing to auction a weekend or a week; the pastor will be offering a service for which you would have choice of theme and hymns; what about offering a service of some kind; if you are a musician, maybe you want to provide an hours worth of music for a party or gathering—you see, there are lots of possibilities. Think creatively. Planners may not accept every proposal.

To submit a suggestion, contact Amy Frost, frosta@pennfield.net.

From the GREEN TEAM: A friend of mine forwarded this to me, and I like what this organization is doing for a number of environmental issues, especially plastic recycling. Very innovative ideas. This is a year-long challenge from BRIGHTMARK about reducing waste. They’ll email you a new idea or habit to practice every two weeks. I signed up, and I thought you might like to as well. Ramona

This Month’s Tip: Turn on the Fan Turning on a fan during the winter helps to improve the distribution of the heat in a room. Which means you can turn your thermostat down and will consume less energy. Saving money and energy, win-win!

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Glimpses of Glory

Donna Schaper

Listen to me, O coastlands, pay attention! … And God said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.” But I said, “I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity.” - Isaiah 49:1 & 3-4 (NRSV)

Jean Montrevil was deported to Haiti three years ago this month. A member of our congregation and proud father of three in our Sunday school, a successful businessman and entrepreneur, even across the distance he has kept his sense of humor and his childcare payments going. He started a restaurant in Haiti called Donna’s where the squash soup is the best anywhere in either hemisphere. Soup Joumou joins pumpkin or squash, coconut milk, spicy spices. Haitians weren’t allowed to eat it on New Year’s Day until they achieved independence from the French in 1804.

We are trying to get Jean a pardon. (If you want to join this campaign, just come on to www.judson.org to find out what you can do for the final 11 days of the month. Yes, it is a long story.)

But listen first to the scripture. It is addressed to those who feel as though they have worked in vain. Jean works harder than anyone I know and fears that his work is in vain. But then he listens with the coastlands, with Rockaway in NYC, and with the shores of Haiti. And he hears God guarantee that God will be glorified through him.

God’s glory is often most visible in the kidnapped and the oppressed, those picked up outside their home on their way home from their day job to go to their night job.

How to glimpse that glory? We help people like Jean come home.

Prayer

Whenever we get self-obsessed, O God, remind us of your people like Jean. Let us join all the bring-Jean-home campaigns. Amen.

from Still Speaking DAILY DEVOTIONAL (www.ucc.org/daily-devotional/)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Donna Schaper is Senior Minister at Judson Memorial Church in New York City. Her most recent book is I Heart Francis: Letters to the Pope from an Unlikely Admirer.

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Living a New Story from Daily Devotions by Fr. Richard Rohr

True conversion doesn’t happen just because we change our minds about something. Our choices won’t change until we truly believe a more compelling story. And as much as we want it to, the world won’t change until we ourselves become active participants in the expansion of consciousness and the restoration and healing of all things. This week’s practice from Brian McLaren provides steps we can take toward living a New Story.

If we disbelieve the dominant framing story and instead believe Jesus’ good news of the kingdom of God, we will suddenly find ourselves making new personal decisions—not because we have to, as a duty, but because we want to, because we are now liberated from the cramped possibilities of the old framing story. . . . “Saved by our faith,” we will pray differently. Prayer will cease to be a technique for enlisting God to help us “make it” in the dominant system; it will instead become a way of bathing our inner world in the transforming presence of God, a way we seek to be shaped by the new framing story, the new reality, the good news, so that we can be catalysts bringing transformation to the dominant system.

If we disbelieve the old framing story and believe the good news, we will also work differently. When we realize that the most powerful world-changing work we can do is simply to believe, as Jesus told his original disciples (John 6:29), we experience liberation from panicked, frantic, desperate, incoherent, and often fruitless or counterproductive action. We rediscover Sabbath and rest and even play, and we come to our work with a new sense of energy and purpose. We will no longer be “just” anything—just a homemaker, just a laborer, just an accountant, just a kindergarten teacher. No, whatever our work, we will do it as agents of the kingdom of God, builders of a new world.

We will also buy differently. For example, when faced with a choice between an inexpensive pair of pants produced by a corporation that exploits workers (whom we now see to be our neighbors), we will choose a more expensive pair produced by a corporation that treats its workers fairly. Maybe we’ll own fewer pairs of pants, but we’ll feel better wearing them. We will vote differently, drive differently, invest differently, eat differently, volunteer differently, treat our neighbors differently, and so much more. Multiply all these kinds of daily personal decisions by the increasing numbers of people for whom they make sense, and you begin to see the power of personal action inspired by a new kind of faith.

Brian D. McLaren, Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope (Thomas Nelson: 2007), 297‒298. Brian's work with Gareth Higgins on a new story can be found at www.theseventhstory.com

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In our prayers: Our Congregation and Friends during COVID-19 Our Country as we transition

Dot Yoder Jan Dodds Jackie (friend Sandra F) JoAnn Biggs-Hold (Bill & Pam R) Dave (friend Carol M) Ed Galloway (brother Dot Y) Scott Gessinger (friend Vonda S) Rev. Peter Brenner Bonnie & Rick (sister Kaye P) Sara & Martin Jackson Alan Peterson Bob Porter (Mike & Annette B) Darlene McCrimmon (Sher B) Ethel Hallet Neil & Leila Klaiss Mike & Carol Ranville On going needs:

Bill Oatman Arlys Lewellyn Herb Kortier (Maria D. Father) Dennis Heidisch (Jan Shall) Dennis Barnett Natalie Barnett (Sue and Dennis B) Lindsey Nakfoor Claudia Perry-StAndre Deb Cogswell & family Alan Chauncy (classmate DianeH) Shirley Teman (Kaye ‘s mother) Melissa Veenstra (Al & Kaye) Steve Sowle Rick Spring (AmyK Brother in-law)

In Sympathy Family of : Pastor Perry Purcell (Vonda S) Shannon Sharp (friend of Kaye P) Pamela Jo Porterfield (friend Diane H) Lee Ridderling (Kathy McCoy’s son in law)

Remembering 0ur CHURCH FAMILY

Prayers for: Friends at Home: Rosa Potter Mary Lou Powers Mary Harvey Janet Feighner

Gladys Stacy Mary Scott Betty Petit Virginia Lowe

6 Ernie and Candy Woofter 9 Jim and Betty Crandall 12 Kathy and Dan Johnson 20 Kevin and Lisa Jackson

2 Don Johnson 3 Nick Bruce Lola Wilson Eva Crandall Austin Smith 4 Barbara Fulton 6 Sher Brown 7 Pam Nutt 10 Danielle Chapin 14 Mackenzie Fowler Dennis Barnett 15 Gladys Stacey 16 Mary Normand 17 Kaitlin Stults 18 Dot Yoder 19 Rob Cook 20 Austin Berkompas 21 Linda Foster 22 Arthur Reist 23 Taylor Carroll (Reist) 24 Peggy Retzloff 29 Carly Edwards

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Staff and Leaders of the Church

Minister: Every Member of the Church

Pastor: Rev. Bruce Schoup Director of Music Ramona Kime Council President Amy Frost Vice Council Curt Scott Worship Team Leader Dennis Cates Business Team Leader Terry Davis Education Team Leader Judy Johnson Mission Team Leader Mary Normand Congregation At-Large Repre-

sentative Mary Kohmuench Church Clerk Barbara Anderson Financial Secretary Don Johnson Treasurer Kathie Cook Endowment Mike Fulton

Staff: Communications Erica Spencer Bookkeeper Sher Brown Custodian Rex Todd The Chanticleer is a monthly newsletter, distributed to members and friends of First Congregational Church. We welcome most comments and articles. Editors: Judi Cates: judithcates68@gmail.com Amy Krizek: mom_krizek@hotmail.com Chanticleer article deadline is the 18th of each month.

Sunday Worship: 10 am on FB

https://www.facebook.com/ucc48813 and on line: http://www.ucccharlotte.org

Faith Groups

Adult Bible Study: vdd6@att.net Tuesday Night Study: curtisjscott@hotmail.com Prayer Group : 1st and 3rd Thurs, on zoom 10:30 am Prayer Shawls: First and Third Saturdays after 9 am, Lounge

Music Senior Choir on HOLD Bell Choir on HOLD

Teams and Committees Education Team: contact johnsoj@ameritech.net

Worship Team: dwcates55@yahoo.com

Mission Team: davidnormand@att.net

Care Community: rinckey1@hotmail.com

Finance Team: crkfcook@hotmail.com

Business Team: tdavis@msu.edu

Endowment Team: mjfulton@sbcglobal.net

Church Council: Third Thursday of the month, 6:30 pm, ZOOM - see web page http://www.ucccharlotte.org

When We Come

Together

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THE CHANTICLEER

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