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Join us
for weekday and evening Bible studies, devotionals, and fellowship
ADULTS
Monday Morning Bible Study
This Bible Study group meets
November 14 at
Wednesday Morning Senior Group
This Senior
Adult Bible Study group meets November
16 at
Women’s Bible Study Group meets on the 2nd and 4th
Wednesday night of each month at
Senior
Adults’ Fellowship
This Senior group meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each
month in the Recreation Hall, 1685 Portola, from
Men’s Friday Morning Breakfast Bible Study –
YOUNG ADULTS
November 20
– No Bible Class
November 20
– Congregational meeting
November 22
– Thanksgiving Dinner,
at the Bortnem’s.
YOUTH
CONNECT
Student Ministries
[Sr. High]
Join us on Thursday, November 17, at
Youth
serving continental breakfast to the congregation today during coffee time.
CRASH Jr. High Ministries
Questions? Email
brett@osyouth.com or call Brett at
447-1246, ext. 261.
K.F.C. = Kids for Christ –
5th & 6th graders.
Fellowship, singing, Bible study,
and games.
Join us on
Friday, Dec. 2, from 7–
Invite your friends.
Wear comfortable shoes.
Bring your Bible.
The B-Team, for 3rd and 4th
grades.
Friday, November
18, from
gym. Bring a friend and don’t forget your
Bibles!
PARENTS: We
are seeking volunteers to help
Our children with this activity. If you can
help
in any way, please contact Alan & Claudia
Heckman.
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CONNECT
Student Ministries Serves!
Today our
high school youth will provide a continental breakfast during the coffee
hour. Come with an appetite! We’re here to serve.
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Q. When Jesus fed the 5,000 He began with what?
a) five fish and two loaves
b) twelve baskets of bread
c) five loaves and two fish
d) a Double-Double from In-N-Out
A. Check out Mark 6:41
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In Our
Thoughts and Prayers
In Our
Armed Forces: Joshua Hitt
John Coddington
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Check out Our Savior
newsletter, The Vineyard, online at
www.oslm.net.
If you would like to receive the
church newsletter via email, please call the church office to give us your
email address or go to our website, www.oslm.net,
click on church, click on Current Events, and click on “The Vineyard
Newsletter.” On that screen you can sign
up for the email newsletter.
For those who do not have
access to the internet, there are copies available in the back of the sanctuary
on the triangular shelf and also on the table in the narthex.
Copies of our school newsletter, The Mane Events, are available in the back of the sanctuary on the
triangular shelf.
NEW OFFICE HOURS
To ensure proper
office coverage, our new hours are
Marriage
Anniversary Thanksgiving
It is a Thanksgiving
tradition at Our Savior to recognize those couples having wedding anniversaries
that are divisible by 5. Let us know in
the church office if your wedding anniversary should be included in the
Thanksgiving Day bull
Men’s BBQ
at Mark McDonald’s at
The Christian
Reading Club meets on Tuesday, November
15, at
Steward’s Meeting on November 20. The
agenda will include:
*Ministry update
*Financial update
*Update on Senior Pastor call process
*OSLM membership changes
*Elect lay delegate to
District Convention
*Feedback from Cottage
Meetings
*Concept to build and use
the
*
The meeting begins at
WANTED:
No pre-requisites required!
*Who: Willing volunteers who are ready to engage
with students.
*What: Opportunities available to help with 5th
– 12th grades.
*Flexible hours: Anywhere from once a week to once a month.
*Description: Are you the kid at heart type? We want you to be a part of our growing
student ministries team here at OSLM.
Training is available!!
*How: Contact brett@osyouth.com or at 447-1246 x 261
Your “Katrina Committee” continues to meet on a
regular basis and is open to anyone who would like to come and join the work we
are doing. Our next me
*Received $255 from the
Talent Show free will offering for
our CARE Fund. Thank you for your
support!
*Have made contact with a
local newspaper interested in writing a story on how we purchased a motorcycle
for Louise Perkins down in
*Continue to maintain
contact with the needs of our CNH District sponsored churches in
*Organizing a special
Christmas “Angel Tree” for a Lutheran Social Services Orphanage in
*Looking into how we can
send a “work team” to the
*Seeking ways to support a
Katrina family here in
Our Savior
Works for Habitat for Humanity in
A small but mighty force of four turned out for a building day at the East Bay
Habitat project just off
The Habitat ministry is
based on the conviction that to follow the teachings of Jesus we must reflect
Christ’s love by caring for one another.
True love shows itself in action.
The “theology of the hammer” has made possible decent, affordable
housing for over 200,000 families worldwide.
Because these homes are built using volunteer labor and contributions of
supporters, they can be sold to worthy buyers at lower than market prices using
interest-free loans. Each buyer must put
in 500 hours of “sweat equity” to qualify.
To join up with future OSLM
work days, call Jacki. Or you may just go out and work for a day on
your own by signing onto the website: eastbayhabitat.org and click on
“volunteer.”
FROM OUR SCHOOL
Find and dust off those
beautiful nativity sets you have stored away.
OSLS students and their families are asked to bring their nativity scenes to share with others
this Advent season. We will display the
crèches along the back windows of the church sanctuary. We hope to see many different cultures and
countries represented from around the world.
No nativity scene will be turned away.
If it has special meaning for you, it will be wonderful to share. Set-up will be on Monday, November 28, from
“Souper” Challenge
OSLS students are collecting
soup cans for the food shelves in our own community during
November-December. Anyone can help by
bringing soup to the Loaves and Fishes Bin in the gym. Our God is so generous. Help us live it to the fullest and share it
with others.
Family Fun Night
“Family Fun Night” has been
transformed into “Restaurant of the Month” for November! For the entire month of November, Sansar (Authentic Indian Cuisine Restaurant), located at
Come! Grow
with Us.
We invite members of Our
Savior to join the school on Thursday mornings at
Good News
from Scrip
Beginning in December,
Safeway gift cards will once again be available through our Scrip program! Gift cards will be available in $25 and $100
denominations. We are able to purchase
these cards at a 3% discount which, in most cases, is more beneficial than the escrip rebate which is between 1% and 4% depending on the
amount you spend each month. Please be
advised that purchases made with a Safeway gift card are not eligible for
accumulation for any other charitable giving (escrip),
rewards, rebate, airline miles, or awards program.
Stop by the Scrip table
today to see all of the gift cards and certificates that are available through
this fundraising program!
Attention: Ladies of Our Savior! You are invited to a special evening to
celebrate the beginning of Advent. On November 29 at
Drop and
Shop
The cheerleaders want to
offer a service to the families of OSL (and raise some $’s to buy items for
their December visit to Shepherd’s Gate) by babysitting Our Savior Lutheran
children (Preschool through 4th grade) in the gym on Saturday,
December 3, from
The cost for babysitting
will be $5.20/hour per child. There will
be fun things for the kids to do while they wait for
their parents to return. A snack will be
provided, but the child should come with their own lunch if they are planning
on staying for several hours. Questions? Contact Laura
Cortez.
This Week At Our Savior
Today, November 13
Monday, November 14
Tuesday, November 15
Wednesday, November 16
Thursday, November 17
Friday, November 18
Saturday, November 19
Sunday, November 20