D.I.V.E. SESSIONS FOR OCTOBER

Our Devotion, Imagination, Vision and Expectation Sessions resumed on September 28th and will continue on all the Wednesdays of October except for October 26th. They will be held at 9411 Euclid at noon and repeated at 7PM at 3000 Euclid. We will be continuing our discussions and discernment of what God is calling our congregation to be and do. The topics:

• October 5 – a second worship service at EACC
• October 12 – mission and vision
• October 19 – core beliefs
• October 26 – no D.I.V.E. session

CONGREGATIONAL MEETING OCTOBER 2

The Congregation of Euclid Avenue Congregational Church will be holding one of its regularly scheduled meetings on Sunday, October 2, immediately after worship. The purpose of the meeting is to elect a committee responsible for nominating church officers for 2012. The New Beginning Committee will also be reporting on the work they’ve done over the summer in their search for a new home for our church family.

PREPARING WORKERS FOR THE HARVEST SEPTEMBER 12-14

EACC’s fall vision conference, “Preparing Workers for the Harvest,” will feature the preaching of Dr. David A. Davis, the senior pastor of Nassau Presbyterian Church and a professor of preaching at Princeton Theological Seminary. He was Pastor Courtney Clayton Jenkins’ teacher when she was a student there. He will be helping us prepare for Homecoming and the months ahead in enlarging both our church membership and our sense of purpose and commitment.


Each of the three evenings at 7PM, Monday September 12th, Tuesday September 13th and Wednesday September 14th, he will lead us in worship. Each night we have invited another congregation to worship with us and provide the music for our 1-hour worship experience. We are urged to bring friends, neighbors, and co-workers with us.

Dr. Davis has published a collection of sermons entitled A Kingdom You Can Taste. In recent years he has preached to congregations in South Africa, the Samuel Proctor Child Advocacy Conference of the Children’s Defense Fund, the Calvin Symposium for Worship, and on the campuses of Harvard and Duke University.

"SEPTEMBERFEST” AND OPERATION ANDREW

Sunday worship Scripture readings and sermons during “Septemberfest” will focus on church growth, both in faith and in numbers. Early in the month Pastor Jenkins will be launching Operation Andrew.

Andrew, as our Sunday School children would be able to tell you – or soon surely will be – was one of the fishermen whom Jesus called away from their nets saying, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Remembering Andrew and in preparation for Homecoming, during worship in early September Pastor Jenkins will be asking us to write the names of those people that we would like to see in our sanctuary on Homecoming and possibly on many Sundays after that, and to place those names in the nets surrounding the altar. During the week then we will be calling and talking to the people whose names are in the nets, so that on Homecoming Sunday, September 18, our sanctuary will be full not of names but of worshipers, and we will have become, like Andrew, fishers of men (and women and children). Operation Andrew will not end then, of course, but it will be off to a good start.

Contributing to the spirit of Operation Andrew will be “Vitality Sunday,” September 11, when Rev. Dr. David Schoen, Team Leader for Congregational Vitality and Discipleship for the United Church of Christ, will be preaching on how EACC in particular can become a vital congregation.