The 2nd Annual Merry Artists Market is THIS SATURDAY! Last year’s Market was a great success for our very first year, and we’re looking forward to making #2 even better! This is a fundraiser for the church, as well as a wonderful opportunity to CONNECT with our community! So let’s do this! Here’s how you can help: | SILENT AUCTION DONATIONS There’s still time to accept donations. Here’s what we have so far:
* A gift certificate for a two-night stay at Sugar Magnolia, thanks to Debi Starnes and Jim Emshoff
* A two-hour architectural consultation from Windell Keith
* A basket full of gift cards, including Best Buy, Macy’s, and Visa, thanks to Kadie Devitt
* A Wine Country gift basket from Steeplechase Vineyards, thanks to Kadie Devitt
* A bead-making party for six, from Kristen Vincent
* one donation from each of the Merry Artist Market vendors What can you donate? Contact Kristen at kevincent619@gmail.com if you can donate! | Sign Up for the MOBILE Online Silent Auction Bid on auction items whether you are at the Market or not! To register:
1. Click here
2. Click on Register (top right corner) and complete the short registration process.
3. Confirm your email address. Remember: the auction is from 10am - 2pm this Saturday, November 4th! | Volunteer to Help! We still need help for the following time slots: ▪ Welcome and Help Vendors: Friday, 11/3, 6pm - 8pm
▪ Morning Set-up: Saturday, 11/4, 8am - 10am
▪ Afternoon Tear-down: Saturday, 11/4, 2pm - 4pm
If you can help with any of these times, please click here. | Donate to the Bake Sale We would love to have more baked goods for the Bake Sale! If you can help, please click here to sign up. | Join Us and Spread the Word! Tell your friends and neighbors to come shop, eat, donate a bike, and attend the Good Moves Dance Marathon. See you there! Merry Artists Market is Saturday, November 4th from 10am - 2pm. Bring your friends! If you can’t come, INVITE your friends to come! | All Saints' Sunday - This Sunday Sunday, November 5th We invite you to bring a candle to light during our morning worship service in memory of those saints who have been part of your life. We will have tables set up at the front of the church to place your candles on before the service starts. During the service there will be a time for you to come forward and light your candle. We ask that you bring a candle that is in a holder or has some way of catching wax. | Welcome New Members! Johnathan and Kelsey Ebelhar joined IPUMC last Sunday, Oct. 29! Johnathan is a Medical Resident for Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Kelsey works in marketing for the Home Depot. Please welcome them when you see them in church! | Fall GROW New Sunday GROW Study Our Intern Justin will lead a six week study of John Wesley. The study is based on the book John Wesley: His Life and Thought by Tim Crutcher. Please join us in the library at 9:45. | Women's Monthly CONNECT Ornament Making Workshop! When: November 9th @ 7:30p
Where: 889 Edgewood Ave. NE
Women's CONNECT in November will be an ornament making workshop! Please bring scissors and glue gun if you can, other crafting supplies are provided. If you'd like, bring along a small trinket, bauble or picture (may be cut) that you might work into an ornament. RSVP if you can to 1890kingkeithhouse@gmail.com.
Bring a beverage or treat to share and join us at the Keith/Casaday house for some holiday fun! | Aging Well in Inman Park Please mark November 9th on your calendars for the next Aging Well Session on Urgent and Emergency Care. The presenters will be an EMT from Grady’s EMS and the Practice Manager from the Piedmont Urgent Care on Ponce. It will be at 10am in the Multipurpose Room. | SERVE with Habitat Our SERVE Team has set a date for the Habitat Build with DeKalb County. It will be Saturday Nov. 18 from 9am until 2pm. If you would like to SERVE please email Kate Zelenka (katezelenka@gmail.com) so she can add you to the list. Kate will send out details to the folks that have signed up with her. | Quiet Spaces Retreat Cruise - Time to Book! Imagine all your favorite things: 1) time to be with God; 2) a women's retreat; 3) opportunities for rest and relaxation; 4) time for creativity . . . all on a cruise ship in a tropical location with fruity drinks that have umbrellas in them! That's what we're talking about: the My Quiet Spaces Retreat Cruise! The Upper Room is hosting the Quiet Spaces Retreat Cruise. The cruise will feature authors, including Kristen Vincent, who will be sharing ways to create quiet spaces and connect with God. For more than a year we've been talking about this and planning for it. The cruise seemed so far off. NOW IT'S ONLY MONTHS AWAY! Time to register! Here are the details: January 25-29, 2018 (4 nights)
Royal Caribbean Brilliance of the Seas
Ports: Tampa – Cozumel – Tampa
Costs: Inside Cabin ($399), Ocean View ($499) or Balcony ($599)
plus taxes, fees, and gratuities.
All prices are per person, double occupancy. Come sail away with me! CLICK HERE to register.
Your tour host is Kristen Vincent,
Host ID number 57143 | Ecumenical Prayer Cycle As a way to remember our connection with Christians around the globe, we will start using a great prayer tool: the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle. Each week of the year a number of countries are highlighted to lift up in prayer. There are also prayers written by Christians in those countries that you can use. By following the cycle throughout the year, you would pray your way around the globe. We will start listing the different countries each week in our prayer list. For the week of November 5 pray for: Oceania: American Samoa, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia (Maohi Nui), Kanaky, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu To find out more and to find links to the prayers from countries around the world click here. | Happy Birthday! We have three birthdays that we know of this week: Luke Heinz - Nov. 2
Kennedy Maberry - Nov. 3
Jan Keith - Nov. 8 If it's your birthday but your name is not listed and you would like to be included on the birthday list, please email the church office by replying to this email. | Max Vincent, Minister
Cecelia Reilly, Coordinator of Children & Youth Ministries
Lisa Farnsworth, Music Coordinator
Sarah Adair, Office Manager
David Myles, Maintenance Tech
Justin Schoolcraft, Ministry Intern
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