Crossroads Notes:

From our monthly Newsletter

Annual Meeting on January 18 The annual meeting of the Congregation and Corporation of the Presbyterian Church in Burlington will be on January 18 at 3:00 pm. Click here to read more about it. Help Wanted! Apply your talents and time to helping our Church schools teach our children – without attending meetings or teaching every week! Church school program liaison: Coordinates and plans church school activities Helps promote church school activities Takes responsibility for making sure the church school has the supplies it needs Keeps the Christian Ed committee informed about the needs, news and information about church school (this can be by email, phone and during church – the Program Liaison does not need to attend monthly Christian Ed meetings). Works with the Christian Education press secretary to publicize church school events Church school teacher liaison: Helps coordinate and find Sunday school teachers and substitute teachers Helps find extra helpers when needed Is available to talk to parents and teachers about their ideas and concerns Identifies issues and brings them to the attention of the CE committee Keeps the Christian Education committee informed about the teachers (this can be by email, phone and during church – the Program Liaison does not need to attend monthly Christian Ed meetings.) Helps recruit teachers Contact Jane McIninch, Brenda Flynn or another member of Christian Ed if you are interested!

Web "Site-ings" As you may know, we are using a new CE curriculum this year, "Seasons of the Spirit." One of the supplemental materials provided for the program is a current-event page they call "Spirit Sightings". This page links news items witht the lectionary readings for the week. Included in the page are questions for discussion and prayer links. I have used them for the Advent Season and the Adult Sunday School class, but others may find them useful for their own reflections. You may access the web page at: www.spiritseasons.com and follow the links to Spirit Sightings Hope you find this helpful! Mary Anne McDonald "We Care" Packages to Troops in Afghanistan Part of our Christmas joy was in being able to share with the Nordman family in providing a package of care to Eric's brother Kurt and his Army unit stationed in Afghanistan. Actually, there were 45 individual packages, one for each member of the group. Members made Christmas greetings at our Advent Event, and shopped for such things as toiletry items of use in the field and candy. Eric and Lisa bagged and packaged it all, and it was off to Afghanistan!