Advent Lutheran Church (ELCA)

Crop Walk final tally

A note we received from Tom Gundlach regarding the results from this year's Crop Walk

Hi Everyone...Phil Woodbury and I have completed the final tally for Crop Walk
2008. I guess the economic times impacted our walk as it has so many in the
country. The final total is $9,723. This is significantly down from previous
years but we should be most grateful to all our sponsors and walkers for being
able to send this sum to CWS and to be able to provide  a portion of this to our
local food pantries. THANK YOU!!! Next year's Walk will be on Sat. Oct. 17th
from the United Methodist Church in Peterborough. Happy Holidays to you
all....Tom

Let's plan on having a good contingent of walkers for next fall!!

Jeff P

Parents start new group to "Take Back Sundays" and say no to organized sports

Thought this was interesting, from my home state:

http://www.businessweek.com/careers/workingparents/blog/archives/2008/12/taking_back_sun.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_workingparents

Christmas Story

Not your traditional Christmas Story, but one to enjoy!!

Alex is in his first children's Christmas "Cantata" at St. Luke's this year. They are singing all the classics, The First Noel, O Come Emanuel, etc.

He had practice tonight and on the way home he said "Mom, I just don't get that one part about the egg shells". Cheryl said "What song has anything to do with egg shells?"

Alex said, "You know, 'Glory in egg shells deo'"

Jesus may be the reason for the season, but children really make it shine.