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YOUTH GROUP GET TOGETHER

On Friday, Nov. 22 from 6 PM – 9 PM we will be meeting at church for Pizza and games. Please let me know if your youth will be able to attend. We are planning on having a discussion during dinner to see what activities the youth would like to see us do in the coming months. Thank you parents for your support and encouragement during this time.

Contact Jim & Amy Lane at (773) 351-1035 or office@parkridgeumc.org with any questions

PRMA THANKSGIVING COMMUNITY SERVICE

The Park Ridge Ministerial Association (PRMA) invites all Park Ridge congregations and town residents to its annual Community Thanksgiving Service, which is to be held this year at First UMC on Tuesday, Nov. 26 at 7 PM. Following worship, we’ll have a time of hospitality in the Parlor. Please contact Amy Lane, Church Administrator, with any questions at (847) 825-3144 or office@parkridgeumc.org..

HANGING OF THE GREENS 

Following worship on December 1st is Hanging of the Greens! As your schedule allows, please consider staying after to help decorate the church for the Christmas season. Many hands make for light work. The church especially needs people who can go to the third floor to retrieve items in storage and bring them down to the first floor.

Please contact Judy McMillan at JEBWarner@msn.com or (773) 758-5518) with any questions.

ADVENT FEST 2024

Advent Festival on Sunday, Dec. 8 from 3:30 PM – 6:15 PM.  Come join us for a celebration for all ages, with holiday craft activities, & music, followed by a tasty spaghetti dinner. Please RSVP by Monday, Dec. 2.

GOOD READS: DECEMBER MEETING

The next Good Reads book discussion will be Monday, Dec. 9 at 7 PM by zoom. We will be discussing “A Woman of No Importance: the Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II” by Sonia Purnell. In her latest work, journalist Purnell examines the life of Virginia Hall (1906-82), an American woman who became an Office of Strategic Services (OSS) spy in occupied France in World War II, despite being originally turned down for U.S. Foreign Service because of her gender and prosthetic leg. (Library Journal) Contact katyhansen@comcast.net to receive the zoom invitation.

For those who like to read ahead the following title is “Remarkably Bright Creatures” by Shelby Van Pelt.