CEM Weekly Announcement for the Week of December 14, 2009

Advent & Christmas Special Services
Some congregations may be offering special services at this festive time. If you have these to announce to the world, please pass along your details to Cheryl@communityofchrist.ca so they can be listed in the Weekly announcements. Remember to send us your Announcements if you want to included on this page!

Advent service live streamed from the Temple December 13 at 7 pm Central Time.
Visit the upcoming broadcast of the website for technical details and view the posted worship bulletin

The Story of the Season
Sunday, Dec 20, 7:00 p.m. Community of Christ, GTA West Congregation
84 Old Burnhamthorpe Road, Etobicoke - You are invited to join with the GTA West Congregation in a Christmas Candlelight Service celebrating the birth of our Saviour. We will share in a service of song, readings and theatre on the last Sunday of Advent. This is a wonderful opportunity to bring our communities together and we encourage you to invite your friends, neighbours and family members to join together for this celebration.

World Conference April 10-17 Registration is now available online:
see Online registration is now available! at World Church website.

Women’s Retreat (CCM), Jan 15-17, Bluewater Cpgd., contact Kara Wiggans (519) 586-8201

Marriage Ministry Workshop, April 23-24, La Salle Rd Community of Christ. If you need to acquire a license to officiate at marriages or want to refresh your ministry in this area plan to attend. See CEM Website Events for details.

Your Mission Centre Team have been in these congregations:
Windsor, Toronto, Grand Valley, Corinth, Brantford, La Salle Road, Faubert Drive, Cambridge, Niagara Falls, Guelph, Scarborough, Living Waters, Kitchener, North Bay, GTA West as well as at the Camp & Reunion Directors’ Retreat and the Co-Missioned Pastor formation week.

Brantford 50th Anniversary

Brantford Ontario

26 Queensway Drive at Kingsway.

NOVEMBER  HOME COMING   &  50^th ANNIVERSARY

For more information Larry Buchanan  cell 519-636-3804 or

Bill Byrnes 519-751-2587

“ A Day to Remember”

Sunday, November 15    10:00 am

Seventy Darrell Belrose,  Western Canada Mission President

   WHAT MATTERS MOST?

Join us for a baptism  

11:00 am  “For Our Journey Yet to Come”

Special Music from the Past ??

 

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Lunch will be served at noon  for everyone!

 

 

 

Welcome to the CEM Weekly Announcement Blog

This blog will be used to replace the current weekly email newsletter sent by Cheryl from the CEM offices.

You can receive this information in one of three ways - choose whichever way is most convenient for you:

1. Regularly use your web browser and come to the CEM Weekly Announcements page under the "Canada East Mission" tab.
2. If you use an RSS-reader, such as Google Reader, you can use the RSS feed on the CEM Weekly Announcements page. [If you haven't a clue what that means - it won't apply to you!]
3. You can subscribe to receive the weekly announcements in your email. This is similar to what happens now, and is what most people should choose. You can go to the CEM Weekly Announcements page on the website, and enter your email address in the subscription box at the top. NOTE: before you can be added, you will receive a subscription confirmation email and you must click on the link in that email to confirm that you want to receive the weekly post. If you don't see the email in your Inbox, look in your spam/junk mail folder.
   
   Also note that if you change your email address, it is your responsibility to go and sign up again with the new email address!

There are several important benefits to this new approach, including:

• By self-registering to receive the email posts, that means nobody at the CEM office has to constantly maintain and update email addresses.
• You can receive the information in several different ways.
  
• The mission centre email domain was continually being "blacklisted" by Hotmail, Yahoo and others, because it looked like we were sending spam emails. This means a lot of extra (and unproductive) work by someone in the mission centre office.

How Is This "Weekly Announcement" page/email different from the "News" page on the website?

This page/blog/email is intended to be for announcements - something that you could include in your weekly bulletins, for example. The news page will be used for more "immediate" news items, such as informing everyone about a death in our church family, or other time-sensitive new that can't wait for the weekly announcements.