Crosstown Connection

Crosstown Connection Nov 21- Dec 4

Crosstown Covenant Church - Advent

Check out Crosstown's website for the latest information on this Advent season, events, and virtual gatherings.

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Giving Tree 🎄

*Gift cards are due Nov 20th!

Thank you to everyone who pledge to bring in a gift card. So far we have over $1,300 donated. You are welcome to drop off cards this week (even if you forgot to sign up on the form) at church during office hours or in the mail lockbox outside the main door.

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If you would like to help with Sanctuary decorations,

setting up trees socially distanced, please email Josh.

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Vespers

Nov 29 at 7:00pm

As we walk into the first week of Advent, we invite you to begin this sacred season with a time to ponder and reflect. 2020 has been a year littered with grief and sadness. Now is the time for us to leave all of this at Jesus' feet and move into the light and hope of Advent. Come for a time of meditation, prayer, and dedication. Join us in person or on YouTube.

Ladies Tea

Dec 12, 9-10:00am

While we are unable to drink tea together because of Covid regulations, let’s not miss an opportunity to warm our spirits! Crosstown women are invited to gather for fellowship and spiritual growth. Please join us in the sanctuary for a time of encouraging one another and meditating on God’s WORD.

Advent Bags

Available this Sunday

We have put together an Advent bag for every member. We pray that this season will be a time of deepening spiritual growth, dependence on the Father, and of feeling God's holy, warming, and comforting light in dark days. Special thanks to our members who contributed writings to our devotional book. Pick up your bag at church or we will deliver it to your doorknob.

Living Nativity

This event is being reworked and reimagined given our new regulations. We will keep you posted as it develops.

Church is Open

Our COVID team is monitoring the information and has determined that Crosstown will continue to provide in person worship. Obviously the live stream is always an option for worshiping with us and this will always be an option even if we need to pause our in person worshipping. If there is a change to in person worship you will be notified by an email and an app push notification. When worshiping in person, please remember to maintain distance and follow your ushers' leading.

Shema Bible Project

What does the Bible mean when it says to love with all your Strength, your Me'od? Me'od actually is NOT a noun of strength but rather an adverb of very/much. Loving God with all of your muchness, all of your everything, anything, nothing held back. Love God with your Me'od.

Mark 12:28-34

Thanksgiving 🦃

Turkey day is just around the corner. We pray that you are able to meaningfully connect with family virtually or in person.

A couple notes:

1) the office will be closed Nov 26 & 27

2) there will not be newsletter that week

3) all Wednesday Nov 25 events, groups, and studies are cancelled

4) there will not be a Friday prayer chain

5) Kristi is on vacation Nov 25-28

Looking for a way to help the community? NENA has a pop-up food distribution day Nov 25 for the Bossen neighborhood. Sign up here.

Love your neighbor as yourself.

With these words from the "Jesus Creed," we are called to view others not as "those people" but as "neighbor." As Crosstown's Chair and Lead Pastor, we want to call your attention to the needs of our neighbors in Honduras. While Hurricane Eta has just arrived in Florida, it has previously made its way across Honduras. The carnage of flooding and mudslides--in a nation where 67% of people live in poverty--has been devastating. As three persons at Crosstown (Tulio Ponce, Yuli Ponce, Jovanny Inestroza) are from Honduras, we want to encourage you to offer prayer and financial support to Honduras. Jovanny's family leads a ministry known as Linaje Escogido (Milk & Honey) and we encourage you to contact him by text (773.517.9553) if you're interested in making a financial gift. Please indicate your gift to be for the town of Linaje Escogido Comayagua which is currently in greatest need.

Baby Shower for Angie Kopylov- Nov 21

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Nov 21 at 1:30 we will celebrate the soon-to-arrive baby boy Kopylov. This event is still occurring. Please check your email for updates from Carrie Smith. You will receive more information after you RSVP your intention to attend. If you plan to attend virtually you also need to RSVP to receive the Zoom link. Click here to see Angie's registry.

RSVP to Attend Shower Virtually or In-Person

Baby Shower for Jenny Wurdemann- Dec 12

Jenny Wurdemann and Laverl Johnson are ready to welcome their baby girl, due on December 3rd. On Dec 12th at 12:00 Crosstown is invited to celebrate with a Zoom shower.

RSVP to Samantha Buchnanan samantha.g.buchanan@gmail.com. After you RSVP you will receive the Zoom link and Jenny's mailing address for gifts. They are registered at Target and do not need any 0 to 3-month clothes.

Missions Feature

Dwight & Sandi Ekholm are life-long global personnel with Entrust, now located in the USA, but serving in Eastern Europe. You may not know this but lifetime missionaries are the most effective, having invested in long-term relationships, cultural sensitivity, and instructing with wisdom and understanding. Pray that Dwight & Sandi can harvest all they have sown and nurtured these past 50+ years.

Entrust Website

Belinda Kuhn answered the call to missions in 1982 and has served in over 70 countries worldwide in evangelism, worship training, and discipling the nations. When not traveling abroad she continues ministry daily as a mentor for many younger missionaries via video conferencing, teaching online, and writing. Her plan is like that of Corrie Ten Boom who planned to "die with her boots on" as she went through any door that God opened for her.

Belinda's Website

Christmas Greeting

We would like to put together a Christmas greeting video from the congregation. We are looking for a simple video or photo of you wishing the congregation a Merry Christmas. Please sent your video or photo to Josh by Dec 17th.

Our Daily Bread

Please complete this form if you would like a devotional book dropped off at your residence.

Request an Our Daily Bread Book

Events & Reservations at Crosstown

In Phase 4 larger groups are allowed to gather in the building. The commons and youth room are available for reservation and other rooms may be available with request. However, ALL events/ gatherings/ meetings need to complete a reservation form. Events for more than 25 people will require an additional pre-approval process.

Event & Reservation Request

Address Update

We are working on updating addresses to prep for end-of-year giving statements. If you have moved recently, please make sure the office has your correct contact information since statements will need to be mailed this year.

Birthdays!

Tony Gillen 11/21, Sarah Zamastil 11/23, Greg Larson 11/25, Malin Polhemus 11/26, Jack Ponce 11/27, Juday Madsen 11/28, Paige Fischer 11/29, Matt Zamastil 12/3, Caitlin Ogawa 12/7, Emily Wheeler-Young 12/7

Email the office if you would like your birthday included.