WELCOME IN THE NAME OF OUR LIVING SAVIOR!

November 16, 2008

We are glad you are with us and pray a blessing on your worship today!  Visitors are asked to sign the Guest Register on the table in the Narthex (entrance) and sign the WELCOME BOOK giving your address and phone number.

Living Savior’s MISSION is to know the love of Christ and serve God so that the Holy Spirit may work through us to bring others to Christ.

NURSERY IS PROVIDED FOR SMALL CHILDREN ages 4 and younger from 8:15 AM to 12:15 pm in room #2 in the Educational Wing.  Susana Honeycutt is the attendant.  Please register your children in the nursery so she can get to know them.

Average Church Attendance

Our Stewardship for last Sunday: General Fund: $7281; Living Savior + Living Stones: $5848; Sunday School Attendance:  79; Sunday School offering: $37.25. General fund weekly average needed for budget: $9,424; October weekly general fund average: $7108.

Our Altar Flowers today are given today by Mark and Lila Nelson in memory of Katrina.

Voter’s Assembly - Next Sunday, November 23, between services.  Please plan to attend this important meeting concerning the new building.

Sign up Today to sponsor for the Burke CROP Hunger Walk - Nov. 23, 2 p.m.
It will begin at Living Savior and end at Fairfax Presbyterian. Funds go to help international and local hunger needs.  If you would like to participate as a walker pick up a donation envelope in the office and please sign the large envelope by the number you take. Contact Paulina Heetland, 703-865-6953 with questions.
To support the youth group who are walking with a donation, please see the sign up sheet in the narthex.

CHOIR NOTES
Once again, Living Savior’s Chancel Choir will present a Christmas cantata during the holiday season.  This is a wonderful time for many of you who enjoy singing, but are not able to join the choir on a regular basis to join us for this short term commitment.

The Cantata, “Let Us Adore Him” will be performed on December 7th at both the 8:30 and 11:00 worship services.
Rehearsals will be on Wednesday evenings at 8:00pm beginning November 5th. 
We hope you will consider joining us to celebrate this wonderful time of the year and help us enlarge our choir for this special presentation.  Call Lois Finnern at 703-913-1728 with any questions.

Living Savior Preschool and Kindergarten  Registration for the 2008-09 school year continues!  For more information please call Living Savior Preschool and Kindergarten at (703) 352-4208 or email preschool@livingsaviorlutheran.org  

LIFELIGHT
We have just started studying the Book of Esther and meet in the Church Youth Room from 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. every Wednesday. There is an optional fellowship and snack from 12:30 p.m. with study commencing at 1:00 p.m. If you have questions or would like to join us please contact Terri Beam at 703-239-0782 or TerriBeam@gmail.com

We would like to produce a new church directory in January.  Please call or e-mail the church office with the current mailing and e-mail addresses of you or your college students.  Thank you!

It’s Time! Sign up on the Flower Chart on the bulletin board next to Pastor’s office to donate flowers for 2009.
While you are there sign up to greet on Sundays on the New Greeters Sign-up . It is an easy but vital thing to do to help visitor’s feel welcome.  Sign up today!

The Lifelight Food Drive is continuing for the Food Ministry of Concordia Lutheran Church in Triangle, VA. The need is great. Please donate.

Operation Christmas Child brings joy and hope to children in desperate situations around the world through gift-filled shoe boxes and the Good News of God's love. Since 1993, more than 61 million shoe boxes have been packed, shipped, and delivered across the globe. People of all ages can be involved in this simple, hands-on missions project while focusing on the true meaning of Christmas-Jesus Christ.

Bring your shoe boxes to church by Next Sunday, November 23rd and they will be delivered to a local collection center.  Brochures with all the details are available in the Narthex or visit the Operation Christmas Child web site at: http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/OCC/index/

Prepare for the Christmas Season
The Living Savior Christmas Tree Sale will begin November 29th. Trees will be available in the parking lot every night until Dec. 21. Look for a sign up in the narthex to help sell the trees.

Help Adopt a NOVACO family for November. Please pick an angel off the tree in the narthex, purchase a gift and bring it back to the Living Savior Family Christmas Party, Dec. 6.

YOUTH NEWS

THIS WEEK AT LIVING SAVIOR

Serving today

COMMUNION POLICY:  Everyone who is a baptized Christian, repents of sin, believes in the real presence of Christ's body and blood in, with, under the bread and wine of the Holy Communion is cordially invited to receive the Lord's Supper at Living Savior.  To receive wine by individual cup, take a cup from the serving tray and wait for Pastor to say "The Blood of Christ", then return the cup to server that follows Pastor.  To receive wine by the common cup (chalice), take the base & tilt to receive the amount you wish.  If you wish to receive white grape juice, there are individual cups in the center of the tray.