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Advent LutheranCommunity Update
June 22, 2018
Upcoming DatesClick here for our complete calendar
Your Input is Needed
Worship and Music is eager for
feedback about y our experience with
our single serv ice. If y ou hav en't
already done so, we would appreciate
y ou taking 1 - 2 m inutes to take our
survey.
Gathering Students,Families andChaperones
Adv ent's y outh, their fam ilies and
chaperones are inv ited to take the
com m union elem ents to the altar for
recognition of their stewardship at
Adv ent and to receiv e a blessing from
Pastor Warner. Read more about the
ELCA Youth Gathering...
Advent Group off toELCA Youth Gathering
This Sunday we will com m ission and
send the group off to Houston with our
pray ers.
NorCal Music Festival
The NorCal Music Festiv al will be
hosting two concerts at Advent.
Friday , June 22nd, 7 :3 0pm
The NorCal Music Festiv al will
present an anim al them ed
concert. The concert will feature
Cam ille Saint-Saëns’ Carniv al of the
Anim als as well as other m usic on the
them e. Artwork featured at this
ev ent will be auctioned to benefit
Wildlife Education Rehabilitation
Center or WERC.
Sunday , June 24th, 5:3 0pm
The final concert of the festiv al,
“Music for All Seasons,” will feature
Sam uel Barber's Summer Music for
Wind Quintet, Selections from Antonio
Viv aldi’s Four Seasons , and Soir d'Été
by our own Ky le T. Jones. Artwork
featured at this ev ent will be
auctioned to benefit Belov ed
Com m unity Arts Center (BCAC),
Adv ent's new outreach m inistry for
y oung m usicians in our local
com m unity .
Please v isit www.norcalmusic.org for
m ore inform ation and schedule of
ev ents.
Safe CommunityTraining
Are y ou discerning whether y ou are
called to serv e children and/or y outh
of Adv ent? You m ight be a leader, a
teacher, an aide or chaperone,
prov ide refreshm ents or
transportation, play gam es, or
som ething else. If y our answer is "Yes,
I am discerning!" then
it is a requirem ent of Adv ent's Safe
Com m unity Policy that y ou attend
Safe
Com m unity Training. The next
training opportunity is scheduled for
June 24 from 1 2:00 P.M. to 3 :00 P.M.
Please contact the church office to
confirm y our attendance for this
upcom ing training session.
Watch Live Video fromthe ELCA YouthGathering
The ELCA Youth Gathering starts
next week! If y ou’re interested in
seeing what our y outh are
experiencing, y ou can watch liv e
v ideo from the ev ent. Throughout the
week, all v ideo will be av ailable on
the Youth Gathering hom epage
at ELCA.org/gathering.
The ELCA Youth Gathering will be
liv estream ing: MYLE worship: June 26 at6:45 P.M. (all tim es CDT)The tAble worship: June 27 at1 0 A.M.Daily Bible studies: June 27 -3 0 at 3 :3 0 P.M.Mass Gatherings: June 27 -3 0at 7 :3 0 P.M.Sunday m orning worship:July 1 at 1 0 A.M.
Also, check out Adv ent's Instagram
page @adv entm organhill as Adv ent's
y outh will be posting daily from
Houston.
Reach Out Thank You
The Reach Out Bluegrass Concert
fundraiser was a success. We raised
$1 ,01 2. WOW! Besides that, we had
two full grocery carts loaded with
cans and boxes of food to feed the
hungry . Such generous giv ing by
ev ery one who attended the wonderful
concert and a special thank y ou to all
of the m usicians.
St. Catherine GhanaMission Project Dinnerand Dancing
On June 3 0 at 5:00 P.M., St.
Catherine's in Morgan Hill is hav ing a
night of dinner and dancing to raise
m oney to support Awaso Academ y in
Ghana. The night will include door
prizes, raffle and a silent auction.
Read more...
Book Collection
The y outh going to Houston are
collecting these books to help support
literacy in Houston. There is a
bookshelf in the Gathering Area at
church where books can be donated.
Thank y ou for y our support of
literacy and the joy of reading for
Houston children and fam ilies- y ou
hav e donated 7 8 books so far! Read
more about Blast off for Books...
Time to Register
We hav e heard from m any form er
cam pers that Christian Music
Theatre (CMT) was one of the biggest
shapers of their faith and
dev elopm ent all through childhood
and that their liv es hav e changed
through the m em ories and friends
they m ade each sum m er at Adv ent
Lutheran. We inv ite y our children to
join us at CMT this sum m er.
There will be one session offered in
August. If y ou hav en't already
registered, now is the tim e! Please
v isit the Advent Website.
Also, please share this inform ation
with y our friends and fam ily
(especially those with y ounger
children who m ay not hav e attended
in the past). CMT is open to children
of all faiths entering kindergarten
through ninth grade. Ev ery child is
in the perform ance and by the end of
the week, the children perform a full-
length m usical.
Second QuarterMission: BelovedCommunity Art CenterScholarships
The Belov ed Com m unity Art Center
is under dev elopm ent, along with
com m unity partners. The
dev elopm ent group is planning a pilot
program of m usic ensem ble classes
beginning this fall. Scholarships will
enable us to com pensate the m usic
teachers while m aking the program
accessible to all children in the
com m unity , regardless of their
fam ily ’s ability to pay . We inv ite
y our pray ers and support for this
exciting new m inistry ! To contribute,
m ake checks av ailable to Adv ent with
notation 2nd Quarter Mission, or
BCAC scholarships.
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