Disaster Chaplaincy Services, a multi-faith organization devoted to helping victims of crises deal with the emotional and spiritual shocks during emergencies, recently lost their home. Julie Taylor, the Executive Director of DCS and member at Fourth U, put out a call for help and the Church answered. The organization’s nerve center has temporarily been relocated to our choir loft. Our Senior Minister, Rev. Rosemary Bray McNatt, and two of our Affiliate Ministers, Rev. Ed Bolella and Rev. Jill Bowden, are volunteers with DCS, and it’s a big boost to our ministry to aid in this important spiritual and healing endeavor. You can learn more about the organization at www.disasterchaplaincy.org .
Join in the Water Communion Ceremony and bring water to the morning service on Sunday, November 30. This ceremony involves merging waters from many places into one bowl to symbolize the merger of community and a blessing of the waters. Please bring water from as many places and as far away as you can. Water will also be available if you can’t bring water of your own.
Are you looking to develop your spirit and personal ministry, and to deepen your relationship with your fellow parishioners here at Fourth U? There are opportunities now to do just that and we welcome your joining in our shared ministry as a way to help yourself and to help us as well. If you are interested in working with our young people, please contact Lisa Stiffler, who is developing this ministry with our youth. Please talk with Spiritt if you would like to be part of the ministry that takes care of our finances — an important calling that you can share with others and that will help your personal growth as well. And if there is a way you believe that your calling is in helping us to communicate with the world outside of our walls, to let them know what we are doing and why, please contact Robert McNatt. You can find us after services, listed in the church directory, or you can let Alex in the church office know that you are interested in these ministries and he will let us know. In the ministry of all souls every one of us can play a part.
We need your help on Auction night to make our third annual “Light up the Night Auction” our biggest fundraiser yet. Slots for volunteers include set-up, break-down, registration, checkout, greeters, event hosts, bartenders, silent auction monitors, and more. You can volunteer and still enjoy the evening and bid on items. Please join us on Thursday, November 6, at 6:30 PM at Fourth U to discuss volunteer activities and to sign up. Pizza will be served. Contact Liz Wolfe, Auction Co-chair, at lwolfe@wintecgroup.com or 646.334.9427 for more information or to volunteer.
Donations are still needed for our third annual Auction Gala, scheduled for Saturday, November 22. All donations are needed but in particular we are looking for big-ticket items such as time in a country home, tickets to Broadway shows, high-end art, restaurant certificates, handmade items, and services. The donation deadline is November 14. The more items we get, the more money we’ll raise! You can download a donation form from www.4thu.org/auction, or stop by our auction table after services on Sunday. Email Aaron Hamburger, Auction Co-chair, at salhamb@aol.com with questions about donations and the auction.
Do you have skills working with websites, particularly WordPress? If so, the Fourth U webmaster, Lois Coleman, could use your help with designing or updating “4thu.org.” Please contact loiscoleman@gmail.com if you would like to share your gifts with our community in this way.
