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HAPPY EASTER!

Many Thanks to Brandon Townsend, guest drummer and Diantha Harper, guest trumpet player.

Need for Parish Visitors: If you are comfortable in hospitals, able to pray out loud with people at every level of illness, and feel God inviting you to a ministry of hospital, nursing home and homebound visitation, please speak with Pastor Julia Melgreen. We have a need to add to the ranks of those already serving as Parish Visitors.

Hospital Reminder: If you are taken to the hospital, please be sure to register as a member of Douglas Avenue United Methodist Church. If you say “Methodist” we won’t know you are there. Also, ask a family member or friend to call the church office and let us know.

Please mark your calendars:
April 26, Consecration Sunday, please make a reservation for lunch!

Kumler Food Basket: For the month of April, shampoo, deodorant, toothpaste and toothbrushes will be collected. Place your items in the labeled tub in the Fellowship Area.

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This Tuesday during the 9:15 Bible Study hour, we will be hosting a guest from Haiti. The Rev. Ralph Denizard, one of five ordained elders serving the Haitian United Methodist Church, will be here to tell us about the work they are doing through the churches and schools. In your bulletin is an insert telling you more about the Alain Rocourt Endowment Fund. In 2008, the Alain Rocourt Endowment Fund provided $20,000 to help l’Eglise Methodiste d’Haiti pay children’s tuition, train and pay teachers, and feed the children who come to school who would otherwise go hungry. The whole CHURCH FAMILY at DOUGLAS AVENUE UMC is invited to take advantage of this opportunity to hear first hand about the mission and ministry of the Haitian UMC.

The sign-up for Birthday Potluck Talent is outside the office door. Birthday Potluck will be March 22 at 5:30 pm in the Great Hall! The Auburn Jazz Band will provide the music for dinner. After dinner, we will have a DAUMC Talent Show! Bring your talent and share it with us! We need you! ~Tom Philbrick, Chair, Nurture and Outreach Team

I would like for our congregation to experience a Seder for our Maundy Thursday worship on April 9. Kathy Krstulovich will be organizing this experience and will need a crew. If you are willing to help with this Holy Week experience, please let me know. Thank you.    ~Rev. Julia Melgreen

2009 POINSETTIAS
1    In honor of my dear Douglas Church family who will always be close to my heart by Betty Canterbury
1    In loving memory of Bruce Ratterree by Sara and family
1    In memory of Gladys and Les Ryburn by Carol Ryburn and Barb and Hank Eldridge
1     In memory of Rosalynne Harty-Gillespy by Bob, Colleen and Kate Gillespy
1    In memory of Cathy Brown by Chris Brown and Karen Roberts
1    In memory of Chris Fredrick Stoelting by Rosemarie
1    In memory of Scott Lewis by Gwen
1     In memory of the Turney family, Julia, Dorothy, George and Margaret, by Marjorie Turney
1    In memory of Harold and Elinor Aikman by Vikki Taft
1    In memory of loved ones, gone but not forgotten, by Billie Vuylsteke
1    In memory of Loren and Wanda Niehaus by the Niehaus and Jones families
1    In memory of Gaylord Chew by Eris
1    In memory of Max and Jean Anne by Mary Jane Burnstine
1    in memory of Sherrie Beth and Jeff, by Mary Jane Burnstine
1    In memory of Maye and Leo Ozier and Mary Teubner by Jane and Bob Vincek
1    In honor of their mother, Janet Sublett, by Kristin, Noelle and Jennifer
1    In memory of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Baskin Lewis and Mr. and Mrs. Roland McNeil Vereen, by Randy and Nancy Vereen

2009 FRONT DOOR WREATHS
1    In memory of her father, Bob Herren, by Gina Morris
1    In memory of William Ackley and Nobel and Lucille Miller by Joyce Ackley

November 23 Noon-2:00 p.m. Betty Canterbury Farewell Party
             Hanging of the Greens
             Children’s Christmas Musical Rehearsal

November 27-28    HAPPY THANKSGIVING (office closed Friday)

November 30    First Sunday of Advent
            Noon-2:00 p.m.    Charge Conference
            Children’s Christmas Musical Rehearsal

December 6 3:30—5:30 p.m. Children’s Christmas Musical DRESS REHEARSAL (Sanctuary)

1     Guerry Suggs
2     Jean McNish
2     Sidna Young
3     Trace Ackley
4     Jacquelyn Wolford
4     Edwin Decker
5     Jan Perone
6     Michelle Hughes
6     Lindsay Manci
6     Kayla Tuttle
8     Amy Walker
12     Marty McMellen
12     Eric Moore
12     Kathy Krstulovich
14     Connie Brownback
15     Jennifer Sublett

Rick Stout and his girlfriend, Lindsey Robinson, are parents of my first grandchild. Hayden Ascher Robinson-Stout (that is a looooong name) was born on Monday, November 13, 2008 in Springfield, Mo. He was 8 1/2 lbs.    -Jim Stout

Velma Menghini recently was a winner of the State Journal-Register Cookie Contest with her “Mint Surprise” cookie.

What happened in 1928? Let’s find that answer while celebrating “Grandma Bonnie’s” 80th birthday on Saturday, November 29, 3:00 p.m. at Hilton Garden Inn, 3100 S. Dirksen Parkway. Please RSVP Vicki, by November 23. NO PRESENTS PLEASE.

Wishing Betty Canterbury farewell! Betty will be moving on November 24 to be near her family in Ohio. Please join Betty on November 23 in the Chapel, noon to 2:00 p.m., to wish her well.