PW Cookie Sale!

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Presbyterian Women host their annual Cookie Sale on Saturday, 10 December 2005. All proceeds support the PW local mission giving.

You can help by donating cookies and buying cookies. Please bring your cookies to Ferren Hall on Friday, 9 December, and mark them "cookie sale." Thank you!

Advent Begins: Glory and Peace

If you subscribe to Presbyterians Today, pull out your November issue, which contains an Advent Calendar by author Katherine Paterson.

If you don't subscribe, however, Paterson's lovely calendar is also available online from the Presbyterian Church (USA) web site. It features a collage-building activity that's especially good for the children in your family.

Bethlehem Christmas Gift Market

Each year, the Union Presbyterian Church's Mission Committee invites the congregation to consider purchasing alternative gifts from the Bethlehem Christmas Gift Market. The Market allows us to purchase mission gifts in the name of a friend, relative, neighbor, or other loved one.

On December 4th and 11th, the Market table is set up after worship in Ferren Hall. When you make a purchase, you will receive a beautiful Christmas gift card along with your gift inscription; then you can send the card to the person of your choice. Gifts are available in all prices. Here's the Bethlehem Shopping List for 2005:

• Bibles (Gideon)--$5.00 each
• Blanket Program (Church World Service)--$5.00 each
• Floresta USA--$1.00 per tree
• Habitat for Humanity (Mountain Spirit Habitat, Powell)
• Box of nails--$10.00
• Paint--$20.00
• Lumber--$50.00
• UNICEF (Medical needs)
• Vaccinations (6 childhood diseases) for one child--$20.00
• Vaccinations (6 childhood diseases) for five children--$85.00
• 5-day course of antibiotics (116 children)--$35.00
• Heifer Project International (world wide)
• Goat--$120.00
• Share in goat--$10.00
• Sheep--$120.00
• Share in sheep--$10.00
• Bees--$30.00
• Pig--$120.00
• Share in pig--$10.00
• Chicks--$20.00
• A few chicks--$2.00
• Heifer--$500.00
• Share in heifer--$50.00

Speedy but Spiritual: British Cleric Unveils "100-Minute Bible'

A Church of England vicar was on Wednesday unveiling his self-styled "100-Minute Bible," an ultra-condensed edition of the Christian holy book which claims to neatly summarise every teaching from the Creation to the Revelation.

Yes, you read correctly. Yahoo! News reports the Reverend Michael Hinton launched his 100-Minute Bible at Canterbury Cathedral. The Reverend Mr. Hinton aims his brief Bible at the busy business bunch. Hoping his Bible will be a bestseller, Rev. Hinton says he designed it as a real page turner.

PC(USA) Creates Hurricane Katrina Website

The Presbyterian Church (USA) has established a new webpage that centralizes news about Hurricane Katrina Relief efforts by Presbyterian Disaster Assistance. You can find the webpage at http://www.pcusa.org/katrina/.