Chili Cook-Off Potluck
Join us on Thursday, November 5th at 6:00pm for a Chili Cook-Off! It’s a fun opportunity to come together as a whole church and connect with others who might attend a different sevice time than you on Sunday mornings. If you’d like to make a chili for the competition, sign up at the Sign Up Station (table in the back of the sanctuary). We’ll also need some sides and drinks and you can sign up to bring those as well.
Benevolence Christmas Bag Project
At each of our potlucks, we take a donation that goes toward our Benevolence Fund. At the Chili Cook-Off Potluck Thursday, Nov 5th, our Benevolence Team will direct all donations toward a special Christmas Bag Project. We’ll be accepting cash donations in person or online, or you can also purchase items from this Amazon Wishlist here that will be put into the bags. These bags will then be available on December 6th for any Southsider to take and give to a neighbor, co-worker, or other friend or family member as an opportunity for personal ministry. We’ll be accepting donations through November 29th.
New Sign Up Station
Need to sign up or RSVP to an event coming up? Instead of making your way up to the Resource Room, we’ve made it even more accessible by placing them at a table at the back of the sanctuary. Check it out!
Garden Team Lunch
We’ve reached the end of the first year’s harvest of our Community Garden! And as the season closes, Stephanie Grenert is already planning ahead and taking steps for the garden to flourish again next year. To make that happen, we will need volunteers to join our Garden Team for next year. After the 10:30 service on Sunday, November 15th, Stephanie will hold a meeting for all those interested in being on our Garden Team. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP at the Sign Up Station.
Kids Ministry Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast
Sunday, January 17, 9:00-10:30am
(In place of our regular Sunday morning services.)
If you are one of our treasured volunteers for Kids Ministry (infant through 5th grade), you are serving on the front lines of what might be Southside's most important ministry. We would love to thank you for your sacrifice and love for our kids by serving you breakfast, and sharing a bit of our vision for the Kids Ministry moving forward. Childcare will be provided, but please feed your kiddos breakfast before coming. We're only spoiling the adults with breakfast this time
Hoops & Friendsgiving
Monday, November 23
Southside is partnering with IncludeAbility and NEO Adaptive Sports to serve a Friendsgivng Meal after a Cleveland Cavaliers Wheelchair Basketball Team plays at the Gault Recreation Center! The game will be at 6pm with the meal directly after, served at 7pm. We are in need of volunteers to provide food as well as serve the meal. Sign up at the table in the back!
Christmas Choir
We’re planning to have a choir for Christmas again! No matter your experience, all are welcome. Rehearsals will be from 6:30-8:00pm on Wednesdays, Dec 2nd, 9th, & 16th. The choir will sing on Sunday, Dec 20th during both services, and lead us in some a capella carols for our Christmas Eve service. If you’re interested in being part of the choir, sign up in the back.
Parenting: Tending the Vine, Trusting the Gardener
Wednesday, November 18, 6:30-8:00pm @ Southside
Greg will share some of the most valuable lessons he’s learned (and is still learning!) about parenting in the Kingdom. Biblical. Practical. Formational.
Childcare will be provided. RSVP at the Sign Up Station.
Everyone is invited, even if you don’t have kids. It may provide some insights as to how you were raised, or how you can be of help to others - it does, indeed, take a village.
Southside Fall Read
As we had read Ordinary over the summer, Greg has selected a book for the fall season that we're encouraging everyone to read together as a church. It's called An Unhurried Life: Following Jesus' Rhythms of Work and Rest by Alan Fadling. We’re reading just one chapter a week. Two copies are still available in the Resource Room for $10 each.
Wish List
We have an Amazon wish list that we update periodically with current needs as an option to serve Southside for those who are looking for small sporadic opportunities. Purchasing items from this list helps to make our Sunday morning gatherings thrive - anything from diapers for the nursery, to snacks for our Kids Ministry, to basic cleaning supplies. You can view the list here.
Coming up…
November 3 - Shepherd Team Meeting | 7:00-9:00pm
November 5 - All Staff Meeting | 5:00-6:00pm
November 5 - Chili Cook-Off Potluck | 6:00pm
November 8 - Baby Dedication Service | 10:30am
November 15 - Garden Team Lunch Meeting | after 10:30am service
November 18 - Parenting Equipping | 6:30-8:00pm
November 19 - Management Team Meeting | 6:00-8:00pm
December 6 - Parent Meeting (infant through 5th grade) | 11:45am-12:15pm
December 24 - Christmas Eve Service @ The Wellspring | Time TBD
January 17 - Kids Ministry Volunteers Appreciation Breakfast | 9:00-10:30am