Please join us for this bible-based study that examines the important truths discovered in the first Christmas. There is an important truth that we discover as we experience that first Christmas, God always keeps His Promises. Please join us for this six part DVD/discussion bible study in preparation of Jesus’ birth! We will gather upstairs in the side room for the study! The study will meet on Wednesday at 6:30pm. Below is the list of dates the study will meet. Wednesday, October 25 Wednesday, November 1 Wednesday, November 8 Wednesday, November 29 Wednesday, December 6 Wednesday, December 13

The Christmas Experience Bible

Study

Halloween Costume Party/Potluck

Join the Fellowship Committee as they host a costume party/potluck on Saturday, October 28 at 5:00pm. Adults and children of all ages are invited. They were will fun for the whole family! Please bring a dish to pass and your best Halloween costume!

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October 2017

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

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8 Worship - 9:30am Coffee Hour - 10:30am Session Meet-ing - 10:45am

9 10 11 12 13 14 Clinton Com-munity Out-reach Food Pantry 8:30-10:00am

15 Worship - 9:30am Coffee Hour - 10:30am Session Meet-ing - 10:45am

16 17 Fellowship Meeting - 6:30pm

18 19 20 21

22 Worship - 9:30am Coffee Hour - 10:30am God Squad - 5:30pm

23 24 25 Bible Study - 6:30pm

26 27 28 Halloween Costume Par-ty/Potluck - 5:00pm

29 Worship - 9:30am Coffee Hour - 10:30am Session Meet-ing - 10:45am

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Happy Halloween

In 2015, veteran mission co-worker Dr. Martha Sommers, a family practice physician, was invited to serve as an instructor The Christian Medical Institute of the Kasai (IMCK), the primary health care facility and a center for medical education in the central region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. But after arriving in Congo in the fall of 2016, there were multiple incidents of violence and PMA’s partners, the Presbyterian Community of Congo (CPC) and IMCK, felt she should be evacuated until the region stabilized.

Since last fall, she has been temporarily living in Madagascar practicing as a family health physician and deeply immersed in language studies. Just last week, however, she was invited by the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian Nkhoma Hospital in Malawi to serve as a lecturer and family medicine practitioner. The assignment is for one year. She then hopes to resume her work in Congo.

In Malawi, she will assist with developing the family medicine course at Nkhoma Hospital, which serves as a training site for the master’s level students and facilitation experience district hospital doctors to be trainers for the course. About 50 percent of her time will be spent teaching and about 50 percent will be in medical practice.

Sommers began her Presbyterian mission work in 1997. In Malawi, she trained doctors and other mission personnel and provided healing and hope through direct patient care. She worked at two hospitals affiliated with the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian’s Livingstonia Synod.

Much of Sommers’ childhood was spent in Detroit and Farmington Hills, Michigan. While in high school, her family moved to Oregon, Wisconsin. After graduating from Notre Dame, she returned to Wisconsin to study medicine at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She completed a residency at Marshall University in West Virginia and then practiced for five years in Grantsburg, Wisconsin, before entering mission service.

To support the ministry of Martha Sommers, go to https://www.presbyterianmission.org/donate/E200526/.

Reprinted with permission from presbyterianmission.org.

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Mission Co-Worker Update

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Birthdays

9/1 Marlene Larsen

9/3 Andie Bell

9/4 Kathy Grzenia

9/5 Brian Jacobs

9/8 Marisa Giza

9/9 Calee Klein & Caylin Klein

9/12 Nathan DuCharme, Michael

Parylak

9/16 Martin Mumm, Hannah Perring,

Amy Squires

9/22 Justin Holmbeck, Levi Ryan

9/23 Daniel Holmbeck

9/27 Scott Bell

9/29 Emma Boerema

9/30 Michelle Parylak

Wedding Anniversaries

9/13 Chick & Stephanie DeLong

37 years

9/14 Jon & Sandy Holmbeck

32 years

9/22 Bill & Wendy Korth

38 years

9/29 Larry & Kaye Niquet

44 years

9/30 Brenda & Al Wiedmer

28 years

Birthdays:

10/4 Megan Wiedmer

10/6 Veronica Meinen-Kohls

10/7 Jacob Taylor

10/10 Carter Klein

10/13 Tonia Maly, JoAnn Ruston

10/14 Pete Paynter

10/15 Jeannie Taylor

10/16 Craig Stauss

10/17 Jordan Maly

10/18 Terry Crapp

10/22 Logan Rye, Lori Taylor

10/24 Jada Wellnitz

10/28 Jeff DuCharme

Anniversaries:

10/1 Dean & Jodi Burton

6 years

10/6 Scott & Kim Bell

10 years

10/7 Lora & Mitch Boggess

17 years

10/16 Al & Betty Kohls

41 years

10/17 Paul & Wendy Henning

36 years

10/18 Bo & Vicky DeLong

37 years

10/31 Luke & Amy DuCharme

8 years

September Birthdays &

Anniversaries

October Birthdays &

Anniversaries

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So blessed to have had Jim and Shari Stewart visit in October. Here is their mailing address for any correspondence. Jim & Shari Stewart 606 Tory Ln Marion, IA 52302

Dinner, Devotions, & Decorating

Join us on Wednesday, November 15th at 5:30pm for Dinner, Devotions and Decorating as we

prepare our hearts and the church for the Christmas season. The Worship Committee is hosting this

event and will provide meat and beverages. Everyone is asked to bring a salad, vegetable or dessert

to share. Dinner will be served at 5:30 with a short devotion and decorating to follow.

Financial Summer (as of September 30)

YTD Income = $73,822.37

YTD Expense = $68,416.02

Net Income = $5,406.35

First Presbyterian Church 312 Church St PO Box 99 Clinton WI 53525 Phone: 608-676-5400 Website: 1stpresclinton@gmail.com

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