Sabbath, December 26, 2009 – Loren Seibold - Gift and Givers     Immediately following the 2nd service, Carolyn & Bob will be hosting a short mini Christmas concert at the front of the sanctuary. Bring you instrument, your voice or your ears and enjoy some of your favorite Christmas music.   Coming in the weeks ahead:  We are so sad at the loss of a sweet gentleman and friend to all, Mike Figliola. His funeral arrangements are as follows; the calling hours will be at the John Quint Treboni funeral home, 1177 5th Ave., Columbus, 43212 on Sunday, December 27th from 4:00-7:00. The funeral service will be here on Monday at 11:00am. Condolences can be sent to his wife Mary: 3729 Darbyshire Dr. Hilliard, 43026.   Many Thanks go out to the students and staff at Worthington Adventist Academy for their fun-filled and inspirational Christmas program! There was so much time and effort put into it and you should all know it really paid off, the program was wonderful!  There can be no doubt; it was a blessing to all who attended.   Last week of collection for the Men's Winter Coat Drive. If you have winter wear for men that you would like to donate to our Street Beat Ministry, please bring it to the church and put in the drop box in the narthex. Men's outerwear only, i.e.: coats, hats, gloves, socks and scarves.   Worthington Church member, Laura Pearce, is a member of the Ohio State Universities Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow Club. This club is raising funds for some upcoming projects. They are selling Old Farmer's Almanac materials including cookbooks, calendars, almanacs (adults and kids version) and more. For pricing and a complete list of what is being offered, please contact Laura at 419-355-4268.   Kitchen clean-up. We have a lot of unmarked items in the refrigerator that have been there for a long time. Your church secretary (me) will be spending a few hours cleaning out the fridge in a couple of weeks. If you have something in there that you want to claim, please label it or remove it. Everything else will be disposed of or donated.   There is a new Vegetarian/Vegan kids group forming in the Columbus Area. Its purpose is to allow parents and guardians a way to organize Vegetarian friendly events for their kids without the usual worries of what's going to be served or that the activities my cause uneasiness for those trying to lead a Vegetarian life style. This group is not centered on any religious denomination. There are people from many different religious view points as members of the group. The focus is solely the shared Vegetarian/Vegan life style.  Anyone who is interested can review the yahoo group web page at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ColumbusVegKids/. If you have more questions, or would like to join the group, you may contact Mark Whitt at 614-898-0043 or MarkWhitt13@yahoo.com.   For those of you who don't know, our dear Pastor Newball has accepted a call to pastor several churches in Washington D.C.  He and his wife Sara were eager to go since their daughter and her family live close by. Pastor Newball is still reachable via his cell phone which is (908) 917-9238.  We certainly wish them all the best and will miss them both.