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Come, Holy Spirt!

Celebrating their 40th Anniversary with a flashback to their founding year of 1983!

Join Rabia Brooke as she performs Debussy, Brahams, Milstein, and Zupko with pianist Clare Longendyke

The Holiest of Weeks

A Challenge for Lent

A Community Gathered Around Ashes

Featuring Stephen Burns and performing a piece by OTMB Artistic Director Mischa Zupko!

Scout Sunday--February 4

Holiday Cookie Walk Coming Soon!

Ascension’s Advent Challenge: ELCA Good Gifts ELCA’s Good Gifts Program is part of ELCA World Hunger, which supports churchwide ministries in 88 countries around the world. Good Gifts include God’s Global Barnyard along with other initiatives, including access to safe water, opportunities for women and children, agriculture programs, global health care, and international emergencies. We invite your participation in this Advent Challenge in one or more of the following ways. • Plan to honor family or friends with a Christmas donation/gift in their name to the ELCA Good Gifts project(s) of your choice. • Choose one or more ornaments representing God’s Global Barnyard or other program(s) from the Advent Tree beginning December 3. • Put the ornament(s) you choose on your tree at home to remind everyone of your response to worldwide hunger needs. • From the baskets below the tree, take the greeting card(s) that match your ornaments. Send or give those cards to the people you honor with your donation. • Add up the gifts you have chosen and make that total donation to Ascension via Realm (Choose “Advent Challenge”) or insert a check made out to Ascension in the envelope provided by the tree. • If you do not wish to choose a specific good gift, an undesignated financial donation to ELCA world hunger is most welcome. For more information: • Take home an ELCA Good Gifts catalog • Go online: www.elca.org/goodgifts

Advent and Christmas Eve

And Suddenly There Was Love.

Trio Diorama is comprised of violinist MingHuan Xu and pianist Winston Choi, both performers on the world stage and professors at Roosevelt University, joining four-time Grammy winning cellist and CM@B Executive and Artistic Director Nick Photinos. Join us Saturday, October 28th @ 4:30PM. Light refreshments to follow. Concert is free. Donations are welcomed and appreciated.

Compelled by grace and mercy, we seek justice for: Those who hunger and thirst As we dive into our next vitality focus for November-December, we offer many learning and service opportunities. November 4: Feed My Starving Children If you haven’t signed up, please do so! This will be a fun multi-generational service opportunity. November 5: Vitality Talk – “Feed My Starving Children” November 12: Vitality Talk – “Mapping World Hunger” November 19: Vitality Talk – “ELCA Good Gifts” November 26: Vitality Talk – “Food Pantry: How It Works” December 3: Advent Challenge Kickoff: ELCA World Hunger—“Fill a Farm Yard!” December 3, 10, and 17: Vitality Talk –ELCA World Hunger Advent Study 2023, led by Pastor Post December 17: Holiday Cookie Walk to raise funds for ELCA World Hunger and Local Hunger

Come to Feed My Starving Children with Us!

We Remember

We All Come From Somewhere

In the name of St. Francis of Assisi