Announcements for the week of Sunday March 21st
Birthdays This Week Wednesday, March 24 - Betty Kingsley Thurday, March 25 - Tom Steffen - Jennifer Lindley This week at Second Congregational Church Today: Following worship, please join us in Webster Hall for an all-church World Café discussion. Child care for our youngest members is available. Discussion will be on these three questions: What one thing about 2CC is so important to you that you would not want to lose it? What one thing would you like to see incorporated in or added to 2CC? In what new ways will we be changing lives in the next one to five years? 5 p.m. Sunday Supper 7 p.m. Bible Conversation at the Lee-Clarks Tuesday, March 23rd: 10:30 am Questers will be meeting in the Clayton Room. 7 pm Cabinet Meeting in the Clayton Room. Wednesday, March 24th: 5 pm Evening Prayer, the last one for this Lent. Interested in being part of an SCC “Trek for Health” walking team? Walk on you own or be part of a group leaving from church Monday, Wednesday, and Friday’s at 10:30 am (unless it’s raining). Sign up Sheet in Webster Hall. Help us clean our church! Save Saturday morning April 24th to help pick-up, rake-up, and shovel-up. Or sign up to “Spring Clean” one of the inside rooms (at your convenience or schedule). Sign up sheets in Webster Hall. APRIL OPEN DOOR ARTICLES ARE DUE SUNDAY, MARCH 28TH

First Wednesday Fellowship Lunches
Next luncheon is Wednesday April 7th. Mark you calendars, come and join friends for lunch, conversation, and companionship in Webster Hall. Lunch is provided by the Deacons and other congregation members. There is a sign up sheet in Webster Hall (on the same board with the Sunday Supper sign ups) if you would like to bring a pot of soup, a plate of sandwiches or a dessert for April or future luncheons. Please contact Lorna at 447-1383 with any questions.

Lent 2010 at Second Congregational Church
Wednesdays throughout March, 5 p.m – Evening Prayer– –a midweek opportunity to be quiet and join with others in Taize chants, Scripture readings, and silence. Sundays during Lent–10 a.m. Worship – Sermon series on “Disciplines of the Christian Faith,” including Fasting (2/21), Sabbath-taking (2/28), Reading for Meditation (3/7), Living in Community (3/17), and Discernment (3/21). Following worship (and some time for coffee and refreshment), there will be an opportunity to reflect on how these practices are working–or not–in our lives. (In the Clayton Room) Daily Devotional– We still have copies of the UCC resource, “God is still speaking,...I am (s)training to hear...” If you didn’t get one (or can’t find yours) from last year, you’re welcome to pick one up on the “hutch” in the lobby. If you’re online, subscribe to the Stillspeaking Daily Devotional (free e-mail message every morning) at www.ucc.org/writers-group. Holy Week– Mar. 28, Palm/Passion Sunday–We will experience “The Cry of the Whole Congregation” during our 10 o’clock worship. April 1, Maundy Thursday, 6 p.m.–Agape Meal and Service of Communion and Tenebrae around the tables, Webster Hall. April 2, Good Friday, noon - 3 p.m.–Vigil with readings and music in the Sanctuary. Suggestions for home/work observance April 4, Easter Sunday–2 services: 8 a.m Easter Vigil with Communion and Renewal of Baptismal Vows; and 10 a.m. Worship with Choirs and Bells and Brass.

Upcomming Youth Group Activities
Sunday March 14th Potato Brunch. YUM! Bring your appetites! Saturday March 27th 30 hour Famine leading into Sunday March 28th Supper Preparation April 11th – Youth Sunday May 23rd – Dessert Auction May 29-30th – Memorial Day Weekend Rock - a – thon Wow! What an ambitious schedule! Please mark your calendars to be sure we don’t miss these events.