1.   Fall Festival: Tomorrow (10/31) we have our annual Fall Festival from 5:30-8pm.  It will be here in the main sanctuary. We will have dinner, worship, games, and a costume contest for Bible characters (separated into kid and adult categories – lots of prizes!). Please save the date and plan on coming. Elder Zhang will help take photographs of families.

2.    Daylight Savings: Next Sunday (11/6) will be daylight savings. Please do not forget to set your clock one hour back. (On Saturday night at 11pm, change your clock to read 10pm.)

3.     Fall Evangelical/ Spiritual Revival Meeting (11/18-20): The speaker will be Pastor Luke Zhang (張路加牧師)

4.     Thanksgiving

(1)    We will have a Combined Service on Sunday (11/27) for baptisms. We will start at 10am. Baptism class will be on 11/12 (Saturday) 12pm-5pm at Pastor Hsieh’s home. Those who have accepted Christ, attended the Basic Christianity Truth Class, and now want to be baptized, please register to be baptized.

(2) Thursday (11/24) will be Thanksgiving Testimony Potluck: We will have testimonies at 10am in the main sanctuary; we will have lunch at 12pm; please bring one dish per family. Those who are willing to share, please register in the back.

(3)  Friday (11/25) Thanksgiving dinner will be held with your small groups. Small groups should plan their own dinners. Please invite students and people not in a small group to join you. We are not having a church-wide dinner.

5.     Christmas Celebration: We will gather for a Christmas Celebration on 12/16 (Friday). Please invite people to attend.

6.     End of Year Retreats

(1)    12/22-26: Christian Witness Center’s Winter Retreat will be held at the Hyatt Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. Check out http://www.cwcnet.org for more information. Registration is from 11/15 to 12/19 at 4pm.

(2)    12/26-29: The Chicago Christian Conference will be held at the Radisson Hotel in Merrillville, Indiana. Check out http://cccm.ws/CCCM/cccmnews.html for more information. Please register on your own.

7.     The Love Letters for Fall 2011 is now accepting articles. Submissions can be sent to Shan Zheng at zhengshan6@gmail.com.