St. Paul’s Lutheran Church & School has a new web portal! This is an easy way for our school to raise funds. By just purchasing things online that you already buy from month to month or will buy for the holiday season, you will help raise money for the school & you will receive cash back from most stores. We have tons of stores & services (over 3500) from Target to Bloomingdales to Travelocity! Many stores like Walmart are offering free shipping over the holiday season. Keep it by your computer or even better, mark it as your Homepage. Why fight the crowds this year? Visit shopstpauls.com today!

Biblical Pilgrimage Of The Holy Land March 12 - 23, 2012

We would like to invite you to join us on this special journey that will enrich your faith and make scripture come alive for you. We will travel to Israel and Jordan and walk the roads that Jesus walked. We will see where Jesus was born, lived and taught. We will walk the "Palm Sunday Road" and the "Via Dolorosa," the way of sorrows, that Jesus walked on his way to Golgatha. We will hear the sounds of the waves on the Sea of Galilee, and the bustle of the Old City of Jerusalem with its market squares and shops. We will travel to Jerico, Bethany on the Jordan, Mount Nemo, where God showed Moses the Promised Land, the probable locale where John was baptizing on the Jordan River, the setting for the film Lawrence of Arabia, Roman ruins, and other many interesting sites. Come, travel with us to a land filled with history, a land so small and yet so great, a land loved by our Savior. For more information please contact: Pastor Don and Gloria Balgeman Immanuel Lutheran Church (815) 286-3885 or Ruth Balgeman (815) 932-7566 for a brochure.

2012 Flower Chart Now Available

The Flower Chart for 2012 is up. Please pay Ladies Aid $20.00 for one vase or $40.00 for two. The chart will be posted downtown at the church during December and January and then will be moved out to the school for posting.

History Books Still Available

If you are interested in purchasing a copy of our 150th anniversary commemorative history book, please contact the Church Office at 815-932-0312 or call Carolyn Deck, 815- 932-4651; Marilyn Carney, 815-932-1634; or LaVern Carder, 939-1725 to make arrangements to get one.

Announcements For Bulletins

Please direct all announcements to go in the bulletin to Sharon Guynn in the church office. Her e-mail address is sguynn@stpaulslutheran.net

Lay Readers

If you would like to serve as a lay reader in church services, call Albert Johnston at (815) 932-5625.

Financial Peace University Starting New Session of Classes in January!

St. Paul's is excited to once again offer Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University Classes to our congregation as well as the community at large. You'll learn how to $AVE like never before by signing up for this 13 week series of classes. A new round of classes will be starting the week of January 29, 2012 and we would like to invite you to give it a try. An alternative class also starts Thursday Feb 2, 7:00 PM at 2815 Stone Ridge Dr., Kankakee (Bob & Mary Ann West’s home) for those that find that more convenient. The first lesson is FREE! We are also offering a FREE Preview Event - Sunday January 22, at 9:50 AM at St. Paul’s School in the 6th grade classroom. Learn more about Financial Peace University Classes!

If you have previously started FPU in one of the earlier sessions and were unable to complete all of the classes, you are welcome to join either of our current classes at any time to complete the course. The membership fee you paid is good for a lifetime, and entitles you to attend any class, anytime. If you want to preview a class, please come and be our guest for this very interesting and informative class. Classes are being held Sunday mornings at 9:50 AM in the 6th Grade Classroom at the school location at 1780 Career Center Road in Bourbonnais, IL and also Thursday evenings at 7:00 PM at 2815 Stone Ridge Dr., Kankakee (Bob & Mary Ann West’s home).

Please Recycle... We Need Your Help!!

St. Paul’s is again participating in the S.C.O.R.E. Recycling Contest through Belson’s Steel, Rt. 50 & Larry Power Road, Bourbonnais and we are currently in 10th place. The contest ends April 2012, but we need your help now to reach our goal. Why not consider recycling during all the holidays and parties? By doing so, you are not only teaching valuable skills to tomorrow’s adults, but you are earning cash and prizes for St. Paul’s School. Here’s what you need to do... 1) Collect your aluminum cans and bring them to Belson’s. You get paid cash for your cans. If you are unable to take the cans to Belson’s, we do have a collection canister located at the school. 2) Mention “St. Paul’s” when you get paid. Belson’s will add one point to our score for every pound of cans that you are recycling. 3) At the end of the contest, our school gets two cents for every point. PLUS, the top schools will win thousands in extra cash and prizes. Last year the winning schools received over $15,000 in cash and prizes! If you have any questions, please contact the school office at 815-932-0312. Please help

“Worship For Shut-Ins”

Award Winning Television Ministry Worship wherever you are with a TV ministry you can trust!

“Worship for Shut-ins” is:

• a 30 minute Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod worship service
• produced by Lutherans for the homebound, hospitalized...
• includes the Gospel, Epistle, and Sermon by LCMS pastors
• music by LCMS choirs and soloists

“Worship for Shut-ins” airs weekly on Cable Channel 71 in the Chicagoland area and northwest Indiana on Sundays at 11:30 a.m.