EliotChapel

Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008 – 9:15, 10:15 & 11:15 a.m. 

Bread Communion – Rev. Dr. Daniel Ó Connell and the EUC Senior High Youth

Our annual intergenerational Eliot Thanksgiving service. There are three service times: 9:15, 10:15, and 11:15 am. We will take a special collection for our partner church in Transylvania.

Featured music is Bluegrass by the Loafers. 

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Reverend Daniel is Eliot's Lead Minister.  You can read his blog here.

Tough Times 

“It was a harsh summer... For many, it was as if the clocks had rolled back to the thirties and the time of the Great Depression. Company upon company declared bankruptcy. Unemployment soared. The ‘severe and prolonged recession,’ as it was dubbed by the media, sent ripples of depression across America. Politicians used the depressed state of the country to their advantage.”

The excerpt above is from evangelist Robert Schuller’s bestseller, Tough Times Never Last; Tough People Do. And by the way, the book was written 25 years ago, and he was talking about the recession of 1982!

Reverend Bonnie is Eliot's Program Minister. 

A Caring Congregation

One of the realities of church life is that size really does make a difference. Small congregations have a sense of “knowing one another” and an awareness of what is going on in each others’ lives that is not possible once they start nearing  about 200 people. The larger a congregation grows, the more it needs to have smaller groups of people that meet together so people can have this sense of “being known.”