Coming up

• We begin a half hour early at 10:00 am this Sunday and next Sunday 2 & 9 December.
• Discovery Class is 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm this Friday at the Tuscany Club. Join us as we explore our history, beliefs, practices, values, and other important things you'll need to know to be part of life at Tapestry. This class is a requirement for charter membership when we constitute. No childcare will be provided.
• Tapestry's Christmas party will be 6:00 pm Sunday, 16 December at Thom and Lorie Gordon's. Turkey and Ham will be provided, so please bring a side or dessert to share and join us for a warm evening of Christmas cheer.
• Everyone is invited to a family Christmas Celebration Sunday morning, 16 23 December. Let you friends and neighbours know that there will be a reading the Christmas story, caroling, crafts, games, and food for the whole family. Dads and kids may play some games outside, so bring your winter coats.
• Tapestry will be adopting a family in need this Christmas, and will ask everyone to contribute food, gifts, and donations to a gift box to bless them this holiday season. Look for more info on this family and how you can help this Sunday.

Ireland
The dates on the Ireland trip have been set for 24 March - 1 April. It's been great to hear so many people tell me they're praying about being a part of serving the people of Dublin and connecting with fellow Christ followers there. If you're thinking about joining the team and jumping the pond, make sure to contact Dave Miller. Whether you'll be making the trip or not, there are some ways you can be involved right now.

• Pray for Ireland, and for the team we will send in the Spring.
• The team would like to do your Christmas baking for you. There will be an order form at church this Sunday for baked goods, all delivered in time for your Christmas festivities. Where else can you eat a fruitcake to change the world?
• Lorie Gordon is holding a special Avon sale, with 100% of the profit going towards this trip to Ireland. This is a great time to stock up on what you need. Look good and do good at the same time!

Congratulations to Thom Gordon and Max Blazina, our newest elders at Tapestry! They were voted in last Sunday and will serve for the next 3 years by offering leadership, teaching, pastoral care, and service at Tapestry Tuscany. Please pray for them as they fulfill this new calling.

Coming up

• Tapestry's first membership class has been moved! Due to a scheduling conflict, our first membership class will be 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm Friday, 30 November at the Tuscany Club. The Pastoral Team apologizes for any inconvenience this might cause you. We felt that it was important to have this first class as close to home as possible, and so we have decided to postpone the class so that we can have it in Tuscany. We hope that you will still be able to join us as we go through who we are, where we've come from, what we believe, and what it means to be a member at Tapestry. This class will be required of anyone who would like to be a charter member of Tapestry when we constitute later this year. We hope to have one more membership class before constituting, but please make this first class a priority. If you have any questions about this, contact us.
• We will be holding a family Christmas dinner the evening of Sunday, 16 December, with a shared meal, a reading of the Christmas story, hot drinks, and plenty of time to hang out and tell everyone Merry Christmas. More details will be announced this Sunday.
• Services will start 30 minutes early at 10:00 am the Sundays of 2 and 9 December, due to scheduling conflicts. The closer we get to Christmas, the more people there are booking the Club. Thanks for your patience as we remain flexible so that we can share this great facility with our friends and neighbours here in Tuscany.
• Pray for Tapestry's Ireland team as they prepare to travel to Dublin to serve the people of the city and walk in the way of Jesus amongst them. If you would like to be a part of this trip either by going or supporting those we send, contact Dave Miller.

Kelly and Brooke Reid have begun weekly core group Bible studies in Citadel. Half the group are Citadel residents with no previous involvement in Tapestry. God has blessed their year of hard work and faithfulness, and Tapestry Citadel has begun! Pray for them and their core team as they seek to walk in the way of Jesus among the people of Citadel.

Coming up

• This Sunday, 18 November, we will begin our service a half hour early at 10:00 am due to a scheduling conflict at the Tuscany Club. We will be voting on elders at the end of the service. Please make sure to contact Max, Thom, or the Pastoral Team before Sunday with any questions or concerns as no time will be made for discussion Sunday morning.
• Our very first membership class will be 9:30 am - 12:00 pm Saturday, 24 November. Anyone who would like to be a charter member of Tapestry should plan to attend.
• Small groups at Tapestry are great places to connect. We now have multiple groups in both Cochrane and Tuscany. If you're not part of a small group contact Max and Lynda to find out more.
• We're sending a team to Dublin, Ireland this Spring to serve the city. Please pray for them as they prepare. If you would like to be a part of this trip, contact David Miller.

On the web

• Tapestry's youth have a new page. It's a work in progress, but it does have a calendar you can use to check on what the youth are up to now. Make sure to check out all their photos while you're there.
• Our convention of Baptist churches has a swanky new website. Look it over for tools and links that pertain to the ways God has called you to serve people. www.ccsb.ca

The latest

• The Constitution was passed in an overwhelming majority vote Sunday morning, and will now be the guiding document for how we do things at Tapestry. Thanks to everyone who stayed after the service to vote, and thanks especially to the Transition Team for their months of hard work in putting that document together and processing it with the rest of the church.
• Our former pastor, Jim Boy, his wife Stephanie, and the rest of their family in southern California are doing well, and the closest fire to them seems to have been contained now. Thanks to everyone who prayed for them. Please continue to pray for the firemen and for the thousands who have been displaced by these wildfires.

Coming up

• The season is changing and our clocks are changing along with it. We will return to standard time this weekend, so don't forget to set you clocks back one hour before going to bed Saturday night! Anyone who shows up at 9:30 will be required to help the setup crew put out chairs (just kidding).
• 18 November is a day to put in your calendar. Due to scheduling conflicts at the Tuscany Club we will be starting a half hour early, at 10:00 am, and there will be no Kidmo or Lil'K that day, so the kids will join us in the service upstairs. This is also the Sunday we will vote on elders immediately following the service.
• We're sending a team back to Ireland this Spring to serve the people of Dublin. Please take the time to pray about going. There are always people on these trips who say, "I never thought I would go on a trip like this." You'll never know whether you're one of those people until you take the time to pray and ask God whether He's got Irish plans for you. You can let Dave Miller know if you are interested in being a part of this trip either by going, or by supporting those who are.

On the web

• When Tapestry heard that the Homeowner's Association in Rocky Ridge hadn't had time to plan this year's Halloween Carnival, an annual favorite with the kids here, we volunteered to plan and run the whole thing. It went great! We were busy the whole two hours, and lots of families got to take home info sheets on Tapestry along with a packet of Halloween activities. A special thanks to the youth and others from Tuscany who came to help, and to the RRRHA for letting us put this on, and for paying all the bills! You can see all the photos online here.
• The Transition Team is still looking for our next pastor, and you can help. If you know someone that would make a great pastor at Tapestry you can recommend them by downloading the Pastor Recommendation Form and submitting it to Steve Rathje.
• We looked at a complex passage Sunday morning, and that means there's a lot to remember. Check out this week's Sermon Notes for help making sense of these important teachings of Jesus.
• Are you trying to figure out how best to follow Jesus in a suburban landscape? Click here for some thoughts on what that can look like, and to add some thoughts of your own.

Elders
It is with great confidence and excitement that the Pastoral Team has announced Max Blazina and Thom Gordon as our recommendation for elders at Tapestry. This is an important next step for the church. These men will offer leadership, teaching, and pastoral care. It is hard to measure just how much this will strengthen the church. With these men in place we will be in a position to grow and care for ourselves no matter how long it takes to find a pastor, and when we do, we will be calling him to a healthy, self supporting church. Please take the time to pray and seriously consider these men before we vote on 18 November. We will not be holding a forum, so you will need to take the initiative to contact them or the pastoral team with any concerns or questions you have. We really do want to hear from you about this, so please don't hesitate to send an email or make a phone call.

Those who took the time to carefully read the constitution may be wondering why there are only two and not three elders recommended. The Pastoral Team prayed and talked about this long and hard, and we feel like God has only given us two people for right now. We will continue looking for a third, and when we feel like God has pointed us to someone we will bring that person before the church. Until then we are open to recommendations from you, so please send them our way.