Community Info & Links Christmas Eve Worship Service  RFUMC Christmas Eve Service
In-Person and Zoom Online
Friday December 24 3:00 PM
Christmas Potluck Luncheon Sunday December 19th following worship service. Please join us for our Christmas worship service (10:30 am) and our annual Christmas Potluck Luncheon directly following service. Bring your favorite dish to share. All food donations are welcome!
We will feast on all the delicious food. If you would be willing to volunteer to be a server or on the set-up/clean-up crew, please let the church office staff know. We appreciate all donations and all volunteers. Here is sign - up link for potluck. Holiday Season YOGA Class Schedule  Dear Friends, The holiday season is upon us, and with it attendant scheduling changes. Vitality Yoga classes are canceled for Christmas and New Year's Day at Ravenswood Fellowship, as is Chair Yoga on Monday, December 27. Fitness Club classes are a mixed bag, with subs covering 12/23 and 12/28/21; all other Fitness Club classes will proceed as usual, except for 12/25. The regular schedule will resume with a super-fun Chair Yoga class on Monday, January 3, 2022 ! Then we slide into a smooth, chill, January groove ~ a good time for slow, meditative yoga. My specialty! In the meantime, let's party! There is a full weekend of musical offerings up ahead: - 12/18: Baby No Name's Fearless Leader, Keralee, presents a Nativity Concert outdoors in Jarvis Square (Jarvis & Greenview) starting at 2 p.m. Loads of fun! Live animals! Joyful singing! Come on by - 12/19: Taiko Legacy 18 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Chicago at 220 E. Chicago Ave., 2 p.m. Tickets available now: https://www.taikolegacy.com/tl18/ It is impossible to be bored in this town. Impossible! Enjoy your holiday, however you choose to spend the second half of December and start out 2022. Above all, stay well! & see you soon ~ Peace Out, Miss Gina. 12/23, 12/24 Church Office Hours  Church Office Open
Thursday 12/23 12:00 -2:30
Friday 12/24 12:00-2:30
Jan- Feb Office Hour
Tue - Fri 9:30-12:30
United Methodists Respond After
Deadly Twisters
United Methodists in Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and neighboring states are coming to terms with the devastation of a string of tornadoes Dec. 10-11, while also mobilizing quickly to provide food, emergency shelter and other relief. The storm system that struck on Friday evening into Saturday morning — including one tornado that caused destruction across some 240 miles — is blamed for nearly 90 deaths. A tornado collapsed the roof and walls of an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Ill., killing six people. The storm also caused damage to homes, silos and an FS Plant in several downstate towns. Illinois Great Rivers Disaster Response leaders are assessing needs at this time. Twisters sheared roofs and shattered windows at some United Methodist churches and parsonages, as well as badly damaging congregation members' homes and local businesses in Kentucky and Tennessee. Read more.
How to help
Be Alert: Phishing Email Scam  Just in time for the holidays, scammers are at it again pretending to be Bishop Hopkins asking for gift cards or money. Please know Bishop Hopkins would never personally request such donations or any requests to "handle discreetly." One red flag is the sender's email. Bishop Hopkins would not send official emails using an obscure @gmail account. Disregard these phishing emails.  We have made a few changes to the church Leadership List as it was in 2020.
If you would like to verify which committees you may be part of, please click here. Please let Pastor Mori if you see any errors. Upcoming Meetings
Advent Book/ Prayer Group
Thu Dec 16 7:00 PM
Sermon by Phone service
 If you do not have computer access or cannot access our Sunday worship service through a smart phone, we now have a sermon by phone service, which is available at any time! The phone number is (773) 219-0861. You can listen to a recent version of Pastor Mori's Sunday sermon and it's free!
RFUMC Building Ministry  Ravenswood Fellowship UMC Dec 2021 Calendar Here
Church Room Reservation Form (to request use of the common areas of the church Click Here
After Covid-19 Updates.
Read about the Phases for Re-Opening here. Is that document too long? Read the summary version here. Chicago is currently in Phase 5. Click here to view phase 5 recommendations. Chicago Reopen guidelines Here Cook County Depart of Public Health Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CCDPH The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced Illinois' first known COVID-19 case caused by the Omicron COVID-19 variant (B.1.1.529), identified in a Chicago resident and known contact of a confirmed Omicron case from another state who visited the city.. Read the full news release here.
Links for Worship \  - Join Zoom worship by going to this link at 10:30 AM on Sunday: https://zoom.us/j/806489040. Or call in at 1-312-626-6799 (Meeting ID: 806 489 040).
- Let's boost our worship! Please sign-up for Worship service Bible reader Sign-Up here. December Scriptures and sermon titles are here
- Young People's Bible Study. Ages 12-18 are invited to join the Zoom discussion of Jesus stories at 9 AM on Sunday mornings. Join the Zoom call here (Meeting ID: 828 2305 3546, One-tap mobile+13126266799)
- Want prayer? During our Prayers of the People, we will read your prayer requests. Submit your prayer requests here.
- Download. Get your bulletin here.
- Having trouble? Try logging off and logging back on to Zoom during the video. Or simply log off and call in.
- Missed last week? Check out the Facebook Live video on our page here.
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