The Friedens Annual Church Bazaar will be held on November 23, from 9 am to 1 pm.  Come out for soups, cookies, pies, potato filling, quilt and craft raffle, as wells as our ever popular White Elephant.  Lunch will be available for purchase for eat-in or take-out.  To pre-order pies, cookies, soups and filling call Julie Hassler at 610-987-6020 or the church office at 610-987-3536.

• Vegetable Soup: $6 quart
• Turkey Corn Noodle Soup: $6 quart
• Turkey Noodle Soup: $6 quart
• AP Cake: $3
• Apple, Cherry or Mince Pie: $7
• Shoofly Pie: $4
• Sand Tarts: $5 half pound
• Potato Filling: $4.50 or two for $8.50

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Mark your calendars!  The Friedens Annual Church Bazaar will be held on November 23, from 9 am to 1 pm.  Come out for soups, cookies, pies, potato filling, quilt and craft raffle, as wells as our ever popular White Elephant.  Lunch will be available for purchase for eat-in or take-out.  To pre-order pies, cookies, soups and filling call Julie Hassler at 610-987-6020 or the church office at 610-987-3536.

A Community Thanksgiving Eve service will be held at Salem UCC, 307 Covered Bridge Road, Oley on Wednesday, November 27 at 7 pm.  Begin your Thanksgiving celebration with this service as we gather together and give thanks to God for the many blessings we enjoy.  Pastor Frey will be preaching the sermon this year. 

Hats, scarves, gloves and mittens are also being collected for the Oley Food Pantry.  Boxes labeled for hats, gloves, scarves, and mittens are located at the front of the sanctuary, in addition to the food donation boxes for your convenience. 

We are collecting Thanksgiving-themed items for the Oley Valley Food Pantry through November 17.  These items include canned vegetables (carrots, corn, green beans and peas), canned sweet potatoes/yams, canned pie filling (apple, cherry and  pumpkin), canned evaporated milk, and boxed pie crust mix.  We will make up pie kits with the pie supplies. 

The Mission Team is selling gift cards for Redner’s, Boyer’s and Weis in $25, $50 and $100 values. The Mission Team will receive % of each card sold. There are no hidden fees. Pay for your card/s with cash or check then use them to purchase your groceries. Beginning November 3 there will be a Mission Team member available in the Narthex after church on the first and third Sundays of the month selling the gift cards. You can also purchase them from the church office during regular office hours.   Contact Kay Bertolet or Betty Hoffman if you have any questions.

We will be celebrating Veterans Day on Sunday, November 10 by having a one Sunday only collection of canned food and paper products to be donated to Veterans Making a Difference.  Let’s show our appreciation for what our veterans have done for the freedoms we enjoy by filling as many boxes as we possibly can with canned food and paper products.

Our last Hoagie Sale for the 2019 season will be held on Thursday, November 7 with orders due Sunday, November 3.  The cost per hoagie is $6.  To place an order, use the sign-up sheet in the Narthex, or leave a message on the Hoagie Hotline at 610-987-3536, ext. 3.  If you have any order changes after the order deadline, please contact Jeff Parkhouse (phone 215-272-7451, e-mail jeff.parkhouse@comcast.net) or Jeff Shearer (phone 610-921-2896, e-mail jlshear1@verizon.net).

We will remember the departed members of our church during worship on Sunday, November 3 which is All Saints Sunday.  If you have a loved one who passed in the last year you wish to remember during worship, please call the church office at 610-987-3536 or e-mail office@friedensuccoley.org by October 30 with the name/s and date/s of death for those you would like remembered.