Friday 2 p.m. 2nd Annual Ultimate Tailgate Leftover Potluck.
Frisbee, Soccer or whatever you want to play at the Saluda School.
We'll follow it with a tailgate potluck of Thanksgiving leftovers.
Bring your leftovers and whatever utensils you need for tailgating.
It's too much fun to miss!

Stone Soup for Sunday 11/25 4 p.m.
We'll continue our discussion of the incarnation of God's will in our decisions.

Luke 1:35-38

The angel said to her, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called Son of God. And now, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son; and this is the sixth month for her who was said to be barren. For nothing will be impossible with God.’ Then Mary said, ‘Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word.’ Then the angel departed from her.

Dinner will be the last of our Thanksgiving theme or regular potluck.

Giving Thanks at Stone Soup

4 p.m. at Westley Cottage

We'll be working on how to grow into a  lifestyle of gratitude.
We'll also reflect on the spiritual aspects of table fellowship as we get ready to kick off
the Saluda Welcome Table this week (Tues. 5:30-7:00)
See you Sunday.
Read Gospel of John Chapter 13 especially verses 34-35

I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

Ali has made two soups, a bean and sausage and a split pea (vegetarian), so you can bring whatever you would like to go with it.

Stone Soup for Sunday November 11

4 p.m. at the Wesley Cottage

Sandwiches potluck and Movie Night

Themes: Don't make assumptions and Always do your best
We'll use Mark 12:38-44 to encourage our discussion with the four agreements.

As [Jesus] taught, he said, ‘Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and to be greeted with respect in the market-places, and to have the best seats in the synagogues and places of honour at banquets!They devour widows’ houses and for the sake of appearance say long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.’

 He sat down opposite the treasury, and watched the crowd putting money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums. A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which are worth a penny.Then he called his disciples and said to them, ‘Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the treasury. For all of them have contributed out of their abundance; but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.’

Then, when we're through with dinner we'll carpool whoever wants to go to the Epic for a movie (around the 7 p.m. show times). There's no public school on Monday so, invite a friend.

Read this part of Isaiah 58 (from "The Message" version of the Bible) and then read below about what Stone Soup will be doing this week at 1:30 p.m.

Your Prayers Won’t Get Off the Ground

Is58 ^1-3 “Shout! A full-throated shout!
    Hold nothing back—a trumpet-blast shout!
Tell my people what’s wrong with their lives,
    face my family Jacob with their sins!
They’re busy, busy, busy at worship,
    and love studying all about me.
To all appearances they’re a nation of right-living people—
    law-abiding, God-honoring.
They ask me, ‘What’s the right thing to do?’
    and love having me on their side.
But they also complain,
    ‘Why do we fast and you don’t look our way?
    Why do we humble ourselves and you don’t even notice?’

^3-5 “Well, here’s why:

“The bottom line on your ‘fast days’ is profit.
    You drive your employees much too hard.
You fast, but at the same time you bicker and fight.
    You fast, but you swing a mean fist.
The kind of fasting you do
    won’t get your prayers off the ground.
Do you think this is the kind of fast day I’m after:
    a day to show off humility?
To put on a pious long face
    and parade around solemnly in black?
Do you call that fasting,
    a fast day that I, God, would like?

^6-9 “This is the kind of fast day I’m after:
    to break the chains of injustice,
    get rid of exploitation in the workplace,
    free the oppressed,
    cancel debts.
What I’m interested in seeing you do is:
    sharing your food with the hungry,
    inviting the homeless poor into your homes,
    putting clothes on the shivering ill-clad,
    being available to your own families.
Do this and the lights will turn on,
    and your lives will turn around at once.
Your righteousness will pave your way.
    The God of glory will secure your passage.
Then when you pray, God will answer.
    You’ll call out for help and I’ll say, ‘Here I am.’

Sunday November 4, Stone Soup will meet at 1:30p.m. at Saluda UMC and car pool down to Harmon field for the annual CROP Walk for Hunger at 2. The money raised will go to Church World Service (http://www.churchworldservice.org/ ) and we will be part of worship before the walk. No meal this week, but bring snacks if you want for after the walk. We can be through by 4. Bring some money if you would like to make a donation or go to our local website www.foothillscropwalk.org . Below are pictures from last year.