Under Our Roof. Pastors' Whereabouts Cynthia and Roger will host their I-70 pastors meeting November 12 at their home.

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1 Under Our Roof November 2015 Volume 23 - Issue 11 Southern Hills Mennonite Church Pastors' Whereabouts Cynthia and Roger will host their I-70 pastors meeting November 12 at their home. They will also be on vacation Thanksgiving Day and the following Friday. They will be back for Sunday, November 29. The church holiday sale on Nov 7th 9-12 We encourage everyone to bring baked goods for our International Gift and Bake Sale on November 7. Items especially popular are snack items, quick breads, yeast breads, peppernuts, zwieback, pies and candy. Please have these items at the church any time on Friday morning or on Saturday morning before 8:00 a.m. Thank you. The church holiday sale will also feature some of the Equal Exchange food items. We will have organic dark chocolate hot cocoa mix, whole bean organic coffees, baking chocolate, organic olive oil, roasted cashews, tamari roasted almonds, dried mangos, organic dark chocolate bars(80%), organic dark chocolate/almond bars(55%) and organic chocolate/mint bars. Remember to include these fair trade items when doing your holiday gift shopping by stopping by our table. The candy bars can make great stocking stuffers. The olive oil is good for making "herb dipping blends" for hard sourdough breads or making homemade salad dressings by adding herbs, balsamic vinegar and mustard. The powdered baking chocolate can be used in all your holiday baking or making your own hot chocolate mix by adding 2T. sugar(or less), 2T. chocolate, 1c. milk, 1/4 tsp vanilla, dash salt - heat and drink slowly. The nuts are good just by themselves or added to green salads and holiday baking. "6 almonds a day keeps the doctor away". The dried mangos can be reconstituted and used in baking or salads by placing them in hot water for several hours until soft - or just eating as a snack. Any questions or comments please contact any one of us on the committee - Rachel Schmidt, Linda Carr, Elvera Johnson, Alba Blocker or myself. Thank you for buying the equal exchange products. Diana Hershberger Upcoming Events November 29, Advent begins December 13, 6:30 p.m. Annual Christmas Program (prelude at 6:15) December 20, 9:30 a.m. Adult Choir Program. January 31, 2016 Annual Congregational Meeting "Everything is permissible" but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible" but not everything is constructive. Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others. 1 Corinthians 10:23-24

2 Thanksgiving Sunday November 22 We will celebrate Thanksgiving with a turkey dinner following worship and Sunday School on November 22nd. Sign up sheets will be posted soon for turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, bread and drinks will be prepared. Please bring your own table service and a side dish based on the letter of your last name: A-H, Salads; I-P, Desserts; Q-Z, Vegetables. Senior Coffee will meet on Thursday, November 5, and Thursday, November 19. Coffee, food, and conversation are all available from 9:00 to 11:00 those mornings. It's a great way to stay connected! Under Our Roof Page 2 Pastor: Roger Neufeld Smith Associate Pastor: Cynthia Neufeld Smith Director of Youth and Young Adults: Lois Grummert Administrative Assistant: Rebekah Wheaton Newsletter Editor: Guy E Smoker shmcnl@gmail.com December newsletter deadline November 23RD. November BIRTHDAYS Gerald Miller Nov 1 Mike Peters Nov 1 Megan Siebert Nov 1 Carla Schmidt Nov 2 Kristin Garman Nov 3 Andrew Voth Nov 5 Krista Voth Nov 8 Katie Keckeisen Nov 9 Rachel Goossen Nov 10 Debra Akins Nov 11 Valerie Schrag Nov 12 Heidi Johnson Nov 15 Roger Neufeld Smith Nov 15 Karen Linn Nov 22 Matthew Goering Nov 27 Bob Franz Nov 28 Bob Keckeisen Nov 28 Susie Banks Nov 30 Ben Frye Nov 30 Terrie Wedel Nov 30 November ANNIVERSARIES Dwayne and Norma Juhnke Nov 16 Be sure to take a look at some changes in the Make Art Not War art gallery. Two framed art works by famous painter of Amish life P. Buckley Moss are temporarily hanging in the SHMC library. The two works titled "A Community Spirit" and "Quilting Love" were donated specifically for MCC sales some years ago in the east by Moss. They were given by Lorene Goering of Santa Fe as she downsized her collection recently and sent them back with Raylene Hinz-Penner to be sold at the Hutchinson MCC sale. On the table in the library are two books Lorene sent which describe the background of these works and related art.

3 Under Our Roof Page 3 These are some of the participants from SHMC that walked in the crop walk this year. I Care I Care request for November: potato mixes or rice mixes (for side dishes), chunky soups. Thanks to all who donate requested items as well as plastic store bags with handles. We appreciate your support! Janet, Rosalyn, and Ruth for the I Care Board Choose The Mennonite or the Mennonite World Review The Mennonite is our denomination s official church magazine. Mennonite World Review is an inter-mennonite weekly newspaper published in Newton, KS. Southern Hills provides a subscription to either The Mennonite or Mennonite World Review for households of all of our local regular attendees. Both publications are also available in our church library. Please let our administrative assistant, Rebekah Wheaton, know if you are not currently receiving either The Mennonite or MWR, if you would like to switch to the other publication, or if you would rather not receive either publication. Otherwise, we will order a subscription of The Mennonite for you. Time/Talent Survey Deadline Coming Remember to complete your 2016 time/talent survey on or before November 1. You can pick up a hard copy of the survey, fill it out and return it to the church office, or you can complete your survey online via Survey Monkey. Instructions and a link to Survey Monkey were ed to the SHMC list serve. If you did not receive it, please call or the church office.

4 Under Our Roof Page 4 Tune My Heart To Sing His Praise October 25th there was an interfaith evening of worship in song at Grace Cathedral. Participating choirs were Grace Cathedral, First United Methodist, Southern Hills Mennonite and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Photos by Phil Esau

5 Under Our Roof Page 5 True Stories From The Butterball Turkey Hotline, where people call to get advice how to cook a Turkey from the experts * Thanksgiving Dinner on the run. A woman called to find out how long it would take to roast her turkey. To answer the question, the Talk-Line home economist asked how much the bird weighed. The woman responded, "I don't know, it's still running around outside." * Tofu turkey? No matter how you slice it, Thanksgiving just isn't Thanksgiving without turkey. A restaurant owner in California wanted to know how to roast a turkey for a vegetarian menu. Timeline of Thanksgiving in America Spanish explorer, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, led a thanksgiving Communion celebration at the Palo Duro Canyon, West Texas Pedro Menendez de Aviles and 800 settlers gathered for a meal with the Timucuan Indians in the Spanish colony of St. Augustine, Florida Pilgrims and Native Americans celebrated a harvest feast in Plymouth, Massachusetts Settlers observed the first Thanksgiving of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England on July 8, George Washington and his army on the way to Valley Forge, stopped in blistering weather in open fields to observe the first Thanksgiving of the new United States of America President Washington declared November 26, 1789, as a national day of "thanksgiving and prayer." 1800s - The annual presidential thanksgiving proclamations ceased for 45 years in the early 1800s President Abraham Lincoln resumed the tradition of Thanksgiving proclamations in Since this date, Thanksgiving has been observed annually in the United States President Roosevelt established the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.