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Those attending are asked to bring a
homemade gift for the exchange after the meal.
Guests are welcome.
 Lincoln
Jaycees seek donations for Washington
The Lincoln Jaycees are asking for donations
for disaster relief in Washington. The Jaycees will accept donations from
now till Dec. 6 and will make trips once a week to drop off any items are
donated and to help with the cleanup effort.
The following items have been
requested by those in Washington: nonperishable food items, bottled
water, large garbage bags, toiletries, work gloves, bleach, buckets,
sponges, mops, towels, baby formula, infant care items, diapers,
bedding, flashlights, batteries, manual can openers, aspirin, duct
tape, matches, scissors, toilet paper, paper towels, female hygiene
products.
For more information or to have items
for donation picked up, contact:
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Thomas Hackett, 217-737-3463
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Jake
Snyder, 217-314-0812
The Lincoln Jaycees are also
accepting monetary donations. If you would like to make a monetary
donation, send it to: Lincoln Jaycees, P.O. Box 254, Lincoln, IL
62656.
Jaycees
encourage community to support Angel Tree
The Lincoln Jaycees are
once again asking the community to help children in need in Logan County to
have a better Christmas. You can choose a child's tag with his or her needs
off one of the Angel Trees located around Lincoln and shop for that child.
The Lincoln Jaycees will distribute the gifts to the family.
The public can find the Angel Trees at
Cracker Barrel, ALMH cafeteria, CEFCU, Illini Bank and State Bank of
Lincoln. Angel Trees are also at Eaton, Verallia, Sysco and
International Paper for their employees. Gifts need to be returned
to businesses by Monday, Dec. 9.
The Lincoln Jaycees are also accepting
monetary donations. If you would like to make a monetary donation,
send it to: Lincoln Jaycees, P.O. Box 254, Lincoln, IL 62656.
BloNo
Smoke asks for help for Washington
The crew from BloNo Smoke on Woodlawn Road is
asking for the community to help Washington, Ill., with donations after a
horrific tornado strike this weekend. While no one can go into Washington
yet, these guys are planning on collecting food and water until they can go.
"I want to help," said Dennis
Robinson, owner. "If it had been our community, I'd like to think
others would come to our rescue."
Feel free to drop off donations at 529
Woodlawn or call 828-0651 to help.
It's
cookie time at HSLC
Order yours today Planning holiday parties or
looking for gifts to give special friends or relatives? Let the Humane
Society of Logan County do your holiday baking. HSLC is once again taking
orders for holiday cookie trays.
Each tray will contain three dozen
fancy holiday cookies with a variety of at least 12 different kinds
of cookies. The cost is still only $15 per tray. Larger trays are
also available.
To place
orders, call Adrienne at 217-732-1979. The deadline is Dec. 6.
Orders can be picked up on
Saturday, Dec. 14, at Graue Chevrolet, 1905 N. Kickapoo St., from 9
a.m. to 3 p.m.
All proceeds benefit the Humane
Society of Logan County.
Logan
County Democrats cancel December meeting
The Logan County Democrats
will not have a meeting in December due to holiday schedules. The Democrats
will resume their regular monthly meetings in January. The next meeting will
be Saturday, Jan. 11, at 10 a.m. at the Lincoln Public Library.
Rebecca Drake, county Democratic
chair, announced that Bill Houlihan, downstate chief of staff for
Sen. Richard Durbin, will be guest speaker at the January meeting.
Houlihan is a candidate for the 18th Congressional District State
Central Committee.
All Logan
County Democrats are welcome to attend.
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Lincoln Christian Church to host
'Unleashed for the Unreached' prayer wall
Nov. 20-27, the "Unleashed for the Unreached"
prayer wall will be at Lincoln Christian Church in Lincoln. The traveling
wall lists people groups who currently have no missionaries and no access to
the Bible. People visiting the wall are encouraged to pick a people group to
pray for. Several activities are planned to correspond with the visit of the
wall. A news release about the prayer
wall provides this background:
"Because we live in
a church saturated culture where Bibles can be accessed on our
phones and there are churches on every corner, it is difficult to
grasp that 2.7 billion people in the world have never heard
the name of Jesus, have no access to a Bible, have no missionary,
and may never hear the Gospel. Researchers have identified around
7,000 people groups with a total population of 2.7 billion as being
unreached—this is approximately 40% of the world's population!
(source/resource
http://www.joshuaproject.net/)
"All of these
numbers can seem like random statistics. What if there was a way to
visualize the enormity of the task of reaching all of these people
with the life-changing message of the Gospel? Imagine a 60 ft. wall
containing a list of the 1,587 largest unreached people groups. This
wall is called the Unleashed for the Unreached Prayer Wall
and helps to make the enormous task before us of reaching the world
for Christ visually memorable and calls believers to prayer."
According to the
Unleashed for the Unreached
website, the campaign was launched at the 2011 North American
Christian Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, when the convention
president, Dudley Rutherford, delivered his keynote address on the
evening of July 5, 2011. "He asked churches everywhere to partner
together to form networks that would boldly tackle the problem of
getting the word out to unreached people groups and cities still
uninformed about the Good News of Jesus Christ," the website says.
The initiative connects local
churches with unreached peoples and cities, facilitated by trained
project fulfillment specialists, peer mentoring and prayer.
The "Wall
of Unreached Peoples" has been featured at the North American
Christian Convention and the International Conference on Missions.
When the wall is at Lincoln
Christian Church from Wednesday, Nov. 20, through Wednesday, Nov.
27, there will be multiple opportunities for visitors to interact
with the prayer wall. Scheduled activities include:
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Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 6:30 p.m.
-- "Aha" moment with Dr. Wayne Shaw
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Saturday, Nov. 23, from 6
to 7:45 p.m. -- "Unleashed for the Unreached" seminar with
Doug Lucas, team expansion president
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Sunday, Nov. 24, at 8:15, 9:30 and
11 a.m. -- Doug Lucas will preach.
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Open time for prayer -- Saturday,
9 a.m.-6 p.m., and Sunday, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.
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Additional prayer opportunities
for individuals and groups will be available throughout the
week. For more information or to schedule a time to come,
contact Lincoln Christian Church 217-732-7618.
Those who can't come to the events
are invited to check out the resources on
http://www.joshuaproject.net/, where people can get a daily
email reminder to pray about an unreached people group and find out
more information about unreached peoples. Those who would like to
commit to praying for a specific unreached people group can visit
the website, http://www.u4theu.com/,
and find a
form under contacts. Follow
Unleashed for the Unreached or
Unreached Peoples
- Joshua Project on Facebook.
City
of Lincoln fall cleanup schedules: landfill hours and leaf pickup days
For the convenience of
Lincoln residents, the city landfill will be open six days a week beginning
Tuesday, Oct. 29. Landfill hours will be Tuesday through Sunday, 8 a.m. to
3:50 p.m., and closed on Mondays. The landfill is specifically for
landscape waste. Trash dumping will not be permitted there.
With the new city agreement for
commercial mulching, products brought to the landfill by residents
should be separated into two categories: wood products and lawn
waste, such as plant material and leaves.
Wood waste for mulching is defined
as logs, limbs or brush. All wood materials for recycling must be
free of all metal or foreign debris, excluding nails and bolts
three-eighths inch or smaller. Logs and limbs should be cut to a
maximum length of 4 feet.
The landfill will maintain a
six-day-a-week schedule through Tuesday, Nov. 26. Afterward the
schedule will go back to open hours Saturday and Wednesday from 8
a.m. to 3:50 p.m.
The city of Lincoln will also do
free leaf pickup inside the city limits. Pickup dates will be
scheduled by ward and are as follows:
Ward
1:
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Monday, Oct. 28
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Thursday, Nov. 7
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Wednesday, Nov. 20
Ward 2:
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Wednesday, Oct. 30
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Tuesday, Nov. 12
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Friday,
Nov. 22
Ward 3:
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Friday, Nov. 1
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Thursday, Nov. 14
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Monday,
Nov. 25
Ward 4:
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Tuesday, Nov. 5
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Monday, Nov. 18
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Monday,
Dec. 2
Leaves are to be placed in
biodegradable bags at the curb by 7 a.m. the day of the scheduled pickup for
your ward.
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