On Sunday, December 15 Decorah Covenant Church will be participating in an annual tradition of spreading Christmas cheer in our community. We will join together as we strengthen the Body of Christ through fun, fellowship, food and a little Christmas cheer. If DCC is in your neighborhood keep an eye out for us! Want to join us? Meet at DCC at 115 Washington St at 4pm on the 15th!

Remember to bring your donation items for December this Sunday! Potatoes, toothbrushes, toothpaste, and quart-sized cooking oil are the Food Pantry's requested items of the month! Let's fill the cart! Want to help out the local food pantry but don't attend DCC? The Decorah Community Food Pantry has a new location and hours: 110 Railroad Street, 12:30 - 2:30 p.m. Monday - Friday. Thursday evening hours are unchanged - 6:30-7:30 p.m. For more information about the local pantry, go to: https://www.decorahpantry.org/

Join us tomorrow, Friday, December 13 at 1pm in the Decorah Covenant Church Sanctuary to celebrate the season with a Christmas Program from the students of the Crossroads Academy in Decorah. Come and enjoy soloists, a "cups percussionist", video of the Crossroads band "The Soul of Crossroads" (a Luther student project), two "Elf" plays and a Crossroads Family Feud. Staff will be acting out the "12 Days of Christmas".

The 29:11 Music Ministry from South Africa will present a program of music and testimonies as the Sunday morning worship at Decorah Covenant Church on December 15 at 9:00 a.m. The musical director of 29:11 is Brendon Adams, who formerly served as Director of the Luther College Gospel Choir. Adams and his wife Gaylene are co-founders of New Hope International Exchange (NHIE) whose mission is to offer opportunities to individuals and groups to put hope in action by serving and supporting communities in need in Cape Town, South Africa through volunteer missions and foreign exchange.

By exchanging talent, cultural values, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ, young adults from South Africa have the opportunity to travel to the USA to share their musical talents while musicians and vocalists in the USA are given the opportunity to join with them.

For more information about this event or Decorah Covenant Church, go to decorahcovenant.org.

This month's Covenant Church Midwest Conference Newsletter highlights some testimonies from the Sankofa Racial Righteousness experience in October, including one from DCC's Haywood Stowe. There are some other familiar faces in the photos as well! Check it out by following this link: https://mailchi.mp/d39510e043fd/proa1eu98r-3071353?e=2143da3dd5