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Please let Stephanie Edgerton-Dean (sedgertondean@yahoo.com) know if you have a high school senior graduating this Spring, college student or graduate school student who either has graduated at the end of 2023 or will be graduating in the Spring of 2024 Graduation Sunday will be on Sunday, June 2, 2024

We would like to show our appreciation to our wonderful staff this Christmas for helping us through another challenging year. If you’d like to contribute to a love offering to be shared among them, please make your contribution through our website and earmark it Staff Love Offering, or you can give it directly to Alice Carroll or Tom Gray this Sunday or next. Please join us in thanking them by making a contribution today!

Claire will need help putting out the luminaries on the 21st of this month. She would like to begin at 3PM. Anyone is welcome to help. If there is heavy rain, this will be cancelled; however, if it is just light rain, setting up will continue.

Please sign up for an item or more to help these families celebrate the holiday!

Children of all ages are welcome to attend the Christmas Luncheon on Sunday, December 17 immediately following Meeting for Worship. Enjoy a meal of pasta and salad, and stay for a special surprise guest who is super jolly (Hint: Ho! Ho! Ho!). Bring a dessert to share with Friends and let’s enjoy this time of fellowship!

Deep River Friends Meeting is encouraging folks to bring in food items that can be donated to Hand to Hand Pantry and Backpack Beginnings. There are bins in the meeting house and in the fellowship hall for these items.

Please contact Lisa Allen (336-259-1940) asap if you are able to donate 24 small items for gift bags. We have candy, toothpaste/ toothbrushes and hand lotions. We could use emery boards, combs, soap, etc. by December 7th.

“The Great Dismal,” an original play by Frank Levering. The story of George Fox’s journey through the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp to reach the remote Albemarle region of North Carolina. Sternberger Auditorium, Guilford College, November 30 – December 4. 7:30 p.m. Tickets at the door.

November 25th at 2PM in the Fellowship Hall. Kids and those that are kids at heart are invited to make ornaments for the Giving Tree, listen to some Christmas music and have some cookies to get into the holiday spirit.

Save the Date! Deep River Friends, Turners Chapel and Parkwood Baptist Community Thanksgiving Service will be held at Deep River Friends Meeting on this coming Tuesday, November 21st at 7PM.