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Let’s have some fun this month of November in preparation for Christmas!

10/31/2018

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Potluck Dinner

I love potluck dinners. The food is full of variety, and it is so delicious! Plan a potluck lunch or dinner at the church. Invite your ladies to come and bring a dish. Ask your participants to be ready to share one thing that makes them joyful and one thing that makes them sad around the holidays. Be sure to encourage one another to bring Great Joy for All. The holidays bring back memories, and not everyone has someone to spend the holidays with. Your potluck meal will provide a time of fellowship and encouragement. Make the clean-up quick and easy by using disposable plates, cups, and flatware. If you desire to make this a church wide event, inquire with your pastor for his ideas and input. Including the whole church in this time of gathering can be great fun! 

Decorate the Church for Christmas

For additional joy, ask the ladies of the church to come prepared to decorate the church for Christmas after your meal. Before your time together, ask the men of the church to assemble the Christmas Tree(s) for your time of decorating. If the potluck meal was for the whole church, this is all the better. Ask all your congregation to help in the fun of decorating the church together. Be sure to include the youth and children in the fun, and ask their pastors to help plan special activities as well. Play Christmas music in the background as you decorate. This provides a quick way to decorate the church for Christmas and offers holiday fellowship for your women’s group or church family. 

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Recipes:
 
Chicken and Dressing

Prep Time: 15 min.
Cook Time: 4 hrs. Crock Pot begin on high and reduce to low
Total Time: 4 hrs. 15 min.
Servings 6
 
  • 6 large chicken breasts
  • 1 Chicken Bouillon Cube or granulated
  • 2 cans crème of chicken soup
  • 2 boxes Stove Top Stuffing
  • 1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
(For large gatherings use a roaster pan and double the ingredients)
Spray the bottom of the crock pot with cooking spray. Place the frozen chicken on the bottom of the crock pot; mix the stuffing according the box directions, and pour over the frozen chicken. Next empty the crème of chicken soup over the top of the stuffing. Slice up a stick of butter laying over the top of the ingredients. Cook on low 4 – 4 ½ hours. I usually do not add water to the crock pot for this recipe. If you feel you want to, I suggest ½ to 1 cup of water.


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Million Dollar Instant Pot Mac and Cheese
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 Prep Time: 15 min.
 Cook Time: 4 min.
 Total Time: 19 min.
 Servings 6
 
  • 1.5 cups cheddar cheese
  • 1 cup asiago cheese
  • 6 slices provolone
  • 1 cup evaporated milk
  • 1 cup heavy cream or milk
  • 1 tsp garlic powder
  • 1 tsp onion powder
  • 1 tsp crushed red pepper
  • 1 tsp spicy mustard
  • 4 tbs butter
  • 1 cup panko breadcrumbs
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1 tbs better than bouillon chicken flavor
  • 1-pound Cellentani pasta
  • 3 cups water
Place the Instant pot on sauté.  Melt butter and add all seasonings. Add water and pasta. Place on manual high pressure for 4 minutes. While pasta is cooking, melt 2 tbs butter in a frying pan with 1 cup panko breadcrumb just till breadcrumbs are brown.  Do a quick release. Place pot back on sauté. 
Stir in evaporated milk and heavy cream. When the mixture gets bubbly, stir in cheddar cheese and asiago cheese.  Pour half the mixture into the bottom of a baking dish. Spread 6 slices of provolone cheese over the top.  Spread 1 cup of sour cream over the cheese. Layer with remaining pasta.  Top with panko breadcrumbs and bake in the oven on 350 for 5 minutes.


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Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cakes
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Prep: 30 min
Cook: 50 min.
Total: 1 hr. 20 min.
Serves 6 to 8 servings
 
Cake:
  • 1 (18 1/4-ounce) package yellow cake mix
  • 1 egg
  • 8 tablespoons butter melted
Filling:
  • 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
  • 1 (15-ounce) can pumpkin
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 8 tablespoons butter melted
  • 1 (16-ounce) box powdered sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon nutmeg
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Combine the cake mix, egg, and butter and mix well with an electric mixer. Pat the mixture into the bottom of a lightly greased 13 by 9-inch baking pan.
To make the filling: In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese and pumpkin until smooth. Add the eggs, vanilla, and butter, and beat together. Next, add the powdered sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and mix well. Spread pumpkin mixture over cake batter and bake for 40 to 50 minutes. Make sure not to overbake as the center should be a little gooey.
Serve with fresh whipped cream.

Variations:
  • For a Pineapple Gooey Cake: Instead of the pumpkin, add a drained 20-ounce can of crushed pineapple to the cream cheese filling. Proceed as directed above.
  • For a Banana Gooey Cake: Prepare cream cheese filling as directed, beating in 2 ripe bananas instead of the pumpkin. Proceed as directed above.
  • For a Peanut Butter Gooey Cake: Use a chocolate cake mix. Add 1 cup creamy peanut butter to the cream cheese filling instead of the pumpkin. Proceed as directed above.

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Great Joy For All - Broader Fields

10/4/2018

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Christ's Birthday Observance 365 - October 2018

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It was a striking picture: a great combine cutting a broad swath through a wide field of golden wheat. This is what Nora Hunter, our first National President, saw as she sat on her couch looking at the picture again. She had seen this picture a few days earlier on a magazine cover. Now as she sat and looked at the picture again, she began to realize there was a message in it for her. Nora had just returned from a five-month trip in Europe, Northern Africa, and Syria. What she had witnessed in those lands had kindled a fire in her heart. The fields were broad; the precious grain, ripe to harvest, was being lost. Nora longed for the church to see the great need in other countries.

The Great Depression had dragged the church backward, it seemed. The minds of the people were fixed upon themselves and their own needs. The backward drag was especially apparent in the decrease of gifts for the spread of the gospel. Nora returned from the trip with resolve in her heart. The cuts in the missionary allowances must stop! The national workers must be set free again. As Nora continued to wait upon the Lord, offering herself more deeply to His use, a word from the Book of Psalms came to her: “The Lord gave the word: the company of women that published the tidings are a great host” Ps. 68:11, ARV. And then, the idea was born: the women of the Church of God! They were a great host, and they were just waiting to be shown what to do. Days and months passed by; in 1932, the National Woman’s Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the Church of God came to birth in Anderson, Indiana. We are now known as Christian Women Connection.
(Excerpts from Madam President by Hazel G. Neal & Axchie A. Bolitho, Revised by Marie Meyer)
 
What a glorious heritage we have as Christian Women Connection continues today 86 years later. This ministry continues to assist our missionaries and many other areas. Soon, we will launch into Women in Ministry (WIM) to encourage, equip, and empower women clergy and lay women leaders in the work of the ministry. As we look at our history and see where we are today, it is evident the Lord’s hand is still at work in this ministry.
 
Activity: Consider reading Madame President with your women’s group this month. It’s good to revisit our heritage and find Great Joy in the journey for all of us!
 


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Madam President 
(The Nora Hunter Story) 
By: Hazel G. Neal & Axchie A. Bolitho
Sister Nora’s story is an adventure. By reading about her life and ministry, your life will be enriched, informed and empowered by the Holy Spirit.     
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