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SUNDAY SCHEDULECONTEMPORARY 8:30 AMSUNDAY SCHOOL 9:30 AMTRADITIONAL 10:45 AMEVENING 6:30 PMSUNDAY SCHOOL CLASSESBEACON CLASS: Room 4Quarterly adult Sunday School lessons from the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).DISCUSSION CLASS: Room 8/9“REFORMATION OVERVIEW” - Martin Luther, John Wyclife and other leaders of the First Reformation. YOUTH GATHERING: Log CabinAll children and youth.NURSERY: Newborn - age 4Nursery (Room 5)

Daylight Savings Time Ends 11/4

Don’t forget to roll your clocks back one hour when you go to bed 11/3.

Moderator’s NotesPastor Appreciation Month has

come and gone. I think that the concept of designating a day/month for this spe-cific purpose is a great reminder for us to show some thankful recognition to our pastors, but better still is the con-cept of showing that thankful recogni-tion all year round.

Let's equate this concept to say.... Mother's Day. Don't we all need to ap-preciate our moms all year long? Go ahead, think of any other 'honoring' day, and the underlying premise would be that while a special day may be desig-nated, the insinuation is that the day is a reminder that the 'honoree' is worthy of recognition on a regular basis.

In addition to appreciation, we need to remember to bathe our pastors (and each other) in prayer, and not just for a day or a month, but continually. We have all had times of serious spiritual battles going on related to life issues, and faithful prayers of others on our behalf are especially important during those times. Our pastors need our prayers, as they not only have their own life issues, but also share the burdens of so many folks that come to them for help and guidance. Along with prayer, the occasional 'atta-boy/atta-girl' is beneficial. (Don't we all benefit from en-couragement?)

On this month's business note, the governing board will soon be reviewing the revisions that have been suggested

Tropical FlutesChristmas Concert

December 16th, 2012

Tropical Sands Chris:an Church

6:30 PMBring your favorite 

dessert or finger food to share!!

by the 'constitution update task force'. Our TSCC constitution/covenant rec-ommends evaluation for revision/update every five years, and it has been a few years longer since the last revision.

With the growth in numbers and programs that we have been blessed to have added to TSCC, it was time to see what adjustments might be warranted. Thank you much to the task force mem-bers, who spent many hours working on this project on behalf of us all. Once the documents are reviewed by the board, they will be presented to the congrega-tion. We will keep you posted.

In conclusion for now, let us remem-ber to thankfully encourage our pastoral staff, and to pray for each other as we continue to seek God's guidance in the days ahead.

Melody LaPierre, Moderator

“Hope for Danielle”Tops $5,000

Our “Hope for Danielle" Fun-Raiser raised more than $5,000 for Danielle, the five-year-old daughter of LuVerne McLeod, who died unexpectedly Oct. 3.

Special thanks to Mickey McCown, Tony LoBianco, Lisa Barron, Hurricane Schirle, Pastor Tina, Pastor Trudy and scores of other volunteers who worked so hard to make this event a success.

Joel Tucker, Senior Pastor

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If we missed your Novemberbirthday or anniversary

please tell the church office.

Birthdays & Anniversaries1 Alan Barron, Traynter Turpin, David & Mary Rhodes2 Pastor Joel Tucker3 Angel Collins4 Frankie Rose6 Mary Ann Bell, Jeffrey Lipman, Douglas Dickson7 Carl Ashley, Daniel & Julia Morehouse9 Sue Aaron12 Ali Jones, Jacelyn Marra, Perry Sifford13 Nancy Wilson14 Debbie Jones15 Norma Ashley18 Brandon Cordero22 Niki Callahan, Nancy Knoth23 Tom & Betty Butler24 Logan Barron26 Bill & Phyllis Howden28 Jerry Rush, I. H. Rushfeldt29 Sandy Bell, Harriet Smith, Annette Mannin

Every Sunday Contemporary Worship 8:30 a.m.Sunday School 9:30 a.m.Traditional Worship 10:45 a.m.Evening Worship 6:30 p.m.

Every TuesdayCelebrate Recovery 7 p.m.

Every WednesdayMinion Madness 6:15 p.m.

Every ThursdayChoir Practice 7 p.m.

Every SaturdayLog Cabin Worship 6:30 p.m.

3 CMF Breakfast 9 a.m.4 Back Door Coffee House 6:30 p.m.5 Elders Meeting 7 p.m.12 Governing Board 7:30 p.m.14 CWF Ruth Group 6:30 p.m.19 CWF Sarah Group 6:30 p.m.26 Sandpiper Deadline 5 p.m.29 Sandpiper Folders 9 a.m.

Treasurer’s ReportSeptember 2012

Date ........................................... Income........................................9/03 $4,921.00........................................9/10 $5,071.00........................................9/17 $4,606.10........................................9/24 $3,951.45

.........................Total Income $18,549.55...................Total Expenses $22,319.86

.......................For the month -$3,770.31Our budget this year is $360,000,

calling for an average contribution of $30,000 per month.

Thirteen people traveled from TSCC to Orlando to attend the Regional As-sembly. For many of us this was our first Florida Regional Assembly. The Florida Region has suffered severely in the past few years and our expectations were not very high. Fortunately those expectations were exceeded. We heard from several speakers and had good music. Pastor Joel was recruited at the last minute to help with the worship mu-sic for the Assembly.

The speakers had a message of re-newal. The enthusiasm was shared and directed by our new Regional Minister (Dr. Juan Rodriguez). Pastor Rodriguez has been on staff for several months and has discovered the strength and weak-ness of the Region. He has great plans for us, but it will require that our coopera-tion be strong and active. Those in at-tendance responded to his request for action.

We are the Church and the Region is our connection between the congre-gations of Florida. It is not about the Ministers or the Region but about the Church. We had excellent speakers that expressed the excitement of a new Mis-sion. That Mission is to find new ways to be Church and to communicate. Communication is essential and as we are faced with the changes we will re-view new ways to establish links be-tween the Region, the Congregations and the Pastors.

We broke up into groups on Satur-day for serious discussion on what we as Congregations and Members want from the Region. In the past the Region has been very heavy with committees and groups that were not effective and

took extensive energy from those who served. A Virtual Office was discussed and in today’s technology is very prob-able and will allow the districts to have much greater access to the activities of the Region.

Our history as Disciples of Christ was often referred to as being the his-tory that is part of the future. We as Disciples are uniquely situated to serve the needs of this modern generation. The inspiration of our historic leaders was never more true that in today’s Church.

To summarize, we came away reju-venated and feeling that as members of TSCC we can find value and success by being an active part of the NEW Re-gion of Florida. As this unfolds we hope you as members will understand and support our involvement with the Re-gion as these changes come to pass.

Jack Hopson, Vice Moderator

2012 Florida Regional Assembly

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Time to Make the Cookies(and we NEED hundreds of dozens!!)

THE TSCC 17th Annual Cookie Sale “Sweets & Treats”

is ALMOST HERE!

December 1, 2012,

11:00—12:30 pm. Cookies can be made and frozen

for up to 2 months.

The freezer in the church kitchen will be available for storage

starting Thursday,November 1, 2012.

Contact Lisa Barron, if you have any questions. (561) 747-0678

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Wonderful People at Tropical Sands,Thank you so much for your support

with all the prayers, phone calls, and cards.There is no doubt that God was watch-

ing over me as my radiation continued.There are decisions yet to be made, but I am certain

all will go well.I love you,

Ann Freseman

YARD SALE WRAP-UPThank you for: Your “stuff”Your volunteer efforts!!!Your purchasesYour time, support & prayers

The CWF October 2012 Yard Sale was once again a success. Thanks to the efforts of so many!!! we netted over $1,400. This year’s volunteer force was awesome, working 3 days to transform our Fellowship Hall into a thrift store and back again. Items not sold were do-nated to two different efforts: 1) the NPB Troop Support Effort for their yard sale thanks to John & Jean Luksa. 2) Billie Smith & her crew from PBG 1st Baptist Church picked up the rest of the items for their yard sale. A win-win for every-one.

Lisa Barron, CWF President

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CWF Ruth GroupAnnual Christmas

PartyFriday,

November 16, 20126:00 pm at TSCC

Join us for a shared dinner and Christmas Story

New members always welcomeRSVP to Lisa Barron, (561) 747-0678

W; (214) 557-3210to let us know which dish you would

like to bring

Calling ALL Worker Bees Tropical Sands needs

your help with the 17th Annual Christmas

Cookie SaleDecember 1, 2012

We need bakers to bake cook-ies, help with set-up on Thursday, 11/29 & Friday, 11/30 (cookie display), musicians to serenade our waiting cus-tomers, cookie handlers (about 20) for the day of sale, help with parking, handing out flyers, working with the Youth Hot Dog Sale, hospitality, clean-up. So MANY opportunities for high and low energy volunteers, stand-ing or sitting volunteers. A great event for new members to get in-volved in a fun uplifting Tropical Sands tradition.

Look for sign-up sheets in the Fel-lowship Hall the month of November.

Lisa Barron,(561) 747-0678, (214) 557-9077

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CWF Sarah Groupwill meet at 6:30 p.m. onMonday, November 19th.Contact Laura Putman,

(561) 644-4027, for location.

Emergency Contact InfoOur church is beginning an Emergency

Contact database. Please provide the church office with a contact name and number (or email) for personal emergen-cies. This would be particularly helpful for single individuals of any age who are in South Florida without family or friends. You will find a form on the table in the fellowship hall for this information.

Thank you to Pastor Joel and all of you who prayed for me during my illness. I am Phil Aaron, son of Sue Aaron. I became a member of TSCC when I was 12 years old. I know some of the older members, they remember me as a noisy kid who wanted to surf all the time. I don’t know the new mem-bers since Pastor Joel came, but your prayers have meant so much to me and my family.

God bless you all. I’m in therapy and doing well.

Phil Aaron

Dear TSCC family, Thank you for all your prayers, cards

and telephone calls during the time I was hospitalized and undergoing the procedure to receive a pacemaker. I don't know what I would do without my family and church fam-ily.

Love,Hazel Montgomery

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Pastoral RelationsCommittee Formed

A Pastoral Relations Committee has been formed to improve communica-tions between the congregation and church staff. Polly Weiss chairs the committee, which includes Lynn Gold, Louise Jones, Mickey McCown, and Jerry Rush.

If you have concerns you would like the committee to address, please ex-press them in love to one of these committee members.

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Worship & WonderNovember Schedule

Greeters: First Service: Bobby Tucker / Pastor TinaKiki Rainey, Second Service

11/04 The Temple, A House for God Storyteller: Pam Flood

11/11 Exile and Return Storyteller: Pily Tucker

11/18How The Church Tells Time Storyteller: Stefanie Tucker

11/25Advent I Storyteller: Betty Lancaster

A candy cane striped afghancreated by Paige Sleva

The SandpiperVolume 54, Number 11 | November 2012

Tropical SandsChristian Church

(Disciples of Christ)2726 Burns Rd.

Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410Email: Info@TropicalSands.org

Website: http://www.TropicalSands.orgJoel TuckerSenior Pastor

Trudy Betts & Tina ChristianAssociate Pastors

Our mission as Disciples of Christ is to profess faith, proclaim hope and practice love.

A Senior Moment : )Tropical Sands is on the verge of

Revival, a Great Awakening of our po-tential to win souls for the kingdom of God by the power of Jesus Christ.

God has put in place the pastors, musicians, artists, business profession-als and hospitality staff to make this Revival happen. And like Barton Stone calling for a Sacramental Communion at Cane Ridge in 1801, I am calling on everyone connected with this church to pray, plan and get ready for a miracle!

I think we’ve all been shaken from our comfortable positions in the church. God isn’t giving anyone the luxury of standing still. People are hungry for the Gospel, and they’re coming to Tropical Sands because they know that we will bring it down to where they live and teach them to apply it to the real world.

Hyperbole? No, I’m serious! The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is all about sharing the essential Lordship of Christ and holding loosely to tradi-tions that separate us from each other. Or, as our founders were fond of say-ing, “In essentials, unity; in nonessen-tials, liberty; in all things, charity.”

To meet the challenge and potential of the coming year, we need to bring our Associate Pastors on as full time employees. Please consider an in-creased level of giving next year, and let us know with a note on an index card in the collection box, offering plate or mail. Your faithful giving will make it possible to fully engage these pastors.

To put it bluntly, I’m asking you to sponsor them so we can commit ALL of our work hours to the plans God has for this church. It’s a great ministry!

-- Joel Tucker, Senior Pastor

And an embroidered “garden” quiltcreated by Thelma Scott.

DON’T FORGET TO PURCHASE YOUR RAFFLE TICKETS$1 each or 6 for $5

This year we have 2 beautiful handmade items:

Drawing at the Cookie Sale, December 1 – 12:30 pm

The youth will be selling Pumpkin Rolls in time for Thanksgiving! Place your order now for these delicious cakes and pick them up Sunday, November 18th.