Jewel Shop & Share Days

October 20,21, and 22 2008 are Jewel Shop and Share days for Plainfield Congregational United Church of Christ. Shop at Jewel on these days and use the Shop and Share form (Jewel Shop and Share Form.pdf). A portion of the purchase price will go to the church!

Youth Minister Search

The Youth Minister Search team has completed the profile and begun advertising for candidates for the Youth Minister position. We are excited about the person we know God is preparing to send our way. Please join us in prayer for our next youth minister. The team is jointly using the following prayer every Wed and Sunday. You might wish to join us or use your own very person prayer.

God, we thank you that you are in the process of bringing to us the right person to lead our youth ministry program into the next most wonderful version of what it can be. As we participate with you in the process of meeting this person, open our hearts minds and spirits to trust your guidance and follow your lead. We thank you that you continually surprise us with wonders far greater than all we could ever imagine or hope for in our wildest dreams! We know that when the time is right and we are ready the right person will come. Help us be ready!

Check out http://plainfielducc.org/youth_minister.html to see what the webpage the team has created for prospective candidates to get a feel for our congregation and youth ministry program.

All the People



Plainfield Congregational United Church of Christ is a God Is Still Speaking church in the Eastern Association of the Illinois Conference of the United Church of Christ.

The IDOT Check has arrived! Thus the Governing Board is calling a Special Congregational Meeting on Sunday September 28th immediately following worship (prior to the clean up day). There are two items on the agenda for that meeting.

Wednesday 09/10
6:00 pm Middle & Jr Hi Youth Groups
(Building is open at 5:30pm for those youth who want to come early and visit with friends)
Thursday 09/11
7:00 pm -Facilities Vision Team
Friday 09/12
6:30PM Inspiration! Practice
Sunday 09/14
8:00am Inspiration! practice
9:15 am
  • Adult Education
  • Confirmation
  • P.L.A.Y.
  • Chancel Choir Rehearsal
10:30 am Worship Celebration led by our Praise band, Inspiration!
Scripture: Romans 14: 1-12 (The Message)
Theme:Living God's Welcome
10:45-11:45am Kid's Quest

4:30pm Widening Our Welcome Session #1
Join us as we begin an exploration of what it means to be Open and Affirming
Call Mary Dycus 815-846-1219 to sign-up for the FREE meal
We'll begin the meal at 4:30pm and the session at 5:00pm
We'll be finished by 7pm
The topics this week are:
  • What is ONA?
  • What the Bible does and doesn't say about homosexuality?
Child care is provided.

Events September 7 -28

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    • 7th - Rally Day after regular service.
    • 14th - ONA Meeting at 4:00 PM
    • 20th - Mens Celerbration starts at 3:00 PM
    • 28th - Cleanup Day after regular service

Website and E-mail issues

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What a few weeks it has been!

First, e-mail from church addresses were being blocked by some internet companies. We compensated by starting to use the plainfieldchurch.org domain, which used a different web host.

Next, the plainfielducc.org site became unavailable - both for browsing via the web and for retrieving e-mail - for days at a time. We compensated by downloading the entire plainfielducc.org website (when it was available) and switching the plainfielducc.org domain to point to the new site (this one).

Elmhurst College Sponsors Holocaust Education Project Open to the Public

Elmhurst College Sponsors Holocaust Education Project Open to the Public

Each year for the past 18 years, Elmhurst College (affiliated with the United Church of Christ) has presented its Holocaust Education Project with the hope we might learn important lessons for our present and our future by examining issues arising from one of humanity's darkest chapters. This year the project will offer programs on April 6, 7, 9 and 10 featuring the following nationally known and recognized speakers:

New Plainfield Congregational UCC Website Project Begins

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On this site we are building the new website for Plainfield Congregational United Church of Christ.

Goals include:
  • Simpler content management, allowing more people to help with the site.
  • More frequent updates.
  • Better integration with the United Church of Christ website at http://www.ucc.org/.
  • Better integration with search engines.
  • On-site search.
  • Consistent theme.
  • Private areas for members and friends.
  • Discussion forums.
  • Ability to add streaming video and audio.

Please join in this exciting journey! We welcome feedback!