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• Members of Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Downers Grove will be selling bottles of water for $1 at the group’s Heritage Fest booth in downtown Downers Grove Friday, June 27, through Sunday, June 29. This year, all proceeds will go toward the United Nations Millennium Development Goal No. 7 of working towards environmental sustainability. For the past few years, the U.N. and Episcopal Church Women all across the United States have been volunteering and raising funds for the U.N.’s eight Millennium Development Goals, which aim to help major development challenges in the world’s poorest countries. These goals, which the U.N. wants to meet by 2015, provide a key focus for Anglicans worldwide and locally at Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church.
Through bake sales and general donations, the parish raised more than $3,000 for the U.N. Millennium Development Goal No. 6, combats HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. All school-age children at Saint Andrew’s will help fundraising and education efforts this year. A $12 net protects a family from mosquitoes carrying malaria, and buying a bottle of clean water at the Heritage Fest helps people in other countries have the same. For more information, call (630) 968-9188 or visit www.saintandrewschurch.net.

• First Presbyterian Church of DuPage’s picnic begins at noon Saturday, July 12, at 180 N. Weber Road in Bolingbrook. The festivities – which will include face-painting, games and a pie-baking contest – will be from 12:30 to 2 p.m. and 3 to 6 p.m. A free contemporary Christian concert starring Blake Tyler Mason will be at 2 and 6 p.m.

• As part of the summer sermon series, Genesis for Grownups, at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Wheaton, worshippers are asked to bring an angel that carries special meaning during services at 8 and 10 a.m. Sunday, July 20, at 515 S. Wheaton Ave. The featured Bible story will be about Jacob seeing angels ascending and descending a ladder between Earth and heaven and receiving the promise of the land and many offspring. For information, call (630) 668-5953 or visit www.stpaulwheaton.org.

• The Christian Church of Clarendon Hills offers DivorceCare at 7 p.m. every Wednesday in July at 5750 Holmes Ave. This weekly program and support group helps people who are separated or divorced. Each DivorceCare session includes a video on an issue related to divorce and recovery. Videos feature nationally recognized experts on topics such as coping with loneliness, depression, anger, financial survival, helping children cope and new relationships. A group discussion follows. $12 covers the DivorceCare workbook. On-site child care is available. Pre-registration is not required, and participants may join the group at any time during the 13-week series. To register or arrange for child care, contact Marilyn Bourn, director of the Family Ministry & Children’s Center, at (630) 323-3456, ext. 227, or marilyn@ccch.org.