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Bonnie Flora
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| This Week at St. John's | May 22 - May 29, 2011 |
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Photos from the Faith Garden |
| What's Happening This Sunday |
- Adult Forum at 10 a.m. - Neumann - Larry Christensen: "St. John's is smaller than it used to be and why that may be a good thing."
- Photography at 10 a.m. - Room 8 - Theme: Funny pictures
- Graduation Recognition at 10 a.m. - Weertz
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| Weekly Calendar | |
Monday, May 23
9:30 am WELCA Board Meeting - Room 8, Kitchen
Tuesday, May 24
9:30 am Quilting - Room 308
9 30 am Tuesday AM Bible Study - Room 8
Eagle Call Tabbers following Bible Study
9:30 am ASAP Empowerment Mural Painting - Room 7
4:00 pm Altar Crawl Tour
5:30 pm Centering Prayer - Chapel
6:30 pm SJL Gardening Group - Loki's Gardens
Wednesday, May 25
6:30 am Souljourners - Weertz
9:30 am ASAP Empowerment Mural Painting - Room 7
10:00 am 3D - Off Site
4:30 pm Recreational Reading - Rose Holm
6:00 pm Music Ministry Party - Christensen Residence
Thursday, May 26 - No Scheduled Activities
Friday, May 27 - No Scheduled Activities
Saturday, May 28
5:00 pm Worship - Chapel
Sunday, May 29
7:45 am Worship - Sanctuary
8:45 am Worship - Sanctuary
9:55 am Coffee with the Council - Weertz
11:00 am Worship - Sanctuary |
| Baseball and Apple Pie | |
 Our all congregational Baseball and Apple Pie event takes place on Sunday, June 5. There will be a picnic (food provided) with an apple pie contest on the grass next to the parking lot at Principal Park between 11:30 and 1:00, then we will attend an I-Cub's game at 1:05. If you enjoy making apple pie, we hope you will share your skills with us and enter the contest. Sign up in the lounge during the month of May for both I-Cubs tickets and apple pie contest. (Deadline to sign up is Tuesday, May 24.) Cost for both the tickets and the food for the picnic is $10 per person. Table service will be provided.
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| WELCA Outreach |  ► Lois Group will meet in Neumann at noon on June 2nd for a salad luncheon. Attendees will be treated to a surprise
program. Sarah Group resumes in September.
► Over the summer please continue to fill our baskets for donations (toothbrushes, toothpaste, shampoo, soap, and sanitary supplies). Our Mission in Action drives resume in September when the emphasis will be school supplies, usually on sale in August. |
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Children's Ministry | 
► Don't forget to register for VBS! Vacation Bible School will be June 27-30 for Kindergarten- Sixth graders. Registrations are on the table at the entrance of the chapel or here on our website.
► Sunday School teachers are needed for age three and First Grade for next year. Could you share your faith with eager kids once a month for seven months starting in September? You need not be an expert on the Bible stories as Teacher's Guides are provided. If interested, contact Sheryl Reed (243-7691) or sherylreed@stjohnsdsm.org. |
| Small Groups & Christian Involvement | |
► The St. John's Gardening group will tour Loki's Gardens on Tuesday, May 24th , at 6:30 pm. Loki's Gardens is west of the Des Moines metro area. (Take Grand Avenue west of the interstate, turn left at Raccoon River Drive and drive 7.5 miles.) Following the tour, you may purchase plants. The 2011 summer garden schedule is available on the St. John's website, pick a copy in the hospitality center in the lounge, or e-mail Darla at darlastiles@stjohnsdsm.org.
► Recreational Reading will meet for the last time until fall on Wednesday, May 25, 4:30 pm in Rose Holm. The book to discuss is In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin.
► EAGLES will travel to Omaha to enjoy the zoo on Friday, June 24, leaving St. John's at 8:00 am. Call or e-mail Roma Youngquist at 285.3810 or plaallda@aol.com . |
| Interfaith Hospitality Network | |
 On June 14th and 16th, St. John's will assist WDM Christian Church in hosting 3 homeless families in transition. Please consider volunteering for a shift. We need food preparers & servers, evening and overnight hosts. This is a great opportunity for youth, families or small groups to serve together.
On June 14 and 16, we need at least 2 people per shift: 5:30 - 7:00 pm serve supper and clean-up; 6:00 - 8:00 pm evening hosts;
8:00 pm - 6:00 am overnight hosts (at least one male needed).
Food needs to be delivered by 5:30 pm: enough for 25 people - main dish; salad; vegetable/starch; dessert, plus 2 loaves of bread and 2 gallons of milk. Please see the sign-up sheet just outside the Sanctuary. Contact Jennifer Early or Wanda Havard with questions at 274-6872. Thank you!
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| The Rainbow Ministry Team... | 
. . . of St. John's will continue our annual tradition of participating in the Des Moines Gay Pride Parade on Sunday, June 12th, at 1:00 pm. This is a great opportunity for us to represent St. John's as a "Church for All People." St. John's members and friends are invited to join us in the march. Meeting time is 12:30 pm and the location is on the east side of the Capitol near Capitol Avenue in the large parking lot. The parade ends on Robert D. Ray Drive near the river. Feel free to show off your new St. John's Rainbow t-shirt (see below.) If you have any questions regarding this event, contact Bruce Remmey at 515-208-4386. |
| WIRED |  Cooking! Enjoy an evening with a shared meal and fellowship at Karen Zaabel's home, 1102 S 50th Place, WDM on Thursday, June 2 at 6:00 pm. Each participant will be asked to make an item from a planned menu and put them all together for a shared meal. Karen and Carol will make the main entree. Recipes for appetizers, salads, vegetable and dessert will be provided. Please respond if you are able to attend and indicate which menu category you would like to prepare. Bring your own drink of choice and enjoy an evening of good food and some new recipes to take home. Please respond by Friday, May 27th. Due to limited seating, size will be limited so respond early! Contact Carol at carollunde@q.com or 249-7272 or Karen at kzaabel@msn.com or home number of 225-8476. |
| St. John's Faith Garden... | |
 . . . is now completely planted, thanks to the hard-working volunteers who turned out on the lovely evening of May 16. The May 24 planting date is cancelled. After we planted cherry tomatoes, slicing tomatoes, peppers and eggplant, Pastor Bob led us in prayer asking God's blessing on our garden. We even put a fence around the garden to slow down the rabbits, but it may need to be moved; Pastor Bob is already talking about expanding the garden! Current needs are donations for staking or caging the tomato plants, drip hoses, a scale to weigh produce before it's donated to DMARC, and various garden supplies. Please mark your financial donations "for St. John's Faith Garden", and call Bonnie Ekse at 964-5929 if you have materials or supplies to donate. We can all work together to alleviate childhood hunger in the Greater Des Moines area by 2015. Thank you!
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The Des Moines Arts Festival |  St. John's has been offered a volunteer opportunity for this year's Des Moines Arts Festival® - June 24th-26th. If your ministry group, book club, or simply friends and/or family would like to volunteer, work and play together visit the website to view the Festival's volunteer opportunities at: www.desmoinesartsfestival.org/volunteer - then click on "volunteer local." You are able to view the job descriptions for each of the opportunities, see how many spots are remaining for each shift, and register your group together. (Please note: we require a minimum age of 16 years old, the Festival is rain or shine event, and lifting objects may be involved.) For help with registration or with questions, contact Angela at atakolbet@downtowndesmoines.com or 515-286-4949. |
| Adult Forum: May 15 & 22 |  Larry Christensen will conduct adult education at 10:00 a.m. The first, May 15th, will be called, "Why St. John's is smaller than it used to be, and why it is no one's fault." The second, May 22nd, will be called "St. John's is smaller than it used to be and why that may be a good thing." Larry's descriptions of the forums are as follows: "The sessions will be a combination of St. John's and Des Moines history, social commentary, Bible study, and theology. While you are all very aware of the down sides of how my mind works, a positive side of my thought process is that I see all sorts of connections in a great big web of meaning. There is hope and every reason to see God's hand at work in the processes that go on around us in seeming chaos. I hope many of you will join me as I think some of this content is food for thought and prayer as we all live into God's future." |
| AMOS One to One Training ~ Creating Community | |
 We are called to create community, but how well do we know one another? We share the faith, but have we shared our stories?
AMOS (A Mid-Iowa Organizing Strategy) is a community ministry committed to the art and practice of building strong public relationships among diverse people. AMOS will be teaching this practice of "One to One, Relational Meetings" on Thursday, May 26 at Plymouth Congregational Church in Des Moines from 6:15 - 8:45 p.m. A meal is included and daycare will be provided. This training will benefit members of many ministry teams: Faithful Friends, Hospitality and Outreach, Stephen Ministry, Christian Involvement, Small Group Ministry, Health Ministry, Social Ministry, Rainbow Ministry, Church Council and anyone who yearns for deeper connections to their community.Training will be provided by the professional organizing staff of AMOS and our sister organizations in Nebraska and Oklahoma.
If you plan to attend, please call Bonnie Ekse at 964-5929 no later than Monday, May 23. |
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Learn More about Who Does What at SJLC |  There is a new "Thank you" bulletin board in Weertz to thank different groups of people for their various ministries. This month's featured group is Women of the ELCA (WELCA). Please take a moment to add your thanks with a short note, or with just your signature. Thank you! |
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Simply Giving | |
 Traveling this summer or any time throughout the year? Or just want to make sure you keep up with your giving plan? Electronic giving, through the "Simply Giving" program, could be for you! It is a convenient way to provide consistent financial support to St. John's. There will be a table in the narthex again this weekend between services where you can ask questions and sign-up, or pick up a form in Weertz Hall.
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Peace,
Scott LaBlanc
Director of Parish Operations
businessoffice@stjohnsdsm.org
515-243-7691 x. 113 |
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