| 20 Year Anniversary Celebration |
 Our congregation is 20 years old this year! We will be celebrating this anniversary with one big worship service on September 13th at 10:00 am -- the only worship service that Sunday. After worship, we'll share a meal of ham and turkey together. Volunteers are needed to help with tasks before the event, during the dinner, and afterwards. YOUR HELP IS NEEDED! Please see Donna Roberts or Debbie Carlson to see how you can help! A special feature will be the first annual DESSERT COMPETITION for the men of the church...participate and show off YOUR culinary talents (not your wife's or the bakery's)!!! See Spike Roberts for details. |
| Shishmaref, Alaska Collection |
 Again this year we will send our surplus to the Inupiats in Shishmaref, a people living on subsistence, who are badly affected by Global Warming. About 600 people live on this island, 580 being Lutherans because a Lutheran Missionary introduced them to Jesus in the 1890's. There is running water in a community bathhouse, and in the parsonage. They live on what they catch, and preserve. This year we will also send Sunday School materials, a full teaching pack, that they will be able to multiply for themselves. Also craft items left over from VBS. Beginning the first Sunday in September and finalizing the end of October, there will be a designated large box for collection. Again THRIVENT will be helping us with the shipping costs, which last year came to about $700. There is a photo book near the display showing life in Shishmaref for your viewing during this time.
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