Greetings!

This Sunday we look at what took place on the road to Emmaus, how Jesus is known in the breaking of the bread.

Before Worship, from 9:45 to 10:15 we will have coffee and muffins for Moms in the fellowship hall.  I wish to thank Gary Stockly, Paul Lemp, Don Enslow, Kevin Armstrong and Nick Kittleson for offering to bring the muffins and help with the set up and clean up.   

The Charity Walk is Friday May 6th.  Meet at the Dena'ina Center at 5:30pm to pick up your LSSA Grazer bibs from Kristine.  She will be standing near the red and white balloons.  

Clean-up day on Saturday Morning at the church from 9-12.  Time to clean that special area that has been bugging you.    

Open Mic Karaoke Saturday May 7th at Christ Our Savior Lutheran from 7-10pm  

The Lutheran Clergy Choir presents Bread for the World's "Lazarus" the musical on Monday May 9th at Central Lutheran Church, 15th and Cordova.  The musical starts at 7pm     

Mothers in Arms by Stephanie Coontz 

The earliest call for a mothers' day came from Anna Reeves Jarvis, a community activist, who in 1858 organized Mothers' Work Days in West Virginia to improve sanitation in Appalachian communities. During the Civil War, the women she mobilized cared for the wounded on both sides and, after the war's end, arranged meetings to persuade the men to lay aside their enmities.

The holiday's other precursor began in Boston in 1872, when Julia Ward Howe, author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," proposed an annual Mothers' Day for Peace. This was celebrated on June 2 in most Northeastern cities for the next 30 years.

The message that Mrs. Howe's mothers sent to the Government was a far cry from today's syrupy platitudes: "Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage... Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."