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Three people needed. Final call. Sink or swim.

Last call for the Health Assessment. We need 3 more people.

 

We're down to less than a week, and Portico reports that we still need 3 people to take the Health Assessment. Three people will decide for our whole synod whether or not we will earn $35,000 for ministry in our synod.  

 

  

Three people. Three potential heroes.
  

We have invested so much time and energy to try to help our synod meet the goal of 65% participation. We have asked, encouraged, written, called, emailed, posted on Facebook, posted on our Web site... and we still need three people to take the assessment.  

 

We can't do this for you. Please, if you haven't participated this year, do it now.

 

               

    Click here to get started. 

 

 

 TIME SENSITIVE message from the SC Synod's Malaria Task Force

Malaria Campaign matching contribution opportunity through April 29

 

The time to help is now. Thanks to a generous group of friends, this week your gift to the ELCA Malaria Campaign will be matched -- dollar for dollar -- up to $130,000.

In Uganda, the ELCA Malaria Campaign is working with The Lutheran World Federation, which has built up trust and experience in Uganda for over 30 years. The connections have been made, the people are ready, but we need you.

This week our goal is to raise $250,000 -- enough to jump start our anti-malaria work in Uganda this year. This is a special week. We join millions of people around the globe in observing World Malaria Day on April 25, and you can double your impact.


Here are three ways you can give and have your gift matched.

  1. Donate online before 11:59 p.m. CDT Monday, April 29, 2013.  
  2. Donate by calling 800-638-3522 during business hours now through Monday, April 29, at 5:00 p.m. CDT. Operators are standing by.   
  3. Donate by mail, sending checks to ELCA Malaria Campaign, P.O. Box 71764, Chicago, IL, 60694-1764. Please postmark your check by May 3, 2013, and be sure to write "World Malaria Day" in the memo line.

    Congregational offerings on Sunday, April 28, are encouraged and welcomed!

    Connect now for worship ideas and resources.  

 

 
Choir Robes, free to a good home
free

Mayer Memorial Lutheran Church in Newberry has purchased new choir robes.  We would like to donate our old robes to a church in need of robes.  They are Murphy Choir Robes in a cream color in various sizes and in good condition, with reversible stoles (green/red, and purple/gold.)  The robes are machine washable with little to no ironing.  If interested please contact the church office at 803-276-3163 or Tricia Price at 803-276-4587.

 
News from the Crumley Archives

The Spring 2013 issue of the Archival Survey is online now

 

The Spring 2013 issue of the Archival Survey, the publication of the James R. Crumley Jr. Archives, is just a click away! Click here to connect. 

 

Please take a few moments to read through this latest issue of news and happenings related to your archives housed at Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary. The history and heritage of our Lutheran church in the Southeast and Caribbean is so important.  Let's work to preserve it!

 

 
 Chuckle for today
 

Just for fun - a quiz to help keep our grey cells active!

 

1. Johnny's mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child's name?

 

2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall and he wears size 13 sneakers, what does he weigh?

 

3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

 

4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?

 

5. What word in the English Language is always spelled incorrectly?

 

6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible?

 

7. In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?

 

8. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?

 

9. Which is correct: "The yolk of the egg are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white"?

 

10. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in another field?

 

   

Answers to the quiz...

 

 1. Johnny, of course.   

 2. Meat  

 3. Mt. Everest; it just wasn't discovered yet.  

 4. There is no dirt in a hole.  

 5. "Incorrectly"   

 6. Billy lives in the Southern Hemisphere.   

 7. You can't take pictures with a wooden leg; you have to use a camera.  

 8. You would be in 2nd. You passed the person in second place, not first.  

 9. Neither is correct. Egg yolk is yellow.  

10. Just one, silly; he combined them all, remember?

 
 
 
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