Sunday Schedule:

1^st Sunday - Potluck & Birthdays

2^nd Sunday - Council Meeting, 12:45 PM

3^rd Sunday -

4^th Sunday - Blessing & Sending of Food Bank Items               

Every Sunday after the Service is hospitality.  Please join us for coffee, tea, visiting and the occasional cookie.  

The new “Christ in Our Home” – large print and regular print devotionals are available for you on the library table in the parish hall.  Please take for your home devotional use or share with a friend.  

Food Bank Needs – Food Stamps may not be used to purchase personal care items like hand or bath soap, toilet paper, tissues, or dish and laundry soap.  These items are needed for good health.  Over the next three months, please bring, as you are able, these items for the Food Bank Tub. 

The Prayer List is updated monthly.  If you would like to add someone to the prayer list - please write their name in the notebook in the office.  Please ask their permission first.

TAKING CARE OF GOD’S PLANET:
Do Not Make Excessive Use of the tumble dryer

Roughly 6% of electricity in the United States is used to dry clothing.  If all of the 88 million dryers in the country were supplemented by line drying just half the time, it would reduce the country’s residential carbon monoxide emissions by 3.3%of all household electrical appliances, the clothes dryer consumes the most energy.  It uses 2 or even 3 times as much power as a washing machine.  The cheapest and most environmentally sound way of drying the wash will always be to hang it up.  Don’t overload the dryer, clean the lint trap regularly, and use the permanent press option to finish the drying cycle using residual heat.  Invest in a dryer with a moisture sensor, it will shut off as soon as your clothes are dry. 

A Little Inspiration Goes A Long Way

The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821-1881
Renowned Russian Author

No time to go out to a set-time Bible Study?  Try Bible study on-line at a time that works for you.  The ESCA website has a study that follows the weekly gospel lessons of the lectionary.  You can find it at http://www.elca.org/Growing-In-Faith/Discipleship.aspx The study is well written and takes a questions approach – asking you life questions, that cause you to wrestle with the text and relate it to your life today – give it a try!