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Sunday, February 11th, 2018
TRANSFIGURATION SUNDAY
Gentle Reader,
What dwells with in? What more is there to you and me than people see? What powerful, beautiful truths lie hidden beneath the surface of labels and assumptions, waiting for their moment to shine?
This Sunday
we celebrate the Transfiguration of Jesus, a momentary glimpse into Jesus' fuller identity - a shining moment of glory and spiritual connection that terrified the disciples. But the story didn't end on that mountain, and because of Jesus, we too have a fuller identity, light, connection, power and beauty stirring inside. Will we have the courage to let it shine? Come and see!
Traditional Worship
8:30
Contemporary Worship
10:30
w/
Sunday
School and the Baptism of Maree Ann Ohmann
See you there!
Pastor Grant
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Coming Soon!
This Lent St. Paul Lutheran Church invites you to join us in a spiritual discipline of de-cluttering! Come learn more about this project
on Sunday
. The Journey begins Ash
Wednesday
!
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Do you love music? Would you enjoy helping to shape the experience of
Sunday morning Worship? Then Hymn Pickers may be for you! Hymn Pickers is a worship team that meets quarterly to select hymns and liturgy for the
8:30 worship service. In order to keep the team diverse and energetic, each year we rotate one or two folks off and add new members to replace them.
This year we are looking for one (1) new member to join us in hymn and liturgy selection for the 2018-2019 school year. Passion for Jesus, music and worship are required. Ability to read music is not. :-) If you are interested contact Pastor Grant.
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#1
Mon., Feb. 12th - Finance Meeting at 4:30pm - Hand Bells at 6 pm - Boy Scouts at 7 pm
Tues., Feb. 13th - Hosting Pastor's Northern Conference Meeting at 9 am - Creation Vacation and Global Mission Team Meetings both at 5:30pm - SPLASH Princess Party at 6pm - Council Meeting 6:30pm
Wed., Feb. 14th - KEENAGERS at Village Inn at 11am - Bible Study with Pastor Grant at 12:30pm - Confirmation & SPLASH at 6:30 pm - HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!
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WEDNESDAY EVENING LENTEN SERVICES:
Wed., February 14th: Vespers Prayers
with Holy Communion
Weekly Wednesday Services at 7pm February 21 - March 21
LOOK FOR SCHEDULE of Pastors Preaching during
Lent
in this weeks Refresh & ReNEW Newsletter and
read about their "SPRING CLEANING" themed services ... Shout, Dawn, Cascade, Arm & Hammer, and Finish!
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#2
Thur., Feb 15th
- Girl Scouts at 5:15pm - Grief Group, Loaves and Fishes Meeting, and Praise Band all at 6:30pm
Fri., Feb. 16th - OFFICE HOURS 12:30 - 3:30 pm
Sat., Feb 17th - MONTHLY FOOD MINISTRY - Family Pathways Food Truck.
Volunteers are always needed from 8 - 11:30am. Our support of this food ministries feeds approximately 30+ families living in our county, at no cost. A simple registration with Family Pathways is all that is needed. Please share this resource with those you feel could benefit from God's storehouse of nutritious vegetables, produce, meat, dairy, and a large variety of food staples.
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018 BLANKET CAMPAIGN!
Our Count is still at #1 but no worries! We're ready for #2, #3, #20 and more!
Here are some ways you can help grow this ministry.
WAYS YOU CAN HELP.
a.
Buy fleece - we need 72" x 60 " (2 per blanket)
b.
Buy a similar sized ready-made blanket
c.
Donate money to those who are making blankets
d.
Volunteer to work at one of our blanket workshops - cutting and
sewing needed. Dates to be announced.
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CANCEL SIMPLY GIVING and CHANGING TO BILL PAY
The church encourages online giving. At the same time, we are helping our congregation (and ourselves) find ways to lessen the charges that come from online giving.
Here is a great way to do so!
Log into your simply giving account and you can select to have the payments stop on a particular date. Then you can go to your bank and set up BILL PAY for your ongoing giving. So in effect, you will no longer do simply giving but give through your bank.
Let me know if this helped and when you have this set up. Thank you for your loyal giving and for helping us be fiscally responsible. Blessings!
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2018 150th Anniversary
"Counting Our Blessings Initiative"
Pouring out our blessings to a thirsty world,
839 People were Blessed in
January!
SPLC MINISTRIES COUNTED IN JANUARY:
WORSHIP - ALL GOD'S CHILDREN PRESCHOOL -
LOAVES & FISHES OUTREACH - PASTOR (EDUCATION &COUNSELING) - PRAYER TEAM - VISITATION TEAM - WAM WORSHIP and more!
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FOR SALE:
St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery has one plot for sale from a private owner.
If interested, please contact Kim Olson at 651 - 257 - 2049.
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OPEN HOUSE ... Share this date with friends, family, and neighbors!
All God's Children Preschool is now accepting registrations for the 2018-2019 school year. We will be holding an open house on Tuesday, February 20th from 5:30 - 7:00. If you have preschool age children or know someone who has preschool aged children and are interested in signing them up please stop in and check us out. Or call 651-462-6832.
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"For our 150th Anniversary year, we want to purposefully measure the difference we make in our world. You can see how wonderfully our ministries did in January in the above announcement.
Well, we want to celebrate all the lives we touch in big and small ways. And we are asking you to count those blessings and get your numbers to the church council each month.
Our ministries should be focused on the good that we do for people-- in our congregation and outside of our congregation."
Shirley Zierke
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Bega Kwa Bega
A partnership of the Saint Paul Area Synod (ELCA) and the Iringa Diocese (ELCT)
Read their most current message:
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EASTER FLOWERS
Stay tuned as orders for our annual Easter Flowers will be out to you in the next week or two.
A LITTLE TRIVIA:
As of Thursday, February 8th at 2:17 pm in the afternoon (as I was working on this), we were only 39 DAYS, 20 HOURS, 58 MINUTES AND 33 SECONDS
till SPRING 2018!
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