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A Thank You from the Mission Committee
Thank you to everyone at Joy who purchased an apple pie, made by the Mission Committee and the youth, and sold on October 16th to raise funds for our sister church in Mikolongwe in our Companion Synod of Malawi. We have been helping that church build a new church building. Our donation this year will help them purchase materials for their new building. We also use about $250 of the proceeds each year to help fund the annual Pastor's Academy in Malawi. This provides the pastors from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Malawi to receive theological and English language training from two of our Northwest Wisconsin Synod pastors.
After expenses were taken out, we raised approximately $2100 that will be sent to Malawi. This was about double the amount we have made in previous years. Most of that "extra" money was due to our auctioning off two pies. Proceeds from the auctioned pies were $720.00 Thank you to Ken Knight for being our capable auctioneer and special thanks to the families of Peter Grey and Tom Peterson for being the winning bidders. We are grateful for the help of our church and all who support this annual project. We appreciated the $250 grant we received from Thrivent Financial for this project and we are especially thankful for the leadership of Bobbie and Jim Flatz who chaired the project this year.
Thanks to the following 36 youth and adults who made all 160 pies on October 15th and enjoyed a fun inter-generational mission project:
Jim Flatz Bobbie Flatz Diane Meyer
Pastor Steve Meyer Maxi Meuer Amy Lubich
Connor Lubich Megan Johnson Ryan Johnson
Jayde Canfield Christy Canfield Payton Sanford
Patrick Haas Sophie Tibayan Maddie Tibayan
Natalie Canfield Calihan Sterud Jerry Erickson
Pat Erickson Carol Peterson Chris Maaske
Rosie Culhane Kathy Sommer Richie Armstrong
Ashley Rieken Mari Sommer Hope Olson
Tom Peterson Jayne Parmeter Lee Northouse
Joan Northouse Ali Tibayan Kristin Tibayan
Brandon
Rundquist Laura Armstrong Lauren Doffing
Special thanks, also, to the following people for donating some of the supplies this year that we used in our Mission Pie Project: (Thanks also to those we might have forgotten to list below.)
Shannon Clarke Summer Doyle Carol Peterson
Melissa Miller Pat Erickson Susan Metcalf
Joyce Booth Kim Cleasby Cathy Martin
Lana Craft Gwynneth Doyle Jena Stuart
Kristin Tibayan Diane Meyer Jen LaCasse
Linda Wilson Hope Olson Mary Glaubitz
Christy Canfield Mandy Bernick Rosemary Alexander
With all the people who purchased pies to those who helped make the pies to those who furnished ingredients for the pies, we had LOTS of people in our congregation involved in this mission project. Thank you SO much on behalf of the Lutherans in Malawi, Africa!
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