Hosanna will start collecting Easter Flower orders this week either on our website here or in the insert in your Sunday bulletin. There is a large variety of flowers you can purchase in honor or memory of a loved one, which you can pick up after the 10:30am service on Easter Sunday, April 1. Please contact Kelsey Grachek with any questions.

Communion, one of two sacraments offered in the Lutheran church. Hosanna offers this unique and meaningful opportunity each year for families to participate in this milestone during Holy Week- Last Supper Reenactment Worship Service, where Jesus and His disciples will serve communion.

The workshop is offered prior to Holy Week. If requested you may plan with one of the Pastors to have First Communion celebrated on another date as well.

All ages are invited to participate in the Communion Workshop. The decision to participate is one that needs to be made by the family, each child develops differently both mentally and spiritually. Communion is always open for any believing heart to partake. The workshop is a supplemental element to aide in understanding the sacrament better. During our workshop participants will learn about the history of communion, partake in a sampling of Passover foods, baking bread and how to prepare for the sacrament itself. Parents/ Guardians or Godparents are asked to attend class with their child but the whole family is invited to join in.

Please contact Pastor Jen if you are interested.

Sunshine Preschool will be hosting their annual Easter Bunny Breakfast on Saturday, March 24 from 8am to noon. This breakfast includes all-you-can-eat pancakes, games and an opportunity to meet the Easter Bunny! Contact Kelsey Grachek with questions.

The Youth will be hosting their Annual Palm Sunday Breakfast Fundraiser again this year!

The french toast breakfast will be raising money for the Youth Ministry as well as the Annual Youth Gathering for this summer. Look for the Giving Board for an opportunity to give!

The breakfast is a free-will donation and will be held from 8am to noon.

Contact Pastor Jen for details or to volunteer.

The Lakes Area MobilePack will be opening to the public to sign up online starting Sunday, March 25 at 8am. Members and friends of Hosanna are encouraged to sign-up starting now. You can sign-up in person on Wednesdays during Connect360 or on Sundays before and after each worship service.

The Annual Last Supper Reenactment will be Tuesday, March 27 - Thursday, March 29 this year. Worship starts at 7:30pm and is family friendly. Please contact Kelsey Grachek for more information.

If you are a family or person interested in being a part of the interactive Jerusalem marketplace prior to Last Supper. You can help people see, taste and learn about Ancient Jerusalem's Passover might have been.

Marketplace Booths:

• Scribe- help people write their names using the Greek & Hebrew Alphabets
• Potter- share info. with people about the Passover, encourage people to "buy" wares for the Passover.
• Bread & Spice Shop- entice people to taste the unleavened bread, or try and guess what spice you have in each container?
• Weaver- invite people in to see the different cloth, how to weave on a loom or using your very own hands.
• Dress up like a Roman Guard out on patrol looking and listening for Jesus. 

Please contact pastor Jen to sign up for a marketplace role!

Easter this year falls on April 1, 2018 and we will be having a 9am and 10:30am Easter Celebration Service.

Book Club will meet next on Monday, April 9 at 7pm to discuss the book "Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living" by Krista Tippett. If you are interested in joining, no need to sign-up! Just come for the discussion! Everyone is welcome! Contact Pastor Linda for more information.

Come join with fellow lovers of church tradition .... and well brewed beer! This is a fundraiser benefiting the 2018 Lakes Area Feed My Starving Children MobilePack. Featuring hymns led by Charlie O and friends. Doors open at 6:30 PM and the event starts at 7 PM. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Your ticket comes with one free beer, wine, soda or water. You can buy the advanced tickets in person at Hosanna or online here. Contact Pastor Linda with questions.

The Blessing of the Keys is one more way the faith community is helping to instruct and lead our youth. This milestone is open to all youth who have received their permit or driver's license in the last year.

Everyone knows a whole new world opens up for families when a child receives their driver's license. New expectations, new privileges, new freedoms, and new worries all come into play.  What better time to come together as a family to talk through the new expectations and privileges, as well as pray and ask for guidance. Join other families and youth as we eat lunch, create covenants and choose verses to bless the cars.