This year our Trunk or Treat event will happen on Wednesday, October 24th from 5:30-6:30pm so mark your calendars! This is our annual chance for children to go trick or treating in our parking lot and show off their costumes! If you'd like to share candy with the trick or treaters from your car (decorations encouraged), please sign up on the attendance card. That evening someone will direct you where to park so all trunks are facing the same area. Neighbors and friends are encouraged to come too, this event is open to everyone! Any questions can also go to Ben Whalen ( [email protected] or 612-500-9523).

Saturday, November 3- 9:00am-3:00pm

Our Festival date is getting closer and closer! And Craft Day is this Saturday, October 20! If you can assist our group of "crafters" (no special skills or artistic ability necessary) please join us on Saturday to make items for House of Prayer's sale table, 9 a.m. - noon. A $10 donation would be appreciated to cover cost of craft supplies and materials. Lunch is provided; the comradery and fellowship are priceless!
Donations of Raffle items and Book Sale items (including games, puzzles, CDs, DVDs) are being collected and can be brought to the church library (books) or office any time. The Giving Tree, placed in the Narthex, is loaded with Post-It notes indicating items you can donate to be used for the festival's Luncheon.
The Fall Festival Team appreciates your help in advertising this wonderful event, please consider posting a sign in your yard. Yard signs will be available this Sunday after each service.
Sign-up sheets are contained in a notebook at the information desk to indicate what you are willing to contribute, including YOUR TIME. Let's make this year's festival the best one ever!

You may want to consider helping with the Confirmation Class History Project. We have a small group attempting to identify faces of confirmands in all class photos throughout the history of HOP. Eventually our long range Big Audacious Goal (BAG) would be to contact all that are still living. If you care to help contact Mike Murphy ( [email protected]) or Darlene Clauson ( [email protected])

Can you identify the location and circled person in this circa 1953 photo? Hint: She went on to be a member of the 1959 Confirmation Class. Answer provided later in this publication..

The weather's getting cooler each week. Stop in to our library to find a new book to read, a DVD to watch, or a CD to listen to on these chilly evenings. Some new books--

The Hope of Glory- A devotional guide for older adults by Nancy P. Brummett
Hidden Figures: the American dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race by Margot L. Shetterly
The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
I am a Palestinian Christian by Mitri Raheb
Alcatraz- the true end of the line by Darwin Coon
Killing Jesus by Bill O'Reilly

Thank you to those who donated these books and several more. You can find our complete online library catalog on our church website or at http://www.librarything.com/catalog/houseofprayer.

We have another opportunity to help Aeon, the housing nonprofit who recently bought the Season's Park Apartment buildings to the south of church. They continue to catch up on a LOT of deferred maintenance that previous owners ignored. They'd like our help painting the interior common areas in one of their buildings on Sunday, October 28th from noon-3pm. We'll eat lunch together after the 11:00 service is done and then head over to paint! If you'd like to join us, please sign up with Ben Whalen ( [email protected] or 612-500-9523). Please also contact Ben if you want to support this cause financially but missed the special offering opportunity. Thank you!

HOP will be sponsoring 2 Lutheran Social Service group homes for people with disabilities in our neighborhood.  Mi Casa is on 70th and 12th Ave and My House is on 76th and Park. Kathryn Tiede from LSS and Emily the director of the group homes will be at HOP on Sunday October 28th to talk about how we can engage with these homes doing such things as sending cards, visiting, playing games, watching sports, driving to church or events, having a party, yard work, etc.   We will collect money to help with expenses at the homes.  A table will be set up in the narthex for you to  get more information and to volunteer.  This is a great opportunity for HOP members to reach out to our neighbors.

9:00 AM; Thursday 11-8-18; Fellowship Hall. Guest Speaker - Mr. Gil Fosig, Veteran World War II, House of Prayer Member
All Brothers & Sisters are invited for fellowship - devotion; speaker; meet; greet; chit-chat; including refreshments. And include a presentation on - "Honor Flight Twin Cities" with video. This
organization will honor American World War II and Korean War Veterans, and provide travel at no cost, to Washington DC & back; to visit the "World War II Memorial" and Veteran Monuments". Gil Frosig, attended this event, and will reflect on his experience.Join us for fellowship -  For more information call Noel Sagness (612-866-0833).

Win a free season pass to four concerts of the National Lutheran Choir (NLC) in 2018-19!  Register by using the official entry form which can be found at the information desk at House of Prayer.  Drawing will be held on October 28. If you wish to purchase a $5 discounted concert ticket to any of the NLC's concerts on the day of the concert, pick up a choral coupon at the information desk. You may also redeem the $5 discount in advance online at NLCA.com and enter code SAVE5NLC.

Woodlake Lutheran Church, located in Richfield, MN, seeks a Business Administrator (20 hours per week). The candidate will oversee the business affairs of Woodlake Lutheran Church. They will act as a steward of the building and grounds to maintain and preserve the property for the congregation and other users. They will provide timely, efficient, and accurate bookkeeping services; manage accounts payable, payroll, electronic giving, contributions, and financial databases; prepare and present financial reports and analysis to church leadership; negotiate and oversee vendor contracts; manage building usage agreements; identify priorities and projects associated with the building and property, and coordinate and recruit volunteers to assist with general repair, maintenance, or labor associated with the use and upkeep of the property. If you would like to read the full job description or apply, please visit our website: http://woodlakechurch.org/about-us/woodlake-news/
Resumes may be submitted to Julia Skowronski ( [email protected]).