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It's HERE!!! Summer is over and our fall programming kicks off with God's Work Our Hands this Sunday. It begins with our "Worship Service" this Sunday, 9:30 am. We also celebrate First Communion with two families! Approximately 10 am, the "Service of Worship". Wear your grubbies. If you haven't signed up for a work team, please check out our sign up:  https://slotted.co/66h9l8h.

Also, this Sunday we will do a backpack blessing for school children. We encourage them to bring their backpacks to worship, or have them handy for the YouTube recording. We will pray for students, families, and school staff.

WE WOULD PREFER that you sign up if you are attending in-person worship service. But please feel free to attend if you do not sign up - you are ALWAYS WELCOME at Rejoice! You may call the church office at 320.558. 6851 to let us know you are attending or sign up online.

*Please RSVP by 4:00 p.m. on Thursday each week.

This service day is meant for everyone! Please sign up as a family, by yourself, with your neighbor, as a confirmation group to participate. Please use this link to sign up: https://slotted.co/66h9l8h. Please list everyone in your group so that we have an accurate count for each team. 

Now that we can again worship in person at Rejoice, we are in need of helpers to run audio and video equipment on Sunday mornings. Training is provided and signing up to help is easy!

Thank you for using AmazonSmile! Rejoice Lutheran Church has been issued a $7.37 donation from the AmazonSmile Foundation as a result of AmazonSmile program activity between April 1 and June 30, 2020.

Are you a member of Thrivent Financial (formerly Lutheran Brotherhood)? If so, have you checked your account lately to see if you have Choice Dollars that you can donate to a non-profit organization? Please remember that Rejoice is one of the organizations on Thrivent's list. Thanks!

Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the U.S. by Lenny Duncan (2019). Fortress Press, Minneapolis. 

The Whitest Denomination in the U.S. That’s us. The ELCA. Duncan’s love letter is a bold call to revolution to all in the ELCA to acknowledge and dismantle white supremacy in the Church. He reminds us that Jesus was revolutionary, political and divisive. He reminds us that Jesus named and confronted radical evil and in our time that radical evil is racism. The book is uncomfortable at times given the clarity of his voice and his passionate call for change. Some of the language he uses may seem offensive, but he uses it to GET OUR ATTENTION because as a Church we cannot continue to ignore the connection between our lack of diversity and our lack of vitality. Read. This. Book. Then, let’s talk. 

If you have a loved one or friend in need of prayer, fill out a prayer request or use one of the prayer concern requests located on the Interest table and in the sanctuary welcome pads. The star(*) in front of a name denotes a Rejoice member. This is a dynamic list. Requests will be printed for up to four weeks; call the church office at 320.558.6851 to extend listing. If a name of a friend or loved one has been omitted please resubmit the name and/or concern using one of the prayer concern forms found in the red Welcome Pads in the worship area. 

Sunday Burquest, "Grit Girl" (Speaker at the 2019 Women's Salad Supper event)

Kathy Ryan (sister, Brad Johnson)