FLC Mid Week Announcements

Worship Times:

Saturday: 5 pm

Sunday: 8:15am & 10:15am

Wednesday: 6:15 pm



All Worship Services are Live Streamed on Facebook Live.

https://www.facebook.com/

FLCBlair/

Office Hours

Monday-Thursday: 8:30am-4:30pm

Fridays: 8:30am-3:00pm.

Phone Number

402-426-4073

PIE AUCTION

and

SILENT AUCTION WINNERS!!

This Sunday, April 3rd @ 7pm



Please join us to hear the Silent Auction winners!! We will also be auctioning off at least 12 homemade pies/cheesecakes!!

FLC Youth to Chicago would like to thank FLC for your ongoing support!!

Women's Spring Gathering

Collecting Tangible Items at FLC

NSWO, Metro East Conference Spring Gathering is meeting April 2 at FLC. We are collecting Tangible Offerings that will go to Kountze Food Pantry. There is a box by the Welcome Center for your offerings. Some items requested include shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste, toothbrushes, body wash, deodorant, feminine products and nonperishable foods.  

FLC Youth SILENT AUCTION!!

Bidding now thru April 3rd

Come check out the baskets on Sunday morning and Wednesday evenings (photos will be shared on FLC Youth Facebook page, as well), sign up for a bid number, and then try to win one of these amazing baskets!!  

All proceeds will go to our trip to Chicago this summer!!

Baskets included:

Golf Lovers, Master's Hand, Movie Night, Made in NE, Candle Lovers, Fairies & Birds, Make your own Mini Garden, Ice Cream Lovers, Car Wash, For the Birds, Stay-Cation, Camp Out, Take Care of YOU, Beach Bum, and What's Cookin?

Women's Spring Gathering is this Saturday,

 April 2nd! 

The women of First Lutheran are hosting the Metro East Spring Gathering on April 2, 2022. Volunteers are needed to help prep and serve the luncheon at the spring conference on April 2, 2022. The shifts will run from 11am to finish, about 1:30pm. Two Volunteers are also needed to help load the Tangible offering gifts in a van from 12:30pm - 1:00pm. A sign up sheet is at the welcome center or contact Rhonda McMurtry, 402-427-3341, to volunteer.

 Thanks in advance for helping.

Saved To Serve Opportunity

With Magdalene Omaha-

Delivering Hope to Victims of Human Trafficking

Friday, April 29th, 6pm-Sunday, May 1, 1pm

The time to serve the victims of human trafficking for whom we have been advocating is coming soon! Plans are being finalized for the Saved To Serve Opportunity with Magdalene Omaha. One project will be to create SURVIVOR BAGS and collect items needed for those fleeing trafficking situations. Since some of the survivors have children, we are also seeking items to create bags for them. You and your units are encouraged to collect these items.

Survivor Bag Items:

* Thin blankets-warm, but easy to carry, especially when homeless. If make-use 2 1/4 yards fleece.

* T-shirts (especially larger sizes XL-XXX)-solid colors preferred, white ok, avoid writing on them.

* Socks-all sizes, shapes, colors, designs.

* Wash Clothes

* Towels

* Feminine hygiene products

* Foldable rain ponchos

* Travel size toiletries

* Unlined Journals

* Books of postage stamps

* Notebooks with pages that can be neatly torn out

* Pens

* Markers (for Doodling and Coloring)

Children of Survivors Bag Items:

* Toothbrush

* Toothpaste

* Floss

* Band-aids

* Child-friendly shampoo and conditioner

* Child Bath soap

* Wash clothes

* Bath towels

* Child nail kit

* Q-tips

* Neosporin

* Small toy

* Coloring books

* Crayons

* Children’s books

Please see the flyers on the Women’s Table outside of the LIFE Center. Registration Deadline is April 8th.

Torn: Shredding the Fabric of Our Lies

Lent 2022

The season of Lent began on March 2 with Ash Wednesday and the imposition of ashes as a reminder of our mortality and Christ’s gift of life everlasting. This year we are exploring “lies we tell ourselves,” and how the in-breaking of God into our lives exposes those lies, and reveals the truth of God’s love and care for us. Join us Wednesday evenings at 6:15 pm for Torn: Shredding the Fabric of Our Lies. 

Lent 2022 Schedule

April 10 Palm Sunday Begin Holy Week with a worship experience that

Commemorates Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem

8:15am Worship

10:15am Worship with Children singing

7 pm Reading of the Passion Hear the story of Jesus’ final week read in

Reader’s Theater style

April 14 Maundy Thursday 11am Senior Citizen Worship and Lunch

7 pm Worship with First Communion and the 

“Stripping of the Altar”

April 15 Good Friday 12:05 pm Washington County Ministerial Tenebrae (First United Methodist, Blair)

7 pm FLC Tenebrae worship Experience

April 16 Easter Vigil 5 pm Worship with Readings and Holy Communion

April 17 Easter Sunday 6:45 am Sunrise Worship (Fellowship Hall)

9:30 am Easter ONE Worship (Sanctuary & LIFE Center)

SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS

ATTENTION High School Seniors and College Students: The Christian Growth Board is accepting scholarship applications for the 2022-2023 school year for post-secondary education. Any member of FLC that is currently a high school senior or college student may apply. Applications are available on the church website or by the Welcome Center. If you have any questions please call the church office at (402) 426-4073.

The deadline to submit an application is April 15, 2022.

Health Kit Items

Reminder: You can donate items for the Health Kits that the Women put

together. Please see a list of items to

donate below:

Bath Towels, Ivory Soap, Nail Clippers, and Toothbrushes

If you would like to donate these items you can donate by dropping off at the church office. Thank you!

Social Concerns Announcements:

EQUAL EXCHANGE FAIR TRADED PRODUCTS—coffee, tea, nuts, and chocolate bars—will again be available for purchase this coming weekend, April 2, during the women’s Metro-East Spring Gathering at FLC and the Saturday evening worship service, and at the time of the two Sunday morning worship services on April 3. These products will continue to be available for purchase every first weekend of the month.  What a wonderful way this is to support third world farmers, so they can sell directly to consumers, providing them with a fair income that will help them care for their families and improve their communities!

During the Season of LENT we at FLC will have a wonderful opportunity to do “alms giving,” one of the three ways which Bishop Brian Maas reminded us on February 23 is a good way to prepare ourselves for the joyous EASTER celebration!  “Alms giving” means giving to others who are in need. We are going to have a “Bathroom Shower Ingathering” for REFUGEES who are being resettled in Nebraska, sponsored by Lutheran Family Services. Let’s see how many of the 100 families involved we can help by providing necessities for their bathrooms! There will be a table and bin in the narthex for your collection of the following items between March 2 through March 3l: bath towels, shampoo, soap, individual toothbrushes, tooth paste, and deodorant. Happy shopping for this REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT BATHROOM SHOWER!  

For those who may wish to make additional donations of furniture for furnishing apartments, such as chairs or other household items in good condition, go to: https://www.lfsneb.org/get-involved/ On this page you can go to the section labeled “Furniture/Household items” where there is information regarding donations. At the bottom of the section there is a hyperlink to sign up to drop off donations in Omaha or in Lincoln. In Omaha, sign up to drop off donations HERE! Disregard the Lincoln information.

Please note there is both a plastic and a wooden Receptacle for gifts to the WASHINGTON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY are available to receive your food donations at FLC at any time! 

First Lutheran Church

Senior Citizen Worship and Lunch

MAUNDY THURSDAY

Thursday, April 14th

11AM WORSHIP

with Holy Communion

LUNCH to Follow

Please RSVP to the church office by

Friday, April 8th

Cookies, Cookies, Cookies

Please help FLC and the Blair Community

We need more people to sign up for April and May

We are in need of Cookies for the Mid Week Meal!

PLEASE, if you're able to provide 3 dozen cookies/bars for a meal, PLEASE sign up by clicking this link:  

https://signup.com/go/hfewWuF

If you would rather sign up with Erika, please call or text her at

(402) 533-0918.

Thank you for helping us continue to serve our community (200-250 individuals) every week.

Thank you!

Voting Members to Synod Assembly!

Our congregation can send up to six voting members of the upcoming Synod Assembly. This year we will have an ELECTION of the Bishop, an important event for the future of our Synod. If you want to be part of this process please contact Pastor Scott



The 2022 Nebraska Synod Assembly will gather in person this year! Voting members from congregations across the state will gather to engage in conversation concerning the election of a Bishop. All participants will have opportunities for continued learning, fellowship, and learn more about the ministries of the Nebraska Synod.

When: June 3-4, 2022

Where: Kearney, NE

First Lutheran covers the costs for all Voting Members to the Synod Assembly

Wednesday, March

30th, 2022

We will be serving Goulash, fruit, and dessert.

WE REMEMBER IN OUR PRAYERS

Please keep these people in your thoughts and prayers