FLC Weekend Announcements

Worship Times:

Saturday: 5 pm-Glen Andersen, PMA will preach

Sunday:  8:15am & 10:15am-Rev. Joyce Miller, Chaplain at Nebraska Medical Center will preach 

Wednesday: 6:15pm-Guest Speaker Abdullah Najjar will be here for worship

All Worship Services are Live Streamed on Facebook Live.

https://www.facebook.com/

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Office Hours

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

Fridays: 8:30am-3:00pm

Phone Number

402-426-4073

FLC Treasurer's Financial Update:

Dear FLC Congregation,

We are so lucky to have you as a member of the FLC community. Thank you for your support and continued participation. We are happy to provide congregants like you with programs and events that lift us up and remind us of the importance of having a giving spirit.

To continue offering the services that we do, we are here to request an increase in giving throughout the remainder of 2022. Through September, FLC is behind our revenue budget by $15,794. Our 4th quarter budgeted revenue is $158,950 which means that in total we need to generate giving of approximately $175,000 prior to December 31. Please take a look at your current financial situation and see if there is a way you can help FLC meet its revenue budget. By doing so, this will allow for sufficient funds so FLC does not have to dip into reserve accounts to pay for general expenses.

Please visit the FLC website for the various ways in which you can donate:

 http://www.firstlutheranblair.org/giving/ [firstlutheranblair.org]

If you have any questions about how to donate, please feel free to contact the church office at 402-426-4073. You can also stop by the church’s main office in person or drop your donation in the collection plate during our next service.

On behalf of the church council, thank you again for being such an important part of the FLC community.

Sincerely,

Chad Leggott

FLC Treasurer

Church Council Members:

Tracy Gross, Church Council President

Jim Peterson, Church Council Vice President

Rhonda Matney, Church Council Secretary

Denise Work

Chad Leggott

Rex Pfeil

Ruth Jensen

Debbie Katt

Liz Soderberg

Ted Lueders

Triston Clausen

Worship for November 5th and 6th at

First Lutheran Church

This Weekend, November 5th at the 5pm Worship Service, Glen Andersen, PMA will be preaching and on Sunday, November 6th at both worship services, both

8:15am and 10:15am,

Rev. Joyce Miller, Chaplain at Nebraska Medical Center

will be preaching.

Ruth Circle

To all RUTH CIRCLE MEMBERS and any other women that would like to join our Bible study: We will be meeting on Tuesday, November 8, at 2:00 P.M. in the social room at Johansen Manor, as usual. Doris Cooksey will be leading our lesson which will have an Advent Season focus, and Joan Krogh will be the hostess. If you receive the "Gather" magazine, please bring the November/December issue. We look forward to seeing you!  

Holiday Greenery for sale!!

Please consider supporting FLC Youth (6th-12th grade) and purchasing your fresh holiday greenery from us this year (deadline is Nov 18th) 

There is one on a table in the narthex. We truly appreciate your support in our youth activities!!  

Pickup begins on Nov 23rd @ 10am in Fship Hall.

Guest Speaker at FLC on Nov 9th!!



Abdullah Najjar, Asst Imam-Administrator and Youth Director at American Muslim Institute (Tri-Faith Campus)

Mr. Najjar will join us for Worship Lab and Confirmation time. Please consider coming to Worship Lab Wednesday, Nov 9th at 6:15pm to hear more about the Muslim culture and Islam faith!!

Social Concerns:

EQUAL EXCHANGE Fair Traded products--coffee, tea, chocolate, and nuts--will again be offered at FLC on Saturday, November 5 and Sunday, November 6, and at the Annual Craft Fair Alternative Gift Exhibit on Saturday, November 19, and during the following weeks for Alternative gift shopping!  These items can make great "stocking stuffers." 

Our ELCA WORLD HUNGER EMPHASIS will be on Saturday and Sunday, November 12 and 13 and Wednesday, November 16.  You will receive informational flyers and offering envelopes at that time.  We are challenged by the fact that 900 million people around the world face chronic hunger!  As members of the ELCA, one of the largest Christian denominations in the United States, we are uniquely positioned to reach communities in need, and to help secure long-term sustainable change. COVID-19, the tragic war in Ukraine, hurricanes, and fires, have all contributed to greater need than ever before! Our gifts to ELCA World Hunger are at work in the world and can make a tremendous difference as we cling to the promise: "And God is able to provide you with ever blessing in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work" (2 Cor. 9:8).  

Our CHRISTMAS ALTERNATIVE GIFT EXHIBIT will appear at the November 19 FLC Craft Fair and throughout the Advent Season.  It could solve your dilemma of what to buy for "the person who has everything" and help others in need--a win-win situation! Added this year will be information about Global Missions and Global Health Ministries featuring especially the mission field of Madagascar.  

12th Annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner at St. Francis Borgia is back!!

Sponsored by the Washington County Ministerial Assn.  

This meal is free, so all food donations and volunteers are absolutely ESSENTIAL!!  

Please sign up to help serve our neighbors on Thanksgiving Day below!!  

To sign up to DONATE FOOD:  Click here

To sign up to VOLUNTEER:  Click here

Any excess donations of food/cash will be passed on to the Washington County Food Pantry. 

If you would like to sign up but are not comfortable doing it electronically, please call the church office.

New W.O.W. Meal is Here!!!

Next Wednesday will be Chili and

 Chicken Noodle Soup

Join us for the Worship On Wednesday in-house meal from 5:30 pm – 6:00 pm prior to Worship Lab.

****** Suggested Donation of $5/person ******

This meal is self-funded so we REALLY need your donations to be able to keep this going on a

weekly basis.

Come at 5:30 to fuel your body

and then stay for Worship Lab at 6:15 to

feed your soul.

WE NEED COOKIES/BARS FOR NOVEMBER

The Mid Week Meal needs your help.

We serve 240 people EACH WEEK.  That's 20 dozen cookies/bars EACH WEEK.

Please sign up to provide a treat for these folks!! We are especially in need in November!

Signup here or call Erika (402-533- 0918):  https://signup.com/go/hfewWuF

THANKOFFERINGS is Going on Now through November 6th

Women of First Lutheran Church

At worship you are being given a “Women of the ELCA Thankoffering envelope.” The tradition of giving “Thankofferings” out of gratitude to God for our many blessings is more than 100 years old and is grounded in our celebration of community. Thankofferings support our partnership with God in making Christ known to to all the world. They also support the total ministries of the Women of the ELCA, as seen below.

Thankofferings: 

Encourage women to respond monetarily as they give thanks.

Help Women of the ELCA  provide needed resources for : events, programs, leadership training, global education, anti-racism work, grants, scholarships, social media outreach, ecumenical collaboration, sex trafficking awareness and prevention, and much more.

Help women of the ELCA provide an annual gift to the ELCA that recognizes our partnership with ELCA as a whole.

We give thanks for YOU, our sisters in Christ. Please return your Thankoffering envelope at one of our services or you may also drop it off at the church office at any time. Please respond by Sunday November 6th.

• We invite you to join us for study and Christian fellowship at our weekly Women’s  Bible Study Friday mornings at 9:30 or our monthly Circle Bible study which is held on the second Tuesday of the month at 2pm.

We also welcome your participation in our Women of First Lutheran Church Steering Team. Currently we are seeking a Co- coordinator position. If interested please contact Sarah Boeka at 402-669-6008 or Emily Rasmussen at 402-426-4869.

SAVE THE DATE!!!!

Craft Fair Coming Soon!

The First Lutheran Church Women's craft fair is November 19 from 9am to 3pm. Volunteers are needed to bake for the bake sale table, morning coffee, and desserts at noon. Volunteers are also needed to serve in the kitchen, monitor the church bake sale table, cashiers for the luncheon and help clean up. Sign up sheets will be available at the welcome center starting October 29. We are still accepting registrations for vendors. Contact Deb Henson, 402-690-0278, or Rhonda McMurtry, 402-427-3341, if you have any questions.

News from Christian Growth Board:

Dear Members and Friends of First Lutheran Church:

The purpose of this letter is to ask each of you to consider the Christian Growth Fund ministry in your estate planning, including Wills, Trusts and even designating the Fund as a beneficiary for a portion of life insurance or retirement plans.

The Christian Growth Fund is essentially an endowment fund established by FLC. The bylaws of the church direct that all undesignated gifts, regardless of amount, from estates and trusts be placed in this fund. The by-laws provide that 10% of each gift received may be distributed to a charitable or religious purpose and the remaining 90% invested. The income from those investments is then used to support the benevolent mission of FLC.

Last year we distributed over $60,000 towards the benevolent mission of First Lutheran Church (FLC). Some of the recipients of Christian Growth Funds include: college scholarships, Lutheran Family Services, Snack Pack Program, Joseph’s Coat, Table Grace Ministries, Carol Joy Holling, Washington County Ministerial Associate, Mosaic Of Omaha, TeamMates of Blair, Men’s Group, The Bridge Crisis Center, FLC Senior Lunches, FLC Youth Travel Fund, Love Days, Vacation Bible School, Tanzania Ministries, Lekura Parish, ELCA World Hunger, Bread for the World, Habitat for Humanity, Oaks Indian Center, and ELCA Disaster Relief.  

A few simple steps to consider include:

1. Decide if you want to provide a gift.
2. Determine what portion of your estate you wish to gift. 10%, 25% or a specific amount.
3. Contact your attorney, financial planner, life insurance agent or retirement custodian and inform them of your intentions.
4. Please be sure to inform them that undesignated gifts to FLC and gifts specifically directed to the Fund will go to the Fund. Gifts specifically designated for such purposes as payment of church debt will NOT go to the Fund, but will instead go to the appropriate account of the church.
5. If you, your attorney or financial advisor need more information, please call the church office and they will be directed to someone who can answer questions about Christian Growth Fund and its mission.

Please prayerfully consider a gift to First Lutheran Church Christian Growth Fund.

Sincerely,

Christian Growth Fund Board

Layne Lueders

Brenda Schroeter

Mick Jensen

Mike Boeka

Carol Hartvigsen

Quick Update-Building Locked on the Weekend

Please see when the building will be open

Fridays - 8:30am-3:00pm

Saturdays - 4:00pm-7:00pm

Sundays - 8:00am-12:00 Noon

If you need to make arrangements to meet or come into the church please contact the church office at (402) 426-4073.  Thank you!

Wednesday, November  

9th, 2022

We will be serving French Toast Casserole, Sausage, fruit, and dessert.

WE REMEMBER IN OUR PRAYERS

Please keep these people in your thoughts and prayers