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-Erika Cada will preach

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 12th and 13th at

First Lutheran Church

This Weekend, November 12th at the 5pm Worship Service, Glen Andersen, PMA will be preaching and on Sunday, November 13th at both worship services, both

8:15am and 10:15am,

Rev. Joyce Miller, Chaplain at Nebraska Medical Center

will be preaching.

Synod Assembly

LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE! Is the theme for this year’s Nebraska Synod Assembly. It will be held June 2-4, 2022 in Kearney, Ne at the Younes Conference Center. 

First Lutheran Church is looking for participants who would be interested in attending this years gathering! As an attendee you would become a voting member. There will be proposals to consider, amendments, and resolutions. They also adopt the Synod  budget and elect officers and committee members. It’s also a time for fellowship, learning, worship and meeting new people from across Nebraska!

Even though the meeting isn’t until June, we need to have a list of representatives for First Lutheran Church before the annual meeting in January. Please contact the church office at 402-426-4073, or Laurie Wick at wickette224@gmail.com or 402-533-0536

Thanksgiving Eve Hymn Sing Worship

 with Communion

We will be having a Thanksgiving Eve Hymn Sing Worship with Communion on Wednesday, November 23rd at 6:15pm in the Sanctuary. Please Join Us!

Choir News

We had a great time at Choir Practice last night! The chancel choir will meet Thursdays at 6:30pm in the choir room. We have picked some really fine anthems for Advent and Christmas. Please Join Us!

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.

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.

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

Spaghetti & Garlic Toast

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

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  

16th, 2022

We will be serving Ham and Cheesy Potatoes, fruit, and dessert.

WE REMEMBER IN OUR PRAYERS

Please keep these people in your thoughts and prayers