Please join us for worship. Services will be both in person and live streamed. Contact Pastor Berg or Kristin Smith for the streaming information.

Our Nursery Staff Care Givers are Addie Thomas, Ashlyn Noel, Gavin Rainer, Isabella Curcio, Jackie Fairbanks and Lyla Curcio. Your children will have EXCEPTIONAL CARE and FUN! Please join us!

(formerly known as Friends Supporting Friends)

We have been a group at First Lutheran Church for about 10 years. Our new name is Widows Support. We are not a therapy group, but we are a place for widows to find friendship, support, and fun.

We meet the 2nd Monday of the month at 10:00 am in the library. Please join us!

Call Paula Glandon for more info. 425-483-1783

Join other congregation and community members for breakfast and conversation! There will be “food for the body, food for the soul and food for thought!” A group of 19 men attended in September. Please join us for discussion and enrichment. Questions to Roger Steinke.

Sunday, October 9,12:November 4 - 5, 7 pm - 9 am

Youth in Grades 7 – 12 are invited to join in an “Over Night” Retreat at First Lutheran Church Bothell (FLCB).  Our retreat will include Games, Movies, Pizza, Snacks, and a Two-Hour Session of “WhirlyBall” in Edmonds on Friday evening.  This is going to be an AWESOME EVENT!

WhirlyBall is a team sport and a fun group activity! It’s best described as a “Combination of Basketball, Hockey and Jai-Alai played while riding an electrically powered machine, similar to a Bumper Car, called a WhirlyBug on a basketball court.”  Just about anyone can play!

Cost is only $20 per person. Friends are welcome. To help with planning, please Sign Up on the Youth Board. Join Us!

Turkey Sandwich Boxed Lunches! Sunday, November 20th

Youth in Grades 7 - 12 will help prepare, package and distribute Turkey Sandwich Boxed Lunches to members of the congregation and community.  Members of the Church can leave with their boxed lunches following each worship service, from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. (Meals are also available for delivery after 12:30 PM.) Lunches will include a Turkey sandwich, a bag of chips, a prepackaged apple sauce container, cranberry sauce and a slice of pumpkin pie.  Please preorder lunches starting Sunday, November 6th.  Questions? Contact Roger.

Attention all youth! Lunch Assembly is Saturday, November 19, from 11 AM to 1 PM. Please sign-up on the Youth Board to help prepare the Turkey Sandwiches and Boxed Lunches.

In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a factory in an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America. “American Factory” is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, about Chinese company Fuyao 's factory in Moraine, a city near Dayton, Ohio, that occupies Moraine Assembly, a shuttered General Motors plant. The film had its festival premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. It won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Movie Review on ZOOM: Please watch the movie prior to our Movie Review. “American Factory” is currently available to watch on Netflix.  Our discussion will begin with a review of the main plots of the movie. We will also explore the spiritual themes of the movie. Questions? Please contact Roger Steinke.

Listed below are ways for you to share with First Lutheran even when you can't attend in person:

* Mail in your checks. We are still doing weekly deposits.

* Set up electronic giving by using the Give Online button at flc.bothell.org, or calling Vanco services at 800-675-7430. Note: there is a one time fee to FLC for the set up of bank to bank transactions. There are approximately 3% transaction fees on all credit card donations, making credit card and debit card giving more effective if combined into a monthly transaction, rather than smaller amounts, weekly.

* Set up one time or auto payments through your bank’s pay service

Thank you for your faithfulness.

The Finance Committee

Bob Berg, Chair

First Lutheran is partnering with the Northshore Nourishing Network with a Community Food Drive in November. Non-perishable food items can be donated and brought to the Church Anytime. Please place donations in the grocery cart in the Caring Corner. Please support the Food Drive and “GIVE WHAT YOU CAN! Needed items: canned soups, canned meals (chili; ravioli; stew), canned meat (chicken; tuna), canned beans, canned vegetables, canned fruit and long grain rice.

For more information, including a list of Suggested Food Bank Donations, please contact Roger Steinke. To learn more about the Northshore Nourishing Network, please click here.

The FLC Social Ministries Committee is planning to purchase 75 pumpkin pies and corresponding cans of whipped cream to help the more than 400 clients and residents of Compass Housing Alliance with their Thanksgiving celebrations.  If you wish to make a cash or check donation, please make checks payable to First Lutheran Church and write “Thanksgiving Pies” on the memo line and/or envelope. Please contact Kathy Konieczka or Roger Steinke for more information. The pies and cans of whipped cream will be purchased from Costco and delivered on Monday, November 21, 2022.

CHANGE FOR CHANGE All money received in the Change for Change jar will be used to support HOPELINK food bank.

HOPELINK helps homeless and low-income families, children, seniors and people with disabilities gain stability, while providing others with the tools and skills they need to exit poverty for good. HopeLink is not accepting food or other goods at this time. Click here for donation information.

September Monthly Outreach: TBA

Purchase your Scrip gift cards on Sunday morning before and after worship or this is an excellent time to set up Shop with Scrip and Presto Pay for instant Scrip purchases and redemption on your smart phone. This is a super easy way to continue to support FLC's Scrip program. (See below for more information.)

If you have questions email Gordy Phelps.

Dear First Lutheran Church,

Thank you for keeping Olav’s US Marine picture on the church military service board and including him in the weekly prayers for the past 8 years. It has been a blessing and great comfort to our entire family.

Olav has now successfully completed the basic commitment of 6 years active duty in the Marine Reserves and 2 years on call. It was an honor for him to serve his country and is proud to retire as a US Marine Corporal. He is currently a full-time student at Orange Coast College in California.

Thank you again for keeping Olav in your prayers. May God continue to bless and keep all of you.

Love, Randall and Elizabeth Wampler and family

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE COMPASS HOUSING TOP FIVE MOST NEEDED ITEMS DRIVE! During the month of October, First Lutheran Church collected needed items for the Compass Housing Hygiene Center in Pioneer Square and to different area shelters. Again, THANK YOU for your help and support!

At our September council meeting, we had our calendars out to save the date for the amazing annual youth auction coming up on February 5, 2023! We hope you will also save the date for great food, lovely auction items, and even better company!

We are excited to announce Derrick StaRosa has been elected to a 2-year term on the endowment committee. We thank him for his service in this capacity. We are still looking for one more person to serve on the endowment committee.

Pastor Berg reported on the adult education survey. He appreciated everyone who participated. We went over the results and read all your comments. This will help guide Pastor Berg in future planning for the adult education hour.

The parking lot has been repaved (as of September 30). Have you seen our newish signs that say, No Public Parking? These signs have alleviated the problems of a significant number of cars parked for days at a time, and cars parking to use nearby businesses, causing parking issues for our own members and preschool parents. If you hear of an event happening near the church that could benefit from the use of our parking lot, please let them know we do accept building & use applications for parking lot usage. We are happy to open our lot to our community, they just need to ask!

Happy Fall!

Holly Batstone

Church Council President

As of July 13, 2022, it’s estimated that our nation produces 268 million tons of waste, with 140 million tons of it going into landfills annually. The average American throws away about 4.5 pounds of trash each day; an American family of 4 throws away as much as 18 pounds per day. This adds up to about 1,642 pounds per person per year and 6,570 pounds per family! What are the top 3 items that Americans throw away that end up in a landfill?

* 30.63 million tons of food.

* 26.82 million tons of plastic.

* 18.35 million tons of paper and paperboard.

How can each of us help reduce the trash we create? November 15th is National Recycling Day! This day was originally established as an annual event in 1997. But we know that every day should be recycling day for the world. Some things we can do are:

1. Minimize the amount of food waste and put it in a compost bin instead of trash.

2. Understand the rules of your local service provider about recycling. Because different service providers may use different processing facilities, sorting recycling for curbside pickup isn’t always an easy task, but it is doable.

3. Clean recyclables such as those that contained food prior to putting them in the recycle bin. Otherwise, all your efforts could go to waste, literally. Unclean containers can create curbside contamination, which could then cause the entire load of recyclable materials to end up in a landfill anyway.

4. Buy recycled and recyclable products.

As of April, 2021, there are over 3,000 active landfills in the United States, which means that as much as 1,800,000 acres of habitat have been sacrificed to take care of the garbage we create. This month we also celebrate Thanksgiving. One way we can thank our Father is to take care of this world that He has given to us.