Our Mission Statement We of Joy Lutheran Church foster  grace-filled relationships with Christ through worship, fellowship, and service.

Notes of Joy - Week of April 11

Gospel: John 20:19-31 The Easter season is a week of weeks, seven Sundays when we play in the mystery of Christ’s presence, mostly through the glorious Gospel of John. Today we gather with the disciples on the first Easter, and Jesus breathes the Spirit on us. With Thomas we ask for a sign, and Jesus offers us his wounded self in the broken bread. From frightened individuals we are transformed into a community of open doors, peace, forgiveness, and material sharing such that no one among us is in need.

Sunday, April 11 Worship In-person and Online Second Sunday of Easter Our Sunday worship can be watched LIVE on the Facebook app at 9:30 am, or the recording on Facebook any time after 10:15 am. CLICK HERE TO GO TO FACEBOOK Link to Sunday bulletin

Easter Devotional from Pastor Karen Happy Easter! Click below for an Easter message from Pastor Karen. Click here for Easter Message

A Big Thank You... A big thank you to all who made our Good Friday, Easter services and egg hunt so wonderful! Special thanks to: our musicians, readers and worship helpers, altar, banner and floral preparers, egg fillers and egg hiders, all the donators of eggs and candy and many others!  We were happy to see a little more than 50 people at each Easter service and 35 on Good Friday. If you missed the services, you can still watch them on Joy Lutheran Church’s Facebook page. Click here

What a Difference a Year Makes!

Last Year... This Year...

Sunday School & Confirmation Sunday School for preschool through 6th grade and Confirmation after worship Sunday beginning at 10:15am. It’s lots of fun. Please join us!  The last day of Sunday School will be May 16.

Feeling Blessed? Consider tithing to the Church on your stimulus check (this would be $140), or increasing your regular giving. Many are unable to do so during COVID; others feel their cup is overflowing. Let us pray for all and give according to our ability.

Church Directory We are in the process of completing a new and very needed Church Directory. We are excited that soon we will have a new permanent Pastor here. This will help Pastor Sean Avery a great deal in his ministry, but we will also all benefit from it in our continued ministry here at Joy Lutheran Church. If you can, we would appreciate you sending us a digitalized photo of yourself and or family. Or, you can mail a photograph if you prefer. We recommend choosing head shots where your faces are clearly visible. The church's email is joylutheran@gmail.com. -Pastor Karen Sonray, on behalf of Joy Lutheran Church Council

LOOKING FOR A CHANCE TO GIVE CREATIVELY? This Spring we hope to have a FUNDRAISER. Details are still being ironed out. The funds raised will go toward the one-time Moving Expenses of our new Pastor. Right now we have $4,540 toward our $9,000 goal. We hope to have a Silent Auction where we contribute items that will be silently bid on. We may post some of these on-line in addition to having items displayed along with a bidding sheet at Church over the span of 1-week.  Think creatively: hand crocheted items, quilts, runners, wooden bird houses, seedlings you've got started for gardens, a weekend at your cabin, a home-made pie, lefse...you name it! If you would like to give a financial gift, beyond your regular giving, simply put a note that you would like your check directed toward pastoral moving expenses. If it’s an electronic gift, click Special Offering and let the office know it’s for moving expenses. Thank you!

Joy of Reading Book Club Our Book Club meets the 3rd Monday of the month at 6:30 PM.  We read a wide variety of books and have a wide variety of discussions! We are ready to start in-person meetings again in the church Fellowship Hall.  Zoom meetings helped us get through COVID, but we look forward to getting together in person again. The meeting on Monday, April 19th will be in the Fellowship Hall. April’s book is How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior. We will share any sage advice we received from our parents as we were growing up. May’s book is The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah. Please feel free to come, even if you have not read the book; we all need the socialization!  PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDARS for the June 11th book club anniversary celebration at the beautiful Nancy Lake cabin of Gerry Norene.

Children's Message - Saturday at Noon Pr. Karen records a 3-5 minute message for young people each week. The Children's Message is available on Facebook every Saturday at noon. Click the Facebook link above.

Food Pantry Donations Needed!  This can be a very difficult time for families. Bring your food donations to church on Sunday or you’re welcome to call ahead to drop them during the week.

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The next Church Council meeting is Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 7:00pm