Faith's Friday Update

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“Gathered faithfully to love and serve God and all others.”

Faith's Friday Update

April 30, 2021

Sunday, May 2, 2021

Fifth Sunday of Easter

8:00 AM Bulletin

10:00 AM Bulletin

This Week's Readings:

Acts 8:26-40

Philip teaches and baptizes an Ethiopian

Psalm 22:25-31

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord. (Ps. 22:27)

1 John 4:7-21

God’s love perfected in love for one another

John 15:1-8

Christ the vine

LIVE-STREAMING: Join us live Sundays at 10AM on our website!

In-person reminders: In an effort to continue to mitigate risk, we are observing the safety practices currently in place, including, the wearing of masks and distance seating.

In addition, the registration and check-in process with contact details is still in place. In the event we are notified of COVID-19 contamination, this allows us to be able to contact and advise those who were in attendance.

If you plan to attend services in-person, please sign up at www.faithlutheransrq.com/registration.

Until we are able to loosen the practices, we thank you for your patience and understanding!

FELC NEWS

NATIONAL TEACHER APPRECIATION DAY is May 4^th. We are especially grateful to our dedicated and talented FELC teachers! They go above and beyond each and every day to provide a caring learning environment for our preschoolers, all while navigating the new challenges that came with the pandemic. We are so proud of our incredible school and staff.

THANK YOU, FELC TEACHERS!

THE FELC BOOK DRIVE is underway to replace needed books for the classrooms. In the narthex you will find a Book Drive table with titles of books that are needed.

If you would like to help, please select one or more book titles that you would like to purchase for the preschool.

Once you purchase the book/s, please bring them to FELC, the church office, or place them in the book bin in the narthex during the next couple of Sundays.

(Most titles may be found on Amazon and if you wish, you may have them delivered directly to FELC, 7750 Beneva Road, Sarasota, FL 34238.)

ANOTHER MATCH OPPORTUNITY!

Nearly 50% of Sarasota County students and 100% of DeSoto County students rely on free and reduced meals at school. With summer school programs closed this summer, daily meals may not be accessible.

The summer months ahead present real challenges for the children of families struggling to put food on the table.

Join the Campaign Against Summer Hunger and you can provide twice as many needed summer meals!

Your gift today will DOUBLE until we reach our $800,000 challenge match.

GIVE NOW

DAILY PRAYER

VENTURES

The ELCA offers daily Prayer Ventures, which may be found on their website, https://www.elca.org/en/Resources/Prayer-Ventures. The prayer for today is below. Visit the website if you would like to follow the daily prayers!

30 Give thanks for national and local leaders, health care workers and volunteers who continue to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and help us recover physically, economically, spiritually and emotionally. Pray that God will help them persevere and that we will generously express our support and gratitude.