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RUMMAGE SALE
Mark your calendars now and start thinking about doing some spring cleaning! If your drawers, closets, basements, and garages need a clean out, save your items for the St. Paul rummage sale which is being planned for Friday, May 18 (8:00-5:00) and Saturday, May 19 (8:00 until noon). We will have a pre-sale on Thurs. May 17th after our regular service. Volunteers will be needed throughout the week beginning on Monday, May 14. Please consider helping out. There will be a sign-up sheet as we get closer to spring.
Lenten Soup Suppers, Services and Choir Practice
In an effort to make the soup suppers more accessible to those working late, we will be changing the Wednesday evening service to begin at 6:30. Soup Suppers will be served from 5 - 6:15. Choir rehearsals will begin at 7:20 pm during Lent.
Mari Roedig,
Worship & Evangelism
Ginny Jensen
Soup Supper Organizer
ALTAR FLOWERS
The Altar Guild is very appreciative of people who sign up to sponsor altar flowers on any given Sunday or holiday and is urging people to continue this practice. On the dates when no one has signed up, the Altar Guild sponsors them. This is not necessarily bad, but is causing us to be low on funds.
At the present time the flower chart is located in the secretary’s office. A new chart for 2012 will soon be available. Please consider being a sponsor.
If you do sponsor flowers on any given date, the Altar Guild will assume that you will pick them up after church or within a day or two. If for some reason you won’t be picking them up, please notify the church office so that we can make other arrangements.
Thank you for supporting the Altar Guild.
Wendy Reed, Altar Guild President
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
We have begun taking pictures and information for our pictorial directory before and after service on Thursday’s and Sunday’s.
Thursday’s - 5:45 to 6:15 and 7:00 - 7:15 pm
Sunday’s, - 8:30 - 9:15 and 10:15 - 10:45 am
Pictures will be taken in the front lobby. Information sheets regarding your address, phone number(s) and family names will be available for you to fill out before or after your picture is taken. You will be able to make any corrections to any information entered into the computer immediately. A member of WOW will be taking the pictures and entering the information for you.
More times will be scheduled throughout January and February with all information being taken before Feb. 22nd.
The directories will cost $5 each and you will have a chance to request a directory on the information sheet. Also, the picture taken will be available to send electronically or have it printed for $1 if you choose. Plans are to have the directory completed by Easter.
Fair Trade Coffee For Sale
The WOW Group is selling Fair Trade Coffee. This is not a fundraiser, but a service project through Lutheran World Relief. The cost of the coffee for sale is $6.00 per 12 oz. bag and by making this purchase you are making a difference in someone’s life! The WOW Group has been purchasing Fair Trade Coffee for the congregation to use at all church events.
Why Fair Trade Coffee?
Behind items that we consume every day (coffee, tea and chocolate to name a few) are farmers struggling to survive and support their families. Living in poor, rural regions of the world where paved roads and internet access are rare, small-scale farmers who produce these items do not have their pick of buyers. In conventional trade, middlemen take advantage of this and pay unfairly low prices—prices that do not even cover farmers’ costs and leave them no money for nutritious food, medicine, clothes or education. Children are forced to work instead of attending school.
Fair Trade is a way of doing business that acknowledges the worth and basic human rights of all people. When you buy Fair Trade items, more of the money you spend reaches the hands of the people who crafted them.
