September 11, 2016

Calendar of Events

Announcements:

We have a wonderful outreach here at St. Paul with our preschool. One of the best ways we can support our preschool’s families is through prayer. We would like to have a church family praying regularly for each preschool family. That’s it!!!  Just pray!  Please sign up on the bulletin board and a preschool family will be given to you to include in your prayers.

The LWML is still collecting ink cartridges and cell phones for recycling. But please note: cell phones must include the charger.  Thank you. Place in the box located east of the fellowship hall.

Beginning today, Pastor’s Sunday morning Bible study will be on Greg Finke’s book, Joining Jesus on His Mission . This book tells you how to share Jesus’ love in everyday life. Please read it to be prepared for the class. You can purchase them for $10 from the office.

Septoberfest is just a week away and the committee is working hard on planning. You all have heard about the bean bag toss games and I’m sure you are starting to practice. We need to have you sign up so we can get the beanbag boards ready.  If you have a board we can use, please let us know. There are sign up lists on the bulletin board for a variety of places we need your help or if there is something you want to do, let us know. ~Karen Griffin

The Women’s Bible study will take a break and resume Sept 19 with our new Beth Moore study “The Patriarchs”. Books are available in the office for $5.00.

CHECK YOUR MAILBOX!  The new phone directory and the Annual Report are now in your member mailbox.

Youth and parents- If you missed the LYF/midweek kick off last week, you missed info and sign up sheets for upcoming IDW Youth gatherings in Des Moines in October and November and the next national gathering in 2019. Please see sign up sheets on the bulletin board or contact Carla Murphy if interested.

All Midweek youth are invited to the LYF Picnic and Scavenger Hunt on Wed, Sept 14 from 5:30 to 8:00 pm. This year we will be at the Hickory Shelter at Brookside Park. (1325 6th St. in Ames).  The Hickory Shelter is the west shelter that is closest to the north parking lot and the fire engine.  Come and have some good food and enjoy the fellowship with your fellow youth.

We are re-scheduling  our September Conversational Dinners Kick-Off scheduled for September 11th.

>  St. Paul has been sponsoring Septoberfest, (Sept 16-18 this year) for the past several years. It is a week-end filled with activities for our church families and the families in our community.  This is where the rethinking comes in….because the two events are only a week apart and fall week-ends are always jam packed with things to do, we feel that we should reschedule Conversational Dinner Kick-Off until October 9th.

> There is a bar-b-que tail-gate and concert on Sept 17th. There are sign up sheets for side dishes and dessert in the narthex, so we hope you will get your name on the list and be a part of this year ‘s Septoberfest  For those of you who would like to bring a dessert,  and could help the committee by dishing up and helping to serve dessert immediately following the concert, please call or e-mail Ellen Sander.

> Thank you all for being flexible and agreeing with our “rethinking”.  We will plan to see you ALL at Septoberfest on September 17th.

Yes, we are still collecting school supplies. The ladies will be taking school supplies to the Fall Boone Zone Rally on October 1 that will be sent to West Virginia.