Feb 18, 2018 Announcements

Calendar of Events

Announcements:

It’s Lutheran Witness Renewal Time! The current list is posted on the bulletin board.  February 25 is the deadline to place your order. If you want to continue to get the magazine, mark an OK next to your name and put your check for $22.67 in the office mailbox. This price includes the insert from Iowa District West. If you want to start getting the magazine, add your name to the blank form and put your check for $22.67 in the office mailbox. This price includes the insert from Iowa District West. If you want to stop getting the magazine, just cross your name off the list.

Next Sunday, February 25, is Time and Talent Sunday at St. Paul. Our services and adult Bible study will focus on how we can examine the talents and gifts God has blessed us with, and how we might commit to use those gifts in the coming year to help one another spread the Gospel message in and outside our church. Time and Talent forms have been mailed to each member, and they can be returned next Sunday, or on Loyalty Sunday on March 11. Thank you for completing this important task to help facilitate planning for the upcoming year! –Stewardship Committee

NEXT SUNDAY is LWML Mite Sunday.  Please help support the mission grants of the LWML by placing your donation in the large Mite box.

More cold weather is coming! Please bring cold weather items for the homeless and school children. We need warm hats, gloves/mittens, scarves and socks. They can be gently used or new and all sizes. They will be taken to the men’s homeless shelter and Northwood and Kate Mitchell Schools.  Please put them in the Hope container. Thank you for your generosity.

After leading our praise team from its very start, director Joan I. is stepping down. Please share your words of thanks with Joan for all that she has done! We are now in an active search for a new praise team director. The director will lead weekly practices, help select music, and oversee the praise team in worship one Sunday a month. There is an appreciation stipend for these services. To ask questions or to receive more information, please speak with Pastor Jenks or Greg Gebhart.

It is a blessing that Katie S. has shared her musical gifts with us and led our Bell Choir. However, she and her husband will be moving out of the area. We sincerely thank Katie for her leadership and for continuing to lead the Bell Choir until they depart. We are now searching for someone to take over the leadership of the Bell Choir. This person will help select music, lead practices once per week, and lead performances during services about once per month, September through May. There is an appreciation stipend for the Bell Choir Director. If you have been gifted with abilities that could be used to lead the Bell Choir, please prayerfully consider this position. For additional information, please speak with Pastor Jenks or Greg Gebhart.

Family Service Quilters will meet Thursday, Feb. 22, from 10:00 am to noon. Then we will break for lunch and have our Family Service meeting with a devotion and dessert. Bring a sack lunch and come join us.

The Board of Evangelism is once again looking to send workers to Camp Okoboji on a mission trip. If you are interested in joining us on this mission trip there will be a sign-up sheet on the bulletin board in the narthex. So why not come and join your fellow Saint Paul family and get the camp ready for the season and enjoy some fellowship with other St. Paul members.