Quarterly Statements:
the January - April Financial Statements are prepared. Help save the
church postage expenses by picking up your statement today, available at
the Information Center.
Plant Pick-Up,
Wednesday, May 14,
Noon-7:00 p.m. Plan to pick up your order from the youth plant sale at
Peace. A few extra bedding plants will be available. Thanks for your
support!
Next Sunday, begin our summer
worship schedule with one worship service at 9:00 a.m. The music groups
of Peace will present the music festival, "A Mighty God for a Mighty
Call."
VBS registration forms
are available at the Information Center. Ranch Camp will be July 14-17.
Please stop by the nursery
and check out the wonderful decorations donated and hung by the Cub
Scout Pack 538, Den #3. Many thanks to Sharon Grandy and other parents
who helped the Scouts make paintings and purchase other decor. It has
really brightened up the nursery for our little ones!
Altar Flowers
today are given in
memory of their mothers, Helen Olson and Manda Kinneberg; by Jack and
Marian Olson.
Spring Rummage/Bake Sale a big success!
Over 800 volunteer hours and $6,100 in sales plus $1,600 in matching
funds from Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. $7,700 will be donated to
Meals on Wheels, Families Moving Forward, TreeHouse, IOCP, Kid's Care
Connection, Marie Sandvik Center, Habitat for Humanity, MICAH, and our
Peace Youth mission trip fund.
Leftover from the sale:
there are three desks, one chair and a four-drawer file cabinet. They
are free to anyone who wants them. They are currently located in the
Activity Room.
Please sign up!
Spots are still availablefor the
Habitat for Humanity
build in Ramsey on May 21st. And, slots are available for
the May 21st blood drive.
Sign up
following services or call Pam Jette @ 612-986-5898.
Please join the
TreeHouse staff and the "Story of
Hope", a one hour informational program about teens being served in our
community.
This event will be held at Peace on Tuesday, May 20. Dinner begins at
5:30 p.m. Check out
www.treehouseyouth.org to
learn more. You are asked to RSVP to Ben Bevis at
bbevis@treehouseyouth.org or call 612-203-1254.
"Forgiveness and Grace
at the Cross."
Come to this WordAlone Meeting to hear the personal witness of people
whose lives, held in the grip of homosexuality and sexual abuse, were
transformed by the grace of God. This meeting is held on Thursday, May
22, for the Saint Paul and Minneapolis Area Synods at Calvary Lutheran
Church in Golden Valley.
Summer Devotionals
available-pick up a copy of Davey and Goliath at the Information Center.
Did you get your copy
of Metro Lutheran this month? There is just something funny
about being Lutheran and the Church Basement Ladies help us figure that
out. Read about their new offering "Church Basement Ladies II: A
Second Helping," on page 19, and read an interview with a troupe member,
Greta Grosch, on page 7.
Knitting club
will meet Tuesday, May 20 at 10 o'clockam.
Bring any kind of needlework you enjoy; you don't have to knit to meet
with this group. This is not a class, but if you want to learn, they can
help. Meet around the tables in the narthex for fellowship and
encouragement!
