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ALC
The Ascension Sanctuary
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Congregational News
10/3/07
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Book Club
SEEDS lunch outing
Church Council meeting
ELCA World Hunger
Medical Lending Closet Update
Help Wanted
See a Difference?
The Lunch Bunch
Donation opportunities
Invite a Friend Sunday
Men in Mission
Altar flowers
book
BOOK CLUB
The Book Club is meeting on Saturdays at
Russell's* at 10am. We
are now reading Isak Dinesen’s classic Out of Africa*.
Everyone is welcome!From 1914 to 1931,
Danish aristocrat Baroness Karen Blixen owned and operated a coffee
plantation in Kenya. After the plantation failed, she returned to Europe
and began to write under the pen name Isak Dinesen. Out of Africa reads
like a collection of stories in which she adheres to no strict
chronology, gives no explanation of the facts of her life, and
apologizes for nothing. First published in 1937, Out of Africa is not
free of the colonial or racist attitudes of its time; yet, within that
context, Isak Dinesen is an enlightened observer and participant as she
describes the experience of British East Africa before World War II. She
portrays in rich detail the vast land around her, alive with strange and
wonderful human populations; the thrilling terror of a nocturnal lion
hunt; a shooting accident among the Africans on her farm and its
repercussions; raising and freeing an orphaned antelope fawn; getting to
know the Africans and the colonial adventurers who found their way into
her life.
From
500 Great Books by Women*; review by Lynne Auld
council
DECEMBER
Church
Council
Meeting
The monthly meeting of
the Church Council will be on
December 11th
at
7:00
PM:
seed
SEEDs
LUNCH OUTING
Mark
your
calendar
for the
next
SEEDS
luncheon
on
Wednesday,
December 12th
at 1 PM.
This is our
SEEDs Christmas
Luncheon.
It will be in
the church
Parish Life
Center.
Bring a salad
and a gift to
share and join
the fun.
Everyone is
welcome!
ELCA
WORLD HUNGER
2007
 "Living
Simply With God: A 40-Day Hunger Calendar"*
shows how you can live a joyous and abundant life,
filled with generosity towards others. It works well
with families with children and offers people of all
ages opportunities to pray, discuss, read, count,
write, and give money to help hungry people around
the world.
Collection boxes for World Hunger are available in the narthex. Please
take one home to put your spare change (or perhaps bills!) in. Many
people throughout the world need us to keep them in our thoughts and
prayers. The boxes will be gathered up on Reformation Sunday,
October 28th.
closet
MEDICAL LENDING CLOSET
UPDATE
Through the medical lending closet, we were able this past month to provide 85 pounds of medical supplies and 21 dozen adult undergarments to needy individuals and community assistance agencies.
help
HELP WANTED
Proof reader needed for our church web site. Do you visit our web site often? Notice typos or bad links now and again? Let the web steward know. It is sometimes impossible to see one's own errors. He needs and would welcome an assistant to proof and read the site. The pay is great satisfaction in helping make our web site an accurate picture of our ministry at Ascension. Contact pastor or Tom Clark if you’d like to help.
DIFFERENCE
SEE A DIFFERENCE?
Look around the church property and you will see that it has undergone a thorough cleaning. A landscaping crew was hired to complete the job, but help is needed to maintain it. The floors in the PLC were also cleaned and rewaxed. This type of maintenance would have amounted to a considerable expense, but through the generosity of
Thrivent for Lutherans*
the $1,100 expense has been covered. Our thanks to Thrivent!
bunch
THE LUNCH
BUNCH
The Evangelism/Stewardship Team is looking
for individuals interested in going out to lunch after Sunday worship.
In sharing Sunday dinner together, we hope to keep connected with each
other, include others in our fellowship and share our favorite
restaurants with one another. We also hope it will be a way for visitors
to Ascension to feel welcomed. Sign up for the "Lunch Bunch" in the
narthex today!
donate
DONATION
OPPORTUNITIES
The congregation is in need of the following items:
invite
Invite A Friend Sunday
Don’t forget that the 1st Sunday of every month is “Invite A Friend” Sunday. We have coffee and donuts,
wonderful Adult Bible study during Lent and an inspiring worship service. Won’t you do your part and invite a friend to come and experience the joy of living in God’s amazing grace?
men
Men in Mission
The
Ascension/Peace*
Men in Mission* group meets on the third Sunday of each month from 6 to 7:30 pm at the homes of
Gene Holiman, Tom Winn and
Don Bergstrom on a rotating basis. All men and their neighbors
are invited for fun, food, fellowship and Bible study. Please bring a snack to share. For more information and the location of the current meeting, contact
Don Bergstrom or the church office.
flowers
The
altar flower chart is now
on the bulletin board in the narthex and has open Sundays available. Some of us have received bills from Freytag’s that include a delivery charge. This is a mistake, and if you received such a bill simply
subtract the delivery charge when you submit payment. Also, sales tax does apply to these arrangements.
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