We are meeting in the Fellowship Hall at First Lutheran Church. Lunch will be provided.
The Bible study will center around Lisa Harper’s Life, 100-Day Devotional book.
All high school girls are welcome!
First Lutheran:
9:00 am FL Worship Pre – 6th Sing
10:00 am FL Sunday School/Fellowship
Pancake Feed following
4:30 pm FL Worship
Pleasant Valley:
9:45 am PV Sunday School/Fellowship
10:30 am PV Worship
Pleasant Valley:
6:00 pm PV Maundy Thursday Worship
First Lutheran:
7:30 pm FL First Communion
7:30 pm FL Maundy Thursday Worship
Lake City:
6:00 pm Good Friday Worship
First Lutheran:
8:00 pm Good Friday Worship
First Lutheran:
8:00 am Easter Breakfast
9:00 am Worship/Lord’s Supper
4:30 pm Worship/Lord’s Supper
Pleasant Valley:
10:00 am Coffee and Fellowship
10:30 am Worship/Lord’s Supper
Join us each Wednesday evening at 5:30
Studies on Galatians
Join us on Wednesdays in Lent for mid-week worship featuring studies on Paul’s letter to the Galatians.
SERVICE TIMES:
Pleasant Valley: 6:00 pm
First Lutheran: 7:00 pm
Supper and fellowship at First Lutheran start at 5:30.
Fellowship at Pleasant Valley after evening worship.
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December 6 our youth group JAWS held their annual Christmas gathering. We started off caroling at Wheatcrest and Spruce Court and had a great time bringing a little Christmas cheer to the residents. Then we returned to the church where we enjoyed a yummy lasagna supper provided by Pastor Sara. Thanks to her for doing this for us year after year.
We spent some time hearing the good news of Christ’s birth and ended the evening playing the goofy Christmas gift exchange game.
Coming up for JAWS in January:
January 10, 6:30pm at First Regular JAWS Meeting
January 28, 10:00am JAWS serve brunch for Annual Meeting at First
We thank God for all his blessings this last year and ask his hand to guide us in this new year.
Thank you to everyone who supported the Women of First Thankful Thursday Take-out Lunch!
We could not have asked for better weather, and the crowd was awesome! We sold out of almost everything, with just a few chicken salad sandwiches left. Thank you also to the women who spent hours planning and preparing and to those who worked the day of the lunch. Thank you also to Gail for taking our phone orders. I would also like to thank the women who donated food and money to make this year’s event a success.
As I write this, we have not had our lefse sale and raffle yet, but I would like to say thank you to the women who worked during our two lefse work days. It is getting harder to find people who are familiar with making lefse, and this year we had two new people step up and help even though they had no experience. So, when next year rolls around, if you are interested in learning more about lefse, feel free to join us!
More thanks to everyone who donated items for our raffle. We have some great items on our raffle this year. Next month I will report on who the lucky winners were with a list of the donors. We finished up the month by decorating the fellowship hall. The Christmas tree is lit, and the wreaths are hung. Thank you to Anita, Steve, and Brian for donating your time.
As always, if you are interested in serving a more active role in the Women of First, please give me a call.
Best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy 2024!
Kim Peters
Women of First Coordinator
Our high school youth group JAWS has been busy again. We met on November 1 and went out to wash windshields for folks at work at the hospital and Wheatcrest and various other places. We had a delicious supper courtesy of some of the parents, heard a word from our Lord and had a lot of fun. Then, thanks to the hard work and planning of our leader Kari Feldhaus, we had a Fill The Bowl event. The JAWS members put on a delicious Soup Supper with salads, bread, and all kinds of desserts. Each person attending got a beautiful bowl to take home with them. It was a lovely evening with 70 some people in attendance. With the help of a Thrivent Action Grant more than $1000 was raised for the Marshall County Food Pantry.
Our thanks to everyone who bought a ticket and all the people who furnished food!
Our next meeting will be our Christmas party and caroling on Dec. 6. We’ll meet at First Lutheran at 6:30pm and go do some caroling at Spruce Court and Wheatcrest. Then we’ll return to First and enjoy Pastor Sara’s famous Christmas lasagna. We’ll have fun and games including our annual strange gift exchange. Bring a $1 to $2 goofy gift, wrapped. Come and join the fun.
JAWS Christmas Party
Wed. Dec. 6, 6:30pm
At First Lutheran
The Women of First honored this year’s confirmands during fellowship on October 15th and presented each confirmand with a small gift in honor of the occasion.
Our first lefse work day is November 7, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. We’ll have a second work day, but I don’t have that scheduled yet. Feel free to join us! No experience is necessary. If you are interested in helping, please give me a call at 605-448-2627.
Plans are underway for The Women of First Thankful Thursday Take-out Lunch on November 16th. The menu will consist of our former bazaar staples of beef vegetable soup, chicken salad sandwiches and broccoli slaw salad with everyone’s favorite bar, the scotcheroo. There are two $6 options 1) Soup and Bar or 2) Sandwich and Bar. A $12 option consists of the full meal – soup, sandwich, salad and bar. All orders are take-out only. You may call the office and pre-order or place your order in person the day of the luncheon.
As we did last year, the WOF will have raffle tickets for sale throughout the month of November up to December 3rd. Tickets are $2 each or 6 for $10. Tickets are available at the church office, from any Women of First member, or contact Connie Patterson. The drawing will be held on Sunday, December 3, 2023 during fellowship. We have a wide variety of items on the raffle. There is something for everyone!
The day of Christmas on Parade, Saturday, December 2nd, the WOF will sell lefse at 2:00 p.m. at the Fun After Fifty building on Main St in Britton. Raffle tickets will be available for purchase that day. Stop by the Fun After Fifty building and join us for coffee and cookies as you shop for lefse.
It is time to think about 2024, and with that I ask all WOF to prayerfully consider how they would like to serve our church. We are looking for individual serving group chairmen and a reception coordinator. Please contact me if you are interested in learning more.
Have a warm and happy Thanksgiving!
JAWS – we will meet for an ARK event and JAWS meeting on Weds, November 1 at 6:30pm. All 9-12th graders are welcome for Food, Fun and Fellowship!
Prayer n Muffins will be on Weds, Nov 15 at 7:45am. All 6-12th graders are welcome!
JAWS will be hosting a “Fill a Bowl” supper in the evening on Sunday, November 19! Tickets will be sold for this event. Those attending will enjoy a delicious soup supper and take home a soup bowl to remember the event! Proceeds will be given to the Marshall County Food Pantry. More details to come!
Our high school youth group JAWS got together at Pleasant Valley on Oct. 4 and enjoyed a delicious meal as well as a hayride and campfire on a beautiful evening. We also spent some time in God’s Word and talked about future plans for Random Acts of Kindness and meetings.
JAWS ARK will be hosting a “Fill a Bowl” supper in the evening on Sunday, November 19! Tickets will be sold for this event. Those attending will enjoy a delicious soup supper along with breads and deserts and take home a soup bowl to remember the event! Proceeds will be given to the Marshall County Food Pantry.
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