Living Faith Weekly News (Week of April 14, 2024)

Kay Michaelson
Apr 15, 2024
3 min read

Updated: Apr 22, 2024

ree — Living Faith members who were able to travel to Sioux City on Sunday to worship with Pastor Halaas and the members of St. Mark!

Last Week

Thank you to Pastor Halaas and the members of St. Mark Lutheran Church in Sioux City for welcoming Living Faith to your service and hosting us at a Q + A session following! We heard more encouraging words during worship! Be brave, authentic, free, and disruptive disciples of Jesus!

There were some familiar faces in the sanctuary including Bishop Lorna and Matt & Patty (Kindwall) Kann and their son Kyle! We appreciated worshiping with you and thank you for your hospitality and thoughtful questions for us afterwards!

ree — Members of Living Faith who could attend the Q + A Session: Karen Schroeder, Dave Grosenheider, Mark & Cheryl Juhl, John & Peg McAllister, Angela Catton, June Ferguson, Tim Kass, Kari Kopperud, Todd & Kim Lang, and Kay Michaelson

Following our time in Sioux City, we worshiped back in the Chapel in Le Mars! Thank you to Pastor Halaas for bringing us a message of the first church as an example to Living Faith. We are reminded of the 7 Faith Practices: Pray, Study, Worship, Invite, Encourage, Serve and Give.

Thank you to Gail Kass for playing the piano for us, Kim Lang for reading, Todd Lang for assisting with communion, Tim Kass for ushering, Peg McAllister for baking the communion bread, and Angela Catton for live-streaming our service to Facebook.

This Week

Mark your calendar for Sunday, April 21 at 11:15 to come to the Chapel at the Presbyterian United Church of Christ, 858 7th Ave. SE, in Le Mars for worship with Pastor David Halaas and the members of Living Faith! We want to welcome YOU!

Gail Kass will accompany us on the piano, Yvonne Law will read scripture, Kay Allen will assist with Communion and please let Kay Michaelson know if you would like to greet people at the door!

Faith + Fellowship time returns to Room 103 at the PUCC this coming Sunday! We will check in on how our week went and then get to discussing the Gospel lesson for the day.

Tim always has the coffee on so please join us at 10:15 on Sunday!

Living Faith would love to have YOU be a part of this new worshiping community in Le Mars! Members are encouraged to extend invitations of welcome this week!

If you or someone you know is looking for a church home, please contact Pastor Halaas at 702-430-3393 or via email: david.halaas.rev@wisynod.org. He would love to visit with you!

Living Faith would like to officially welcome new members at our April 28th 11:15 worship service!

ree — Synod Assembly this coming weekend!

Sandy Heeren will be Living Faith's delegate to the Western Iowa Synod Assembly on Friday and Saturday!

Please hold Sandy and all those involved in the Assembly in prayer as they pray, study, discuss, discern, listen and fellowship this weekend.

Last year, Living Faith was the beneficiary of the Synod Assembly offering. This year, each church is challenged to give $450 in offering: 3/4 of this offering will go towards the youth from the Western Iowa Synod who will be attending the National Youth Gathering in New Orleans this summer. The other one-fourth of this offering will support the Western Iowa Synod Hog Project: a project that connects hog producers with community meals and food pantries around this Synod. The Leadership Team, on behalf of Living Faith, is sending a $450 offering with Sandy to the Assembly.

There is a Pre-Assembly event this year from 12:30 - 3:00 on Friday at Our Savior Lutheran church (600 Bluff St., Council Bluffs) that is free and open to anyone who wishes to attend.

Rather than have displays this year, the assembly has asked for videos to be sent in from entities who wish to give information to assembly-goers. Angela Catton has created a video of thanks from Living Faith for the offerings given to us last year. Here is the video she created that will be shown this weekend! Thank you, Angela!

Sandy will give a report to Living Faith following the weekend at a future date.

Thank you, Sandy, for giving of yourself and your time to this year's assembly on our behalf! God bless you in your travels to and from Council Bluffs and your time there!