Living Faith Weekly News (Week of February 8, 2026)
- Kay Michaelson
- Feb 9
- 5 min read
Bishop Scott Dalen visited Living Faith on Sunday and, along with Pastor Paige, led worship on the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost. Thank you to Pastor Paige and Bishop Dalen ford leading our time together to worship!
Thank you to Gail Kass for accompanying us on the piano, Nathan Summerside for reading scripture, Mark Catton for assisting with Holy Communion, Tim Kass for ushering and running the sound board, and Angela Catton for live streaming our service.
After service, the help of Yvonne Law, Brian Michaelson, Tim and Gail Kass, Angela and Mark Catton, Sharon Utesch and Anniston Van Otterloo was much appreciated!
Prior to worship on Sunday, Living Faithers gathered with Pastor Paige and Bishop Dalen for Bible Study on the 1 Corinthians reading for the day. What does it mean to be human?
Living Faith will observe the Transfiguration of Our Lord on Sunday with Pastor Paige McGrath leading worship. Living Faith worships at 11:00 AM in the sanctuary of the Presbyterian United Church of Christ located at 858 7th Ave. SE in Le Mars. Dawn Richards will accompany us on the piano. Tim Kass will greet you at the door with a bulletin. Travis Balt will read Scripture. A volunteer is needed to assist with Holy Communion. Please let Kay Michaelson know if you would be willing to help.
At 9:30 AM on Sunday morning, please join in our Bible Study led by Pastor Paige. We meet in Room 105 and there's always room around the table for you!
After Bible Study, plan to gather in the PUCC Fellowship Hall at 10:30 AM to enjoy a cup of coffee and goodies provided by Aly Bendickson.
There will be a "Surprise Potluck" after worship on Sunday in the Fellowship Hall of the PUCC. Members are asked to bring a dish to share! Come and enjoy the culinary gifts of Living Faith members and a time of fellowship together!
Confirmation students will meet at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, February 11th, at Christ Lutheran Church, rural Brunsville. This will be the last time students meet at this location for the next few weeks as Living Faith students will be at Living Faith on Wednesdays during the season of Lent. Students will be assisting with the services on those Wednesdays.
Living Faith will observe Ash Wednesday on February 18th at 5:00 PM in the sanctuary of the PUCC. The Imposition of Ashes and Holy Communion will be included during the service.
On the Sign Up Table!
Our first Lenten meal will be on Wednesday, February 25th at 6:00 PM in the Fellowship Hall of the PUCC! There is a sign up sheet on the Living Faith table in the narthex to volunteer to bring something for this potluck meal! Check it out!
Lenten devotionals are in a basket on the Living Faith table for you to pick up! There are also activity sheets to go with the devotionals for the children! Stop by and pick these up to take home!
Information is available on the Living Faith table for families about Bible Camp at Lutheran Lakeside this summer! Living Faith offers at $100 scholarship for students who wish to attend!
There is a sign up on the bulletin board in the narthex for those who can help deliver Meals on Wheels for the weeks of February 23rd, March 2nd and March 9th. Yvonne Law, Brian and Kay Michaelson and Kim Lang have signed up to take routes the weeks of February 17 and February 23.....but we need volunteers to sign up for 2 more weeks' worth of shifts. (The PUCC will cover the rest of the shifts.) Please take a look at what you can help with! WE NEED YOU!!
Soon there will be an Egg Tree in the narthex by the Living Faith table for items to donate to Sleep in Heavenly Peace. Be watching for this!
Church Council will meet on Tuesday, February 17th at 6:30 in Room 105.
Pastor Paige and the Council are interested in planning intergenerational opportunities for Living Faith in 2026. If you would be interested in helping to plan such activities, please let Pastor Paige or anyone on Church Council know! Intergenerational moments are a goal for the Church Council this year!
Synod Assembly will be held in April this year at Sergeant Bluff. Living Faith's delegates will be Pastor Paige and Todd and Kim Lang. Bailey Quanbeck will be our young adult delegate as well.
There are several positions available for election at the assembly and nominees are being sought from our Winds of Hope Conference. Here is what is needed:
Synod Council - 1 lay male delegate
Discipline Committee - 1 lay female delegate
Nominating Committee - 1 lay female delegate
At large nominees needed:
Synod Council: Youth
Synod Council: Younge adult
Synod Council: Lay Male
Synod Secretary (4 year term)
If you would have any interest in these positions or questions about them, please reach out to Pastor Paige! She can pass your name along when the conference meets Sunday afternoon (February 15). Biography forms can then be sent to you as they are due March 18.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Wednesday, February 11 - 7:00 - Confirmation
Sunday, February 15 - 9:30 - Bible Study and Fellowship
11:00 - Worship
Noon - Surprise Potluck
Tuesday, February 17 - 20 - Deliver Meals on Wheels - Brian and Kay Michaelson
Tuesday, February 17 - 6:30 - Church Council Meeting
Wednesday, February 18 - 5:00 - Ash Wednesday Service
Please hold in prayer this week:
Kevin Richards
The McAllister family
Travis Balt and the MOC-FV families
The Kristy Pecks family
The Easton Riddle family
The Ruhrer family
Rod Hallberg
Sherry Jo Wittkop and her family
Mitch Lang, Derek and the Iowa National Guard serving overseas
Pastor Jan
Amy Beveridge
The Ostermyer family
The Matthew Kenny family
The Remsen St. Mary's accident victims and their families
Marilynn
Ali
Marie
Pastor Paige
Living Faith
The Living Faith brother or sister you are praying for
During our Sunday Bible Study, Pastor Paige shared the following blessing, "for when there's no cure for being human" by Kate Bowler:
God, I feel it again,
the burden of being human,
and the fact that nothing will
exempt us from the pain of it.
Blessed are we,
Your human creatures,
with mind and soul and spirit
bounded in flesh and bone,
struggling in the seeming
conspiracy against progress,
against the perfection
that our minds can grasp
and our hearts long for.
God, how we yearn for
the completion of all things.
And we try, oh how we try
to hurry it along.
With our self-help elixirs,
slurries with a touch of truth
and a handful of goodness,
enough to be effective, for awhile.
The gospel of hustle,
or of positivity, or peloton
but then life happens.
And we realize all over again
that we are human,
frail and finite,
and that there’s no cure for that,
despite illusory promises
that say otherwise.
This is where we live,
in this reality.
Come help us in our humanity.
Help us enjoy all the beauty
that is here, the sweetness that
comes to us unbidden.
The light that gives us eyes to see.
It's not all up to us,
thank heaven.
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