Living Faith Weekly News (Week of March 23, 2025)

Kay Michaelson
Mar 25
3 min read

Updated: Mar 27

Last Week

Thank you to Pastor Egbers for his preparation and presence in leading our worship service! Thank you as well to Dawn Richards for accompanying for us on the piano, Yvonne Law for reading scripture and Sue Stream for assisting with communion.

Thank you also to Angela Catton and Jenni Mack for live streaming our service, Tim Kass for ushering and manning the sound board, John and Peg McAllister for providing the bread for communion and setting up communion, Kay Allen for helping to set up our sanctuary, Kay Allen and Sharon Utesch for cleaning up after our service, and Tim Kass for all his work before and after the service!

This Week

Wednesday's Lenten Service

We welcome all to this week's Wednesday Lenten service and all other Wednesday night activities:

5:00 - Lenten service: Kjersten Rathke and Rachel Cunningham will lead us in the liturgy of the Holden Evening Prayer. Nate Rathke will read scripture, Jess Kopperud will hand out Holden Evening Prayer books, Kenzie McLaughlin will pick up the books.

Brenda Harms from Lutheran Services of Iowa will talk about LSI's involvement with immigrants in our communities in northwest Iowa.

5:30 - Lenten meal: We will have a pizza feed following the service. Rachel Cunningham, Kay Allen and Kay Michaelson will provide desserts.

6:15 - 7:00 - Lenten discussion time: Pastor Jan will lead our discussion on "Reclaiming Wholeness: Hospitality, Fear and Relationship in a Divided World."

The Lenten offering box will be out on the Living Faith table in the narthex on Wednesday!

This Sunday

Join us at 11:00 on Sunday morning in the sanctuary of the Presbyterian United Church of Christ at 858 7th Ave. SE! Pastor Scott Egbers will return to deliver the message on this 4th Sunday of Lent! Dawn Richards will accompany us on the piano, and Sue Stream will assist with Holy Communion.

Living Faith and the members of the PUCC will come together to enjoy a fellowship time at 10:00 on Sunday morning. Kay Michaelson will be providing treats for the hour! Grab a cup of coffee and sit for some good conversation!

The Leadership Team will meet on Tuesday, March 25th at 5:30.

Remember to put April 5th on your calendar to attend the ordination of Vicar Paige McGrath! You are encouraged to wear red for this occasion! If you would like to be a part of a joint choir for this service, please let Kay Michaelson know. Details of a rehearsal time and place for this will be forthcoming. So far, we have a nice number of Living Faith-ers who will be singing!

We are still looking for 2 delegates, a male and a female, to represent Living Faith at the Synod Assembly in Sioux City on June 13 and 14. Living Faith can also send a young adult and a teen.

There will be an Evening of Thanksgiving for the ministry of Bishop Lorna Halaas at St. Mark Lutheran Church on Thursday, June 12 at 6:30 PM prior to the start of the assembly. Bishop Lorna has provided tremendous support to Living Faith from its beginnings and we hope to have a large contingent at this celebration.

There are lots of good things gathering at the Easter egg tree for Sleep in Heavenly Peace! Thank you to all who have donated! Pick up any egg left on the tree for your chance to support the work of building beds for children in need! Kim and Todd Lang have secured a Thrivent Action Card worth $250 to add to our donations in this effort! Thank you Langs!