Living Faith Weekly News (Week of May 11, 2025)
- Kay Michaelson
- May 12
- 4 min read
Last Sunday at Living Faith!
Pastor Paige led worship on the Fourth Sunday of Easter with a message centered on Jesus as our shepherd with a tie in to mothers on Mother's Day! Find our live stream on Facebook to hear her message and a very thoughtful prayer about mothers! Thank you to Pastor Paige for your leadership in worship, Dawn Richards for providing our piano accompaniment, John and Peg McAllister for preparing communion, Peg for reading scripture, John for assisting with communion, Angela Catton for live streaming our service, Tim Kass for setting up our worship space, ushering and running the sound system, and Sandy Heeren, Brian Michaelson, and Kinley and Anniston Van Otterloo for helping to clean up our worship space!
Recognition was made of mothers and all females of Living Faith with a PowerPoint presentation and distribution of flowers prior to a group picture.
Click on the link above, then click on the slide show icon in the lower right that looks similar to this:
This Coming Sunday!
Pastor Scott Egbers will be leading us in worship on Sunday, May 18th at 11:00 AM, the Fifth Sunday of Easter! Living Faith worships within the walls of the Presbyterian United Church of Christ at 858 7th Ave. SE.
Tim Kass will greet you with a bulletin, Karen Schroeder will read scripture, Kay Allen will assist with Holy Communion, Dawn Richards will accompany us on the piano, and Jenni Mack will live stream our service. John and Peg McAllister will provide bread for communion and prepare communion.
Come to the Fellowship Hall at 10:00 on Sunday morning to enjoy a cup of coffee and conversation with your fellow Living Faith-ers and PUCC friends!
Graduates!
Our own Pastor Paige will graduate from Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque on Sunday at 3:00 PM. If you would like to watch the livestream of her ceremony, please go to
https://www.wartburgseminary.edu/. Congratulations, Pastor Paige and safe travels to you!
Other Living Faith members are celebrating graduates in their families:
Sharon Utesch's grandson, Ethan Utesch, will graduate from Le Mars Community Schools on Sunday. Ethan plans to attend Des Moines Area Community College.
Mark and Angela Catton's grandson, William Elbert, graduated last week from the Le Mars Community School's Alternative School. He plans to attend Western Iowa Tech Community College to study welding.
Dawn MacGregor's son, Sebastian MacGregor, will graduate on Sunday from Le Mars Community Schools. Sebastian's plans are to attend Avila University to study kinesiology. He will join the bowling team there as well as the baseball team.
Look What's New at Living Faith!
Thanks to the generosity of Noah's Ark Preschool, the Presbyterian United Church of Christ and Mark and Angela Catton, Living Faith has a new street side sign along 7th Ave. SE! Noah's Ark Preschool had a sign in this spot, but with the large Preschool banner on the side of the church building, the PUCC and its Session offered this sign space to Living Faith! Last week the installation began with under the guidance of Mark Catton. Helping Mark with this project were his son, Corey, his grandson, William Elbert and William's other grandfather, Don Elbert! Thank you, gentlemen! It looks wonderful!
The next step for our sign will be to do some landscaping under the sign. If you would like to help with planting flowers, please let Kay know or sign up on the sign up sheet on the Living Faith table in the Narthex of the PUCC.
Lutheran Men in Mission will be meeting this coming Saturday, May 17 at 10:00 AM at St. John's Lutheran Church in Pomeroy, Iowa. If you would like more information about this meeting, contact Mark Juhl at 712-540-1391 or email him at mcmjuhl@midlands.net
Celebration of Bishop Lorna!
Please find the sign up sheet on the Living Faith table in the PUCC Narthex if you would like to attend the Celebration of the Ministry of Bishop Lorna Halaas on Thursday, June 12 at 6:30 PM at St. Mark Lutheran Church in Sioux City. The cost for this event which includes a meal is $20 and is payable at the door that evening.
Ice Cream Days Parade Volunteers Needed!
It's that time of year when Living Faith begins to prepare for our entry in the Ice Cream Days Parade. This year the parade is on Saturday, June 21 and volunteers will need to arrive to help at 9:00 AM. There is a sign up sheet in the narthex for you to volunteer! We need float riders, walkers, and candy preppers! Will this be the year we will walk in sunshine?!
Pastor Paige Attends a First Call Retreat!
Last week, Pastor Paige attended the All Iowa First Call Rostered Ministers Retreat in Johnston, Iowa. Pictured are attendees and presenters. Can you spot Pastor Paige and Deacon Eric, and Bishop Lorna?
Floyd Valley Healthcare's Auxiliary Celebrates 70 Years!
Recently the The Auxiliary celebrated 70 years of existence. During this celebration, Kay Allen of the Auxiliary Board made presentations. One of those was to Yvonne Law who was recognized for 10,000 hours of volunteer service over the years! Congratulations, Yvonne!
Also, past Presidents of the Auxiliary who were in attendance were recognized including Linda Mayrose!
Gail Kass
Kortney Kopperud
Bob and Debbie Gibson
Karen Schroeder
Judy Bowman
Kristy Pecks
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The McAllister Family
Marilynn
Ali
Beth
Pastor Paige
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