Living Faith Weekly News (Week of October 12, 2025)

Kay Michaelson
Oct 15
3 min read

Updated: 6 days ago

**Worship on Sunday, October 19 is at 10:00 AM at Hillview Park!**

Living Faith will join with the members of the PUCC to hold worship at Hillview Recreation Area's Dennis L. Sohl Center for Outdoor Learning (25601 C60) at 10:00 on Sunday morning!

Pastor Paige will lead worship with the PUCC praise band, Grace Notes, providing worship music! Holy Communion will be celebrated. Tim Kass and Mike Cunningham will greet you at the door with a bulletin. Kay Michaelson will read scripture and Sue Stream will assist with Holy Communion.

After worship, we will share a lunch together with the PUCC providing pulled pork sandwiches. Please bring a side dish or dessert to share and your own table service. Living Faith will provide the beverages.

Join us for a special service in a very special fall setting!

**Bible Study will not meet on October 19 or 26. We will gather next on November 2 at 9:30!**

Last Week

Pastor Paige led Living Faith in worship on the 18th Sunday after Pentecost. Thank you to all who helped with worship: Pastor Paige, Dawn Richards, Tim and Gail Kass, Jenni Mack, Karen Schroeder, and Peg and John McAllister.

Confirmation will meet today (Wednesday, October 15) at 7:00 in the Fellowship Hall of the PUCC with students and mentors attending. Dalton from Lutheran Lakeside Bible Camp will be leading teambuilding games and Bible Study!

Reformation Sunday is October 26th. We will be worshiping in the sanctuary of the PUCC at 11:00 that day. Wear red!

On Reformation Sunday, we will also celebrate the Confirmation of Jordan Lloyd Kopperud. Jordan in the son of Judd and Kari Kopperud and his siblings are Kortney and Jess. Join the Kopperud family prior to the service at 10:00 for a reception in Jordan's honor in the Fellowship Hall of the PUCC.

Sunday, October 26th

S'mores and Ashes on Sunday, October 26 at 4:00

All are invited to the Municipal Park at 4:00 on October 26 for our annual S'mores and Ashes event where we will burn the palm branches from Palm Sunday to make ashes for Ash Wednesday on February 18th. The Juhls will provide the fixings for s'mores and Dell Ferguson will tend our bonfire! Bring a lawn chair!

**The deadline to register has been extended to October 17!**

October Mission Project!

Our bin in the narthex is filling up! Thank you so much to all who have brought things in! The list above contains suggestions of items you can purchase that will be sent to Mitch Lang, Maddie Kuenen and their fellow guardsmen and women in November! If there is a specific item you would like to go to Mitch, please mark it with an ML. Please consider writing a note of encouragement to Mitch and/or Maddie and place it in the basket on the Living Faith table next to the brown collection bin!

Here are some items from Tuesday's Church Council meeting:

Dates for your calendar:
- 11/9 - Harvest worship with the PUCC at 10:00 in the Sanctuary
- 11/16 - Camp Sunday with Dalton from Lutheran Lakeside Bible Camp sharing a Temple Talk and Children's sermon
- 11/26 - Living Faith is invited to Sioux City's Thanksgiving Eve service - more details to come!
- The Council is working on Advent services for the three Wednesdays in the season of Advent. Firm plans will be shared soon!
- 2/1/2026 - Annual meeting date.
Headset mic: In an effort to improve the sound quality for Pastor Paige, the Council has purchased a headset mic. Members tested it out in the sanctuary and gave it a thumbs up. The Council welcomes your feedback when we next worship in the Sanctuary.

There will be no office hours on Thursday. Pastor Paige is attending a continuing education class, Nourishing the Preaching Life, at Dubuque Theological Seminary. Regular office hours will resume next week.

Have you noticed that our Communion liturgy stand has been collapsing lately?!? Thank you to Tim Kass for creating a larger stand to keep things standing during Communion!

Congratulations to Pastor Paige and Bailey Quanbeck!