by StJohn
Lutheran World Relief School Kits
School Kit Supplies
We are asking for your help in gathering supplies for our School Kits again this year. The kits are sent to Lutheran World Relief each fall. LWR asks that we do not use items with a U.S. flag, military symbols, camouflage or religious symbols on them.
Each kit needs:
Four 70-sheet notebooks
One 30 cm. ruler (or one with inches and cms.)
One pencil sharpener
One blunt scissors
Five unsharpened #2 pencils with erasers
Five black or blue ballpoint pens
One box of 16 or 24 crayons
One 2 ½ inch eraser
Bring items to the church office. Watch for sales and have fun shopping!
Youth Feed the Hungry
On February 4, our 5th and 6th grade Bake Sale raised $950. These funds will be sent to Lutheran World Relief (LWR) to help feed those in need by helping purchase chicks, baby pigs and other farm animals for families in need! We will continue collecting funds to help feed others because we are called to care for our neighbors. You can donate directly to LWR or by sending funds to St. John’s. Here is the website for more information community.elca.org/elcagoodgifts.
Lenten Season
During the 2021 Lenten season we invited you to join with all of God’s people in revisiting the promises made on your behalf in baptism and renewed in your Affirmation of Baptism (Confirmation) when you answered the question, “Do you intend to continue in the covenant God made with you in holy baptism:
to live among God’s faithful people,
to hear the word of God and share in the Lord’s supper,
to proclaim the good news of God in Christ through word and deed,
to serve all people, following the example of Jesus,
and to strive for justice and peace in all the earth?”
Our response was and continues to be, “I do, and I ask God to help and guide me.”
During 2021 Lent we journeyed together as we continued to learn what it means to live into these promises.
