| CHURCH COUNCIL UPDATE
The Church Council had a lengthy meeting this past Sunday to discuss the future of our church and congregation. We are currently negotiating a new lease with St. Aemilian’s Day Care and hope to get that accomplished. We will keep you informed on the progress. However, the costs involved in maintaining and updating a building of our size and age causes a financial burden, even with rent money from St. Aemilian’s and with Pastor Lorrie donating back most of her salary. The Council will continue to watch our budget and financial situation very closely.
We want to stay in our church, but the Church Council feels it is our duty to the congregation to be realistic and to make recommendations based upon what will sustain our faith community now and in the future. To that end, a “visioning” committee has been formed to discuss and review all the options available to us. Just a few of these options might be: find ways to increase our revenues from additional tenants, hold fund raisers, recruit more volunteers to maintain the church, sell our building to another
organization with the ability to rent back the sanctuary, or even sell our building and rent space from another congregation. All options are on the table at this time. If you have any thoughts or ideas, please feel free to share them with a Council member. We will continue to keep you updated as information becomes available to us and, obviously, no final decisions can be made unless they are approved by the entire congregation. We give thanks for your continued support. |
STEWARDSHIP UPDATE
In March, envelope giving to our General Fund exceeded budget with donations of $9,898 compared to a budget amount of $9,833. This does not include any 2nd mile donations. General Fund giving for the first quarter was up $2,537 compared to last year. Thank you for your continued amazing support.
Some good news also came this month from WE Energies. We pay on the budget plan and WE Energies recently reviewed our account, finding that our use has dramatically decreased. Our new annualized amount due to WE Energies will be around $15,000, compared to a budgeted amount of $24,000, saving us $9,000. We currently have a credit balance of over $2,700 with WE Energies, so we should not have to pay a bill to them for a few months.
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CALVARY KIDZ
The Ten Commandments is our lesson for the entire month of May.
God gives us rules to protect us from harm. The rules are there to help us to make our lives easier. God loves us so He gives us rules, and they will help us love God and others if we obey them.
This week we made our own ten commandment tablets. We learned that if we all lived these commands we would truly love God and one another.
Next Week: There is no Sunday School next week, May 6th, our classes will resume on Sunday, May 13th.
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| CONFIRMATION
In order to be ready for confirmation on May 13th, we will be holding confirmation class after church until 2:00 PM on Sunday afternoon.
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YOGA
Starts this week!
May 1 – May 30
Tuesdays: 1:30pm – 2:15pm
Wednesdays: 7:15pm – 8:30pm
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CHURCH PICTORIAL
Many of you have been asking…..
“What’s happened to our Church Pictorial?”
Olan Mills was purchased by Lifetouch, Inc. which has slowed the process. I have finally received a proof copy of our pictorial which I will review this week, making any corrections needed, and hopefully we will be receiving our completed directory in the very near future. Thank you to everyone for your patience!
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IN OUR PRAYERS
 Please keep in your prayers, cards and thoughts, Betty Liederbach and her family as they mourn the passing of her mother, Arlean Stanelle, on Tuesday, April 24th. Pastor Lorrie officiated Arlean’s funeral service this past Friday at Calvary Memorial. |
| UPCOMING EVENTS
Stretch Yoga
May 1 – May 30
Tuesdays: 1:30pm – 2:15pm
Wednesdays: 7:15pm – 8:30pm
Friendship Club
Thursday, May 10
12:00 noon
Bill Rudolph’s cooking at Calvary
Entertainment to follow
Property Committee Meeting
Thursday, May 10
5:00pm
Confirmation
Mother’s Day
Sunday, May 13
9:30am Worship Service
St. Ben’s
Monday, May 14
Church Picnic
Father’s Day
Sunday, June 17
Fox Brook Park
Vacation Bible School
June 25 – June 29
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Hearing God’s Call
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Acts 8:26-40
Psalm 22:25-31
1 John 4:7-21
John 15:1-8
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Communion
Rick & Gail Kramer
Frank Kindsfater
Julie Puotinen
Julie Taylor
Greeters
David & Sandy Schroederus
Sound
Mark Wenzel
Video
Theresa Johnson
Worship Assistant
Bridget Kesner
Coffee Hour
Penny Wolf
Schroederus
Margaret Pedrick
Jae Brown
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April 29
Dick Bulgrin
May 1
Dick Gaskell
Oli Moths
May 2
Katy Wenzel
May 3
Jessica Pike
May 4
Katelyn Dombeck
Asia Goldbach
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THANK YOU!
Thank you for all the prayers, cards and concerns, they do brighten the days.
See you soon!
-Ilene Dahm
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Our food pantry was very busy this Wednesday and Sunday providing food to those families in need of a little extra help this month.
