Welcome! Our Gospel text from the 3^rd chapter of John is rich with eternal consequences: believe and have eternal life; do not believe and condemn yourself. May God strengthen your belief as you receive his Word and Son!

Pastor Young will be on vacation March 31^st through April 7^th. To contact him in case of emergency during this week, please call the church office. Thank you.

All we need is either 19 people to contribute $100 each or 38 people to contribute $50 each and the $1900 project can be completed. Contributions in any amount will be greatly appreciated and may be turned in to the Church Office. We would like to reach this goal by April 1, 2006.

From the Finance Committee:

Contribution statements for 2005 will be available in the church office until April 17. After that date, they will be destroyed. If you need your statement, please pick it up by that date. The Finance Committee now has the capability of providing contributors with a quarterly contribution statement, if requested. Please speak to Linda Peters or Ron Scherer for more information.

From the Willing Servants:

The Willing Servants would like to thank all the ladies who have made donations of food dishes and help for our past funeral luncheons. Without your help we cannot function. Unfortunately, a lot of our ladies are no longer able to offer any assistance and our calling list is being depleted. If any ladies would like to be added to our calling list for food dishes, please call Jo Ann Borg at 326-6089 or Louise Mellenthin at 324-9257. Your help will be greatly appreciated, as we feel this is truly a labor of love.

From the Board of Parish Fellowship:

The Board of Parish Fellowship is looking for some additional members. This has become a very active and hard working board, and they could use more help. Some of their responsibilities include; Fellowship Coffees with monthly “Specialty Fests”, soup suppers, progressive dinners, recognition celebrations, new member welcomes and annual hog roast/church picnic. If you are interested in helping out, please call Linda Peters at 393-3496.

We are in urgent need of more volunteers at our Thrift Shop! Shifts are from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. or 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Any of you ladies who could give three or more hours a month of your time, please call Arlene Hacker at 362-8916. Your willingness to help will be most appreciated and of great benefit to our congregation.

Easter Lilies:

It is time for us to start asking for donations for the Easter Lilies. We do appreciate all your help in the past and pray that you will be so generous again this year. The cost per lily is $10.00. You can make your donation to the church office, Kathy Page, Joan Scherer, or Sherrill Lee. The lilies will be taken down after the second service on the Sunday following Easter (April 23). If you are going to take your lily, please be there at that time. If not for yourself, maybe you know someone who would really appreciate a flower and a visit from you. Thank you again for your donations to the flower fund.

The Board of Parish Fellowship is planning the Spring Progressive Dinner for Friday, April 21, 2006 at 6 pm. After meeting up with host families over appetizers in the school, participants will travel to the home of their host family for the entrée. Following the main course, all will return to the school for dessert and fellowship.

If you haven’t been involved in previous Progressive Dinners, please give it a try! Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join us for an enjoyable evening. This is not a “couples only” event!

Please fill out the form found in this bulletin, and return to the church office or place in the offering plate by April 11. The Board of Parish Fellowship will then draw names to fill a host’s party of eight. Perhaps this group will include a mixture of old friends as well as a chance to establish new ones!

“His Word, Our Joy” will meet today at 6:30 pm in the music room. The topic will be “Fruits of the Spirit”. The children will make cards to encourage the older and sick to be faithful.

The Youth Group would like to thank all the members of the congregation who made our recycling day so successful. We received $133.40 from your donations. Please keep saving those cans, we will have another collection day soon!

My heartfelt thanks go to all of you for your kind words, prayers, cards and help during Marvin’s illness, as well as, after his death. A special thanks to the Pastors for their care, to the Willing Servants for the luncheon and to the Altar Guild for their support. I am thankful for being a member of such a loving congregation! Your sister in Christ.

 Ruby Stephansen

We would like to extend a special thank you to Pastor Brauer for playing the organ this weekend for the Saturday night service while Susan and I are performing with the La Porte Symphony Orchestra. Thank you Pastor Brauer!

 Matt Nelson

Pastor: Rev. David M. Young

Pastor: Rev. Ronald A. Brauer

Organist: Susan Rosselli

Director of Music Matt Nelson

Altar Guild: Linda Livinghouse, Dorothy Moellman, Judy Schreiber

Elders on Duty: 7:00 PM: John Schulz, Ron Scherer

8:00 AM: Jim Woodruff

10:45 AM: Terry Page, Jim Peters

Acolytes: 7:00 PM: Hannah Looney

10:45 AM: Shannon Bradburn

The flowers on the Altar this weekend were sponsored by Jim and Linda Peters in honor of their 41st Wedding Anniversary on March 27, and by Clarence and Carol Spear in honor of their 7th Wedding Anniversary on March 27.

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