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March 7th thru March 13th (Third Sunday in Lent) Welcome visitors! Please feel free to take home a Welcome Folder available in each pew. It contains helpful information on church activities as well as our various Ministry Teams and team leaders. Weekly Lenten Pray Service is Wednesday, March 3rd at 6:30 p.m. (special, earlier time) followed by a congregational Open Forum (continues throughout the month of March) with Pastor Poole to discuss the National Church Assembly position on Human Sexuality and the churchwide impact on ELCA Rostered Clergy and individual congregational options as they pertain to the implementation of the decision.
REnew, the Green VBS application may be viewed and downloaded from the March 2010 Messenger newsletter (Page 6, the Messenger link is at the bottom of this page). Flowers: Only 13 slots left for this year’s flower calendar. The sign-up poster is in the narthex if you would like to purchase Altar flowers. The total cost for delivery and flowers is $48.50, billed to you by Pauline Green Florist. After you sign up please make sure to e-mail or call the church office and let Shannon know how you want them dedicated in the bulletin that week. There will be a Christian Education Ministry Team meeting Monday, March 8 at 7pm in the library. Anyone who is interested in assisting with this ministry is welcome to come. We will begin discussing VBS and plan Sunday School for the next week months. St. James Council has directed a committee of past presidents to gather information on this congregation’s response to the actions of church wide Assembly in August 2009. Additional information concerning these actions may be found at www.elca.org and www.sclutheran.org. You are also encouraged to attend the open forum conducted on Wednesday evenings following the Lenten Services. SEPARATED - DIVORCED - WIDOWED What’s going on with the Youth Next! Sunday March 14th ~ Youth Bowling outing @ 2:00 pm. We will meet at the church at 1:45 to leave for the AFB. Cost is $4 per youth plus snack bar money if desired. Adult drivers are needed for this event.
WELCA is still collecting items for Trinity Place. A laundry basket has been placed in the ladies room in the Educational building to collect women’s toiletries, plastic containers for soap, washcloths and towels (new or used), and single bed linens (new or used). If you would like additional information please call Helen Bultman at 773-7089, or Dot Weishuhn at 775-4907. Would you like to be a part of the Newsletter Team? I am looking for volunteers to get together once towards the end of the month to sort and fold newsletters. If you would like to help, please let me know ASAP and we will discuss details. This would be very much appreciated and I look forward to working with you! Your SJLC Administrative Assistant St. James Lutheran Church Christian Education Program 2009-2010. There are some exciting things happening at St. James and we're going to need everyone to be an active part of it all. We will continue to have adult Sunday School Classes and Youth Sunday School Classes each Sunday at 9:15 a.m. The Sunday School for ages 2-10 year olds will resume our regular schedule starting on August 30th with a brand new format. The Christian Education Team are in need of volunteers in a variety of areas. If God has blessed you with a gift of music, art, storytelling/drama, sports/games or teaching in general, please volunteer to help out with Sunday School. We will be shifting to a Rotation Model this fall and are in need of excited, energetic and gifted folks willing to lead children of all ages. For more information or to volunteer your time and talents, please contact Christine Poole at christinepoole@sc.rr.com, (803) 840-3278 or on Monday's & Wednesday's between 10:30 a.m.and 12:30 p.m. or Tuesday's, Thursday's and Frida's between 8:00 a.m. and noon in the Christian Education office. I look forward to hearing from you Evangelism News: St. James Lutheran Church Car Window Clings with our sword and shell symbol are now available for $1.43 each and may be purchased from any member of the Evangelism Team. Team members will be located in the Library after each worship service and in the Fellowship Hall before Sunday School. This is not a fundraiser as the clings are being sold at cost. We just want to give everyone an opportunity to show that St. James is a vibrant part of our community! St. James Lutheran Church E-mail addresses: The Church Administrative Assistant (Mrs. Shannon Morris) can now be reached at stjamesoffice@sc.rr.com or you may e-mail Pastor Poole directly (privacy guaranteed) at PastorPoole@sc.rr.com. *New* St James Lutheran School (SJLS) now has new e-mail accounts: SJLS Office (Headmistress): sjls1137@sc.rr.com SJLS Kindergarten Class: sjlsdobees@sc.rr.com SJLS FirstGrade Class: sjlspromises@sc.rr.com All contact links for registration forms and other coorespondence will now be forwarded to the SJLS Office Roadrunner account automatically. If you have a student in either the Kindergarten or First Grade class and wish to correspond with the teacher, please use that dedicated address. Please update your e-mail addresses effective immediately to reflect this change as the old AOL account will not be monitored after 15 October. Office Administrative Assistant Request (Mrs. Shannon Morris) : Please send the church office a blank e-mail to stjamesoffice@sc.rr.com so we can have your e-mail address on file. Thank you.
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