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Please join us in the small kitchen this Sunday, May 7 from 10:15-10:45 a.m. The topic will be Whirlwind. There aren’t nice, neat answers for why certain things happen to certain people. Often the perspective of a friend can help, but when there is nothing more to say, where do we turn? Maybe it’s when there is nothing more to say that God finally speaks. Jesus lived with the awareness that God is doing something, right here, right now, and…

The 3-B group is in search of materials and supplies to support our community garden. These include: Seeds – specifically radishes, carrots, and spring onion seeds Plant stakes and twine Plant labels Netting frame/garden hoops Tomato plant covers. Monetary donations can also be made through e-giving or mailed to the church. Please mark any donations as Community Garden. Please contact 3-B members Joana Arthur moc.nsm@ruhtraanaoj ta or 703-4030-6628, or Donell Ries moc.liamtoh@seirllenod ta or 605-933-1606 to make transportation/drop-off arrangements or for more information.  

Need help finding a gift for a special woman in your life? The NOW Committee still has some gift bags to help you let her know how much she means to you. The gift bag costs $35 and includes the following items: – A floral promise box containing scripture readings – “God Hears Her – 365 Devotions for Women” by Our Daily Bread – “When I count my blessings, I count you twice” magnetic memo pad – A prayer journal…

We are so excited to honor our recent graduates. If you know of a graduate from high school, college, graduate school, and beyond, please let us know! This includes any graduates who were not recognized at last year’s graduation Sunday service, or who have graduated in the winter, this spring, or even this summer. We’d love to have their picture, name, degree, school/university, and plans for the future (and not knowing is also acceptable). Please send the information to Sarah…

Following the Rise Against Hunger lunch, join us for our Town Hall Meeting May 7 at 1:00 p.m. The Simplified Accountable System (SAS) Team will brief the Town Hall attendees on the status of their research into developing a simpler leadership structure for the church.  This will include addressing questions that were asked at the Town Hall meeting on February 5th.  Please email Bruce Bartolain at moc.oohay@nialotrabb with any questions.

Join us for lunch after our May 7th 11:00 a.m. service to support Rise Against Hunger. We need to raise nearly $5,000 for our next event in October. At this lunch, we will be collecting a free will offering. Donations can also be made through e-giving or mailed to the church. Please mark any donations as Rise Against Hunger. We will be preparing meals using actual Rise Against Hunger meal packets. Eat in and carry out options available.  Please email Suzanne Ackley ten.xoc@eusyelkcaX ta with any questions.

The youth will be leading both services this week (9:00 and 11:00 a.m.), as we tackle another concept central to who we are as people of God: suffering.  The youth invite you to wear your favorite Franconia gear to the service.  Please come support them as they lead in song and word.  Our amazing puppet team will also be performing during the 11:00 a.m. service – so come hear their voices through the puppet’s mouths!

Please join us in the small kitchen this Sunday, April 30 at 10:15 a.m. The topic will be Success. “Can success separate us from those who could use our help? Can it create a wall between those with and those without? Maybe we are only really successful when we can actually see who could use our help. And maybe when we give to those we see, we are reminded of what we have been given.” Please contact Dar Davis moc.liamg@10sivadrad ta or…

On Sunday, May 21 we will have one service at 10:00 a.m. for the children’s musical, In the Image, created by Mark Burrows and presented by our own Franconia Players. In the Image features a group of children who have just experienced the story of The Creation. And now they’re starting to wonder what it really means to be created in the image of God. Through humorous, earnest exploration, the children discover that being created in the image of God…