Third Service Added for Sunday Worship

THIRD SERVICE ADDED FOR SUNDAY WORSHIP

We have great news! Because things went so well on our first Sunday back, and the demand seems to be there, we have added an 11 a.m. service to our Sunday worship schedule which will now include services at 8, 9:30, and 11 a.m. This will increase our capacity to 300 people between three Sunday services and alleviate the pressure on the very popular 9:30 a.m. time slot. You can sign up online at flccs.net to reserve your spot. If you’ve previously signed up and want to move to another time slot, please email Cheryl at [email protected].

HELP WANTED!

We are all thrilled to have three services in which to worship together in the Sanctuary! Even with COVID Restrictions, we are welcoming more than 300 people into church each Sunday. This means we need your help! We have a critical need for Greeters, Ushers and Communion Preparation. No experience necessary! We are happy to teach you! You simply need to bring a smile to welcome people to worship! If you haven't already, please complete the How Would YOU Like to Serve? form. If you've already filled it out but would like to add something, please fill it out again! https://bit.ly/2OyeHxM

From the Pastor

It’s been said that we’ve all been in the same storm this past year with the pandemic, but we haven’t all been in the same boat. One pastor suggested that some of us have gone through this storm in a yacht while others have gone through it in a rowboat or clinging to driftwood. I think of all that the things that people have lost. Some of us were hit directly by this storm and lost loved ones to Covid. I watched recently as a family gathered at the columbarium around the niche where their loved one is laid, re- membering the one-year anniversary of his death. Some of us lost a year with family, being isolated from grandchildren and family and friends. Some of us lost milestone celebrations like proms and graduations. Some of us lost vacations we were looking forward to and special events that we had been planning. We’ve tried to make up for some of those things, but most of them are just gone.

What do you do with loss? You grieve. You have to grieve in order to heal from what you have endured. I sit with a lot of families, especially this time of year, who are grieving the death of a spouse or parent. We gather at the church, and I invite them to tell me the story of their loved one. It is so powerful to see the healing that happens just when they are given permission to remember and talk about the one they have lost. I think that’s what we all need to do right now as we begin to emerge from the pandemic. Remember and talk about the things that you have lost. This past year isn’t one to brush under the rug and forget. Name the things that you missed, the hurt you experienced, and the grief that you feel. Then the healing can begin.

And let us ask what God has taught us this year. What has God revealed to us during the pandemic? We’ve learned how precious community is. We’ve learned how strong our church can be. We’ve had our eyes opened to people and situations that we had tended to neglect. We’ve learned that we can adapt and change and do old things in new ways. We’ve learned how vulnerable we are, too.

I’m expecting this to be a year of learning as we debrief the pandemic. It was so good to see some of you face to face after a year apart. We have some catching up to do! I hope our hearts can be open to the lessons God still wants to teach us. I hope we can linger with one another longer and soak in the gift of each other’s presence. I look forward to seeing more and more of you in the coming months. God be with us all.

-Pastor Travis

3 EASTER 2021

Brothers and sisters in Christ grace, peace and mercy to you from Jesus Christ our risen Lord and Savior.

As we come together to celebrate resurrection joy, have you ever noticed that the other things that seem to come with it are a lot of being terrified and doubtful? From finding the empty tomb, to en- countering the risen Lord, there is an awful lot of uncertainty, fear, and doubt. Not unexpected, I guess. But Jesus did tell them that he would never leave them, that he would be back. Perhaps they really just didn’t know what to expect, and until they could see, understanding was going to be just too difficult. Today we face many situations of unbelief. We find it outside the church, inside the church, or sometimes I fear even within preachers who aren’t sure what they know or believe anymore. At Easter time, the words “Christ is Risen!” are answered with “Alleluia, he is risen indeed.” But unspo- ken responses might include, “Oh really?” or “I doubt it” or “I wish I believed that” or even, “You’ve got to be kidding.” So many wondering if Easter really is too good to be true.

But God has heard all this before and each time that Jesus encounters someone after his resurrection he seems to begin by telling his frightened, doubting disciples, “Peace be with you” (Luke 24:36). Today in Psalm 4 we find that it, too, offers peace to troubled hearts and trust to doubting minds. The readings for today all look at how we encounter and can work through our unbelief. I mean we would love it if in the chorus of “Christ is Risen” every response was a joyful “He is Risen, indeed” but from the very first Easter to today, the good news that Jesus lives brings different responses from his most faithful follower to one who has never considered the good news. Some people receive the message with joy. Others are skeptical or fearful, and still others reject the message out- right.

The Psalm begins with a prayer for help. In our Eastertide where faith and doubt collide and hope hovers precariously, this prayer for help is one we can pray over and again. Beginning with the cry to “Answer me when I call, O God…” and ending with a statement of faith. “You have put gladness in my heart…You alone, O Lord, make me lie down in safety.” Beginning and ending with God – a good idea for all our days. The psalmist gets a little salty in the middle of his prayer. He offers some direction to all those who are hearing his prayer, those who believe and those who don’t. Some who are anxious and cannot Sermon cont. p. 4 Sermon, cont. from p. 4

sleep, and others who want to know what God has done says, “When you are disturbed, do not sin; ponder it on for them lately. I will tell you, this is the place where I your beds, and be silent.” The fears, struggles, constant struggle with the world around me. This is where as a unknowns are enough to keep anyone awake at night believer, as a pastor, I wonder the same things as the and tempt us to find relief anywhere we can. But the Psalmist; why is it so hard to hear the good news, to psalmist exhorts us to pray and trust. For insomniac know that you receive God’s grace (whether you realize believers, who believe but have trouble trusting, the it or not). Why is it easier to love vanity over truth or to Psalm ends up with these reassuring words, “I will both seek after lies? I don’t know how many of you feel that lie down and sleep in peace”. It also points me to the frustration, have friends or family who either don’t scripture to “trust in the Lord with all of your heart, believe or sit on the fringe of their faith in ways that and lean not on your own understanding.” If I had to wouldn’t identify them as one who loves the Lord? So, depend on self alone, I don’t know that I would ever as we celebrate the Easter resurrection, I feel sad some- have a good night’s sleep. times for those who don’t know what it’s like to shout, The psalmist also calls into question those who don’t “Alleluia, he is Risen!” Then as I look to the Psalm I’m believe that God has done anything good for them late- reminded, by God’s faithfulness, and not of my own ly. I wonder what the disciples in the house must have (because, frankly, I can be a little salty), that God gives been thinking as they sat, likely scared, afraid of perse- us room when we are in distress, says the first verse of cution, yet having been assured by the return of Jesus the Psalm. Easter means that God sets us free from the that he was with them. Was their faith being tried, did fear of death – God “gives us room.” In the Psalms, this they believe because they had seen? Did they have language means that God lifts us out of a tight spot. I those fleeting thoughts of “What have you done to us, would say rolling that stone away, would be taking us what good can come of this? I believed, I followed, I left out of a tight spot. God gives “room.” He gives it to be- all that I had, and now I’m bound up in this house not lievers and unbelievers alike, grace that only God gives, knowing what my future holds.” Jesus comes and says, that we try to live into. And with that comes room to “Peace be with you.” But really, aside from reassurance, rise from the grave of unbelief, room for faith. do they wonder that that will get them? The Psalm says As the psalmist speaks to those who are sleep deprived, that God’s life-giving power is our true wealth. It’s I wonder where we find ourselves in that. In the past Easter, but this year we are facing losses like many year, our country has had more trouble sleeping than haven’t before from the effects of a pandemic, jobs, tracked before. Some have even titled it “covidsomnia”. retirements, and loved ones. Perhaps we are surround- I’ll tell you this has also been true for me; for months if I ed by people who might be thinking, “Okay, so Jesus wanted to sleep all night it meant taking a Tylenol PM. rose from the dead, but can you say the same for my When we are so stimulated by change, by things out of pension, my job, my loved one?” These are the hard the ordinary, by new worries or changes in schedules things to talk about, but it gets at the issue of where we and patterns of work or school or just life, it messes put our trust. Verse 7 says that God’s presence puts with our sleep. How many of us will lie down at night gladness in our hearts “more than when their grain and and just can’t shut off our brains; it’s the things that wine abound.” I know that I have been looking forward we’ve forgotten to do, or don’t know how we’ll manage, to the day that grain and wine abound (okay, really but it just won’t stop. How often does this leave us a chips and queso with a side of margarita) and can be little unbearable the next day, perhaps pondering the celebrated around the table with friends and family annoyances and sin of everything around us except with whom I have not gathered in over a year. But ourselves. In verse 4 the psalmist is talking to us. He throughout this year I have also found great joy in the

4 presence of God under the lights out front of the ing new life. Jesus leaves his disciples with the charge church gathering for worship, in learning to do ordi- to be witnesses, proclaiming repentance and for- nary things in new ways, and in relationships that giveness to all nations in his name, the psalmist guides have grown in trust and faith as we have come togeth- us through our own selves, giving us the room to do the er as families in our homes, friends reaching out on work. In the Apostles’ Creed, we confess that we believe porches and Zoom, and colleagues working and sup- that Jesus rose from the dead and that we believe in the porting one another as we learn new ways to do work resurrection of the body and the forgiveness of sins. together. God’s presence is felt in each of those as we Like the first disciples, we have also experienced Jesus’ find gladness in our hearts, gladness that otherwise real presence, these statements are not just words we might stayed locked in the house as we wait for the use to affirm our faith but the basis for our calling to be next visit from Jesus. We don’t wait for Jesus, friends! witnesses of these marvelous things. When I read these post Easter texts I want to shout at The psalmist gives us room to explore what troubles us, the disciples, “Stop waiting! God is with you, you are the disciples had space together in the house to experi- equipped; go and do the work, fill your heart with the ence the risen Lord and what they meant together. We gladness that God brings.” It’s why I love this Psalm, too, have room when we are in distress and when we he brings to light what it is that we might be feeling have gladness in our hearts. God gives us room that is and gives us instruction to get through it (you might freedom to explore, to question, and to find all of the even say to get over it, but perhaps that’s a little too marvelous things that Christ is for us. Sometimes that salty still.) is room that gives us space to breathe and to work The Psalm ends on a note of peace and confidence. “I through our insecurities, sometimes it is the space to will both lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O have a good night’s rest when we can put our struggles Lord, make me lie down in safety”. I wonder if the into prayer to God. We find our gladness in the Lord disciples ever got a good night’s sleep in the days fol- who is even better than when the “grain and wine lowing Easter? Were they able to find peace in the abound”. On our worst days, Jesus is still at his best. So, direction of Jesus who came and was with them? What find the place where God gives you room. It might be does it take for you to sleep well in this season of life? the coffee shop downtown where God waits for you in When we look past the instruction of the Psalmist and your booth, it might be outside in the vast landscapes of have the opportunity to use the instruction in our wit- Colorado or wherever you are, it might be when you ness to Jesus, we can look to our gospel text. There are settle in to sleep and turn over yourself to God in prayer. many things happening here and in light of the psalm- Find your room, read the Psalm, and know that God is ist we can look past our fear and know that Jesus peace with you. As the psalmist did, pray to the one you know will always run counter to our fear and that Jesus is will hear you, speak the Lord’s faithfulness to those who with us, that he is really real, here in our world today. don’t believe and find themselves on the fringes of faith, We have to be the eyes that see that, the ears that hear hold your tongue from lashing out. Remember what the it, the hands and feet that show it and the voice that Lord has done and rest secure in His faithfulness. Alle- speaks to that truth. Fear aside and peace out front. In luia, He is Risen! Amen. the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus we can -Pastor Carrie see what God has been accomplishing throughout all of human history, for us, for his beloved. In the reality of Jesus, the reality of God’s plan is revealed. Jesus’ life moves us into the future, overcoming death and bring-

April Events High School Summer Trip July 18-23 25 - Youth Group Zoom Online: 2-3 p.m. for grades 6-8 Rising Sophomores - Graduating Seniors

Topic: Where is God in the world today? Say a prayer and mark your calendars! If it is safe and prudent to do so we are heading to New Mexico to do the trip we planned for 2020. May Events We’ll spend three days doing service work in Albuquerque with Service Learning Camps, 2 - Volunteering with (Humane Society), Time then head to Las Vegas NM for three days of TBD, for grades 6-12 fun at Storrie Lake State Park. 9 - Youth Group Zoom Online: 2-3 p.m. for It’s going to be a week of fun activities, mean- grades 6-8 ingful work, and most importantly… connection! Topic: You Are Loved

16 - Peel House Party!!!, 1-3 p.m. for grades 6-12 NEW Middle School 23 - Youth Group Zoom Online: 2-3 p.m. for Summer Trip - June 7-9 grades 6-8

Topic: Where is God in the World today? – This trip is for rising 7th - 9th graders and will I’ve been praying! be here at First Lutheran. It will include service 30 - Rock Climbing Gym, 1-3 p.m. for grades opportunities and KICK team training for 6- 12 those interested as well formational experienc- es and time just for fellowship and fun.

If you are interested in these trips we will be KICK Team Training having an information meeting on Wednes- day, April 21, at 6:15 p.m. before Wednesday June 9 from 9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. All interested Night LIGHT. and current team members, mark your calen- dar for our summer training.

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL (VBS) July 11-16 from 5-8 p.m.

We are moving our VBS this summer to the evenings. We will eat dinner together first, then break-off into age-appropriate groups. Parents are welcome to stay for their own spiritual formation offerings or to volunteer CHILDREN’S SERMONS ONLINE with the kids programming! We will be continuing the theme of the Book of Daniel As long as we are offering Online Worship there will be a Children’s Message for children from Kids Kamp, but you don’t have to attend of all ages. Kids Kamp to have fun and enjoy the stories, music, games, and fun! Open to all students currently in Preschool through grade 5 .

KIDS KAMP June 10, 17, and 24 from 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Grandma Cher is going to Rainbow Trail Lutheran Camp Our theme this year will be the book of Daniel. with our youth the week of Come to learn and play through stories, August 1-7. If you will be entering grades 2, 3, games, crafts and snacks. 7 or 8 in the fall, she would love to have you join her! Please contact her at 719-447-6064 or [email protected]

BECOME INVOLVED

The Bible 101 units(7) may be found on First Training Lutheran’s YouTube channel.

BASIC TRAINING resumes Wednesday, April 14, with a course on SALVATION taught by Pas- tor Travis. The course is available on the YouTube channel to view at your leisure. If Week 18: Strength in Times of Testing (April 30) you’d like to join the discussion group we will 119 Psalm 67: 1-7 God’s Blessings gather on Zoom at 10:00 a.m. on Wednes- 120 Isaiah 26: 1-13 Victorious People of God days. Here’s the link for the Zoom meeting: 121 Isaiah 30: 19-26 Help in Hard Times https://us02web.zoom.us/ 122 Isaiah 38: 1-20 The King Is Healed meeting/81310689345 123 James 4: 1-10 Come Close to God 124 1 Peter 2: 1-12 Living Stones 125 1 Peter 4:1-11 Maintain Love READING PLAN WEEKS 16,17, 18 & 19 Week 19: Living in Love (May 7) 126 2 Peter 1: 1-21 How to Live 127 1 John 2: 1-17 To Do God’s Will Week 16: Judgment and Forgiveness (began 128 1 John 4: 7-21 God Is Love April 16) 129 Colossians 1: 9-23 Christ Above All 105 John 12 : 44-50 God the Judge 130 Colossians 3: 5-4:5 Christian Conduct 106 Romans 2: 1-11 God Is Just 131 1 Corinthians 12: 4-26 Spiritual Gifts 107 Hosea 11: 1-11 A Loving Parent 132 John 15: 12-21 Love One Another 108 Amos 5: 21-24 Call for Justice 109 Amos 9: 13-15 Restoration 110 Joel 2: 12-19 Repentance 111 Psalm 51: 1-13 Plea for Forgiveness

Week 17: Warnings and Promises (April 23) 112 Psalm 63: 1-8 You Are My God 113 Micah 4 : 1-5 Walking in God’s Paths 114 Micah 7: 18-20 No One Like Our God 115 Isaiah 1: 11-20 Seeking Justice 116 Isaiah 7: 1-25 A Special Prophecy 117 Isaiah 9: 1-7 More Good News 118 Isaiah 11: 1-10 A Sign of Peace 8

WHERE DO YOU WANT TO SERVE?

Remember the last time you completed a Time and Talent sheet? It might have been the fall of 2019 or even earlier! Well, now that we are moving to worship in the Sanctuary, we need ushers, greeters, communion assistants and more!! Since we last met, you have a new Coordinator of Lay Ministries, Cheryl Mahon, and we have new Church Management Software. This means that we need to update where YOU want to THE ENNEAGRAM: A SPIRITUAL serve. We want you to spend time in prayer and worship then complete this form https:// PERSONALITY JOURNEY bit.ly/2OyeHxM to share with us where you

sense God wants you to use your spiritual gifts ADULT SEMINAR to serve Christ’s body. Rev. Will Eskew 10:30 a.m. over Zoom

Meeting ID: 843 6443 9242 First Lutheran App for your The Enneagram is an ancient system that identi- phone Has Launched! fies nine different personality types. On the sym- bolic representation (as seen in the diagram) Follow the Directions Below to each point or number is connected to another download. indicating dynamic connection. Each number is determined by motivations and not by behavior. Motivations are identified by a basic passion (sometimes called one’s sin) and a basic desire. The goal to understanding your number is to bring your healthy, true self to light. The Enne- agram is self-work, often done in community, that leads to fully developed self-understanding and maturing beyond personality. It is also ex- ceptional for helping us to understand others, Here’s the graphic that improving relationships, building teams, and spiritual growth. The class will include helping represents Church by you to determine your number, understand how Ministry One. If you see numbers work together, and how we can further this, you are in the right our spiritual growth using the Enneagram. place! 9

MORE INVOLVEMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Here’s the link to do- EEDS OF JOY GARDEN GROUP nate: https:// www.flipcause.com/ Meets on the second Wednesday of secure/fundraiser/ each month at 9 a.m. ODkwMw==/55818. We are offering members of the congregation the opportunity to assist fellow congregants Care and Share LOVES with yard cleanup at their homes. We will or- to receive peanut ganize teams of at least two volunteers to help butter…between Wed Night Light and Sunday people prepare their yards for the 2021 summer services, let’s collect 1,100 lbs of peanut but- season. If you are interested, contact Bert at ter!!!! (719) 243-5442 and leave a message and he will And anything else you’d like to bring! promptly return your call. If you are a member who could use help do not hesitate to call the same number and leave a As of 4/19/2021 message. When we have enough teams, we will match you with a team and start work at a date • 921 pounds and time agreeable to your group. (45.6% of goal)

• $675 (33.4% of 45.6% of goal goal)

First Lutheran has a support group for women who have experienced the loss of a husband. WAYFARER’S GROUP THIRD TUESDAY EACH MONTH, 1:30 p.m., Luther Hall

If you would like to be part of this group, please contact Marlis Olson at 719-596-4593. 10

CHRISTIAN CAREGIVING TRAINING CORONA VIRUS SENIOR SUPPORT GROUP April 27 7 p.m. via Zoom An online community https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87601748744 10 a.m. on Thursdays, via Zoom Meeting ID: 876 0174 8744 https://us02web.zoom.us/ j/209040388pwd=d29YcGVrcGtrc2VTK0VkNW If you are interested in becoming a Christian Zsd05hUT09 Caregiver, or you are already a Caregiver, it is Meeting code: 209 040 388 time for us to learn some best practices in care- Passcode: 845080 (Zoom is increasing security, giving together. We will be using a training so you need this) Or call in: 1-346-248-7799 guide written by Karen Lampe titled The Caring Congregation. Using this as our guide we will focus on prayer, theology of care, boundaries, listening, and journeying together in sacred times. We will also speak to some of the current practicalities in the time of COVID and what caregiving ministry at First Lutheran looks like. Our lay leaders are a critical piece of EEDS OF JOY GARDEN GROUP the ministry here, bring a connection to the church, to faith, and to God when people are SEEDS OF JOY STARTS NEW PROGRAM often most vulnerable and in need of relation- ship with their community and spiritual care. "Seeds of Joy" realizes that most congregants

interested in helping with gardening cannot The training guides are available on the pick- make the scheduled "Seeds" meetings. We are up table at First Lutheran during normal busi- starting a new program that will offer members ness hours. Please let Pastor Carrie know if of the congregation the opportunity to design, you need a guide, to ensure that enough are available. plant, and maintain garden areas at the church independently, on their own time. During the You will need a passcode for the Zoom meet- Peel House renovation, we will concentrate on ing; please email Pastor Carrie. areas around Luther Hall. The church would cov- If you have any questions, please email Pastor er all costs for the projects including soil prepa- Carrie at [email protected]. ration, and plants. If you are interested in de- signing and maintaining an area of your own, contact Cheryl Mahon at [email protected].

ONLINE WORSHIP The online service is sent to your email each Sunday morning. You may also find it on our ALTAR FLOWER YouTube channel, First Lutheran Church DESIGNATIONS Colorado Springs. FOR 2021 You may also watch it on Facebook at

9 a.m. each Sunday with our First Lutheran Members may designate altar flowers in Facebook group. memory of or in honor of a person or occa- sion. Designation forms are available on our CONNECTION CARD website at [email protected]. Forms are also available at the at the Reception Desk during regu- lar office hours. Cost is $50.00 for one bou- Please remember to complete the Connection card quet. Payment must accompany your designa- after you have watched the weekly church tion. services. This information is recorded weekly in the church records that you attended the service.

WORSHIP SCHEDULE

As we transition out of the pandemic and re- sume worship in the Sanctuary our schedule of weekly worship opportunities has changed. SIGN UP FOR INDOOR SERVICES IN Here is the current schedule: THE SANCTUARY:

• Sunday Online Worship We will reserve a “spot” for you. You will create a “group name” (family name, or your friend • Sunday Sanctuary Worship: 8, 9:30, and 11 group), and then indicate who you’d like to sit a.m. (Must register, 100 person capacity; with (the people in your group). see next column for details) https://bit.ly/3deb3S0 • Wednesday Night LIGHT outdoor & Live Stream worship: 7 p.m. Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3rZSMgn

MAKING CHANGES TO PRAYER VENTURES ONLINE GIVING • “How very good and pleasant it is when

First Lutheran started accepting online giving kindred live together in unity!” Pray that just a little over a year ago, right before the pan- God will help us better understand what demic. Talk about perfect timing. Over the living together in unity requires of us as course of the past 18 months we’ve seen more siblings in Christ and as world citizens and more people take advantage of the ease and striving for peace, justice, reconciliation convenience of giving online, and many have and mutual care. made their giving automatic. What a gift to the church that regularity has been! • Lift up prayers of gratitude to God for the presence of the Spirit in our lives, which With the new First Lutheran app we will be deepens our faith and trust in Jesus as the transitioning to a new online giving platform promised Messiah, helps us understand that has lower processing fees and is more Scripture and moves us to respond to streamlined with our database. If you currently God’s call that we bear witness to the good give online, especially if you’ve set up automatic news of Jesus Christ. giving, please take a moment to transition to this new platform. You can set it up using the • Give thanks for volunteers of all ages and church app or by going to the Give section of gifts who serve in congregations, includ- our website www.flccs.net/give. ing teachers, assisting ministers, child care providers, committee members, Open the camera on your greeters, singers, musicians, people who phone and scan the QR fix things and those who visit the ill or code to the right. It will homebound. Praise God for the rich diver- take you straight to the sity of gifts, skills and passions we share in Giving link and will read the body of Christ. “Open elexiogiving.com.” Click on that link. • Earth Day Give thanks and glory to God for the blessings and mysteries of crea- tion, entrusted to us to sustain and enrich all generations. Pray that God will make us wise, generous and responsible stewards of nature and Earth’s resources for the glory of our Creator and the well-being of our neighbor.

group:

April 25 April 24 Jennifer Herman April 28 Sandy & Ray Martin - 34 years Al Knutson Ken Boehm Frank Kuehn Candi Gaddie April 28 Robert Nicolaisen Ken Glaeser Art & Katy Hammersmark - 37 years Caroline Schlater Ana Rojas

Susan Wood-Ellis April 29 April 26 Don & Jane Smith - 6 years Lilah Eskew April 29 Jayson Hron Doyle Dikes April 30 Caleb Kruse Zachary Isidore Mike & Marlene Bigelow - 27 years Jamison Mathiesen Brittain Knox Mike & Jennifer Heiny - 27 years Charles Sipe Hannah McDaniel Kathy & Frank Schroeder - 33 years

Norm Sauppe April 27 Jeremy Schmidt Amie Clearie Craig Trautner Emily Jack Carol Yorke Kyle Kurtz

Mia Obernesser April 30 Mark Pimentel John Merrill Andrew Stevenson Johnny Torres

May 1 Amy Kirkpatrick Lucy Schneider Kathleen Thorson

Happy birthday Congratulations to Kate to Mahler Drinan and James Robert Nicolaisen Drinan on the birth of their who will be son, Owen James Drinan, born on April 12, 95 2021. Proud grandparents are Mark and on April 25. Mindy Mahler. Congratulations! 14

Please keep these members of First Lutheran, their family and friends, in your prayers this week.

Cheri Anderson Sally Layton Wanda Anderson Jay McCoy Joyce Arneson Brandon Miller & Family Dean Arnold Hannah & Jeremia Miller Felicia Arnold Debra Mills Denise Aufderheide Lucille Moe Janice Baldwin Kevin Todd Morgan Jacque Bokelman Mark Mueller Kirsten, Garrett & Baby Boyd Patrick Murphy FROM THE ARCHIVES - John Braden Sam Norton Jerry Brunet Owen & Family FIRST LUTHERAN IN THE ‘20s

Eugene Burkland Barb Page From the church bulletin, December 4, 1927. Doris Cartwright Helen Peterson Today is Golden Rule Sunday, set apart for Miriam Cook Zach Porter Leslie Crowley Don Reed those unfortunate children made orphans by Jim Cunningham Phyllis Robbins Turkish massacres. The offering of our Sunday Bob DeBates Connie Rowton School today is requested by the Near Eastern Sharon deHala Ethel Rygiel Relief Committee. If others wish to share in it Mark Delay Roger Schomber speak to the treasurer of the Sunday School. Juliana Denny Doris L. Scott Shane Fross Ron Scott Tom & Nola Gosch David Selleck Andy Grasmick Al & Elaine Shea Katherine Greene Gaynellle Smith Mike Gragert Joan Sparks Lee Gross Cathy Stanley Cheryl Haver Lori Stevens Jutta Heberer Cliff Stoker Marianne Hill Russ Stott Eleanor Hjelmstad Janet Summy Beverly Hodges The Swearingen Family Ron Huston Aaron Thorson Marie Johnson Jim Underwood Josh Jones Susan Warden Bob Kerwin Christine Welch Bob LaBant Lynn Whaley flccs.net Leonard Lamberth & Family Greg & Carolyn Young Jesse Lawrence & Family 15

The doorway into the back patio from the kitch- en is being opened up. The rest of the bricks will be removed and a door put in.

In the parlor, the old fireplace at the north end of the room, which was covered up years ago, is getting drywall and custom cabinetry.

The soon to be door for the stairwell going to the third floor from the elevator room on the second floor.