EVELYN’S 100^th BIRTHDAY!!!

YOU ARE INVITED TO AN OPEN

HOUSE FOR EVELYN PETERSON’S

100^th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION!

Sunday, March 21, 2010, 2-4pm

First Lutheran Fellowship Hall

World Day of Prayer

LENTEN SCHEDULE

Our Lenten schedule be

Our Lenten schedule began on Ash Wednesday, February 17^th, and continues each Wednesday through March 24^th.

5:00pm - Confirmation Class

5:45pm - Lenten Supper - all invited (free-will offering; table service provided by Fellowship Team)

6:30pm - Lenten Vespers Service,

   “Dramatic Props: Objects from the Passion Story”

A Cross – Ash Wednesday
A Stone – 2/24
A Chalice – 3/3
Some Coins – 3/10
Some Nails – 3/17
A Sponge – 3/24

7:15pm – Chancel Choir practice

Dramatization of the Last Supper

Maundy Thursday (April 1), 7:00pm

Check here to see what will be served each week.

NEW ENVELOPES AND NUMBERS FOR 2010

Your new offering envelopes for 2010 have been mailed out.  Please notice that your new envelope number may  be different than your current number. Please make sure and use your new envelopes and not your envelopes from 2009.

Anyone who has not received a box of offering envelopes and wishes to have one, please contact the office.

EMERGENCY CLOSING INFORMATION
AND LAST-MINUTE SCHEDULE CHANGES AND/OR CANCELLATIONS

In the event that we would call off church related activities due to inclement weather or another emergency, our church website would be the first place to check for that information. Just scroll down the left column until you find "Click here for the latest cancellations and postponements". Click on it to take you to the closing page.

If weather is so severe that you feel it is too dangerous to drive, please stay home.

LOOKING FOR LINKS

Most of us are comforted by and recognize the value of being lifted up in prayer, most often at times of illness, injury or bereavement. This usually happens during the Parish Concerns part of the weekend worship services. On occasion we receive word of an urgent prayer concern or request that just can’t wait for the weekend bulletins. It’s times like these that might call our prayer chain into action. If you’d like to be a “link” to the First Lutheran Prayer Chain, please let Jo (522-3886 or 522-2005) know as soon as possible. She’ll need your name and all phone numbers to reach you at, and will put together an updated list for each “link”.

NO Rebecca or Lydia Meetings In March

 GIFT GIVING IDEA!

“Recipes from the heart”, First Lutheran Church ’s cookbook. Tasty, tried, and true recipes from the members of our congregation, $6.50 each. Proceeds go to World Hunger.  

ADDRESS CHANGES

Mr. & Mrs. Andy & Izabelle Rasmussen
4613 Beau Bien Blvd, Apt. 25
Lisle , IL   60532-5607

Mr. Matthew Rasmussen
3465 Kiesel Rd., Apt. 30
Bay City , MI   48706-2459

Marybeth Howe
  16 ½ North Elm St .
Colfax , IA   50054-1073

Please help us update our records…

Pastor Rasmussen and Jo Boehmer are always in the process of updating our church records. We’ve found that many are incomplete – missing information such as current phone numbers and addresses, cell phone numbers, email addresses, birthdates, anniversary dates, baptismal dates, family additions, etc. We’d appreciate it if you could help us in our endeavor to have complete records by taking some time and writing as much of that information as you have down, and getting it to Pastor or Jo ASAP. The address at church is First Lutheran, P.O. Box 287 , Kirkland , IL   60146 . Thank you!

 REMEMBER OUR MILITARY…

Russell Sanderson is currently serving in Afghanistan , but is scheduled to be stationed in Okinawa , Japan by December 1 at the address found below:

LCPL SANDERSON, RUSSELL L
3RD INTEL GSP
UNIT 35606 BOX 31
FPO, AP  96606-0031
      Email:  Russ2816@hotmail.com
        Russell also has a Facebook page.  

Back from Kuwait , Richie Joos is stationed in ElPaso , Texas :

      Richard Joos
      11973 Mesquite Miel Dr .
      ElPaso , TX   79934-3157

Liz ( Avila ) Gilley serves in England , but is currently visiting her parents, Randy & Jodi Kaalaas, in Kirkland until mid-January:

Jason & Liz ( Avila ) Gilley & Alyssa
PSC 47 Box 244
APO , AE  09470
Phone:  011 44 (754) 466-4084

A user name and password will be necessary to access the online church photo directory from our website. You must obtain your initial user name and password from Jo in the church office; changing it is an option. See Jo, jo@kirklandflc.org, or Shari Novotny, webmaster@kirklandflc.org, with questions.