Poinsettias for Christmas! If you would like to purchase a poinsettia to decorate the sanctuary for our Christmas services, please use the following procedure:
- From the narthex bulletin board, by the south door, take an envelope that is marked "Poinsettia"
- Write your name on the envelope
- Insert $12.00 for each poinsettia you would like to purchase.
- Place the envelope in the collection plate or give to Dick Winterstein or to Dorothy in the church office.
Please have your donation in by December 19. You may take your poinsettia home after the service Christmas Day. Thank you for helping make the sanctuary festive.
Altar Guild
Tacoma Lutheran Retirement Home is looking for a LCMS member to be on their board. Any member who is a member of an LCMS congregation is able to serve. They need a LCMS member to maintain their relationship with St. Louis.
The position will involve:
10 meetings a year Total
They meet on the 4th Monday of the month
Of these 10 meetings there will be two committee meetings
Each board member must serve on 1 of the 4 committees
One of the meetings each year is a Saturday retreat
Each meeting is a dinner meeting.
If you are interested in serving please contact
Pastor Ronald Kempe
253-219-9621
rekempe@gmail.com
2018 CHRISTMAS BASKETS DONATIONS.
If you are interested in helping with the Christmas baskets, we will be meeting Nov 30th at 11:00 am at First Baptist Church of Lakewood in the conference room across from the office. First Baptist is located at: 5400 112th St SW, Lakewood, WA 98499. For those of you who helped with the Thanksgiving Baskets, please be sure to bring your opinion as to where we can improve our preparation and distribution of the Christmas Baskets. All comments will be discussed as we try to improve on the process. Think about one thing that you feel you can be responsible for this time around. We look forward to seeing all of you and hearing the stories of delivering the boxes.
We are still collecting for Holiday Baskets! This Thanksgiving we were able to partner with First Baptist Lakewood and gave out 29 baskets each for a total of 58 baskets!!! We will be sending out baskets again for Christmas. Please consider sponsoring a complete holiday basket for $25!!! Or better yet, apply for a Thrivent Action Team to purchase supplies! If you are looking to make a Cash Donations (Please list Holiday Basket Fund in the memo line on checks). Note: Turkeys and Hams will be purchased from cash donations.
One $25 Basket Contains
1 - Package of instant potatoes
1 - Package of turkey gravy mix
1 - Large box of stuffing mix
1 - 12 oz can corn
1 - 12 oz can of green beans
1 - Can chicken broth
1 - Package of brown and serve dinner rolls
1 - Can of jellied cranberry sauce
1 - Can sweet potatoes
1 - Small tub of butter flavor spread*
*refrigerated item
Associated Ministries'
Community Quarterly Meeting
Thursday, December 13, 2018
5:00-7:00 pm
Hosted by:
Shiloh Baptist Church
1211 South "I" Street
Tacoma, WA 98405
TOGETHER, we can impact the crisis of homelessness in our community. Make your presence count! Please join us for the next Community Quarterly Meeting.
Attendees will walk away with at least one specific step they can take to help end homelessness, inspired by people who are actively involved in the journey.