Pastor Haug has worked together with Group Travel Directors for a 12 day trip to the Holy Land from February 27th to March 10, 2018. An informational meeting will be held on Sunday afternoon, September 10th.  Brochures for the trip are available at the church.  You can also view the tour on line at http://www.gtd.org/post/pdfbrochure/180208.pdf.

We now have volunteers for all of the 2017 shelter meals at Our Saviour’s Housing.  Thank you to everyone who has already served a meal and thanks to Cheri and Larry Moe and their family for serving the meal in July.

2018 will be here before we know it so please consider serving a meal in the new year sometime.  If you are a Thrivent member, you can apply for one of their Action Team gift cards to help offset the cost of the meal.  Please contact Cheri Moe if you have any questions at 952 431-5226 or [email protected]

The prayer ministry group would welcome anyone who would like to join them on Tuesday mornings in the Christy Room at 9:15-10:00 a.m.  Please contact Janna Haug, Deb Gilroy or Linda Nelson for more information.

As part of our outreach program, LOTI is once again sponsoring a house for the annual Paint-A-Thon charity event.

This is a great tradition during which we paint the house of a deserving senior citizen and help keep them in their home. We need volunteers willing to help with prepping and/or painting a house in NE Minneapolis. The painting day is August 5, with backup on August 6, in case of inclement weather. Prep work will be done the week prior. Contact Lars Olson at 612-212-0346 or [email protected] to volunteer.

9:30 am Saturday, August 5 at the home of Eivor Lund.

The prayer ministry group welcomes those who would like to join them on Tuesday mornings in the Christy Room at 9:15-10:00 a.m.  Please contact Janna Haug, Deb Gilroy or Linda Nelson for more information.

“Working” is the theme of a new speaker series that will start this summer and run through the course of the next year. It’s inspired by the Studs Terkel book of that name in which “people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do.” There are many people within our congregation engaged in fascinating work. This series will give us an opportunity to learn more about what they do.

The sessions will take place after a brief coffee break following the Sunday morning service once a month. Those who are interested in the speaker series will be invited to take their coffee/tea into the Christy Room for about 45 minutes. The first 15-20 minutes will be an informal talk by the speaker about the work they do…leaving the remaining time for questions from those in attendance.

Our first speaker will be Dr. Brenda Weigel on Sunday, July 9th. Dr. Weigel is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist and is affiliated with the University of Minnesota Medical Center. ¬ Dr. Weigel is currently the Director of the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. She is also a professor at the University of Minnesota’s Cancer Center and the Department of Pediatrics, and the recipient of the Lehman/Children’s Cancer Research Fund Endowed Chair in Pediatric Cancer