In This Edition:

• The Apple Harvest Fair is Here!

• Silent Auction

• Rally Sunday

• Sunday School Volunteers

• Bible Study Returns Next Week

• Sermon Snippet

• Holding in Prayer

The Apple Harvest Fair is Here!

The Fair is this Saturday, September 20th! Help spread the word to your friends and neighbors:

Here’s how you can help make this year’s fair great:

1. Sign up or let Mike Keimig ([email protected]) know if you can volunteer either in the morning or afternoon or all day. We need volunteers for the midway and grill. 

2. Spread the word to your family and friends to VOLUNTEER or attend the Fair (10 - 3PM).  I can sign or send letters for credit hours for high schoolers

3. Find your apron :

4. Bake something (especially pies and breads) to drop off on Friday September 19th for Heavenly Creations and remember to label your ingredients

5. Find your tent, tables, and cooler to put aside to bring in on Friday, September 19th

Schedule

Thursday Sept 18th

Start setting up Midway in park (contact Rich Keen if you can help)

4:00 pm - Make Apple Crisp (bring a hat & your favorite peeler / apple corer)

7:00 - 8:00 pm - Silent Auction Table Setup

Friday Sept 19th

5:00 pm - Drop Off Baked Goods (make sure the ingredients are labeled)

5:30 pm - Setup Outside Venues and Update signs

5:30 pm - Drop off pop up tents, tables, and coolers

Saturday Sept 20th

8:00 AM - Fair Setup Begins

10:00 - 3:00PM - Apple Harvest Fair

3:00 - 5:00 - Clean up

Silent Auction

Share the link and let friends/family/neighbors know about the online silent auction, which runs until 8 pm Friday (9/26). To access the auction, visit the church website and click the link on the homepage.

Rally Sunday

Join us for worship this Sunday as we welcome the return of the choir to worship, as well as Sunday School!

Sunday School Volunteers

Thanks to those who have already volunteered for this important ministry of our church. This year, we are using a new one-room-schoolhouse style curriculum called Whirl, which introduces kids to biblical stories and themes through videos, songs, and fun activities. Our CE Committee (Joanne Grant and Deidre Donaldson) is ready and willing to help train teachers and familiarize folks with this new curriculum. We will also be able to provide materials in advance through our new online digital subscription (hard copies can also be made available from the church office), which will make preparation even simpler.

You can see the schedule of lessons for the Fall/Winter of 2025 and sign up to be a leader or helper by clicking here.

Bible Study Returns Next Week

Weekly Bible Study with Pastor Shepherd will be held on Zoom on Fridays from 9:30-10:30 am, beginning next Friday, September 26. This Fall, to accompany the sermon series on the Fruit of the Spirit, we will be reading an accompanying text, Tending the Wild Garden, by Rev. Eugenia Gamble. If you’d like to participate and would like a copy of the book, please see Pastor Shepherd. For our first meeting, we will discuss the introduction and first chapter, “Tending the Shoots of Love.”

Here is the Zoom Meeting link:

Sermon Snippet

This Sunday we begin our new 9 part sermon series for this fall on the Fruit of the Spirit. The Apostle Paul describes 9 different things that the Holy Spirit produces in us when we place our faith in Christ. This Sunday, we’ll hear about love, which is the first fruit of the spirit. While Paul’s most well-known verses about love describe it in the ideal as a patient, kind, persistent, and forgiving way of being, what we are reminded of in the Gospels again and again is that the love of Christ is not some airy abstraction: it is something that is “fleshed out” in life, through specific kinds of actions. In fulfilling Jesus’s commandment to “Love one another as I have loved you,” and to “Love your neighbors” and “your enemies,” we are reminded of our deep need to lean on the Holy Spirit to follow in the way of Christ, and to live the love and justice of Jesus.

Holding in Prayer

This week, as a community of faith we pray:

• for Shirley’s niece Karen, who passed away after a long battle with cancer, and for all who mourn.

• for Pam’s cousin Julie, who is undergoing surgery today.

• for Ben’s friend from veterinary school, who is staying with the Kerns’ during a 2-week rotation

• for clear weather this Saturday!

• for Lew’s brother Richard and his wife Paula, for health.

• for Charlie Kirk, and for his wife and children as they mourn his death, and for his killer, and peace in the nation.

• for Barbara Carroll, for healing after a couple of falls

• for Barbara’s grandson Shayne, for healing after a serious head injury

• for the victims of the shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis

• for Jordan, Amelia, Marcus, Madison, Charlie, and Lainey, as they study at college

• for Nelson’s son Greg, who is healing from a concussion

• for Kerry’s friend Diane, who is undergoing a difficult course of treatment for cancer

• for Noah, for healing after crashing his new E-Bike and for continued safety

• for Pam’s friend Cookie, as she battles cancer.

• for Lew’s friend Dan, as he faces kidney disease