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We particularly need Macaroni & Cheese, Peanut Butter, Canned Chicken or Tuna, Pasta, Pasta, Canned Pasta Sauce
and Canned Fruit or Vegetables.
--- NO glass jars please ---
Another way you can help is if you have some spare change, you can just drop it in the
Donation Box that is attached to the shelving on which the items are stored in the Fellowship Hall.
and Canned Fruit or Vegetables.
--- NO glass jars please ---
Another way you can help is if you have some spare change, you can just drop it in the
Donation Box that is attached to the shelving on which the items are stored in the Fellowship Hall.
The Wally W. Memorial Food Box Challenge
There is a sum of money dedicated by the family and memorial committee for use for the Family Food Boxes the church prepares and donates to Metropolitan Lutheran Ministry of the Northland food pantry each week.
A suggestion has been made that we have an "item of the month" for the box. So one item will be highlighted each month. We will still need the other items.
Each week the number donated will be counted and at the end of the month and an equal number of those items will be purchased for the food box preparation from the designated memorial fund.
For example, let's say that the May item is canned fruit. We will purchase an equal amount of cans of fruit that were donated during May on or about June 1.
Wally was passionate about the food donations to the needy. We will do this in his honor.
Please remember to also bring the other items as well as you are able. We will just highlight one of the 8 items each month for the special challenge.
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April - Tuna (194 cans collected)
May - Canned fruit (231 collected) June - Canned chicken (420 ounces collected in assorted can sizes) July - Pasta sauce in a CAN (102 cans collected) |
August - Canned vegetables
September - Macaroni and cheese October - Pasta November - Peanut butter December - Tuna |
Devotional How God uses your weakness for His glory
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. - 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 A man lay seasick in his bunk one stormy night during a long voyage across the Atlantic. He could hardly move from the severe discomfort. All of a sudden, he heard a cry of “Man overboard!” from the deck above. His first thought was, God help that poor fellow – there’s nothing I can do. Then the thought struck him, There is something I can do. So he took his lantern and held it up to the porthole next to his bunk. The drowning man was rescued, and the next day he recounted, “I was going down in the darkness when someone put a light in a porthole. It shone on my hand and a sailor in a lifeboat grabbed my hand and pulled me in.” “I’m too sick...” “I’m too weak...” “I’m not able enough...” Very often, people who fail to attempt anything for the Kingdom of God will use excuses like these. They see their weaknesses as debilitating and never take the initiative to do what they can. But weakness is no excuse for not putting forth all of the strength we have for God’s purposes. And the truth is it’s in our weakness that God’s power is often shown the strongest. So whatever situation you may be in today, put forth the effort to share Christ and watch how God will use your weakness for His glory! Prayer Challenge Pray that God would open your eyes to the ministry opportunities He’s placed around you – even when you face tough challenges. Questions for Thought In your life today, how are you tempted to let your challenges become excuses for not doing the ministry God has called you to do? How might God use your challenges to make His name great in the world around you? --posted with permission of www.seniorlivingministsries.org |
Verse of the Day
Inspirational Thought For The Week“He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.”
--Gordon B. Hinckley Former LDS Church President Vertical Divider
To read the Bible online - click above photo.
Devotional reposted with permission from Daily Living for Seniors of www.christianity.com.
Past devotionals may be read on our Media-Articles and Devotional page. Click here to go to that page. 
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