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See photos of the Logger game and the River Service!

The Wateski Family Benefit will be Sunday, August 24.  Tickets for the Chicken Q are on sale at the Welcome Center.  Come and join us for an afternoon of food and music with our very own FAITHLIFT.  Mike has had several knee surgeries resulting in complications and medical bills have been rising.  Please come!  Support the Wateski family!

Sunday School teachers are needed for the 2008-09 school year.  Work with our youth and help them reach their faith milestones!  Teachers alternate weekends.  Positions still open are:  2 year old (2 teachers), 3 year old (2), 4 year old (2), 1 st Grade (2), 2 nd Grade (1), 3 rd Grade (2), 5 th Grade (2), 6 th Grade (2).  For more information, please contact Niki Pohnl at 784-8876 x 204.

The Block Party will be here before you know it!  It’s Sunday, September 7!

• Volunteers are needed to make this a successful event just like last year.  Please sign up at the Welcome Center.  See Niki Pohnl if you have questions.
• An Art Show will also be part of the Block Party again this year.  Artists are invited to sign up at the Welcome Center or to call Joyce Snider at 779-1294 or Jennifer Jones in the church office to be included.
• Posters for the Block Party need to be distributed in our community.  Contact Niki Pohnl if you are able to pick up posters and a list of places to deliver them to.  You can pick posters up from the church office anytime after noon on Tuesday, August 19.

WEEKLY REMINDERS

ELC Youth accept receipts from Quillin’s, Festival and Skogen’s.   We’re currently accepting receipts dated as of July 1 and you can leave your receipts at the Welcome Center.  The stores donate a percentage of the receipts to our youth program.  We raised over $250 last quarter!  Thanks for your support.

The next WAFER weekend is September 6 and 7.   Give your non-perishable food items to the children in our congregation to place in the basket at the altar.  Spaghetti and spaghetti sauce is the August food of the month.  Bring WAFER donations to the Welcome Center any time, and use the envelopes in the kiosk to make monetary donations.

Men’s Monday Morning Bible Study meets on Monday mornings at 6:30 a.m. in the narthex for breakfast and discussion.  This week’s topic is “Faith and Politics:  Issues in the 2008 Presidential Election” with Pastor Mark Solyst.

OF INTEREST

Prayer Vigil for Peace will be held at English Lutheran Church at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 21.  The need is more urgent than ever to pray for our brothers and sisters in the Middle East.  You are invited and encouraged to attend.

The Rainbow Network is an organization doing ministry for the health of communities in Nicaragua.  If you would like to be part of a trip to visit these communities, there will be an informational meeting on Thursday, August 21 at 5:00 p.m.  There is a minimum 4-day trip, but you can stay longer if you like.  Contact Betty Baldner if you have any questions.

La Crosse Area Synod WELCA is planning a trip on Wednesday, September 24 to see “Church Basement Ladies – Second Helping” in Plymouth, MN.  Cost is $53 a person for your ticket, lunch and bus.  Please call LaVerne Ness at 782-1932 for more information.

The Seekers will begin a new year of Bible study, discussion, fellowship and learning with an Open House on Thursday, August 28 at 9:30 a.m. in the Stoffel Lounge.  We invite you to come see who we are, what we’re about and sit and visit and have some coffee and sweets with us.  We would love to welcome you!  The Seekers will start our study year on Thursday, September 4 with a month-long review of the Walk Thru the Bible seminar series.  Please join us!

ELC’s Sunshine Mission has been providing meals for those who have been hospitalized, ill or grieving a loss for the last few months.  If you are interested in being part of the mission, please contact the church office at 784-9335.  Also, please let us know if you or someone you know is in need.  Not everyone contacts the church office when they are struggling.