Feed The Need in Mendota

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The third activity of our Feed The Need project, Backpack Blessings, is underway and will continue through the summer months.  Volunteers met after worship last Sunday to pack 70 bags of food and fun items for local children in need.  Volunteers are needed on distribution days: Saturday, June 17th—9am to noon; Saturday, July 15th—9am to noon; and Saturday, August 19th—9am to noon.  Please contact Valerie Kreiser at 815-866-4946 to sign up to help with these distribution days.
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St. John’s Barnyard update -- As of today, our congregation has "purchased" 245 chicks, 32 honeybees, 37 goats, 26 pigs, and 5 cows.  All of these animals will be donated to the ELCA’s God’s Global Barnyard.  Thank you for your outstanding support of this effort to feed hungry people worldwide.

Help Yourself...

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Our quilting ladies have been working on “Walker Bags” for residents of area nursing homes.  They are also making them available to members of our congregation.  You will find a basket full of these colorful and handy fabric bags in the Narthex.  Please feel free to take one for yourself or someone you know.

Join us in supporting the
Mendota Lutheran Home

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Throughout the month of June St. John’s has the opportunity to support the Mendota Lutheran Home through a Bakeless Bake Sale sponsored by our church council and the MLH Auxiliary.  Late state funds and a low census has placed an economic impact, we are hoping to raise funds for code alert safety monitors ($285) and/or alternating pressure mattresses ($800). 
 
                                    A bit of news we have today…
                         A BAKELESS BAKE SALE is on the way.
 
                          In these busy days, who wants to bake
                                a pie or cookies or even a cake?
 
                        You’d be surprised if you counted the cost
                       of ingredients, heat and the time you’ve lost.
 
                                   Baking for sales is extra work.
                                 Yet nobody really wants to shirk.
 
                       So we’ve thought of a plan that’s really grand,
                              and feel quite sure you’ll understand.
 
                   In an envelope, if you like, please include the price
                                  of a pie or cake or anything nice.
 
                       Without fuss or bother, you’ve done your part.
                            We hope you’ll give with a willing heart.
 
If you would like to join in supporting this effort, please make checks payable to St. John’s with “Bakeless Bake Sale” in the memo line and put it in the offering or bring it to the office.  Your prayerful consideration is greatly appreciated.

Why Sunday Fellowship?

The Merriam–Webster online dictionary defines a fellowship as a “community of interest, activity, feeling, or experience,” and “a company of equals or friends.”

God designed His church to be a fellowship, not just a community, but a family of brothers and sisters who share God’s ideals and beliefs, and who can help us improve ourselves.

The importance of fellowship in our lives is part of the reason that the people of God are commanded to consider one another in order to stir up love and good works.  Every week, on Sunday, Christians gather both to hear the Word of God taught and to strengthen each other through fellowship.

Sunday Fellowship at St. John’s requires your participation.  We are the Church.  Please consider signing up for one Sunday during the year to make coffee and serve donuts to your fellow members so that we can meet, get to know each other and focus on God’s desires and goals for us.

There is a calendar in the Church kitchen, pick a Sunday to do your part as a member of the St. John’s community.