Grace Extra April 4, 2010

Elder and Trustee Boards:

• Our Sunday morning attendance in 2010 is averaging 76 (71 last year) with a number of new visitors.
• The Grace Annual Meeting is May 7. The Nominating Committee is busy recruiting ministry officers, the Trustees are working on a balanced budget, and the Elder and Parish Boards are making plans for the future ministry. Annual Reports and Ministry Plans are to be submitted to Judy Kumma by April 25th for publication.
• Concert of Prayer & Communion Service, Sunday, April 18, 6:00 pm. This is an evening for the whole congregation to join as one voice in prayer.

Youth: We thank the youth for sponsoring the Easter Breakfast. Watch for details on a special evening for the congregation on May 2. Regular Sunday evening meetings are at 6:00 pm. Join us and bring a friend!

MOPS: The group has grown to the point where a waiting list for new participants will be required until there is an increase in staff. Kim Gainza is the one to see.

Thursday Evening Fellowship Groups are reconvening, at South Pointe with Pastor Foss in Acts, and tentatively at Manor Care with Pastor Dan and ‘Glimpses Beyond the Jordan’ (life on earth). You are welcome to join either group.

Bible Camp registration forms are available on the Information Table.

District Men’s and Women’s Retreats are held in October. Information is now available.

Prayer Notes:
April is the closing month in our CLBA Synodical year. We always depend on generous giving to our co-operative ministries this month to meet our financial goals, and particularly this year in the economic downturn.

• We pray for God’s healing mercy on Lavonne, Larry, Margun, Wyvetta, Joe, Emma, and Naomi, experiencing ongoing physical challenges.
• Pastor Bob Hosmer is serving our Stanwood congregation part time. We ask the Father to give him a fruitful ministry in the congregation and his work as a Marketplace Chaplain.
• We ask the Father for Mindy Kim’s health, safety, and effective ministry on her mission to Uzbekistan. (Her reports are placed in the Mission Notebook on the information table.)
• We ask the Father for all the necessary resources required, material and spiritual, to accomplish the task He has given us. We are asking for partners in the use of our facility and wisdom in using what we have been given.
• Andrew and Kris Larsen welcome his parents for a visit. May it be a time of joyful encouragement. Praise God that the Taiwan and Japan CLB churches are planning a cooperative church planting mission in Asia.
• May the Father bless the ministry of the Jesus Fellowship Church.
• Growing old can be very difficult in body, mind, and spirit. Remember especially in your prayers and contacts, Erling, Gudrun, Vi, and any others in our congregation who can’t join us because they are suffering age related disability.
• Pray for the continued growth in our new MOPS ministry and the staff needed to support it.
• May God bless the ministry of our congregation as each of us seeks to be His person in our individual worlds.
• We ask the Father to bless the preparations being made for our congregational annual meeting in May.

Note: Ongoing requests, both personal and congregational, will be listed in Grace Extra after appearing in the bulletin, freeing the bulletin space for ‘hot off the press’ items.