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Fort Calhoun satellite for the BLAIR RECYCLING CENTERWe hold in our parking lot a recycling drop off site for the Blair Recycling Center. We offer this to the community on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of every month from 9:00 am until 10:30 am. If you would like to learn more about recycling stop on by one Saturday and we would be glad to show you how you can recycle at least half of what you are throwing in your garbage cans! We also are looking for a group of 4-5 people with pickup trucks to alternate helping drive loads to the recycling center in Blair. We also need 3-4 people to sort items as they are brought to us. Want to help ... contact Neale Shaner. CHILDREN'S CHURCH HELP NEEDED!If you are interested in leading a week of Children's Church please see Cheryl or sign up at the table in church. Lessons are prepared for you and usually last approximately 1/2 hour. LOW IMPACT EXERCISE GROUPThis group meetings on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 10:30 am in the Fellowship Hall for low impact exercise. Here's your opportunity to quit talking about it and start doing it! Questions? Call 468-5795 or 468-5370. FOOD PANTRYEvery month we collect food for the Washington County Food Pantry. Fort the month of June we will focus on boxes of CRACKERS. Our goal this month is to collect at least 40 boxes. The Food Pantry is in high demand, so please keep this in mind as you are shopping this month. Last month we collected16 boxes of spaghetti! CHURCH DECORATINGIf you are interested in decorating a specific area of the church for a specific season, or teaming up with others in decorating the church inside and outside, please sign up in the notebook located on the table in the Narthex. Call Glenda Rathjen at 468-5203 for more information. SERVING OUR CONGREGATIONIf you would like to nurture small children by working in the Nursery contact Cheryl Miller at 468-5683. Those willing to share their love of God by Teaching Faith Village Sunday School or leading children's church should contact Cheryl Miller at 468-5683. If you like working with teenagers and would like to help with the SENIOR HIGH YOUTH GROUP on Sunday nights call Jill Shields at 468-4612. For input in planning the worship services join the WORSHIP TEAM by contacting Rev. Gregg Miller at 468-5683. Anyone with the gift of song can join the CHOIR and/or the PRAISE TEAM led by Alice Johnson. Practices take place every Wednesday evening from September through May. PROJECT S.O.S.The Deacons have developed a new program called Project S.O.S., which stands for Serving Others Sustenance. The goal is to provide home-cooked meals on a short-term basis to those who may need a helping hand. Four menu plans have been developed, and volunteers have signed up to provide a portion of one (or more!) of these. When called by a Deacon, volunteers will prepare items and drop them off at church at an appointed time to be delivered by the team’s driver. You may notify the church office (468-5683) if you know of a need for a Project S.O.S. meal. YMCA CORPORATE DISCOUNTThank you to Sarah Davis, Blair YMCA Membership Director, for acknowledging 6 or more of our church families to qualify for corporate membership discounts! Monthly drafts were discounted beginning January 1, 2007 and annual renewals will be reduced on their next anniversary date. The savings is approximately $30 per year. For seven known families that's a total of $210 liberated annually for the stewardship of bringing people to Christ! "Let nothing be wasted," said Jesus in John 6:12. PROJECT LINUSProject Linus is a non-profit organization that collects homemade fleece blankets, quilts, and afghans. The blankets are then distributed to seriously ill children in hospitals. They accept blankets of all sizes, as they distribute them to premature babies through teenagers. The only conditions are that the blankets be new, handmade, and washable. For more information, please contact the local chapter coordinator: Ginny DeBates at 212-3975, or look at their web site at www.projectlinus.org.
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