Week of January 18, 2026

• Thank you to Jim Nordstrom & Joni Lommen for serving coffee fellowship this morning.
• Thank you to Michelle Meyer for filling in for organist Carol. We appreciate you!
• The DEEP committee is sponsoring a speaker (and a member of Faith’s) today during the coffee hour. Sara Holger will talk on the abolitionist movement including the underground railroad and local history. Stay if you can!
• MERRY WIDOWS! Mark this Tuesday, Jan. 20th as our next event. We will meet at the Top Hat for taco Tuesday at 11:30 in Nelson. Then we’ll meet at 1pm at the church to play Bunco. Pass the word and bring a friend. Come to both or either lunch and game!
• Next Sunday, January 25th is our Annual Congregational Meeting at 10:15am. Please plan to attend and bring your report you will be getting in the mail soon.
• A Breakfast Brunch will be provided again by the Memorial/Special Gifts/Endowment Committee for a freewill offering at our annual meeting just like last year! The proceeds will go towards the high school graduating senior scholarships we give at graduation.
• Our January Shepherd is Heather Bergan 651-564-0962. Please text or call her with congregational joys or concerns. 507-259-9136
• The Food Share item for January is PAPER PRODUCTS. You can find paper towels or toilet paper on sale to donate or feminine hygiene products and diapers or depends are always needed. And I’d guess just paper would be appreciated for printers. Notebooks for school. Post-it notes for busy families. Thank you very much!

Dennis Baader (future heart surgery)
Vera Miller (hospice)
Linda Arendt (house flooding, health issues)
Lisa Viker (neck fusion surgery Dec. 9)
Marcia Hanson (broken arm)
Barb Suhre (recovering from surgery)
Janice Smith (breast cancer)
Fred Weiss (hospice)
Betty Helgerson (heart issues)
Carol Prescher (continued serious eye issues)
Alta Maccini
Donald Schreiber

Karen Swinehart (rare blood lymphoma) friend of Jan Mosher’s
Jerry Jones (melanoma) Dar’s son
Durand Khan (on liver transplant list) friend of Shirley Gander)
Garry Mahlke (squamous cell cancer) Ron Grave’s brother-in-law
Lori Meincke (seizures; at St. Mary’s) Dar Jones’s sister
Mary Cruser (colon cancer) niece of Carol Cruser
Evelyn Grace (doing well; still observing) 1-yr old granddaughter of Val Zabel’s cousin
Quinn Ernster (front temporal dementia and ALS (friend of Carol Cruser)
Sandy Whitcher (on lung transplant list) Dar Hovda’s niece
Steve Iverson (adjusting to new assisted living in Twin Cities area) Marguerite son
Marietta Lillie (general pain; at asst. living)
Betty (cancer) friend of Toni Burns
Johann Donner (29 year old son of Steve and Connie Donner)
John Justice (inoperable brain tumor) friend of Rollie & Dorothy Kallstrom
Cheryl McCarthy (reoccurring myeloma) Val Zabel’s sister

George Anderberg (friend of Carol Cruser)
John Meisch

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