Week of January 4th 2026

• Thank you to Chris Kohler and Jerri Hoekstra for serving Coffee today after worship. Many people enjoy our fellowship time!
• Please stay after church TODAY to help take down our Christmas tree and put everything away. Anybody who helped purchase a poinsettia may take one home today. Thank you, Faith family!
• Remember to put Sunday, January 25th down on your calendar for our Annual Congregational Meeting to be held right after church around 10:15. Please bring your report that will be mailed shortly.
• Check your emails to find out how to access the new Faith Lutheran Church online pictorial! Please add a picture of you or your family soon as we want to print them off completed. Julie will be available today after church to take anyone’s picture to put in the directory.
• The next WELCA meeting is THIS Tuesday, January 6th at 10am. We’re going to play BINGO! Bring a white elephant gift for a prize and remember it’s a potluck! All women who belong to Faith also belong to the Women of the Evangelical Church in America (WELCA) and are invited to come and have some fun! We’ve worked hard to raise $5,000 at our Cookie Walk. It’s time to give ourselves a pat on the back!
• Our January Shepherd is Heather Bergan. Please text or call her with congregational joys or concerns. 651-564-0962
• The Food Share focus 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.

Vera Miller (pneumonia)
Linda Arendt (house flooding and health issues)
MJ Bussian (knee surgery)
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
Carol Prescher (serious eye issues)
Alta Maccini
Donald Schreiber

Karen Swinehart (rare blood lymphoma) friend of Jan Mosher
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

John Meisch (funeral here Friday, Jan. 16th)

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