Announcements

  • Thank you to Val Zabel and Joanne Zimmerman for hosting our coffee fellowship hour.
  • “ALL HANDS ON DECK” TODAY! Stay after church to help decorate our church for Christmas and also set up tables for the Cookie Walk. Thank you!
  • The Annual Christmas Bazaar at St. John Lutheran Church in Alma is the same day as our cookie walk! Next Saturday, Dec. 6 from 10:30am-1:00pm. Besides their soup and sandwich and dessert lunch, they have a silent auction, bake sale, craft and treasure sales and a raffle drawing at 1pm. After you buy your cookies here, you can go to lunch there!
  • “How the Grinch Found the Christ in Christmas” play is free at the Valley View Assembly of God Church in Lake City. Saturday, Dec 6th at 7pm or Sunday, Dec 7th at 3pm. The director is Bonnie Sandberg, the Elder Network manager.
  • Mark your calendars now for the Annual Christmas Handbell Choir Concert. It will be on Sunday, December 14th at 2pm. Stay for refreshments following!
  • Our November Shepherd is Linda Brehmer. Please text or call her with congregational joys or concerns. 507-450-7524

Prayer List

Members of Faith Lutheran Church:

Members of Faith
Barb Suhre (recovering from surgery)
Kathy Bussian (back surgery Oct. 3)
Janice Smith (breast cancer)
Fred Weiss (hospice)
Betty Helgerson
Carol Prescher (eye surgery Nov. 5)
Jenny Yager (colon cancer)
Alta Maccini
Donald Schreiber

Friends of Faith:

Sandy D. (pancreatic cancer) friend of Deb Smith
Doris Baker (heart issues) Shirley Ganer’s sister-in-law
Hollia (thyroid cancer) Emelyn Osborn’s daughter
Lori Meincke (seizures; at St. Mary’s) Dar Jones’s sister
Bryce, Anne Meurer’s brother-in-law (semi-truck rollover with minor injuries
Mary Cruser (colon cancer) niece of Carol Cruser
Lori Mcliquham (gall bladder surgery) Randy Johnson’s son Adam’s mother-in-law
Isaac Malsom (many serious injuries from plane crash) Sarah Niemeyer’s cousin
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)
Verna Oban (MRSA infection in foot) Sarah Niemeyer’s grandmother
Sandy Whitcher (on lung transplant list) DarHovda’s niece
Steve Iverson (adjusting to new assisted living in Twin Cities area) Marguerite son
Bonnie Prissel (lung and heart issues) sister of Shirley Gander
Marietta Lillie (general pain; at asst. living)
Patty Arnold (health issues) friend of Shirley Gander
Betty (cancer) friend of Toni Burns
Johann Donner (29 year old son of Steve and Connie Donner)
John Justice (inoperable brain tumor) friend
Cheryl McCarthy (reoccurring myeloma) Val Zabel’s sister

Grieving Deaths:

August Hulseberg, infant friend of Deb Koopman

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