Wednesday 5/7
9:30 am
Koots (entire building)
Noon - 1 pm Brown Bag
Lunch Text Study (Cordova Room)
12:30 pm Youth
Leadership Team (Community Room)
3:30 - 6:30 pm Campfire
(Fellowship Hall)
3 - 5 pm Drop In Center
Middle / High School (Room 1)
6 pm
6:30 - 9 pm Coin Club
(Fellowship Hall)
6:30 - 9 pm Sobermuit (Community Room)
7 pm Choir Rehearsal (Sanctuary)
Thursday 5/8
9:30 am - 2 pm
10 am - 1 pm Creative
Writing Group (Cordova Room)
2:30 - 9 pm
3:30 - 6:30 pm Campfire
(Fellowship Hall)
NO Yoga
6 pm ANLC AFACT
(Community Room)
7 pm HOLDEN EVENING
PRAYER Worship Service (Sanctuary)
7:30 pm ANLC Choir
Rehearsal (Rooms 5-6)
Friday 5/9
3:30 - 6:30 pm Campfire
(Fellowship Hall)
6 - 8:30 pm
Saturday 5/10
8 am - 3 pm
8:30 am - 5:30 pm
7 - 8 pm Narcotics
Anonymous (Fellowship Hall)
Sunday 5/11 Happy
Mother’s Day!
8:15, 9:45 & 11:15 am Worship Services (Sanctuary)
all services feature our
High School Youth Musical
Between services Thrivent
Bake Sale for Brevig VBS (Narthex)
10 - 11 am Sunday
School & Adult Ed (entire building)
4:30 - 6 pm Confirmation
Class (Room 1)
7 pm
Monday 5/12
3:30 - 6:30 pm Campfire
(Fellowship Hall)
5:30 pm
Tuesday 5/13
6:30 - 7:30 am Early
Bird Bible Study (Cordova Room)
Noon - 1 pm Alaska
Women’s Recovery Project (Community Room)
Noon - 1 pm Pastors Text
Study (Cordova Room)
2:30 - 9 pm
3:30 - 6:30 pm Campfire
(Fellowship Hall)
7 pm
Wednesday
5/14
9:30 am
Koots (entire building)
Noon - 1 pm Brown Bag
Lunch Text Study (Cordova Room)
12:30 pm
3:30 - 6:30 pm Campfire
(Fellowship Hall)
3 - 5 pm Drop In
Center Middle / High School (Room 1)
6 pm
6:30 - 9 pm Sobermuit (Community Room)
7 pm Choir Rehearsal (Sanctuary)
After choir Choir Potluck & Party (Fellowship Hall)
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WORSHIP &
STUDY
Worship Services, now – 5/18
Sundays 8:15, 9:45 & 11:15 am
Thursday evening worship services 7
pm - this week May 8 is Holden Evening Prayer
Worship Services
beginning 5/25
Sundays 9:30 am (8:15 am Bible Study)
Wednesdays 7 pm
Early
Bird Bible Study
Tuesdays at 6:30 am free coffee or
tea and enlightening discussion
Brown Bag Lunch with the Pastor
Text Study
Wednesdays at Noon free coffee or tea
and enlightening discussion
Amazing
invites you to celebrate with us the Installation of our new
Pastor Martin Dasler with us on Sunday 5/18 at 3 pm. Reception following.
SERVE
F.I.S.H. CUTS FOOD DELIVERIES
Hard times have reached the F.I.S.H. (Fellowship in
Serving Humanity) pantry. F.I.S.H. is an organization that provides immediate
emergency food aid and is unique in delivering the food directly to needy
families. F.I.S.H. has only
enough cash on hand to operate for six weeks. Donations are down and the cost
of food is up. In order to stay open, F.I.S.H. has cut its’ food distribution
by half. Instead of 60 families, F.I.S.H. will be able to help only 30 each
week, while we build our treasury. This is at a time when the need is
skyrocketing! F.I.S.H. is calling on you
to extend a hand to feed the poor by making a cash donation NOW. Where
does your donation go? In 2007 F.I.S.H. provided 118,485 meals to impoverished
people. With your help, F.I.S.H.
will return to its’ full delivery schedule and even expand its’ outreach.
Please consider a special donation or a monthly pledge to F.I.S.H., a
tax-exempt organization. Checks made out to F.I.S.H. may be mailed directly to
F.I.S.H. at
Women of Central are urged to participate in an
offering of “In Kind Gifts” for our Women of the ELCA national
convention. It will be held in
Support
those leading
SHOES: Maryann Nagy is
beginning a collection of children’s shoes (good condition, various sizes) to
send to
Our
NOTICES
The Anchorage Farmer’s Market continues
each Saturday 9 am – 2 pm through the summer in our upper parking lot. Your family, small group, or bible circle can
adopt our booth for a Saturday and share the word that Central is a great place
for worship, fellowship, service, and more.
Sign up in the Narthex to adopt a Saturday.
Do you know of a person who should be wrapped in
prayer? Prayer shawls are available from our pastors, Barb Keys, or
Betty Friest.
Yarn is available for those who wish to create new prayer shawls.
You may now sign up to sponsor
the Altar Flowers by the church office
FELLOWSHIP
This month:
Central Community Desserts
♦ Know your neighbors
♦ Good food
♦ Fellowship
♦ Learn about opportunities in our church
Hosts including John & Maryann
Nagy and Ron & Marilyn Martinson will be contacting families in their
neighborhood with invitations.
The next Book Group meeting will be on Monday,
May 26th at Central at 7:00 pm. We will be discussing Riding
the Bus with my Sister: A True Life Journey by
Rachel Simon. It tells of a writing professor (Simon) and how she learned
about life, love and happiness from her mentally retarded sister Beth.
Come and join us for fellowship and discussion.
The Annual Sunday School Picnic will be held following the third service on the last
day of Sunday School, May 18th. A sign-up sheet is posted in the narthex for
volunteers to help with food, set-up, grilling/serving, and clean-up.
SAVE
THE DATE: Our
Annual Neighborhood Picnic will be 5 - 7 pm Wednesday, June 11. Additionally, we’ll plan a Neighborhood
Canvas following the service on Sunday, June 8, to spread the word!
YOUTH
High School Musical has one more rehearsal this Saturday 5/10 at 1 pm.
Confirmation Class last meeting is Sunday 5/11 4:30 – 6 pm. Confirmation Sunday is 9:45 am on Sunday
5/18, with a small reception following the service.
Mother’s Day Flower
Sales delivery
at services on 5/11. This is a youth
fundraiser for the Western States Youth Gathering.
SHARE
Congratulations and thanks to Heather Helgeson on being elected to a position on the Synod
Council.
Pastor Lisa Smith will serve a three-year
term on the Alaska Children’s Services Board.
WORSHIP VOLUNTEERS & STAFF
Presider: Rev. Glenn C. Petersen
Preacher: Youth Musical
Organist: Marie Matetich
Lectors: VOLUNTEER
(8:15) Ed Mjolsnes (11:15)
Communion Asst: VOLUNTEERS
(8:15) VOLUNTEERS (11:15)
Ushers: Dennis & Judy Lynch (8:15) Connie Boecker, Ken Helm (11:15)
Communion Bread: Carol Norquist
Offering Counters: Norm Brown & Jon Goltz
9:45 Offering
Item for May: peanut butter
9:45 Ushers: 5th
& 6th Graders
PRAYER LIST
We Ask Your Prayers for:
Good Shepherd Lutheran in Wasilla, ANLC, Janet
Brewer, James Dahl, David Dale, Elaine Dick, Betty Drury, Robin DuBois, Joan Flygenring, Shannon
Foley, Rose Gray, Kristen Hanson, Ted Herlinger, Roberta
Highstone, Loretta Ramstad Homan, Michelle Kjos, Robert Knutson, Vivian Kugler,
Dorine Lambert, Brian Lasselle,
Patricia Lehtinen, Abraham Lugo, David Pankow, Virginia Pflugrath, the
Rapp Family, Diane Rasplicka,
Rob Ripley, Lou Riviera, Al Roeske,
Charlee Ruhl, Owen Saupe, Richard Shoemaker, Katherine Skinner, Vel Sorenson, Julie Strand, Janet Stotts,
Ernie Swalling, Tim Thorsness,
Muriel Wohlgemuth
Prayers for those serving in
Jen Halter, Ben Nagy, Peter Epton,
Blake Elde, Jon Andrew
Prayers for the families of those who have died:
Kay Swalling
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF
First, “THANK YOU!” to
all of those that attended our “Extreme Makeover” brunch last Sunday. We
appreciate your generosity and faithful support of our ministry and look
forward to the future blessings that lie in store for our ministry together.
Second, “THANK YOU!” to the
individuals and families who joined the LSSA Grazers as we
participated in the annual Visitor Industry Charity Walk on Friday May 2nd. “Thank you!” to Thrivent Financial for Lutherans for the matching funds
that were committed to the event.
SAVE THE DATE – LSSA
NEEDS YOUR HELP TO MOVE OUR MAIN OFFICES AT 8:00 AM THIS SATURDAY, MAY 10TH. We will
meet at our offices located at