Enjoying Fellowship

High Schoolers

St. John's is blessed with gifted and dedicated teens, many of whom are active in a variety of ways within and beyond the congregation.

We're thankful for our Youth Ministry Team of Scott, Dan, Mike,  Jenny, and Pastor Paul. And we're thankful for parents who encourage their teens to get involved; and for church members who notice, care about, get to know, pray for, and encourage the young people in your lives-wherever they may be.

Breakfast Club

We meet on Sunday mornings for food, fellowship, and study. Get there before the donut eaters!

Service

We planted a corn patch a couple of summers with the proceeds going to world hunger causes. Our commitment to tithe our gifts and fund raisers-as in giving away 10%- along with the full proceeds from selling sweet corn, has allowed us to give $600 to our ELCA World Hunger Appeal, and another $600 to help our sister parish, Ulong'a, in Tanzania with food and school tuition needs. We're thankful we can be a blessing!

Trips

In 2006, eight of us attended the ELCA Youth Gathering in San Antonio with 36,000 other Lutherans! We received very generous financial support from one of our members-to defray these costs and free us to do some service projects. 

In 2007, we took two mission trips: one, over spring break to Chicago; the other, in July to Crossways Pine Lake Camp where we helped build a cabin (which gifts from our St. John's Sharing God's Blessings Appeal) are helping to pay for!

Our BIG dream for 2009 is to consider a Mission Trip to Tanzania! We're going to explore a visit to our missisonaries, Dr. Steve & Bethany Friberg.

Playing

Can you say dodgeball and volleyball?

Women of the ELCA

There are currently two women's groups that meet regularly at St. John's: 

• Naomi Circle (the 3rd Monday of each month at 12:30 pm)
• Ruth Circle (the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm)

During the year, these two circles along with other women of St. John's have participated in the following projects: 

• Making quilts for Lutheran World Relief
• Selling fair-trade chocolate bars to help the cocoa farmers in Ghana
• Packaging Health Kits for Lutheran World Relief
• Facilitating the "Giving Tree" (which enables the congregation to purchase Christmas presents for families through Lutheran Social Services and All People's Church)
• Organizing bake sales
• Providing food and service for various potlucks, funeral and wedding luncheons
• Sponsoring a Thankoffering Service with offerings going to women's ministries of the ELCA
• Offering study and fellowship to women within each circle

We look forward to continuing our various ministries here at St. John's and welcoming other women into opportunities for fellowship and service. All women are welcome to attend either of these two groups! If the time doesn't work for you, how about creating a third women's group?  We'll help you advertise and get organized. Talk to Wendy Heidtke.