St. Peter Lutheran Church

All Saints Sunday, November 1, the church’s traditional time to remember those who have died in the past year and those born into our faithcommunity. We celebrate and remember their lives and how we are knit
together with them in the victory of Jesus’ resurrection. We will remember those from St Peter and if you’d like to submit a name of a loved one lost within the last year, please do so before
October 26.
 

​The Lutheran Disaster Response Fund has been activated to answer the call and lift up those who need support to recover from the derecho.
The Iowa Lutheran Disaster Response Fund is a partnership among LSI and the three Iowa
synods of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Your gift will support your Iowa neighbors as they recover from the destruction left behind by this severe storm. Please consider giving generously.        https://lsiowa.org/disasterrelief/

Also, The Southeastern Iowa Synod is collecting gifts to support relief efforts after the derecho that swept through the state last week.
The Office of the Bishop is assessing the needs as a result of the derecho storm in a large part of the territory of the synod. You can make a gift online to help relief efforts at the link
below. If you'd like to assist in other ways, email Val Harlynn, communications@seiasynod.org
https://seiasynod.org/elca…/disaster-response-derecho-storm
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We are sorry to inform our members that we will not be hosting EWALU this summer for VBS.

Join us Wednesday evenings for Holden Evening Prayer. Supper will be served starting at 5:15 pm, with Worship at 6:30 pm 

It ​is time again to gather school supplies for Lutheran World Relief school kits. Items needed: 70 sheet spiral notebooks, 24 count Crayola brand crayons (not washable), blunt end kindergarten scissors, unsharpened pencils, ball point pens (not gel pens), 12” rulers (inches on one side and centimeters on the other), and small pencil sharpeners, 2 1/2” eraser. There will be a laundry basket outside the office for collection. If you’d rather not shop, cash and checks are very welcome, Make out checks to St Peter WELCA with “LWR Kits” on the memo line.

We have a new supply of quilt tops in the friendship room for anyone that would be
 interested in sewing them. The quilters are thankful for any help that can be provided. 
 

The confirmation students and families will be serving Lenten Suppers, starting with this Wednesday, March 20, before Holden Evening Prayer, from 5:15—6:15 pm. Come for the walking
 Tacos—stay for the service :)
 

 Generations of Lutheran women have gathered in Thankoffering
worship services since the early 1900’s.  Thankofferings show gratitude for God’s
blessings and give us an important and tangible way to express that gratitude.  It is a
tradition grounded in our celebration of community, of meeting together to joyfully give thanks for what God has given us. Thankofferings have always been, and still are, our
opportunity to say thank you to God in both significant and ordinary moments.
Your thankofferings support the total outreach of our church women to live out our mission—“mobilizing women to act boldly on their faith in Jesus Christ.”  Together we can do more than we could ever do apart.