COMING EVENTS

Sunday May 5th:

Confirmation Sunday & High School Senior Graduate Recognition
Confirmands: Haley Bottjen & Payton Steffens Graduates: Cole Ginger, Shelbi Holtkamp, and Robert Bobby McCauley SOS Graduates & Youth Sponsors Pizza Party Wednesday, May 1st 7:00pm Pizza Ranch WWW Ends Wednesday, April 24th Preschool-Jr High will meet at the Pizza Ranch at 5:45pm
Newsletter of the United Church of Primghar April, 2013 - Volume 4

Healthy Church Initiative UMC Annual Conference June 7-10 In Des Moines
The Healthy Church Initiative is about growing fruitful, vibrant congregations, changing lives through Jesus Christ. It is a process designed to transform churches. The focus is on providing resources and strategies to church pastors, staff, laity, and congregations so that they in turn will be able to reach new people for Christ and become the church God wants them to be in their community. There are three main components to this process: 1. Continuous Learning 2. Coaching 3. Consultation We began this process September of 2011 with the continuous learning stage. I attended the Pastor sessions (once a month), and we had two laity who attended the laity sessions (that began in January of 2012). For each session we were assigned a book to read before our sessions. Each session included peer mentoring, leadership teaching, action plans, and spiritual development. The first year of these were Pastor Leadership Development, and Laity Leadership Development. Over the summer months we decided to move forward in the process towards consultation. This meant that beginning September of 2012, I attended a group made up of 2 other pastors and our facilitator that were also moving towards the consultation phase of the program. We still have a book for each session, and our time together looks similar to the year before (with different content). We are assigned a trained coach to hold us accountable and to guide us on the next steps. Our Parish Council put together the Self Study. (The Surveys that were filled out during worship on December 9th were a part of this process.) The Self Study was then sent to our Consultation Team. The Consultation Team will write 5 prescriptions specific to our church with benchmarks. This whole process is to help us to reach new people for Christ and become the church God wants us to be in our community! Consultation Weekend April 5th-7th Prescriptions Presented/Read After Church on April 7th Town Hall Meetings for questions after Church on April 14th, and 21st. Congregational Meeting to vote yes or no on accepting the prescriptions after worship on April 28th. I would ask each of you to be in prayer for the leadership of our church, and our church as a whole! ~Pastor Cory WEST DOOR
Barb, Sarah, & Matt Rohwer Youth & Children Tony, Bailey & Cole Tjossem Tracy & Jan Tjossem

South OBrien Baccalaureate Services Wednesday, May 15th SOS High School Gym Paullina

UCC Annual Meeting June 7-8 In Ames We are searching for UCC Delegates
COLLEGE GRADUATES
If you have a college student graduating this year, please call the office with details for publication in the June Newsletter.

April Acolyte
7th 14th 21st 28th Jackson Enger Hunter Irwin Mercedes Moss Bailey Tjossem

Children & Youth Sunday April 14th

APRIL NURSERY WORKERS Shirley Jones Joni & Victor Irwin Kim & Mikayla Hintz Jen & Jordan Nieuwenhuis

APRIL USHERS 7th Danielle Kruse, Ben Eldridge, & Terry Wittrock 14th Youth & children 21st & 28th Gordon & Ruth Wittrock & Bobby McCaulley APRIL GRETERS SOUTH DOOR
7th Delores Ginger, Norma Bailey, & Bea Powers 14th Youth & Children 21st Charles & Evelyn Bruns 28th Dorothy Chambers, Jessie Fritsche, & Ann Stroebel

7th 14th 21st 28th

Quarters!
Bring your quarters with you to church to put in the quarter bank. The children would like to raise enough money to buy a Water Buffalo for the Heifer Project this year. A Water Buffalo costs $250, every quarter helps us reach our goal!
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APRIL BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES

Jan Gaudian Shirley Fernstrum Ladonna Wittrock LaNan Eldridge, Mitchell Enger, Mr. & Mrs. Greg Fritzsche, Mr. & Mrs. Dale Fulk 8 Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Jansma 9 Ashli Sohn 10 Charles Bruns, Jr., Susan Smith 11 Kurt Edwards 14 Pastor Cory Flanigan 15 Gretchen Engelmeyer, Deanna Smith Herrar 16 Anne Wright 17 Jim Steffens 18 Wilma Reese, Aubree Eldridge 21 Mr. & Mrs. Charles Bruns, Jr. 22 Tim Wittrock 23 Kevin Brown 24 Jean Edwards 25 Allison Meyer 26 Darwin Gaudian 27 Glen Wittrock, Zola Carnahan, Drew Wittrock, Noah Wittrock 28 Nell Kammerer, Kim Hintz, Eric Mars Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Wittrock

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7:00pm TCA Meeting

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4:00 Confirmation Class WWW 5:45pm Dinner 6:15pm Classes 7:00pm HS Youth 8:00pmChristian Education

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1:30PM Archer UMW 7:008:30pm H.C.I.

SAT
9:00am Parish Council 10-3:00pm H.C.I. Consultation Workshop 10:00am Archer Public Library Unveiling

8 7:00pm Spiritual Concerns

10 2:00pm UCW 4:00pm Confirmation WWW 5:45pm Dinner 6:15pm Classes 7:00pm HS 7:30pm Joint P.P.R. Mtg.

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UCW will meet April 10th at 2 p.m. Hostesses are Fern Rosenboom and Rhonda Rosenboom. Devotions by Lucille Rook and Program by Sheryl Wilson. Evening Circle will meet April 23rd at 7:00 p.m. Hostess is Pastor Cory, Program by Marian Ginger and Devotions by LaNan Eldridge. Faith Circle will meet April 24th at 2 p.m. Bea Powers will give devotions & hostess.

14 Children & Youth Sunday Potato Bake 10:30am to 1pm

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17 4:00 Confirmation Class WWW 5:45pm Dinner 6:15pm Classes 7:00 H.S. 7:30pm Trustee Mtg

18 Newsletter Articles due into the church office by noon today.

19 Halverson/ Pottebaum Rehearsal

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Halverson/ Pottebaum Wedding

Potato Bake Camp Fundraiser

Sunday, April 14th 10:301:00pm Build your own baked potato while helping to send children to camp!

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23 7:00pm Evening Circle

24 25 2:00pm Faith Cir- 7:00pm Parish cle Council 4:00 Confirmation Class Last WWW 7:00pm HS Youth

26 9:00am Newsletter Assembly

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INCOME 2013 January $6,121.50 February $9,738.50 March 3rd-24th$6,756.50 Budget for 2013$132,745.39 Average Monthly Expenditure $11,062.12

28 29 Hayes Monical Baptism

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If you are aware of someone in need of a pastoral call, please inform Pastor Cory at the office, 9574960 or her cell 404-788-4997. She would rather hear from multiple sources than from no one at all. In these times of privacy rights, hospitals and nursing homes may not divulge information relating to a resident or patient, so it is very important that members and/or their families let the Pastor know of all needs for pastoral care.

Congregational Vote on Prescriptions