Panther Creek Church of the Brethren
Continuing
the Work of Jesus . . . Peacefully, Simply, Together.
April 2010 Vol.
46, No. 4
Holy Week Lasts Seven Days
One hundred forty. Is
that:
a) the
current number of hymnals in the Panther Creek sanctuary and narthex
b) the
number of M&M’s in a one-pound bag of plain M&M’s
c) the
number of days remaining until the next Sweet Corn Festival Parade
If you guessed “c”, you guessed
correctly. There are only 140 days left
until the 31st Annual Adel Sweet Corn Festival Parade. Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday has often been
characterized as a parade in both the 20th and 21st-centuries. No, there weren’t any clowns or marching
bands or antique tractors when Jesus entered the holy city of Jerusalem.
But there was a large crowd gathered along the road as Jesus and his
disciples entered Jerusalem
on that very first Palm Sunday. I don’t
know if they waved or clapped their hands the way the Sweet Corn Festival
Parade crowd does, but I do know they shouted, “Hosanna to the Son of David!
Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heaven!” (Matthew
21:9)
By the end of the week, the palm
branches had dried up and blown away…the parade was over, and the crowd had
turned against Jesus. In Mark 15:12-15,
you will find these words: “Pilate spoke
to the crowd, ‘Then what do you wish me to do with the man you call the King of
the Jews?’ They shouted back, ‘Crucify
him!’ Pilate asked them, ‘Why, what evil
has he done?’ But they shouted all the
more, ‘Crucify him!’ So Pilate, wishing
to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas for them; and after flogging Jesus, he
handed him over to be crucified.”
Our temptation during the last
days of Lent is to simply skip from Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday
to his victorious resurrection on Easter Sunday. By doing that, we don’t have to deal with the
sinful or broken aspects of Holy Week – Judas Iscariot’s betrayal of Jesus, the
disciples’ abandonment of Jesus, the scourging of Jesus, and his suffering and
death on the cross.
But the calendar doesn’t work
that way – you cannot get from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday without going
through Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Silent Saturday. I don’t want to “rain on your parade”, and I
certainly don’t want to hinder your celebration of Christ’s resurrection on
Easter morning. I just don’t want you to
forget about everything Jesus experienced between Palm Sunday and Easter. After all, he didn’t forget about you during
Holy Week!
Our “worship-filled” week will
begin with our children and youth carrying palm branches to the front of the
sanctuary on Palm Sunday while the Panther Creek Vocal Choir sings three
selections from “He’s Alive Forever” created by Deborah Craig-Claar and Robert
Sterling. All Panther Creek children and
youth are encouraged to gather in the Youth Room at 10:20 a.m. on Sunday, March
28 to receive palm branches and instructions.
On Maundy Thursday (April 1), you
are invited to participate in “The Love Feast: A Celebration of our Lord’s Last
Supper.” (In case you are wondering, “Maundy” is derived from “mandatum”, the
Latin word for “commandment.” The
Thursday before Easter is named “Maundy Thursday” because of the command Christ
gave his followers at the Last Supper, according to John 13:34 – “A new command
I give you: love one another.”)
During the Love Feast, we will
re-enact the events from the Last Supper as recorded in John 13. This worship service will begin in the
sanctuary with a time of reflection, self-examination and prayer. We will then move downstairs for feetwashing
(or handwashing), an agape meal (traditional 1st-century meal), and
Holy Communion. If you are unable or
reluctant to wash feet or have your own feet washed, you are welcome to sit at
one of the handwashing tables or simply leave your shoes and socks on and
observe the feetwashing service. If
you’ve never attended a Love Feast before and have some questions, please talk
to me or one of our deacons (Joe Berg
& Sandy Trent, Ells Cackler, Dave & Linda Lantz, Harold & JoAnn
Mack, Carl & Jennie Reiste, Karen Smith, Ed & Sue Swinger, Alan &
Roxanne Wicks, Grace Berkenbosch – emeritus, Lowell Marshall – emeritus,
Richard Reiste – emeritus, Dale & Ruth Wicks – emeritus, Eva York –
emeritus).
At 7:00 p.m. on Good Friday
(April 2), I will be one of the speakers at an Ecumenical Good Friday Service
at the Dallas Center Church
of the Brethren. Sandra Marshall will
sing a solo during the Good Friday service.
I hope you will join us to worship the Lord on Good Friday with other
Christians from central Dallas
County.
At 7:00 a.m. on Easter Sunday
(April 4), we will have a “Sonrise” worship service at 7 a.m., an Easter
breakfast served by the Panther Creek Youth at 7:45 a.m., a viewing of the
video “Stations of the Resurrection” at 9:15 a.m., worship at 10:30 a.m., a
Jellybean Jubilee (Easter Egg hunt) for the children coordinated by PCY after
the 10:30 a.m. worship service, and a potluck for those who would like to eat
their Easter dinner with their church family.
Alan & Denise Oneal will sing a duet during the “Sonrise” service
and the Handbell Choir and Vocal Choir will share special music during the
10:30 a.m. worship service. The Junior
Youth will present a drama toward the end of the 10:30 a.m. worship
service.
I hope you will spend some time
each day of Holy Week prayerfully considering what Jesus went through during
the days leading up to his crucifixion and resurrection. May God bless you with a deeper appreciation
of the greatness of his gift!
Happy Easter!
Dave Kerkove
Upcoming Worship
April 1 “The
Foolishness of God” 1
Corinthians 1:18-31
Maundy Thursday Love Feast in
the Panther Creek Fellowship Hall
April 4 “What
Are You Carrying On Your Cross?” Mark 8:31-36; 15:21-32
“Sonrise” Service
April 4 “How
Does Grass Become Wool?” Matthew 28:1-10
Easter
April 11 “The Parable
of the Pouting Son” Luke 15:1-3, 11-32
April 18 “What Do Sheep
Eat?” John 21:1-19
April 25 “I Don’t Like
Raisins!” John 15:1-11
May 1 Guest Speaker
APRIL BIRTHDAYS
1 - Roger Bever
5 - Mark Heefner
7 - Burke Emmert
Brock
Emmert
Nathan
Fritz
8 - Jana Heefner
Bob Davis
Donna Davis
11 - Grace
Berkenbosch
Jim Mack
Kathy Mack
13 - Christy
Berkenbosch
14 - Rachel Hoy
15 - Lowell Snyder
Caleb
Kerkove
16 - Colton Reiste
18 - Karin Kliewer
David
Garoutte
Joel
Prazak
23 - Pam Broyles
Elinor
Heisey
Shane Boots
George
Reiste
24 - Leah Thill
25 - Nick Dawes
26 - Brenda Wicks
Verlan
Miller
27 - Marilyn Stine
28 - Rowdy Dymond
Sophia
Schrock
30 - Sarah Miller
Rhylan Stine-Smith
APRIL
ANNIVERSARIES
1 - Bob &
Doreen Davis
8 - Jeff &
Patty Harker
13
- Brock & Presha Emmert
19 - Larry &
Deloris Davis
Thank you everyone for your prayers,
cards, visits and delicious meals. We greatly appreciate all your love and
support. I have all my cards displayed on a library table in the living room
and when my daughter, Amy, came over she was amazed at how many there were and
said, “I don’t even think I have that many friends!” I told her that most of
them came from my church family. What a wonderful feeling to know that so many
do care and love us.
God Bless You All, Roxanne
Wicks
Class News
Pathfinders will meet on Saturday,
April 10th, at 6:30pm in the fellowship hall. Rod & Reba
Armstrong and Peter & Sandra Marshall will serve as hosts. Meat and drinks
will be provided. Please bring a side dish or dessert and table service.
Bereans will not meet this month.
Women’s
Fellowship
Women’s
Fellowship will meet on Thursday, April 1st at 9am. Please bring a
sack lunch. On Thursday, April 15th, Helen Dawes and Lola Knoll will
serve as hostesses for a Lasagna Dinner. On Thursday, April 29th,
please bring a sack lunch. Bible Study will be held at 11am on each meeting
day.
Directory
Update
Gilmer, David* 515-897-4972
Thill, Marvin & Betty 815-947-3197
521 Eugene St., Stockton, IL 61085
All Panther Creek members and
friends are invited to a SPRING CLEAN-UP
on Saturday, April 10 at 9am (rain date: April 17). Please bring paint brushes,
hedge trimmers, rakes, chain saws, and gloves.
If you have any questions, please contact Norman Stine at 993-4043.
Panther Creek Church of the
Brethren
Hamballs, Handbells & Harmony!
Sunday, April 25
10:30 a.m. – Worship
11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Hamball Dinner (freewill donation)
1:15 p.m. – Handbell & Harmony
Concert
Handbell Selections: My Favorite Things (Sound of Music); How
Majestic Is Your Name; Song of the Wind; Siyahamba (African Freedom Song); Hymn
of Promise (In the Bulb);
Rondo Festivo;
Blessed Assurance;
My Favorite Things
(reprise)
Harmony Selections: Fall on Me;
May the Peace of the
Lord;
It Is Well with My
Soul; Halle, Halle,
Halle
Invite your friends, neighbors, and family
to join us in thanking God
for blessing us with 25 years
of handbell music!
Stover Memorial Music Festival
The 2010 Stover Memorial Music
Festival has been scheduled for Sunday, May 2 at 4 p.m. at the Stover Memorial
Church of the Brethren in Des Moines. The festival will include congregational
singing and special numbers from central Iowa Church
of the Brethren vocal choirs, musical ensembles and soloists. The Music Festival will conclude with a
fellowship meal; all those who attend are asked to bring sandwiches or a salad
to share. Table service and drinks will
be provided.
April 25th Special Offering:
Brethren Disaster Ministries
On the last Sunday of April, you
are invited to make a gift to support Brethren Disaster Ministries, a program
that provides volunteers to clean up debris and to repair or rebuild homes for
disaster survivors who lack sufficient resources to hire a contractor or other
paid labor. The presence of these
volunteer work teams helps to ease the trauma that is felt in the aftermath of
a disaster.
Through Children’s Disaster
Services, Brethren Disaster Ministries has been meeting the needs of children
by setting up child care centers in shelters and disaster assistance centers
across the nation. Specially trained to
respond to traumatized children, volunteers provide a calm, safe and reassuring
presence in the midst of the chaos created by tornados, floods, hurricanes,
wildfires and any other natural or human caused disaster.
On April 25, you are invited to
place your financial gift for Brethren Disaster Ministries in the wicker basket
that will pass through your pew during the offertory. If you choose to write a check, please make
it out to the Panther
Creek Church
of the Brethren and write “Brethren Disaster Ministries” on the memo line of
your check.
Thank You to the Following Individuals
and Families Who Purchased Easter Lilies to decorate the Sanctuary on Easter
Sunday
In memory of Velma
Garrett (Marylin Reynolds, Peg Kelly, Lowell
Garrett, Deloris Marshall & Harold Garrett)
In memory of Alma & Laverne
Spearing, Ruby & Fred York (Carroll & Phyllis York)
In memory of Everett
& LuAnn Myers (Eleanor Myers)
In memory of Jack
& Anna Button, Carl & Elva Myers (Eleanor Myers)
In memory of Beth
& Ira Stine (Norman & Marilyn Stine)
In memory of Dr.
Harold & Dr. Bill Banwart, Bette Banwart (Lois Banwart)
In memory of Cherie
S. Pollock (Elwyn Pollock, Dana Booge, Rita Pollock)
In memory of Inga
Cackler (Ells Cackler, Sue Swinger & family)
In memory of Wendell
Hunt (George & Charlotte Hunt)
In memory of Walter
& Wilma Kliewer (Roy & Karin Kliewer)
In memory of Velma
Garrett (Lowell & Stacy Garrett)
In memory of Beryl
Berkenbosch (Beryl Berkenbosch family)
In memory of Tim
Messamer (Darlene Messamer)
In memory of Robbin
Hackbart, Josh Hackbart & in honor of Louie Hackbart (Pat Hackbart)
In memory of Ruby
Wicks (Lowell & Helen Dawes)
In memory of Bill
Gilmer (Dave Gilmer)
In honor of Francis
& Helen Kerkove, Leroy & Connie Hull (Caleb & Joshua Kerkove)
In memory of Roland
Dion (Kris & Michelle Marshall)
McPherson College Choir Concert at Panther Creek
7:30 p.m. ~
Friday, April 16
The Panther Creek
Church of the Brethren
will present the McPherson College Choir in concert on Friday, April 16. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. and will
feature the College Choir and the McPherson College Singers, the college’s
select vocal ensemble.
This program is built around two
stories; the first story is a soldier’s life and the love that is cut
short. The soldier’s story features
works such as “Sweet William” and “Last Letter Home,” by American composer Lee
Hoiby. The second story traces a
relationship from start to end and features compositions which embrace the
wonderful and bittersweet moments in love, but also some that show the more
humorous aspects of living with someone.
To tell the story of a love that lasted, the choir is performing works
that range from “Der Gang Zum Liebchen,” by Brahms, “I Wished to be Single
Again,” arr., by Ricketts, to “The Coolin,’” by Samuel Barber. The McPherson College Singers will function
in these stories, but they will also perform Benjamin Britten’s challenging a
capella cycle “Choral Dances from Gloriana.”
The sacred portion of this program will be spaced evenly throughout the
performance and will include works by Copland and Gjeilo as well as a very new
arrangement of “I Want Jesus to Walk With Me,” by American composer Tom
Shelton.
The McPherson College Choir tours
annually. This year’s tour takes singers
to northeast Kansas, Nebraska
and Iowa,
where students will perform for college alumni and friends of the college at
various churches. The McPherson College
A Capella Choir made its debut under Dr. Alvin “Cheesy” Voran on February 8,
1933. The new singing group was formed
to expand the exposure of the college in the city and surrounding area through
travel and concerts. Nevin Fisher and
Donald Frederick continued to build the choral tradition, touring yearly, with
the exception of the World War II years.
Under the baton of later directors the choir sings a more diverse repertoire
of accompanied and a capella music.
The McPherson College Choir is
directed by James Keith, visiting professor of music, and accompanied by Amanda
Keith. A free will offering will be
taken to help support the expenses of the tour.
The Panther Creek Church of the
Brethren will be responsible for feeding them supper at 6pm on April 16,
serving punch & cookies after the concert in the fellowship hall, housing
the students & advisors overnight (approximately 63 students &
advisors), and providing breakfast on April 17 (in the homes of host families
or individuals). Please sign your name
on the sign-up sheet located on the table in the narthex or call the church
office if you can help host our Brethren college singers and advisors.
Wedding Shower
Everyone is invited to a wedding shower
honoring Ben Swinger and Jenna Matson on Saturday, May 22, at 3:30pm in the
Panther Creek fellowship hall. They are registered at:
Name: Jenna
Matson
State: Kansas
Wedding
Date: June
2010
- Bed, Bath,
and Beyond
- Registry number: 11471195
2010 Camp Pine Lake Schedule
Man vs. Nature
River Weekend 5 p.m., May 14 – Noon, May
16 $35
Young Adult Get-Together 5
p.m., June 25 – Noon, June 27 $35
Junior Youth (Grades 6-8) 10
a.m., July 12 – 10 a.m., July 16 $185
Primary Overnight (Grades K-2) 4 p.m., July 23 – 4 p.m., July 24 $40 per person
Senior Youth (Grades 9-12) 10
a.m., July 27 – 10 a.m., July 31 $215
Middler (Grades 3-5) 10
a.m., August 2 – 10 a.m., August 6 $185
All Ages 10
a.m., Sept. 4 – 10 a.m., Sept. 6 Freewill offering
Half of the registration fee
for all Panther Creek CoB children and youth will be paid by the Panther Creek
church budget. If it is your first
time as a camper at Camp
Pine Lake,
the camp will waive the other half of the registration fee. Need based partial or full scholarships are
available. Please contact Camp Pine
Lake for details: (641)
939-5334 or camppinelake@heartofiowa.net. Children attending primary overnight camp
must be accompanied by an adult. Late fees apply for those who register
after May 15th.
Please contact the church office or Sue Kimpston if you would like a
registration form or if you have any questions about Camp Pine Lake.
Matt and Betsy Kuecker, Camp Pine Lake managers, are excited to announce the arrival
and adoption of their son Aiden Lee, born February 18, 2010 in Sioux Falls, South
Dakota. Aiden
weighed 8 pounds, 11 ounces and was 22 inches long at birth. Aiden’s grandparents are Tim and Cindy Kane (Prairie City
Church of the Brethren), Dan and Julie
Kuecker (Prairie City Church
of the Brethren) and Dub and Pam St. John.
Panther Creek’s Women’s Fellowship sent Aiden a baby blanket on behalf
of the Panther Creek Church
of the Brethren.
Paint at Camp
Pine Lake
= MONEY for NYC
Northern Plains District youth,
their families and friends are invited to help Camp
Pine Lake
paint hail damaged cabins and earn money to fund their trip to NYC in Ft. Collins, Colorado.
Anyone who shows up to paint and support
the youth on Saturday, April 17 will be “paid” hourly for their work. Camp
Pine Lake
is open to stay overnight if needed.
Youth must be accompanied by a sponsor.
All proceeds will be paid to the Northern Plains District NYC fund. Please email camppinelake@heartofiowa.net
or call (641) 939-5334 with questions or to RSVP. Lunch will be provided. Start Time: 8 a.m. End Time: 5 p.m.
DATE CHANGE: Camp
Pine Lake
Work Day – Saturday, May 8
Come help Camp Pine Lake get ready for the season! The work will be a combination of spring
cleaning and work projects. You are
welcome to come for an hour or stay all day.
Camp Pine Lake
is open to stay overnight if needed.
Please email camppinelake@heartofiowa.net
or call (641) 939-5334 with questions or to RSVP. Lunch will be provided. Start Time: 8 a.m. End Time: 5 p.m.
Cedar
Rapids Disaster Response Project
Brethren Disaster Ministries and
the Northern Plains District are seeking volunteers to participate in an
“Ecumenical Blitz Build” in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa from April
11-May 21, 2010 to help repair/rebuild homes that were damaged by the
flooding of 2008. At least 10 Church of
the Brethren volunteers are being sought for each of the six weeks. Partial weeks or even day commitments can
also be arranged. Volunteers must be
at least 16 years old to participate. To
help with travel expenses to Cedar
Rapids, funds are available from the Northern Plains
District’s Disaster Response Fund. All
skill levels are welcome – there will be plenty of work for everyone!
Please contact Alan & Denise
Oneal, Church of the Brethren coordinators for the Cedar Rapids Disaster
Response Project, or Dick Williams, Northern Plains District Disaster
Coordinator, if you are interested in volunteering. Alan & Denise can be reached at aro67@msn.com, deeser71@msn.com
or 993-3411. Dick can be reached at rlwkmw@iowatelecom.net or
641-667-3862. You are also encouraged to
fill out a volunteer skills assessment form which can be found on the table in
the Panther Creek narthex and return it to the church office, a member of the
Panther Creek Gifts Ministry Team or Alan Oneal.
Church of the Brethren volunteers
will be housed in the Cedar Rapids Baptist/Brethren church building where there
will be sleeping quarters, showers, and a kitchen. Morning and evening meals will be served at
the church building and sack lunches will be provided for the noon meal. Church of the Brethren volunteers will be
mixed with volunteers from other denominations during the workday. You also do not need to be a Church of the
Brethren member to volunteer – friends, family members and neighbors are
welcome, too!
Church of the Brethren Prayer Calendar
Week of March 28: Spend some quiet time with
God, and listen for what God’s Spirit may still be trying to teach you as you
continue along the journey of faith.
Week
of April 4: As we celebrate Easter, pray for new life in Christ to come
to all those around the world who are seeking answers. Pray, too, for those who are carrying that
word to places near and far.
Week
of April 11: Pray for Brethren in Nigeria
who have faced violence in their own backyards and for Brethren in India and Brazil who are finding unique ways
to live out their heritage in their particular settings and cultures.
Week
of April 18: Be in prayer for this week’s Cross-Cultural Consultation and
Celebration in Pennsylvania,
and thank God for the diversity that enriches our church.
Week
of April 25: Pray for the Dominican Republic
and Haiti, two nations that
share the island
of Hispaniola. Hold in prayer the communities in both
nations that have been affected in various ways by January’s earthquake and
consider what you can do to help.
Haiti Earthquake
Response Continues
The Church of the Brethren Mission and Ministry
Board of the Church of the Brethren met on March 12-16 at the church’s General
Offices in Elgin, Illinois.
Reports to the Mission and Ministry Board
of the Church of the Brethren included a review of the work of Brethren Disaster
Ministries with Eglise des Freres Haitiens (Haitian
Church of the Brethren) following the
earthquake in Haiti. Roy Winter, executive director of Brethren
Disaster Ministries, and Jeff Boshart, coordinator of the church's disaster
response in Haiti,
reported to the board. Both participated
in an assessment trip to Haiti
in late January.
The earthquake response has built
on a Brethren program started following the four hurricanes and tropical storms
that hit the island in 2008. "Without
all this in place, we couldn't be doing earthquake response this quickly or
effectively," Winter said. He
reported that the death toll from the earthquake now stands at around 230,000,
but that the final number is expected to be close to 300,000 people killed in
and around the city of Port-au-Prince. Up to 1.2 million Haitians are homeless.
The National Committee of Eglise
des Freres Haitiens has officially invited Brethren Disaster Ministries to
continue working in Haiti,
Boshart reported. The invitation was
included in the minutes of the group's February meeting. "It was a statement of affirmation, for
sure," Boshart said, but added that it was a reminder of the fact that the
program is working with an independent denomination in Haiti.
"We need to keep those
relationships solid," he told the board as he reviewed the way the
earthquake response is being organized and led.
The Haitian and US
churches are intentionally working together in assessment and planning, he
said. Coordination for the effort is
coming from Brethren Disaster Ministries in the United States,
Haitian church leaders are carrying out the on-the-ground relief work, and the
Church of the Brethren is providing funding through its Emergency Disaster
Fund.
The earthquake response includes
support for feeding programs at six locations in Port-au-Prince: a daily hot
meal for children at a school in Port-au-Prince, through which about 20,000
meals have been served Winter said; a feeding program through the Kids Club of
the Delmas Church of the Brethren; feeding programs for the church communities and
neighborhoods around the three Port-au-Prince congregations at Marin, Delmas,
and Croix des Bouquets; and a feeding program for children at the Vine Ministry
Church, which has Brethren connections.
Another part of the response is the building of temporary shelters primarily
for Haitian Brethren families – "effectively a plywood shed with a tin
roof" in Winter's description – with the first families moving in this
past weekend. A short-term medical delegation
will be offering five clinics in Port-au-Prince
next week at the Brethren
church sites. There are plans for donations of canned chicken
by Southern Pennsylvania and Mid-Atlantic
Districts, with canning to take place in April. Brethren Disaster Ministries is helping
support a program to aid Haitian refugees in New York, located at Haitian First Church of
New York.
Through grants from the Emergency
Disaster Fund, the Church of the Brethren is providing support for the wider
ecumenical effort of Church World Service (CWS) and ACT International in Haiti.
There also
is work going on to connect with some of the other mission efforts in Haiti
that are not denominational in scope but have support from congregations or
districts of the Church of the Brethren.
A final element of the response
is the collection of Family Household Kits for Haiti. These kits will help homeless families
rebuild their lives, and are a new type of kit created primarily for Haitian
Brethren families. The kits "have
really caught on across the denomination," Winter told the board. Members of the Mission
and Ministry Board signed letters of support and encouragement to Eglise des
Freres Haitiens in Haiti,
and to the Haitian Brethren congregations in the Unites States. (From the
March 19, 2010 Church of the Brethren
Newsline Special, produced by Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford, director of news
services for the Church of the Brethren)
New Disaster Rebuilding Site in America Samoa
Brethren Disaster Ministries
staff announced a new project site in American
Samoa, following an earthquake and tsunami in
September 2009. The Church of the
Brethren has been invited to help rebuild homes on American Samoa by FEMA and the American
Samoa VOAD (Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster). Working with the United Church of Christ and
the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee, Brethren Disaster Ministries
will be the lead organization for the project and will coordinate and manage
the construction.
The project will offer skilled assistance in disaster rebuilding, while also
helping with the high unemployment rate on the island by having local
apprentices from a government-funded program work with rotating teams of
skilled volunteers selected by the three church organizations. The first team of disaster volunteers from the
United States will travel to
American Samoa
on March 28, 2010. (From the March 19, 2010 Church of the Brethren Newsline Special, produced by Cheryl
Brumbaugh-Cayford, director of news services for the Church of the Brethren)
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Northern Plains District Prayer Calendar
The Northern Plains District
Nurture Commission encourages all of us to participate in prayer for one
another, as we are admonished to do in scripture. If you would like, you may drop them a note
of encouragement during the week you are praying for them.
Week Pray for this
church This church will be praying for us
March 28 – April 3 Lewiston Church
of the Brethren South Waterloo
Church of the Brethren
(25335 County Rd.
25, Lewiston, MN 55952)
April 4-10 Libertyville
Church of the Brethren Sheldon Church
of the Brethren
(1425
230th St., Batavia, IA 52533)
April 11-17 Living Peace
Church of the Brethren Project Salem
Church of the Brethren
(921
28th St., Sioux City, IA 51104) (north of Lenox, IA)
April 18-24 Monroe County
Church of the Brethren
Root River Church of the Brethren
(150 Maple Dr. #1, Albia,
IA 52531) (east of Greenleafton, MN)
April 25 – May 1 Mount
Etna Church of the Brethren Robins Church of the Brethren
(1953
160th St., Corning, IA 50841)
