Trunk or Treat is Back!
Wed, October 26, 6:00-7:00pm
We have a date! Combining with our regularly scheduled Family Faith Nights, Trunk or Treat will be hosted at Grace. Find the event on Facebook (coming soon) or download the pdf flyer to share in your workplace. ALL from the community are welcome! So as to serve our neighbor in conjunction with this event, we are recommending that families bring a food item to share with the Muscatine Food Pantry.
Interested in hosting a trunk? We need you! Sign up here.
If you have any questions, contact Leslie Eichelberger (SOTC), Denise Baird (Zion), or Traci Lippelgoes (Grace). Looking forward to a great night with our church communities and the greater community of Muscatine!
Soup Fest – We Need Your Help!
Sunday, November 6
We’re excited to offer this opportunity to the community as a way to provide a place for fellowship, and at the same time raise funds to help support Lutheran Chaplaincy Outreach. Here’s how you can help:
1. Advertise | Like and share our Facebook event, and/or post flyers or hand out small reminder cards. Flyers and cards available in the narthex.
2. Sign Up to help cook/volunteer | We’ll need soup makers, pie bakers, and many hands on Nov 6! Sign up sheets are available in the narthex. Want to sign up now? Email Kathy in the main office.
Questions? Talk to Colleen Bentz or Kathy Dunham.
Second Month of Generations of Living Faith (GOLF)!
Sunday, October 16, 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Plan to join us for a night of faith formation and fun as we learn more about the themes of gratitude and generosity! We’ll participate in a simulation exposing what it means to live generously and will close the night by learning a gratitude practice that can be used within the home. ALL are welcome!
All Saints Day Names for Litany in Worship
Submit by October 30
Each year, the church observes All Saints Day – a day to remember saints who have joined the body of Christ through baptism and saints who have gone before us who now rest in peace. If you have someone you know who has been baptized or who has died in the past year that you’d like remembered during our All Saints Litany in worship, sign up in the narthex or contact Kathy Dunham. That person’s name will be remembered in worship, and those remembering that individual will be invited to come forward and light a candle.
2023 Congregational Budget
Each year in the fall, SOTC creates a budget to continue serving in the name of Jesus in the coming year. Our teams have been assessing their needs, and Council will be meeting at the end of the month to review the entirety of the budget. Proposed budget for 2023 will be distributed to the congregation on Sunday, November 6. Congregational meeting to discuss and approve the budget will be held on Sunday, November 20 following worship. Any questions can be directed to Delene McConnaha, president, or Pastor Aleese.
Winter Outerwear Drive
October 16-30
As a part of our focus on how we are called to live as stewards of justice, we will be hosting a drive for winter outerwear starting October 16. Bring new, or gently used, coats, hats, mittens, boots, scarves, etc. to SOTC. Our elementary aged kids will have an opportunity on Sunday, October 30 to do some online shopping and spend the children’s sermon money they have collected toward this service project.