OSLC CALENDAR for July 27^th to August 1^st

 

            Friday                         ‘Fun Friday’ potluck                                                                5:30 pm

 

Next Sunday   Drop by for Bible Study                                                                  9:00 – 9:45 am

                                    Worship Service                                                                     10:00 am

 

Please remember the following homebound members in prayer:

   Ed Befus, Joe Bochek, Margaret McKinnon, Margaret Moore and Ursula Pohl.

 

NEWS and NOTES

 

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ – Wishing you the blessings of The LORD. Have a great summer and don’t get sunburned. Thank you for your prayers and visits. Please continue to pray for me. It means very much to me. Yours in Jesus’ name, Ursula Pohl.  (See OSLC board for the card from Ursula)

 

VBS Snacks – There is a sign-up sheet on our bulletin board indicating the snacks we will need for our hungry children (and helpers too) during VBS. Please put your name beside the goodies you will be able to provide.

 

Ladies – You are invited to sign up for the 2^nd annual Ladies Spa Weekend at Josey’s. This will take place from Friday August 20^th at 4pm until church time on Sunday August 22. The ladies who attended last year enjoyed a fun filled weekend sharing in fellowship time, spa treatments, beautiful ocean views and lots of laughter and wonderful food. The details and sign-up are on the bulletin board.

 

The BC Mission Boat Grocery Card Fundraiser encourages you to try using grocery cards for your weekly grocery shopping!  Use this fundraiser as 'one of your contributions' to the Mission Boat.  As you spend every $1.00 from your card on groceries, the store gives 6 cents to the Mission Boat.  If you spend $100 a month in groceries, you'll have contributed $6.00.  In a year, just by you buying your groceries in this way, the store would donate $70 - $100. or more.  This fundraiser and the generous support donations from our church support the outreach mission visits.  Cards can be purchased after Sunday church services and through the church office on weekday mornings. Look for someone with the "Thriftys Bag" and poster who is selling the cards, available for Save On Foods, Quality Foods and Thrifty Foods. Have your money or cheque available for purchase of cards in the next 3 weeks and we'll tell you how to use them.  Thank you, OSLC friends for your support !  

 

Quilt update..... Canadian Lutheran World Relief has acknowledged all the quilts and blankets received for this year's shipment to Mauritania, a country in North Africa. A total of 11,500 pounds of goods were shipped which included 1,812 quilts, 530 blankets, 967 baby bundles, 633 assorted kits and 1,234 hygiene supplies. What an outstanding amount of blessings being poured out in God's love to those in Africa. The quilters of OSLC wish to thank all those who support our mission along with CLWR. 

 

Summer reading suggestions …

THE SHACK – I (Pastor Craig) have been asked to have a discussion night about this book. It has inspired and comforted some Christians, and offended others. It has been read by many non-Christians, and could serve as a bridge for thoughtful discussion about what God is doing in Jesus. Sound interesting? Come to the discussion night on Wednesday, September 15 at 7pm. If there is interest, the discussion will continue the following Wednesday at 7pm.

THE YEAR OF LIVING BIBLICALLY - I referenced this book in a sermon, and a number of people expressed interest in it. It is a writer’s humerous, and for some, provoking account of trying to live out every law in the Bible over the course of one full year. It is another best selling book that may serve as a bridge for understanding and/or conversing with those who do not know the reality of God in Jesus. I’ve scheduled a discussion night about this book on Wednesday, September 29 at 7:00 pm.

 

 

Thanks received … (original cards posted on Our Saviour’s bulletin board)

DEAR FRIENDS AT OUR SAVIOUR, on behalf of the BC Mission Boat Society we would like to thank you for your generous donation of all the pails of cookies. We appreciate your continued support, and the blessing it brings to our ministry. Sincerely your, Kaitlin, Jessica, Marcus

OUR SAVIOUR LUTHERAN CHURCH, Thank you for allowing our team to stay in the church. You have been a blessing to us! We thank you for helping us to share God’s love with others. – Holy Cross Lutheran and First Lutheran Mission Team

FROM BERLIN… tell everyone I got here ok and thanks for prayers!! Tomorrow a 5 hour van ride to the camp in Poland. Love and hugs, Susan (Wednesday July 21)

 

 

Have a heart/passion for overseas missions?  (more information on OSLC’s bulletin board)

BUILD A CHURCH FOR $3,000. Twenty Lutheran churches, destroyed by the massive earthquake in Haiti, need to be built right away. Because of daily rains now in the rainy season, the congregations have no shelter to meet. See the Emergency Appeal to Rebuild Churches! On the OSLC bulletin board.

THE “CLWR News Briefs” on our OSLC bulletin board will tell you how you can respond with sunscreen for Tanzania, going red for Haiti and Level Ground coffee.

THE “CONCORDIA LUTHERAN MISSION SOCIETY” newsletter posted on our OSLC bulletin board will encourage you about what is being done, and give you many possibilities to consider. If you would like to make a donation, you can do so directly, or through OSLC. If doing so here, specify your contribution is for Concordia Lutheran Mission Society.”

 

 

Looking for a ‘behind the scenes’ way to serve God at OSLC? We are in need of a volunteer to take the trash and recycle to the transfer station for us on a biweekly basis. A pick-up truck is not a necessity because we don’t have a large amount of garbage each week. If you are able to take on this service ministry for us, please let Pastor Craig know, or phone the office at 250-248-6644. Your costs would be reimbursed. Thanks.