OSLC CALENDAR for March 7^th to March 14th

Wednesday     Men’s Breakfast                                                                       8:30 am

                        Ladies’ Drop-in Bible Study/Fellowship time                               1:00 pm

                        Soup Supper                                                                              6:00 pm

                        Lenten Service – Theme this week is “Discipleship”

                       “You were created to become like Christ”                                    7:00 pm

                              Choir Practice                                                                  8:15 - 9:00 pm                                   

                        Next Sunday    Drop-in Bible Study                                                                   9:00 am

                                    Worship Service with Holy Communion                                     10:00 am

NEWS and NOTES

40 days of Lent, 40 Days of Purpose. Why? That we would grow together in appreciating God’s purpose for our life. This week we are reading Chapters 17-22 of The Purpose Driven Life between Monday and Saturday. Check out the insert PURPOSE DRIVEN COMMENT FOR WEEK 3 for more.

If you missed a week, copies of all the past PURPOSE DRIVEN COMMENTS FOR THE WEEK are available on the cabinet in the entrance. There is also an extra copy of the 40 DAYS OF PURPOSE DVD available. Ask the elder on duty if you would like to borrow it to view a week you missed.

Lenten Soup Suppers are held on Wednesdays at 6 pm, prior to the service. Please come, enjoy a light meal of soup and buns or sandwiches and the fellowship time. A sign-up sheet is posted on our Bulletin Board for bringing a pot of soup, or buns or help with set-up or clean-up.

Quilt Raffle – The raffle for one of the Ladies’ beautiful quilts will be held after our service today, in the Fellowship Hall. Tickets will be available prior to the draw - $2 each or 3/$5.00.

Lutheran Church-Canada President Robert Bugbee has sent out a letter thanking everyone for their generous support towards the relief work in Haiti. President Bugbee contacted President Carlos Schumann of the Confessional Lutheran Church of Chile and asked how we in Canada can help his church. His reply was that a plan has been established to bring spiritual and physical care to those in areas “where the TV cameras don’t go”.  In the places he (President Schumann) has visited, people have “no clothes, no food or materials for the repair of houses”. Fall and winter are approaching and these people urgently need help. Please stop at the Bulletin Board to read his letter and see how we can help.

Please remember the following homebound members in prayer: Ed Befus, Joe Bochek, Margaret McKinnon, Margaret Moore and Ursula Pohl.