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Making Space
If you’re organizing your garage, basement, shed, and car during this time at home, you have probably come up with many items that are ready for the church rummage sale. That’s right! The rummage sale is being planned for a later date, but that date hasn’t yet been selected. You can bring donated items to…
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Staying Connected
Thanks goes out to all who are taking extra steps in keeping connected at this time of sheltering during the pandemic. Additionally, six special ladies – Merlin Weber, Terry Neckermann, Marietta Martin, Jan Stichling, Barb Hoelzel, and Laura Souders – have agreed to serve our congregation in making 5-10 calls each week, systematically checking in…
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Graduates
Although graduations have been postponed, there are still many students completing portions of their education. These are the milestones to celebrate: Morgan Fauth is finishing her Master’s degree, and Grant is finishing his Bachelor’s degree. Krista Richardson is completing her Bachelor’s degree from Central Methodist University. Terri Deaton, is completing her Bachelor’s degree from Maryville…
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Things You Can Do!
The stay-at-home order is making everyone reconsider: what is church? how do we church? daily church? stay-at-home church? It is bound to look different in the times of a pandemic, and it certainly has so far. Ministry looks different too. There are pastors that like to say, “the church is 90% what happens outside the…
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Noisy Offerings
Each year, offerings are taken during the Missouri Annual Conference. We normally collect money for these three offerings in the months leading up to the conference. In previous years, this has been done through a noisy offering, and we intended to do this again this year. The offerings were scheduled for March 22nd, April 19th,…
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April Calendar Notes
Celebrating Anniversaries in April! 4th-Jerry and Marsha Greenstreet 15th-JP and Leah Parkin 23rd-Stoke and Rosemary Wischmeier 29th-Lonnie and Angela Keys Look who’s having a birthday! 4th-Betsy Weber 6th-Mary DeClue 13th-Marietta Martin and Bella Guertzgen 16th-Charlie Hoelzel 17th-Bob Alexander and Landon Bell 18th-Chuck Bigelow 22nd-Steve Richardson 27th-Danielle Moskop 29th-Tara Schellert For information about other events and…
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Rummage Sale Update
I am pleased to announce that collections are continuing for the St. Andrew’s church-wide rummage sale. It is unlikely that it will be the last week of April, but it will happen at a more opportune time for all. All proceeds this year will be divided among A Safe Place (the emergency domestic violence shelter…
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Other News
There will be a PPRC meeting after worship on Sunday, March 15, 2020. The Rotary Pancake Breakfast is Saturday, March 7 from 7-11 AM. The annual vendor meeting for the DeSoto Farmers’ Market will take place at St. Andrew’s on 17, 2020 at 6 PM.
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Festival of Sharing
The Festival of Sharing is an interfaith celebration and gathering of resources. As a cooperative response to world hunger, poverty, and injustice, we seek to raise awareness of its causes and to address solutions. The Festival of Sharing promotes and supports projects and programs by providing funding and resource goods. When people of faith come…
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Rummage Sale
Calling all (well, most) rummage! Our wonderful, community-minded church is getting set to step into spring with the church-wide rummage sale. This is our opportunity to offer useful items from clothing and accessories to tools to others. So if you have items that still have a good life to give to someone else, please bring…