UCW,

Faith &
Evening
Circles

Lords Harvest
112 days until the
Lords Harvest. How
do you plan to show
youre thankful? Mark
your calendar for
November 21st

No August Meetings
To all of you that attended Guest Day & to those who helped
prepare food and worked. It was a very successful!

Thanks!
Mission
and Outreach
would like
to thank
everyone who donated to
the Heifer Project in July.
Once again it was very
successful! As of July 19th
we raised $455.

August Ushers
2nd
Trace & Jan Tjossem & Brent McDowell
9th
Trace & Jan Tjossem & Brent McDowell
16th Shirley Fernstrum, Kim Tewes & Steve Wittrock
23rd Shirley Fernstrum, Kim Tewes & Steve Wittrock
30th Tim & Jeanne Ebel & Corey Gillespie

2nd
9th
16th
23rd
30th

August 5, 7:00pm
@ the Archer United Methodist Church
Come for a great evening of food and fellowship!
A free-will offering
will be taken.
Newsletter of the United Church of Primghar

Iowa/Nigeria Project
Items for layette and birthing kits are needed: Flannel, new cloth diapers & diaper pins and small infant
sleepers/gowns We can shop for you if you wish to
give a monitory gift. If you would like to help sew
blankets or sleepers contact the Mission & Outreach
representatives. This year we are sending the kits to
Nigeria.

2nd
9th
16th
23rd
30th

Pie & Ice Cream Social for Missions

August Liturgist
2nd
Helen Lucas
9th
Jan Tjossem
16th Mike Jones
23rd Clara Black
30th Brad McDowell

Its here!
If youd like to have your
financial offering automatically deducted from
you checking or savings
account each month,
please check with Connie
Huffman or the church
office and we will get
you the forms to sign-up.

AUGUST GREETERS
Sue & Robert McCauley
Cindy & Andrew Jansma
Emily Waund & Bill Kersting
Brad Brooke Wittrock & Family
Margaret Perry, Vernon & Adam Ruschmann
AUGUST
NURSERY WORKER
Shirley Jones
Barb Rohwer

2nd
9th
16th
23rd
30th

AUGUST ACOLYTE
Haley Bottjen
Jordan Nieuwenhuis
Lexi Babb
Payton Steffens
Peter Bottjen

August, 2015- Volume 8

Its hard to believe that I am about to start my second month

in Northwest Iowa. So much has happened in such a short
amount of time, and yet it seems like I havent even gotten
started.
We feel truly blessed to have been welcomed so warmly,
both at church and around town. We also have appreciated the grace that has been offered
while we try to get settled, and the patience while I still rely heavily on Google Maps to navigate the area.
It was wonderful to be able to see how this church interacts with the world and the community by being able to participate (ever so slightly) with the Mission presentation and then to be
able to help with Vacation Bible School. I am truly impressed with the way the churches of
this community are able to come together to help spread the love of Jesus Christ.
During this next month, I hope to be able to really start to get to know this community more
as we also prepare for the school year and the start of WWW. I also am going to start planning for a new members class that prepares young people to profess their faith.
~Pastor Kris
Mark your calendars for Wednesday, September 16th! The PPR Committee will be hosting a welcome supper for Pastor Kris and her family at 5:30 pm. They will be serving
hotdogs, Coney dogs and taverns. After the meal, we will be kicking of our first night of
Wild Wednesday Worship (WWW). More details next month.
Vacation Bible School Update
We had another successful year at Vacation Bible School. A huge thanks to everyone who brought food, prepared lunch, help herd, and gave money for the Adopt a
Child program. During the week of VBS the children brought in money for missions. This year we raised $949.29. The funds raised will go to Global Compassions to build safe homes in Haiti.
If you are aware of someone in need of a pastoral call, please inform Pastor at the office, 957-4960 or
cell 712-344-2846 She would rather hear from multiple sources than from no one at all. In these times
of privacy rights, hospitals and nursing homes may not divulge information relating to a resident or
patient, so it is very important that members and/or their families let the Pastor know of all needs for
pastoral care.

THANKS GIVING

ingathering

August
BIRTHDAYS &
ANNIVERSARIES

School Kits
Dont forget to buy supplies for the Mission &
Social Action School
Bags during the August
Back-to-School Sales. 40
School Bags is our goal this year.
Kits include: 3 Notebooks, 8 1/2x11
wide ruled (210 to 250 sheets total)
spiral or bound; 1 30 cm metric ruler;
1 box of 24 crayons (ONLY 24); 1 2
1/2 eraser, 1 blunt scissors; 1 hand
pencil sharpener and 6 unsharpened
pencils with erasers.
These items are on sale in many
stores so it is a great time to purchase
them.
Remember NO political or religious
icons, slogans, emblems or sayings
on ANY of the items.

3
4
5
6

Sewing Kits include: 3

yards cotton (1 piece), 1
new spool matching
thread, 5-8 matching flat
buttons on card, 1 sewing scissor, p pkg. hand
sewing needles.
Foster independence
rather than dependence.
Cottage industries often
grow out of sewing classes where these kits are
used to practice skills.

Health Kits:
Help disaster victims reclaim their dignity & selfrespect , also used as teaching tools.
1 new hand towel 15x25), 1 bath sized bar of
soap (3 oz) in wrapper, 1 large, sturdy comb (not
pocket size), 1 new toothbrush in original sealed wrapper (not
child-size), 1 nail file or fingernail clipper (No emery boards or
toenail clippers), 1 new washcloth,
6 band aids (3/4).

INCOME 2015
January $5,008.00
February $6,002.50
March $7,999.60
April --$10,666.61
May$9,400.00,
June$6,260.15
July 5th 19th $7,792.60
Budget for 2015$138,196.49
Average Monthly Expenditure
$11,516.37

Jeff Roberts
Matthew Edwards
Jody Edwards
Dale Reese,
Mr. & Mrs. Lee Irvine
7 Tim Ebel
8 Terry Morris, Jenna Wittrock,
Brandt Steffens, Brenda Harms
9 Jim Edwards, Harriet Tewes,
Marney Norman,
Mr. & Mrs. Joel Tewes,
12 Adam Ruschmann
13 Joan Thompson,
Mr. & Mrs. John Meyer
14 Mike Jones,
Mr. & Mrs. Rick Ginger,
16 Cindy Jansma,
17 Mr. & Mrs. Fred Wittrock
18 Terry Wittrock
Mr. & Mrs. Terry Morris
19 Mr. & Mrs. Dale Reese
20 Bob Bonath, Daisy Blazek
21 Mr. & Mrs. Brian Fritz
22 Tom Edwards
25 Mr. & Mrs. Peter Eldridge,
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Wright
26 Donna Dawson
Mr. & Mrs. Jim Rosenboom
27 Barb Mars
29 Lee Irvine,
Mr. & Mrs. Garry Sampson
30 Victor Irwin,
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Wittrock,
Mr. & Mrs. Josh Rieck

If you know of someones Birthday or Anniversary that should be

in the Newsletter please let the Office know.
Thanks for all the birthday cards
I received. I also thank those
who greeted me after church on
the July 12th. ~ Ann Stroebele

SUN

MON

TUES

WED

THURS

FRI

SAT
1

9:00 am UCP WorshipCommunion

10:30 am Archer
WorshipCommunion

10

9:00 am UCP Worship

10:30 Archer UMC
Worship
2:30 pm Pastor at
Sanford Nursing
Home
7:00 pm UCP Admin Council Mtg.

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11

5
7:00 pm Archer
UMC Pie & Ice
Cream Social
for Missions

6
7
10:00 am Pastors Day
Noon Pastor at Off
UCC meeting
in Sheldon

12

13

14
15
Pastors Day
Off

Barb on VacationChurch Office

closed at night.

17

18

19

20
Pastor at
Primghar
Care Center

21
22
Pastors Day
Off

25

26

27

28
Pastors Day
Off

9:00 am UCP Worship

10:30 am Archer
UMC Worship Board Mtg. after
Worship

23

24
9:00 UCP Worship SOS School
10:30 Archer Joint Starts
Worship with Reformed with potluck following
2:00 pm Pastor at
Prairie View

30
9:00 UCP Worship
10:30 UMC Worship

9:00 Newsletter
Assembly

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