Mission in Minnesota

In just a few short days we will be leaving for our Mission in Minnesota to help with flood recovery in the Fargo/Moorhead area for a few days. I just recently read that the weather is going to be chilly when we are there, so I hope you CA kids are ready! We will be flying out on Friday at noon to land in Minneapolis by 8pm. If all of our flights are on time we will get to swing by and check out the Mall of America before we go to stay at my seminary for the evening.

I want to especially give a shout out to all of my friends who are lending us sleeping bags and pillows! THANK YOU!

Easter Breakfast this Sunday!

The youth are once again hosting the Easter Breakfast this Sunday. Come for a breakfast of good old fashioned egg "dish", fruit, muffins, orange juice and coffee. Yes, I will also be sporting my world famous bright orange apron with the hot pad pockets! All proceeds will go to support our trip to New Orleans this summer!

AND High School- we WILL be having our Easter Monday Movie Madness All-Nighter starting at 8pm on Monday night. Do you think you can stay up for longer than me? Do ya??? So far movie requests include- Juno, Wall-E, Indiana Jones, Neverending Story, Batman Forever, The Breakfast Club, and a few more. I'm looking forward to it! Anyone else bringing their knitting projects???

Easter Peace,
Pastor Sarah

Some Highlights from Jazz and Jambalaya

Let the Good Times Roll!

Our Jazz and Jambalaya Dinner was a huge success!!! People of all ages pitched in to help us out in our efforts to raise money to attend the National Youth Gathering this summer in New Orleans. (For more info, check out the link to the right!) Because of the generosity of our friends, family, and church family, over $5,000 was donated to the cause! WOW! What a bunch of hard workers! Brooke acted as our talented and charming MC. Allie, Conner, and Dustin were our Raffle Crew, Savannah and Leslie shared their reasons for wanting to go, Anthony offered an opening prayer, Eric and Brian worked behind the scenes as head waiters, David cooked up a storm, Sean and his dad Mike made an AMAZING video- everyone did a great job! Rich was a great auctioneer, Myron and Cal got our toes tapping to some Nawlins style music! And let's not forget our amazing kitchen crew!!!

I will try to get our video posted online so that you can watch it again too!

Jazz and Jambalaya Dinner this Sunday!

This Sunday from 5-8pm we will be hosting the Jazz and Jambalaya Dinner- with great music, great New Orleans style cooking, and lost of fun! We are raising money for our youth trip this summer to the ELCA National Youth Gathering in New Orleans! We have a ton of great auction/raffle items. We'll have a live auction, a video presentation, live music, and, of course, jambalaya! Dinner is served at 6pm- we hope to see you there!

Mission In Mexico

We've got the information on our Mission In Mexico coming up April 23-26 for high school youth and young adults!!! Check out the following link: http://www.luthersurfboards.org/Mexico.html

Temptation get the best of you???

Check out the link above to a great video on temptation! We watched in both Confirmation and Youth Group when we talked about what temptation is, where it comes from, and how we respond. And check out Mark, Matthew, and Luke's retelling of Jesus' temptations in the wilderness!