Announcements
Sunday, May 20 will be the last day of Sunday School until the fall.
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2012 Vacation Bible School: evenings Monday, June 25- Friday, June 29
This summer, the Mount Calvary family will take an Amazing Desert Journey. VBS classes will be available for preschool children, elementary children (rising 1-6 grades), youth (rising 7-12 grades), and adults.
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 Can a shoebox change a life? It can when a child who has little else in this world is personally handed one after it's been filled with tokens of love from half way around the world!
Mount Calvary’s Congregation Council recently approved the start of a new ministry under the direction of Heather Diehl. Throughout the year, we will be collecting items to fill shoe boxes for the Operation Christmas Child project – a ministry of Samaritan's Purse founded by Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham. In addition to the monthly items, you are also welcome to donate your empty shoe boxes anytime during the year. (Ladies, here’s another good reason to go shoe shopping: we need boxes!)
A list of suggested shoebox items will appear in future newsletters and in bulletin announcements. You're welcome to bring any item(s) from the suggested list throughout the year. However, each month we will have a featured item. For the month of May please bring, as you are able, toy cars, Legos, harmonicas, yoyos, Slinkys, kazoos, cards, Silly Putty, bouncy balls, puzzles, Etch-a-Sketches. Remember - each item must fit inside a shoebox with other items, so think small. Shoeboxes are welcome ANYTIME!!
Have fun with this new ministry all year long while thinking about making a child’s Christmas special somewhere else in the world!
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Mount Calvary Brotherhood Bunch
Mount Calvary will initiate the Mount Calvary Brotherhood Bunch, a male counterpart to our popular “Secret Sisters” program.
During the year, Brotherhood Bunch participants will leave their secret “brother” small gifts, treats, and other surprises at a designated spot in the church. At an end-of-year dinner, each Brotherhood Bunch participant will learn the identity of his secret brother and pick a new one for the coming year.
Sign-up forms and participant information sheets are now available on the narthex table. You may also speak with Bucky Miller (477-3287; jbmiller.mtjackson@gmail.com) or Pastor Diehl (477-2421; mtcalrev@shentel.net) about the Bunch. All boys and men are invited to join this special fellowship!
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The Backpack Project The Shenandoah Valley Lutheran Ministries’ Backpack Project provides Shenandoah County elementary school children from low-income families nutritious meals for their weekends ~ their time away from the school lunch program. A table in the narthex will collect your donations of any of the following (packaged in individual serving sizes):
▪ V8© juices or 100% orange juice |
▪ fruit cups/canned fruit/Fruit Roll-Ups© |
▪ oatmeal and/or cereal (individually packaged boxes) |
▪ SpaghettiOs© or ravioli |
▪ tuna kits |
▪ canned vegetables |
▪ macaroni & cheese singles |
▪ canned chili |
▪ peanut butter |
▪ microwave popcorn |
▪ crackers and/or pretzels |
▪ pudding |
▪ Teddy Grahams©/animal crackers/Goldfish© |
▪ granola bars and/or breakfast bars |
▪ chicken and/or vegetable soup |
▪ water |
▪ applesauce |
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A blue flyer providing complete information on how you can help is available on the narthex table.
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Copies of issues of The Virginia Lutheran, The Word in Season(a daily devotional booklet), and Christ In Our Home (a large print daily devotional guide), may be found on the narthex bookshelf.
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Be Involved! Youngsters and adults are warmly invited to offer your time to one of the church’s many service opportunities. Find a rich and varied "menu" of options to Be Involved! here on our website and in the newsletter.
Any youth or adults interested in serving as an acolyte, reader, or communion assistant should contact Susan Foltz (984-4477). We welcome new participants to these opportunities to serve Christ and Mount Calvary. Training is provided.
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