January Parish Newsletter and Announcements

 January 2017 Parish Newsletter

2017 Immanuel WELCA $20 dues are due to Judy.

Confirmation will be held at 6:30 pm on Wednesday at Immanuel.

Next Sunday, January 22nd is the Immanuel annual meeting following the 11:00 am service with a potluck to follow.

Reminder: When it is Immanuel's turn for a 9:30 am service during the winter months it will be held at 9:00 am to allow extra travel time for Pastor Josh and his family.

Excited to Announce the Birth of Claire Maren

 

Claire Maren Moore

 

Born: Saturday, December 31st at 11:40 pm

  7 lbs. 5 ozs. and 20 inches long

Proud Parents: Tyler & Krista Moore

Proud Big Sister: Harper

Photos from Christmas Eve

All of the Sunday School youth and teachers would like to thank everyone who was able to join us on Christmas Eve for our Sunday School program! We all had a great time together celebrating the birth of Jesus...the real reason for the season. We also would like to thank everyone for their generous contributions for the offering that evening. Because of all of you we will be able to send a large amount of items to the 153rd engineer battalion who are deployed.

If you weren't able to join us on Christmas Eve here is a little sample of what you missed.

 Back Row: Kelby Dickson, Katie Dubro & Lexi Burma

Middle Row: Wyatt Rigge, Kenna Dickson, Kera Dubro, Madi Burma & Kali Burma

Front Row: Ty Rigge, Hali Knudsen & Haylah Bell

 

Ackley Bell our "Little Lamb" 

 "It's Christmas Day"

"Do You Hear What I Hear"

Reminder: Next church service will be held Sunday, January 1st at 11:00 am

January  Duties:
Usher is Donna Koziolek & Cleaning is Lyle & Joyce Burma

Parish Announcements for December 18th

Click here to view this week's parish announcements.

Immanuel's 2017 Usher & Cleaning List is updated here as well as on the blog.

Note: Starting January 1, we will start our winter month service times. 9:30 services will now be held at 9:00 am to allow more travel time for Pastor Josh and his family. 

Saturday Night Service Cancelled

Due to the extreme weather conditions forecasted for tomorrow there will be no Saturday night church service or Sunday School tomorrow night (December 17th). Also, there will be no Christmas Eve program dress rehearsal on Sunday morning. Everyone please stay safe and warm during this lovely South Dakota weather that always keeps us on our toes!

Reminder of Christmas carol/sing at 6:30 on Wednesday night in Carthage. Be ready with your requests for your favorite carols and please bring cookies/treats to share. If you play an instrument you are welcome to share your musical talent as well.

Immanuel Christmas Eve program will be at 6:30 on Christmas Eve.
No church services on Christmas Day.

Angel Tree Gifts and Caroling

Had a great morning/afternoon with this great group of kids! Snow wasn't going to stop our fun!! Thanks to our amazing church members at Immanuel Lutheran and Thrivent we were able to buy 17 angel tree gifts for kids and then 4 angel tree gifts for senior citizens. All the shopping made us hungry so we ate at Godfathers and then went Christmas caroling at Stoneybrook & then Armand & Lenora Peskey's. We planned to make a couple other stops caroling, but with the weather we decided we better all head home. Thanks again for supporting our youth and helping them with this great cause!

Sunday School Angel Tree Gifts

The Sunday School kids want to adopt angels from the Angel Tree again this year! If you would like to donate money to help purchase gifts you can give it to Jodi. We are hoping that each kid will be able to adopt two angels! We will be taking all the kids shopping on Saturday, December 10th to purchase the gifts and they will show everyone at church that following Sunday what they picked out for their angel before delivering the gifts. We also applied for Thrivent Action Team dollars so will be receiving $250.00 to help purchase gifts. We hope that we will be able to buy twice as many gifts this year! After shopping we will be going to Godfather's for dinenr and then Christmas Caroling. We will be meeting at 9:30 am inside the Huron Walmart Pharmacy doors to shop, will eat at Godfather's at 11:00 (room is reserved) and then Christmas carol at Stoneybrook Suites at noon followed by caroling at Armand & Lenora's and Velda's. Everyone is welcome to join us on this fun adventure for just a part or all of it...you won't regret joining us!! Feel free to contact Jodi if you have any questions!

Confirmation will be held at 6:30 pm on Wednesday at Immanuel.

Ruth Circle will meet at 7:30 pm on Wednesday at Immanuel.

Christmas Eve dress rehearsal will be held on Sunday, December 18th at 10:00 am...if you can't make it Christmas Eve feel free to join us for dress rehearsal.

"Twas the Night Before" Sunday School Christmas Eve program will be held on Christmas Eve night at 6:30 pm.