Growth for Grown-ups in April:

ACTing Out the Good News of Jesus is what the disciples and their community learned to do in their first days of "proto-church." ACTing Out the Good News of Jesus is what the church is still up to all these years later. The book The Acts of the Apostles is in the Bible for us to learn from the first disciples’ good and bad days. You’re invited to join the disciples, still at it, in fellowship hall, with Pastor Stewart and friends (thru the month of May)

College Bowl: James and Paul are still slugging it out (non-violently), with Kurt Queller and a collection of stellar students conferring and taking notes, in the fellowship hall, with breakfast(!)

The Children of Abraham, as you know, wound up as religious cousins, Muslim, Jew and Christian, living out three strands of faith traditions. Join Pastor Dawna and Myron Schreck (May 4) and Guadalupe Pérez-Anzaldo (May 11) in the library.

Sunday School for youth of all ages, 3 years through high school.

Men’s Breakfast and Devotions meet on the 2^nd & 4^th Wednesdays of the month, beginning at 6:15a.m.

Piecemakers Quilting and Lutheran World Relief workers meet on the 2^nd & 4^th Wednesdays of the month, from 9-12noon.

Family Quick List

May 2 1^st Friday at Wheatberries. High School students meet together for breakfast, planning and prayer. All Holden Village May Youth eventers, please plan on being there to talk about all the who-what-where’s. We’ll also be talking about a servant event Aug 9-15. Any??? email pr.d

May 3 VBS Day Camp Orientation with Lutherhaven staff 10-12noon

May 8 Emmanuel LIFE Committee mtg. 7:15 in the library.

May 12, 20 Confirmation Big Group from 7-8:15 in the Fellowship Hall

May 17-19 Holden High School Retreat

May 17 Spring Clean-Up, hosted by Buildings and Grounds and LIFE. Bring your outside pruning, gardening, raking, shoveling tools! We’ll work from 9-12noon, sub-sandwich lunch at noon.

May 18 Last Day of Regular Sunday School. We’ll honor our Sunday School and Confirmation Small Group teachers during the services.

Sunday School Picnic. Join us following the 10:30 service for a BBQ right here at Emmanuel. We’ll provide the dogs and brats- please bring a side dish to share.

Nearly 80 baked potatoes were eaten. And there was a wide variety in how people topped theirs. Some only used butter and others were piled high with veggies, cheese, b-b-q chicken or chili. Thanks to the LIFE committee (Deb Dumroese, Bob Dwelle, Robbie Giles, Cindy Lish, Kathy Kwiatkowski, Becky Branson) for helping get this fun event in motion and for the fellowship hosts for helping with the clean up!

And as we were enjoying all the baked potatoes our Talent Show, MC’ed by Niklaas Dumroese, displayed the varied talents and gifts of our Emmanuel family. From self-composed songs, to renditions of movie themes to classical, Christian and old favorites, we heard from: Janet Williams, Kendyl Landeck, Emma Kimberling, Jacy Knock, Carolyn Brandt, Cody Wendt, Tyler Wendt, Ian Wendt, Derek Wendt Christian Brandt. Robbie Giles shared a reading from Psalm 8 : O LORD our God, how majestic is your name in all the world.

Thanks to all who shared their favorite baked potato toppings and their talents!

Check out these fun all-church family events over the summer:

July 18-19 Family Camp: A fun camping event with swimming, skiing, campfires, potluck and worship

July 29ish Family Swim at the Aquatic Center

Aug. 1-3 Palouse on the Loose: A way to experience Camp Lutherhaven as a family. Activities for all ages

Aug. 7 Rafting the Salmon River

Yes, finals week is coming up fast – and students at the Campus Christian Center do anything BUT "fast". They eat – lots. It takes energy to study and take final exams. Last Spring we served over 350 plates of food – and we frankly expect to do that this time ‘round. We could not do it without our GREAT local churches. You donate the food – and we do the set-up (AND clean-up!). Together, the local church and the Center makes a pretty good team.

Bring your cheese to Emmanuel on Sunday, May 4 and we’ll make sure that it gets to the Campus Christian Center.

Bring your cheese to the Campus Christian Center by Tuesday

If you can’t purchase cheese but would like to donate toward this cause - write a check out to ELC and put on the memo line: Food for Finals

PRAY for our college students during this week as they wrap up the year; and as some wrap up their college experience.

Go on over to the CCC during the day, and eat with the college students; share conversation with them.