The Holy Week postcards you will receive this morning are for you to share. We encourage you to pass the postcards to friends, neighbors, co-workers, and those persons who do not have a church home. Southminster extends a “Welcome Home” to everyone!
Easter lilies: Sign up by Palm Sunday (April 5) if you would like to order an Easter lily. Plants are $15.00 each. You may take your lily home after the Easter service or designate it for donation to a homebound member.
We have raised $40.75 for the Heifer spring mission project—this is now over two flocks of chicks, but we only have two weeks left for collecting. Kids, save your money for chicks! (Adults, you can help, too.) Money raised for Heifer will be dedicated on Easter Sunday. Thank you for your continued support in this missions project!
Pennies 4 PADS: Our children are past the halfway mark in collecting a mile’s worth of pennies (84,480) to donate to our PADS mission. We now have 46,449 – 55% of the goal! Please keep bringing in your extra pennies; there is a collection box in the narthex.
Easter Party, April 11: Many thanks to all who donated candies and stuffed Easter eggs over the past weeks. We have filled all 3,000 plastic eggs, and look forward to scattering them on Saturday, April 11, for the all-community Easter party! Please put the event on your calendar, tell your friends and neighbors, and plan to join us, starting at 9:30 a.m. Extra hands would also be appreciated that morning, for crafts and games (contact Chris Kozich), or for breakfast (contact Betsy Rogers).
Fellowship Event: We’re planning an outing to hear the Wheaton College Gospel Choir on Saturday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m. at Coray Auditorium. There is a sign-up sheet in the narthex, but it is only to indicate who might be attending the concert. Tickets can be purchased at the door the night of the concert. Tickets are $7 for general admission: $5 for students and seniors. (Coray Auditorium is in the Beamer Center on the Wheaton College campus.)
Save the date: Saturday, April 25! Every year we spend the last Saturday in April rehabbing the home of a needy family in Aurora through Rebuilding Together Aurora (formerly Christmas in April). No special skills are required because there are always many basic cleaning and yard care things that need to be done. However, if you happen to have special skills, we can use you! Watch for more information to come.
The Christian Education Committee is looking for a chairperson for the summer Vacation Bible School. The only requirement is to have a heart to lead children to Christ - no experience necessary! Please contact Laura Baer.
