100 Cass Street, Griswold, Iowa 51535

Reverend Shirley Hoffman Will

Sunday School 9:15, Worship Service 10:30

Summer Hours: Sunday School 9:00, Worship Service 10:00

Phone: 712-778-4178

E-Mail Address for Church: giaumc@netins.net

E-Mail Address for Reverend Shirley: willfamily00@gmail.com


 

Summer Hours will be starting Tuesday, May 27th 
Office hours will be:
  8:00 a.m. to noon  Mon., Tue., Wed., & Friday
 Starting June 1st
Sunday school  9:00 a.m.
Worship Service 10:00 a.m.

        Special Music during the summer will begin in June.  If you would like share your talent with us, please contact Nancy Freeman,  who is in charge of the summer music  calendar. 
       Malaria update:  We gave $1528.97 in 2013, and so far this year we have given $ 669.00.  Our goal is $ 8,500.00 by the end of 2015. This averages out to $1.00 per person a week.
       Our annual May Breakfast, will be on May 3rd, at 9:30 am. This year theme is “Angels within Us”. The guest speaker will be Lila Hoogeveen, Shiona Putnam and Marcia Anderson. 
     Come help us celebrate with senior, Morgan Kimpson on Sunday, May 11th when we have a reception in his honor at 10:00 am in the Upper Room. 
      Camp Sunday --Please join us on May 4th for our camp Sunday service.  This years camp theme is, “Get Real, Finding Your True Self in Jesus”. Following worship, we are serving a camp lunch.  (Sloppy Joe’s, Chips, fresh fruit, veggie sticks & dessert) Everyone is welcome to join us for food and fellowship!  (Free Will Donation for camper fund) We look forward to seeing you!
      Special Music during the summer will begin in June.    If you would like share your talent with us, please contact Nancy Freeman, who is in charge of the summer music  calendar. 
      The 100 year celebration committee is planning a salad & sandwich lunch June 1st, following worship. Then following the meal we will be placing new items in a time capsule to be put back in the corner stone of the church for people in the year 2114 to open.
     On Sunday, April 27th the UMW awarded service pins to Lynn Schaaf and Lisa Buchanan for all that they have done and do for their church.

DWIGHT WRITES:
Christ is Risen!
Christ is Risen Indeed!
So we proclaimed and so we seek to live.
We continue to reflect upon this Easter message and what it means for the ways that we live our lives.  I offer these word to you.  Might they provide some guidance & encouragement.
Grace and Peace, Pastor Dwight

 
Easter Morning
We enter the unlit cave of this early morning.

We enter the unlit cave of this early morning
stumbling along in the dark
groping for all that we have lost.

Stumbling along in the dark
groping for all we have lost
we are hoping to find the WAY~
the Light of Life ~ the Light of the Holy.

We are hoping to find the WAY.
The Light of Life ~ The Light of the Holy
again surprises  us with new life
calling us to love each other.

Calling us to love each other
the Mystery Divine reveals the Holy Desire
for the whole creation.

We enter the dark
where we are discovered by the light ~
revealing that we are loved
by the Holy
in ways that go beyond our imagination . . .

May Responsibility list
Greeters                     
4. Joanna, Hogan, Addison, Carsyn and
            Susan Adams
11.  Steve & Stephanie Kimpson
18.  Robert & Bonnie Redding
25.  Gary & Kathy Bergstrom  
Ushers
4.   Aiden & Bill Kennedy
11. Lynn & Pat Schaaf, Larry & Vicki Jones
18.  Don & Amy Smith & family
25.  Bill & Emily Kennedy & family
Liturgist
4.    Sunday school kids
11.  Jan Brown
18.   Jack Drake
25.   Myra Hansen
Communion
4. Jeanette Bergstrom
            Ellie Pelzer 

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