We're heading to PDX

The 2011 mission team is heading to Portland on July 31. This is a 'girl power' mission trip...Loreal, Alyx, Joanna, Nicole, Suri and Kelsey along with Anne and Kathy.
We're staying at Trinity Lutheran, Gresham http://www.trinitylutherangresham.org/  and they will be 'missioning' with us. 
We are working with organizations that work to help women and children..."My Father's House'   http://www.familyshelter.org/; 'Raphael House' http://raphaelhouse.com/; 'Zarapheth's Kitchen' http://www.trinitylutherangresham.org/ministries/zarephath.htm.  We will be doing lots of 'random acts of kindness' handing out bag lunches, cleaning up trash and encouraging 'smiles' . 

Follow along beginning Sunday night, our mission team will be the bloggers!!

Mission Accomplished !

Thanks to all who helped all week for our mission@home...
Annalise, Harrison & Shay - premiere bike movers ...
McKay, Cosmo & Suri - parking lot stripers
Caitlin & Cosmo - furniture movers

Good work = good times.

MISSION @ HOME

June 25 - June 30th (Saturday - Thursday) we are keeping our 'mission' close to home. You have all been amazing - doing yard work, painting, tearing down houses, putting up sheet rock - in other communities; and we will do more of that in August.  But we are going to kick off the summer doing that same kind of work close to home. 

WE NEED YOU :)

This week (June 20-24) Kathy will be prepping -- gathering supplies, setting up.  Can you help??
Beginning Saturday - the projects begin:

Repairing abandoned bicycles and donating them.
HTLC projects (painting, yard work, cleaning, sorting - re-striping our parking lots!)
Projects in the community:
   cleaning out a garage
   painting a family room
   moving furniture
   changing lightbulbs
   spreading gravel
  Restriping the parking lot at a neighbor church

There is FOOD every day (Sunday is a pizza party!) and we end our week celebrating at the Lid Park with a picnic !! 

Let Kathy know all the ways you want to serve ...

Happy Summer!!

we went to the mountain...

Another Holden MYW...the wettest I can recall, btw.

Kudos to all of you who shoveled snow, cleaned gutters, did yard work and 'fuel relocation' in the rain! It was great to see you all strengthening existing friendships and making new friends.  I love seeing how all our age groups from HTLC get to know each other better and even pray for each other.

Sad we left the snacks in the car.
Happy that Whitney wrote and sang an original song.
Full from milk shakes at 59 niner and Sonic (and, oh yeah, the tots)
Apple slices and french fries


Will be blowing up your 'prayer in 3 words' picture and more .... check the hallway next week :)
BIG merci to our amazing chaperones - Curtis, Laurie, Kelly and Jeremy (who dances with joy and abandon).

We really are spunky lutherans.

Pack and Go!

Here we go .... Holden Village this weekend!
Thanks to Jeremy, Curtis, and Laurie (and maybe Kelly, if she recovers)  for chaperoning this trip and to the our friends loaning us cars!!

Here's the skinny ... (in case you can't find your letter)

There is still some snow in the Village.
Have sturdy shoes.
$$ - for ice cream, bookstore items, free time craft options (like tye-dying)

Come to HTLC by 12:30 pm - EAT LUNCH or bring it with you.
Please bring a snack to share ...

Talent show?

We are doing the Old Testament reading for worship --- 1 Samuel 2 (Hannah's prayer).  how will we do that?

No electronics ... even my hair is long enoug to braid.

Can't hardly wait --- See ya all Friday...

R U Ready?

...for Holden?
...for summer?
...for a mission trip?
...for Vacation Bible Camp?
...to work?

Are you ready?

* We are taking another LARGE group to Holden village...isn't that great?

We will also have an opportunity to talk about our summer mission trip with the group from Trinity, Gresham (Oregon). They will be at Holden the same weekend with us, and will be partnering in our Urban Plunge in August.

* Are you working this summer?? Hope you find jobs that make you want to wake up in the morning :)

* Want to work in Mission? There are 2 TWO opportunities...
     1. Mission at Home, June 25 - June 30. Each day there will be projects ... maybe at church, maybe at a member's home who could use some help...
then on Thursday - Church Picnic!!  At the Lid.  Food and fun!

     2. Urban Plunge - 12 people. Getting on a train to Portland. Staying at a church outside of the city. Doing things each day to positively affect someone else ... are you in? Kathy has 5 spots available.

* Vacation Bible Camp. Counselors. That's you. The kids love you. You help. A great week!

So, my spunky lutherans... be the change you want to see in the world. Give a little of yourself to someone/something else.

I'm going to the mountain to pray about it. K

Walk the Walk

Guess what happens on April 3rd ?? (No, not just people leaving town for Spring Break) ...
It's the MS Walk in Seattle !!!

Nicole's mom has MS.  HTLC started 'Team Piehl' several years ago, and there have been ALOT of you who have put on the Adidas/Nikes/whatever and have walked ...

Blessing - Janet is managing her MS and felt up to taking on the "Team Piehl" organization herself this year. That doesn't mean that they will walk alone, right?

I'm walking on April 3rd ... you can too. Are you going walk? Can you donate (even $5 ?) ? Can you invite others to come / donate as well??

I walk for Janet, but I also walk for Cherilyn and Sally and Nancy and Richard and Lynne and everyone else who is living with or has died from MS.

So, come on! The link is attached - go to it. Join. Donate. We're 'spunky lutherans' for a reason ;)
http://main.nationalmssociety.org/site/TR/Walk/WASWalkEvents/538205757?pg=team&fr_id=15631&team_id=235614