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

All sorts of stuff ...

I love the month of March. Why? For so many reasons...
1. Daylight savings time begins (March 13) - so we will see more sun (hopefully)
2. We're in Lent.
3. We will be planning our summer Mission trip (Sunday, March 20)
4. We will be designing our Holden T-shirts (look in your mailbox)
5. I can prune my roses, plant new flowers, think about my summer vegetable garden.
6. Spring begins (March 21).

Notice that a lot of the things I love about March include all of my Spunky Lutherans ???

COME - work on the mission trip!(March 20, after church. I will have pizza and salad to eat. We will look at all sorts of mission possibilities in Portland.)  Who's signed up for the mission trip??
  Joanna, Allie, Alyx, Nicole, Katie, Loreal.  (Girl Power) ... I can take 6 more.

SEND - in your Holden t-shirt design.  You will be receiving a paper in the mail... deisgn our 2001 Spunky Lutheran t-shirt! Sketch or computer design, give me color options...We will vote on the winning deisgn March 27) Who's coming to Holden?
    Nicole, Allie, Joanna, Jordan, Brian, Annalise, Katie, Harrison, Haley, Jacki, Sydney, Kelsey, Finn, Whitney, Meredith.

PREPARE - Lent begins on Wednesday (yes, this week) with our Ash Wednesday service at 7 pm (come to that!!)  How will you pare down for Lent? Giving something up ? (no chocolate/candy will be in my office for Lent ~ how about giving up 1/2 of your TV time to reading? Or no video games? or no texting? ) How about taking on a new - healthier - lifestyle habit? (walking every day for 1/2 hour? learning to cook? )

Isaiah 40:3-5 "Prepare the way of the Lord" ... or listen to the Godspell clip:
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