INSIDE: Daylight Savings Begins • All Saints Sunday • Election Day of Prayer

INSIDE: Fall Festival this Saturday • Faith Webs Meetup • Confirmation Sunday • All Saints Day

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INSIDE: Coulee Region Hunger Walk • Lutheran Youth: Let’s Jump! • Faith Webs

INSIDE: Jazz worship this Sunday • High schoolers head to corn maze • Faith Webs

INSIDE: Sunshine Team, Baptismal Prep, Synod Fall Work Day

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INSIDE: First Fest! • First day of Sunday School

INSIDE: Office closed on Labor Day • Entering Middle School Milestone • Wednesday worship resumes

INSIDE: Blessing Backpacks/Devices & Students/Staff this Sunday, Confirmation Orientation, Entering High School Milestone

INSIDE: At 10am second service: Faith Webs Thank You Sunday, outdoor worship & potluck

At First Lutheran, giving is up 4.5% as compared to last year at this same time. In-person attendance is up, as compared to last year as well. Recently, two separate large legacy gifts were given (stay tuned for details) that allow us to bring on youth ministry staff as well as new music ministries staff—including a new choir director, Cori Vought-Carey. Cori hopes to lead a September-May senior choir that sings all but one Sunday a month. We’re also able to ask her to create something new: a Youth Choir for 5th–8th graders who will rehearse most weeks and sing in worship once a month.

When I was a new pastor, I had a friend who would always try to find the best possible way to explain someone else’s behavior. She would, as we came to call it, eighth commandment something. It was annoying a good amount of the time, to be perfectly honest.