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March 21, 2007
THE BUZZ AT ZION
NAVAJO MISSION TRIP UPDATE
FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN GOING WITH US: We will be having a MANDATORY meeting Tuesday, April 3rd at 6:00 pm at the Couch’s. Now that we have the Bible School planned, we need to begin assigning roles and making trip plans. Come hungry because we’ll have dinner provided as well!
ANNUAL PANCAKE SUPPER & RENT-A-KID FUNDRAISER
April 15th @ 5:00 pm, the Consistory will once again be serving up flapjacks for our annual youth fundraiser! Youth work teams are being assembled and will be on the auction block ready for your bidding! Come hungry and generous to support our fine youth!
CARPET DONATIONS
Soon there will be new carpet in the Fellowship Hall, along the hallways and up the stairs. The price for the new carpet is roughly $20,000. If you would like to contribute to this project, please make checks out to: Zion Building Fund and specify carpet on the memo line. Over $8,700.00 has been donated to date. Thank you to all who have contributed to this need!
COOKIES FOR COLLEGE KIDS
Women’s Ministry is again sending out Cookie Care Packages. If you would like your son or daughter in college or in the military to receive a care package, please contact Jennifer in the church office with their mailing information. Packages will be put together and mailed on Monday, April 9th. Ladies: please remember this date to make cookies or bars. As always, we need LOTS of popped popcorn for packaging. More details to follow, but if you have any questions please feel free to contact Sally Reuer 347-4971.
THANK YOU, ZION
Thank you all for an unforgettable weekend filled with great fellowship, meaningful worship and gracious Wyoming hospitality. We enjoyed every minute of our time with all of you and are eager to return for the long run. We are deeply honored by your invitation of us to return and feel privileged to work with you again for the kingdom and inviting you now to an open house on Sunday, June 3rd from 2-4pm in the house we hope will be ours shortly at 1416 Circle Road. As we pray for you, please pray for all to go well on this end with the packing, the move, the purchase of the house there and the sale of our house here. God willing, we will see you in Worland around May 1st.
With our love and blessings, Pastor Ralph and Carolyn Partelow
PARTELOW ACCEPTED THE CALL
Sunday, March 11th Dr. Ralph Partelow was here to candidate for the position of Senior Pastor. Out of 214 congregational votes, 208 voted yes and 6 voted no. This resulted a 97.2% vote in favor of calling Dr. Partelow as Senior Pastor of Zion. He and Carolyn graciously accepted the call and plan to be here on May 1, 2007. While in the area Ralph and Carolyn looked to buy a home and are planning to purchase the house on the corner west of the church, at 1416 Circle Road. Any further updates will be posted in the newsletter.
BOOKS FOR SALE
The Church Library will be having a sale on Sunday, March 25th following the service . Thank you for your past donations, but we are out of space. If you donated any of the books in this sale, please feel free to take them home. If not they will be sold as follows:
Hard backs & videos - $.25 & Paperbacks– $.10 Again, thank you to all who have donate!
BOUCHARD BITS & BITES
Well, once again we have gone several weeks without writing. These weeks saw us immersed in the annual RVA Junior/Senior Banquet. As sponsors of the junior class we are to organize 80+ juniors into various committees to put on an elaborate dinner theater in honor of the seniors. The theme for the evening revolved around the Jules Verne novel "Around the World in 80 Days." This meant building 6 different sets to represent London, Paris, Egypt, Siam, San Francisco, and a ride in a hot air balloon. The play was a hilarious take off on the story of Phineus Fogg and his sidekick Passpartout, in which Brian did a fabulous job entertaining the crowd in the role of Mr. Fogg. The kid has inherited his mother's acting abilities. The evening also included food from 5 different countries, and singers and musicians to entertain between acts in the play. There were 28 servers from the sophomore class dressed according to the country in which they served. All in all the event was a tremendous amount of work, and it was a great time to get to know the parents of the students as they joined the class during our midterm weekend to help put this all together. Sara was sewing like a crazy woman and Alan was trying to juggle all of the details and keep track of all the pieces. The evening was a great success and we are glad we only do this about every 6 years. Now we begin the next major event for our class, which is a fund raiser that involves selling all sorts of food at sports events several times each term. The money from these concessions goes to sending the class on the senior trip. Today we spent the day "shadowing" the seniors and learning the ropes, so we can take over at the next event. So we continue to try to keep up with our day jobs in the classroom and library as well as the various activities needed with 350 high school kids. They say it keeps us young, but right now I'm not feeling very young.
We will wrap up the school term in about 3 weeks with the annual junior/senior culture and adventure trip. This year Sara and I have been asked to lead the scuba diving course. We are looking forward to this as it should be a nice way to end a very busy term. I hope this past winter has been good to you and that as spring and Easter approaches you experience God's goodness and blessings fresh and new.
Alan and Sara
Posted by Jennifer Herrmann at March 21, 2007 02:24 PM