Presents:

"PASTOR JIM RETURNS TO ASCENSION!"

AMEN Ministries is inviting all Ascension members to its quarterly "men's breakfast".

Come to enjoy a bountiful breakfast, fellowship, and a message from Pastor Jim Bickel
on his new role as Executive Director of Outreach for Hope.*

When: Saturday MARCH 13th, 2010; 8:00-10:00am
Where: Ascension Lutheran Church; East Hall
Cost: $10 in advance; $15 at the door
Proceeds will go to Outreach for Hope*

Tickets will be available from members of the AMEN Ministries leadership team in the Narthex
or
Contact one of the members of the AMEN Leadership Team:
Dan Weber, Ken Snover, Nic Bur, Richard Runge, Mike Scheffler,
Mark Otto, Keith Kallin, Bob Zastrow, Dick Pfeiffer,
Dave Hammer, John Rodgers, Gary Draeger

*  provides financial support for congregation-based, Word and Sacrament ministries among the poor within the Greater Milwaukee Synod. Outreach for Hope supports a variety of outreach ministries in the Racine, Kenosha and Milwaukee areas. Outreach for Hope grants have provided salary support for pastors, Neighborhood Ministers and administrative staff, as well as funding for a variety of creative ministry and worship opportunities to reach out to people in the churches' neighborhoods.

 

5th Grade Stepping Stone: First Communion

The fifth grade stepping stone is an important milestone in a family’s faith journey. This journey will formally begin on Ash Wednesday, February 17, 2010 and will culminate on either Palm Sunday or Maundy Thursday.

Families will attend Lenten Worship service and then have a class with the Pastors afterwards in discovery hall. Each fifth grader will have an opportunity to serve during one of the Lenten worship services.

During this journey we will be going to Touch of Glaze to make chalices (Feb.28, at 10:15) that we will use during our Seder Meal (March 14 at 10:15 in East Hall-for 1st communion students only).Our goal is for families to have a growing and enriching experience in their faith.

As part of our Lenten journey Sunday School children will be raising money for animals or seeds for the Heifer International project.

 

Each class will learn either about an animal or crops that provides a new start for a community around the world.

 

We say help a community, because part of the Heifer program is “pass it forward”. So if we provide money for an animal now that family will pass on male and a female baby to someone else to continue the growth in their commu-nity. So first they are Blessed and then they get to be a Blessing to someone else.

 

You should be able to ask your child what their class has adopted and what part of the world it will go to.

 

Each child will receive a bank to collect their money in and turn it in on or before Palm Sunday, March 28.

 

Heifer believes that if you give person a fish, you feed him for a day but, teach him how to

fish feed him for a life time.