God’s Global Barnyard

Barnyard animals help stop hunger! Our Favor of the Month emphasis for February is God’s Global Barnyard. The Generosity team will be working with the Sunday School to collect funds that will be sent to the ELCA’s Good Gifts/God’s Global Barnyard Program for the purchase of animals.

Animals can make a difference for a family in need. Animals provide food to eat, fertilizer for crops, and even provide means for starting a sustainable small family business through education a

Sunday School

The Sunday School children continue working with the Spark Bible Series. 

We also have some fun things planned. The children will be visiting the church library and checking out some books, singing songs with Gail Wieman on her guitar, and going on a Treasure Hunt.

All children are welcome - from Pre - K to 6th grade.

Congregations Caring for the Earth Meeting

Monday, February 24, 10 am, downstairs at Hope Community Presbyterian Church in Virginia. All are welcome to attend!

212 5th Ave S

Virginia, MN 55792

North St Louis County Habitat for Humanity Annual Dinner & Fundraiser

Thursday, February 27; 5 pm social hour, 6 pm dinner

Mountain Iron Community Center

Live Music; Tuscan chicken dinner; Prizes

Tickets: $50 per person

Only 200 seats available!

Call 218-749-8910 to 

RSVP by February 14th.

www.nslchfh,org

218-749-8910

The highlight of the evening will be a keynote speech by a Habitat homeowner, who will share how Habitat changed her and her children’s lives.

Hat & Mitten Tree

Once again, our Hat and Mitten Tree is covered with items to provide warmth to those friends in our communities. The tree will be up through February.

LIFT Update & 2025 Meeting Dates

L.I.F.T. (Learning and Living Faith Together)

4th - 12th grade Christian Education

We have started our Winter & 2nd session of LIFT - we are meeting at Messiah Lutheran. Our focus for this session is THEOLOGY & we had a great beginning - discovering what IS THEOLOGY. Ask your confirmation student for the answer! 

Gethsemane would like to set up a team of prayer partners for our confirmation students. Being a prayer partner - would be an adult meeting with a confirmation st

Voyageurs Lutheran Ministry

Join us at Messiah Lutheran Church in Mountain Iron, MN for our 2024 Annual Meeting on Saturday, February 15th, 2025. The meeting will start at 11AM and registration will start prior at 10:30 AM. 

There will be Important Updates on Future Plans, Board Elections, Fellowship, and more.

New Church Directory

Welcome to a new era of church directories - Instant Church Directory, the ultimate online directory program. Say goodbye to high pressure sales and the printing and distributing of directories that become obsolete as soon as they are printed. Our church will soon be working with this company to provide all of us with an up-to-date option - we can receive traditional and printed directories, as well as a free mobile app which will provide the same information - absolutely

Aluminum Cans

The Fellowship Team is no longer collecting aluminum cans. If any group or individual would like to continue to collect them, please let Bunny or Donna Flannigan know. The trailer needs a new home so if you are interested in the trailer, let us know.

The Work of the People

That is really what the word liturgy means. Did you know that each Sunday morning, around 14 people (not counting pastors and pianist) are faithfully doing the “work” of Sunday morning worship? The roles people assume in worship include greeters, ushers, lectors, communion preparers, communion servers, and the list goes on.

If you would like to help occasionally with the worship services, your assistance would be most appreciated. Please talk with Pastor Mark or Marion.

Gethsemane Angel Coordinators

The Gethsemane Angel program is a way that we, as a congregation, are organizing ourselves in service to the Lord. We ask every person to volunteer to serve during one month of the year with a “Team of Angels” to provide all the help that is needed for worship services. 

Each month the Angel Coordinator schedules the Angels with what is needed to be done. We are looking for 3 more Angel Coordinators for the months of March, April and October. 

Please consider helping out for

All Women of Gethsemane Get Together

Join us on Thursday, February 27th at 5:30 pm in the youth room. We are having a casual get together just to “hang out” with other gals, enjoy visiting, relax, and have some laughs. 

We meet on the 4th Thursday of each month. No commitments, just bring yourself and your own beverage. Please come. - we’ll have a fun time!