Pastor Dan will be on vacation July 26-August 6. Pastor Dale Carlson will speak on August 1.

Worship attendance averaged 79 in June (77 last year), and 77 year to date (75 last year).

Youth: ’An Evening in Paris’. We thank the youth and sponsors for a special time!

Watch for announcements about the camp out in August.

Vacation Bible School: July 19-23. How can you be involved? There is a place for everyone! Judy Lazicki and Leanna Kraakmo are people to contact. Be actively recruiting students, ages 3 to 10 years old.

District Men’s and Women’s Retreats will be held September 24-25 and October 9-10 respectively. Information and registration forms are available on the Information Table.

Benevolence Committee: Our mission is to promote and facilitate in and through the congregation the good works in the name of Jesus to which the Church is called. This presently includes sending cards and flowers, emergency assistance, advocacy, ministry to elderly, and various benevolent offerings.

Parish Board: We will be starting a new Kid’s Club in the fall under Jesica Abella’s direction.

Movie Night on August 15 with films & popcorn for children and adults (‘Fireproof’).

In the Community: Thrivent sponsored ‘Treat Your Kids’ to an Aqua Sox game and BBQ. August 20, 5:30 pm. Tickets $10. Details are posted.

Prayer Notes:
• We pray that God will open up a way for us to transport Larry to church.
• We pray for God’s continued healing mercy on Judy Kumma, Naomi and Emma Lazicki, Margun Bates.
• Pastor Bob Hosmer is serving our Stanwood congregation part time. We ask the Father to give him a fruitful ministry in the congregation and his work as a Marketplace Chaplain.
• We ask the Father for Mindy Kim’s health, safety, and effective ministry on her mission to Uzbekistan, and wisdom to use her time effectively in the short time she has left there. (Her reports are placed in the Mission Notebook on the information table.)
• We ask the Father for all the necessary resources required, material and spiritual, to accomplish the task He has given us. We are asking for partners in the use of our facility and wisdom in using what we have been given.
• Andrew and Kris Larsen ask prayer for openness to the gospel for Mr. Zhap and Mrs. Juhn. Pray for stamina to endure the hot and humid summer months in Taiwan.
• May God bless Emilee and Ryan as they prepare for their wedding and life together.
• We ask the Father to bless our VBS preparations, and recruitment of staff and children.
• May the Father bless the ministry of the Jesus Fellowship Church.
• Growing old can be very difficult in body, mind, and spirit. Remember especially in your prayers and contacts, Erling, Gudrun, Vi, and any others in our congregation who can’t join us because they are suffering age related disability.
• May God bless the ministry of our congregation as each of us seeks to be His person in our individual worlds.
• Kris Kraakmo is leaving for his Japan mission this week. We pray for God to cover him with His grace and give him a fruitful ministry and good working relations with the congregation whose ministry he supports.
• We pray for the Spirit’s guidance for Kim and Jesica as they pursue a fall start up for MOPS and Kid’s Club ministries.
• May the Lord comfort John and Lorna in the death of Samantha, and work His wonders of grace in mother Nicole.