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FAITH
LUTHERAN CHURCH Teaching Reaching and Healing, all with God's Love Castle Rock, Colorado |
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FROM FLY FLY UPCOMING SCHEDULE May 4th Time to be announced (5:00-7:00 pm) “Expelled” - The group will go see comedian Ben Stein’s new movie regarding the price scientist (who express their faith) pay by being “political incorrect.” Cost is approximately $5- $10 June 13-15: White Water Rafting trip We’ve reserved 35 slots (10 for college age, 20 for senior high, and 5 for chaperones) for rafting at Buena Vista. The cost is will be $100.00 and covers rafting, food, and sleeping in tents Fri and Sat. |
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ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION Endowment Committee, Karen Johnson Scholarships OPPORTUNTIES FOR THE GRADUATING CLASS OF 2008 Faith Lutheran Endowment Foundation is pleased to be offering scholarships for graduating seniors who are members of Faith Lutheran pursuing a higher education degree. Applications are found on Faith’s website faithcrco.org and need to be turned in by April 1st. Also, please be advised that the Knights of Columbus and the Luana Jojola Memorial Christian Student Service Scholarship for the 2008-2009 Academic Year is now accepting applications. The Knights of Columbus and Luana Jojola Memorial Scholarship Committee, will be offering six scholarship valued at $500 each. Please contact the St. Francis of Assisi church office for scholarship applications if interested. The Endowment Foundation Scholarship Application c/o Faith Lutheran Church 303 Ridge Road Castle Rock, CO 80104. In order for your application to be considered, you must meet the following requirements. You must: 1. Be a member of Faith Lutheran Church, Castle Rock, Colorado; 2. Complete the attached application and return it by the deadline shown above; 3. Have maintained at least a 2.75 cumulative grade point average; 4. Have applied to an accredited college by August of the year for which the scholarship application has been sumitted. If you have already been accepted, please attach evidence of acceptance. If you have not yet been accepted, any scholarship award will be held until evidence of acceptance is provided; 5. Obtain one Recommendation Form (or letter of recommendation which include the same information as that requested on the Recommendation Form) from a person, other than relative, who know you well. Suggestions for people you might contact are: (1) teachers, (2) coaches, (3) community leaders, or (4) church members who are familiar with your involvement in the life of the congregation. It is recommended that you provide them with an envelope already addressed to the church office to insure that they return it to the proper place. The complete application is available from the office or Online at the Faith Website. Click here HELP WANTED! FLY needs leaders, chaperones, and “snack ladies.” Adults that will help our youth with fundraising like– recycling aluminum cans, selling equal exchange coffee, recycling print cartridges. We need adults to chaperone the ski trip, and urban servant plunge weekend. We need adults to help with Sunday night bible studies and fellowship events. We need adults willing to provide snacks for our gatherings. Pastor Mike is no longer running the senior high youth program due to an overbooked work schedule. We have great youth at Faith and would hate to see FLY not happen. We have youth willing to lead but they need guidance and support from adults. Is God asking you to “stand in the gap” until Faith’s staffing vacancies can be filled? In big ways and little ways our youth need you. Please consider contacting Shawna Wise our youth team leader and asking her “how can I help?” Men’s Group to Introduce Career and College Sharing Programs for Youth The Men’s Group is planning on introducing two new pilot programs for our high school youth in August of this year. These programs are described below. The Career Sharing Program This program will offer our high school youth the opportunity to meet with adults in our congregation who can be of help to them in making plans for their lives after high school graduation. We believe this may be very helpful to our high school youth in better understanding their career options, preparing for college or choosing an occupation to pursue. As a pilot program, in February we requested career information from our Men’s Group and their wives. All who responded were willing to share their career knowledge with our youth and from this response we have a good start at developing a list of occupations for our youth to choose from. However, we need your help to expand this list, so if you are willing to share your career experience with our youth please contact us (contact information is provided below). In August, Pastor Mike will start offering this program to our youth in Confirmation and FLY meetings. It will be up to our youth to choose their occupations of interest and then the Men’s Group will set up the interchange with those adults having the appropriate career experience. The plan is to hold very informal, information-sharing sessions between the adult(s) and youth. One or more of the youth can request an interchange and possibly more than one of our adults may be asked to partake in any given session. Pastor Mike and the Men’s Group will provide some guidance to both the adults and youth prior to each session. Parents are encouraged to attend. If you’d like to learn more about this project and/or volunteer to share your career experience with our youth, please contact either Pastor Mike or Pastor Joe at 303-688-3476, or Tom Brown at 303-238-5747. The College Sharing Program This program will offer our high school youth the opportunity to meet with our older youth currently in college or recent college graduates. This will be an information-sharing interchange where our high school youth can ask questions about college preparations and college life in general. Any number of youth can make a request for this offering and parents are encouraged to attend. In the next few weeks we will be contacting our college youth to see if they will be interested in participating in such a session and if you know of someone who would make a good candidate to share their college experiences with our youth, please contact Brad Geiger at 303-660-9308. ALUMINUM CAN DRIVE We would like to thank the Buck Family, for graciously offering to take on the aluminum can duties. There are two places you may deposit your cans—in the marked box in the church kitchen, and in the marked container next to our dumpster. Proceeds will help fund FLY activities. Lutheran World Relief coffee and tea sales ! Faith Lutheran Youth (FLY) will be selling Equal Exchange Fair Trade Coffee, Tea, and Cocoa products after services on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of each month. Proceeds help support activities for our Junior High and High School Youth programs. Your continued support of our Youth ministries is sincerely appreciated! Want to Save Money on Cartridges and Help Us Raise More Funds? FLY has launched a recycling and fundraising program with the help of an inkjet recycling company called Empties4Cash. Here is what it is all about: The empty inkjet cartridges that we usually throw away as trash can be recycled and remanufactured. Bring those empty cartridges to church and put them in one of our collection boxes. FLY gets paid up to $4.00 for each empty inkjet cartridge that has a print head, regardless of the brand or type. We need OEM inkjet cartridges that have print heads from all of the following brands of printers: HP, Lexmark, Xerox, Compaq, Samsung, Kodak, Canon, or Apple. No Epson print cartridges can be accepted, since the Epson cartridges have no print head. Remember:
NEW!!! We now have postage-paid bags, which you can take home, to work, or give to friends. Just pop an empty ink cartridge or two into the bag, seal & put into the mail. FLY’s account number is on each bag, and Fly immediately gets credit for it. The collection box will still be at church (by the mailboxes in the narthex), and bags are now located there too. Want to Save Money on Cartridges and Help Us Raise More Funds? InkSmiie.com sells replacements cartridges that can save consumers up to 80% over brand name cartridges. Their 5% Rebate Program allows consumers to have 5% of their purchases donated to FLY who is a participating E4C member. Thank you in advance for helping us raise funds for our youth program and keeping millions of pounds of cartridges out of our landfills. |
