Alternative Christmas Market

We just completed our Alternative Christmas Market fundraiser for St. Marie’s Orphan School. It is one of our largest efforts during the year. We will not have our totals until all the mini markets throughout the city are done. I want to thank all those who helped, Karen Haynes, Doris Ylander, Della Curtis, Margaret Simmons, Mary Tidemann, Lorna Erickson and Carol Glidden and also everyone who purchased a St. Marie’s Christmas ornament. I plan to have them available for sale through our website next year.

I am headed for Kansas City the weekend of November 16^th and 17^th to meet with the Companion Synod Team of the ELCA. Members from our Area 5 district will meet to discuss our plans for development of covenants and companions committee representatives and to make plans for 2008. I will report any exciting developments!