Chisago Lake Evangelical
Lutheran Church
1 Summit Ave.
P.O. Box 175
Center City, MN 55012
651-257-6300 email
cllc@citlink.net
We are a people "Guided by God's Spirit, learning, living, sharing Christ's love"
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1 Summit Ave. P.O. Box 175 Center City, MN 55012
We are a people "Guided by God's Spirit, learning, living, sharing Christ's love"
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Ongoing Missions/Events Circles Pancake Breakfasts Senior Choir Community Meals CLLC Library Al-Anon Food Pantry Cell Phones for the REFUGE Historical DVD & Photo Disk Midwifery Kits Narcotics Anonymous Prayer Group Prayer Shawls Table & Chair Rental Circle Meeting Dates Wisdom Circle Tues., Feb. 14th at 10:30 a.m. Reverence Circle Thurs., Feb. 9th at 9:30 a.m. at the Swedish Village Joy Circle Tues., Feb. 21st at 9:30 a.m. @ Ann Nelson’s Friendship Circle Tues., Feb. 21st at 7:0 p.m. Glory Circle Tues., Feb. 28th at 1:30 p.m. Faith Circle Tues., Feb. 28th at 7:30 p.m. back to the top
Stretch Your Stomach
Second Sunday of every month! 9:00-10:45 Pancakes, Sausage, Fruit, Juice and Coffee. Stretch your stomach out before you stuff it with turkey at Thanksgiving dinner!!! Freewill offering benefiting CLLC Youth Mission trips. Youth sign up to help on the youth bulletin board! Thrivent Financial is supplementing supplies for this mission trip fundraiser.
Call Carrie Benson for more information, 257-2538. Proceeds will go towards mission trips for our youth.
If you have a voice that you would like to share with the congregation, come join the Chisago Lake Lutheran Church Choir. We would love to have you. Our first choir practice will be Wednesday, September 7th in the Sanctuary at 7:30 pm. If you have any questions, please call the church office. 257-6300. Hope to see you there!
COMMUNITY MEALS 4-6 P.M.
The Community Meals held on Mondays at Zion Lutheran Church in Chisago City. The Community Meals are a joint effort from Family Pathways, Chisago Lake Lutheran, Trinity Lutheran, Zion Lutheran and the Methodist church. We started out with attendance at 60, and since then it has grown to 100 people a week. Each Monday from 4 to 6 p.m. people come and eat and visit with other people in our community. If you haven't come to the community meals, plan to come on a Monday and see for yourself. Family Pathways provides the food, and the churches supply the volunteers to work at the meals, the desserts and some beverages and napkins. We need volunteers from our church to work at the dinners. The sign up is in the hallway by the fellowship hall.. Please take a moment to look at your calendar and find a week that you can volunteer on Monday from 3:30-6:30. When you volunteer, you need to wear a hairnet or baseball cap and bring a pan of bars.
IT’S THAT TIME AGAIN: COME AND JOIN THE QUILTERS! Mondays - 9:00 to 3:00 p.m. Located in Bibleland Beginning January 10th through April. Bring a lunch. Rewarding service of CLLC. Our finished projects will be donated to those in need within our very own community and overseas.
The Caring Hands (Care Bearers) group is looking for your help. We have 4 services that we can provide for people in the congregation. We can visit people who need a visit, give out prayer shawls, furnish a meal for someone when needed, and we can help provide transportation for doctor appointments or treatments. We don't always hear about people who can use these services so we need your help. If you are aware of someone's need for our services call Eleanor Trippler at 257-4046 or Midge Zemlin at 257-3239. If you are interested in volunteering to help us in any of these areas please give us a call, too.
Have you seen the updated renovation of the library? The adult books have been condensed to one side of the hallway and the children’s books and movies have been relocated to right across the hallway from them. Self check out is asked, with this just mark your name on the card located on the inside back cover of the book and with a return date of one week. Then place this card in the library card holder. Most Sundays, Cathy is there to assist you if you have any questions, For returning books / movies, just place these in the return box and then check something else out….Thank you! DONATION OF BOOKS AND MOVIES We are asking for donations of adult/children books and family/children friendly movies to increase our library inventory. If you have any donations, please drop these off at the church office. We will sort through all the donations and keep what will enhance our library selection all other books will be donated to Family Pathways.
Have you seen the wonderful book marks for sale in the library? These book marks would make a great gift for your book worm. For only $6 you could pick one up—if there is a color you would prefer, talk to Cathy Nelson…. The following books/DVD’s need to be returned—please take a moment to see if you have these at home and return them the next time you come to church: Larryboy and the Yodel Napper Larryboy and the Awful Ear Wacks Attacks You’re Better Than You Think The Feel Good Book Gardening and Landscaping Techniques Peter and Paul Tomorrow is a Brand New Day The Ministry of Paul—Animated Stores of the New Testament Room for a Little One—A Christmas Tale The Glory of Christmas Rolie—Polie—Olie—Happy Heart Days Thank you!
back to the top Al-Anon will be meeting at Chisago Lake Lutheran Church on Tuesday evenings from 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Meetings will be held in the Undercroft (Bibleland).Fellow Christians, we are facing difficult times for our country and the world. You see it on the news, in newspapers and news magazines; stories of concern, anxiety, worry and fear about the economy. Close to home, in our own communities and county, people are suffering from this crisis. People are facing job losses, foreclosures, too little money to meet daily expenses, to provide food for their families and to buy gas to get to work. They are not at fault; this economic turmoil has victimized hardworking people. Can we skip having dinner out once in a while, forego a movie night, buy one or two fewer presents for Christmas, or other things you can think of, in order to help our neighbors to survive this crisis? Remember Christ’s definition of a neighbor and be willing to help. Following are ads for a number of projects to which you can give either items or money. Did you know that it takes $75,000 and 75,000 pounds of food annually at Family Pathways’ Lindstrom Pantry to meet the need for help. The need is rising because of the struggling economy. 125 families facing food shortages are currently being assisted with supplemental food and personal care items at each Family Pathways’ Food Pantry every month. Half of the people assisted with food are children. Half of the adults served are working, but with inadequate income to make ends meet. The food pantry in Lindstrom is in current need of: Canned foods Dish and laundry soap Dinner mixes Boxed foods Spaghetti sauces Soups Peanut butter, jelly Infant cereal and food Juice Sugar, Flour Shampoo and conditioner Toilet paper Deodorant, toothpaste Apples from those of you who have a surplus. Financial donations are needed to purchase dairy, bread and other items at a reduced rate from food banks. We want every Sunday through December to be Food Shelf Sunday and have the members bring in items for the collection box. This is getting to be a serious problem in Chisago County, and we need to help back to the top
Old Cell Phones for the REFUGE: You can recycle your old cell phones to the local shelter for battered women. If you have any cell phones, they can be dropped off in the church narthex in the box provided and they will be delivered to the Refuge. These phones do not need to work. They are only used to dial 911, and may help women escape a dangerous situation. “Secure the Call Foundation” takes the phones, cleans them, charges their batteries and then reprograms them to be used as free 911 emergency phones. Any phone that can be turned on can access 911 services even without a carrier service plan. Then the phones are distributed to domestic violence shelters, senior centers, neighborhood watch groups, school crossing guards and other agencies with an immediate need for 911 access. These free 911 emergency cell phones are available to individuals and organizations nationwide. No chargers or accessories are needed. They get new chargers donated to them by corporate donors. Historical DVD & Photo Disk FOR SALE - The Historical Committee has converted old movie films found in the archives into one 38-minute DVD. It is fascinating and shows, among other things, the confirmation reunion of 1938, church picnics, relay races, the parsonage and old chapel, games of horseshoes and volleyball, and a wonderful fishing excursion on a local lake. Copies may be ordered through the Committee for $7.00 each CHURCH PHOTOS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE We are always accepting donations of the material items needed for
the kits and happily accept monetary donations also.
Please
put all material donations in the white hamper designated for them
located in the narthex.
Material List (New or used but clean and
unstained) Adult
size wash cloths (any color) Newborn
or small size t-shirts Newborn
or small size onesies Receiving
blankets Vinyl
exam gloves (Especially needed at this time) Old
sheets (any size or color) Flannel
or fleece to make receiving blankets Very
stretchy knit material to make hats 2
Gallon bags & small snack bags with ziplock closures Bath
size bars of White Ivory Soap only Right
now we especially need Ivory Soap and 2 Gallon Ziplock
bags We
can always use some help with simple sewing. Please
contact Vida Meland at 462-5836 The Freedom From Addiction group of Narcotics Anonymous will meet at CLLC on Sunday evenings, 7:30 to 9:00 pm. and on Tuesday mornings at 10\;30 a.m. in the Green Room. All are welcome who have or think they might have a problem. This will then be a closed meeting of Narcotics Anonymous.
One of the "behind the scenes" service groups at CLLC is the prayer group. Jesus taught his disciples to pray, and Paul encouraged his early congregations to "Pray without ceasing." Intercessory prayer is one of the important ways we can serve our fellow members and their loved ones. If you would like to become a pray-er in our prayer group, or if you have a prayer request, call Midge Zemlin at 257-3231. We have three telephone chains and one e-mail. Those pray-ers who can, meet once each month (except December) for prayer and fellowship. Won’t you join us? Attention Knitters, Crocheters, or Bored Individuals: We have just acquired some beautiful new Homespun yarn and now we need volunteers to transform it into beautiful new prayer shawls. If you would like to knit or crochet a Prayer Shawl, please stop by the office and pick up some of this lovely yarn, curl up in a warm spot, and share your warmth and caring by making a Prayer Shawl. Prayer Shawls are given to those in need of comfort. This may include those experiencing illness, loss, or a difficult transition where an awareness of God’s peace and powerful love will bring comfort and solace.
CLLC’s table and chair rental for members offered. Many of our members need tables and chairs for graduation, confirmation open houses and other events throughout the summer. The 11 long tables and many metal chairs are available to rent for this purpose. Rental cost is $5.00 per table, or $10.00 for one table and 8-10 chairs. This usage offer is only available to members of our church. These tables and chairs are stored in the garage, which will facilitate their pickup and return. If you are interested, please contact the church office at 257-6300 to arrange for the rental.
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Pancake Breakfast!!!
