Fill… Spill… Thrill…

The Sunday School kids at St. Mark’s in Valley collected 300,000 pennies over a four-month period as part of “Pennies to SWIM” in an effort to buy a water purification system to help those overseas without fresh water.

The purification unit was purchased through Safe Water International Ministries, an organization that distributes the technology to areas in need worldwide. The unit itself is a ready-to-use device that purifies enough water to meet the needs of a village of 1,000 people.

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Several Nebraska Synod mission centers have teamed up with the Haitian Timoun Foundation to do mission and bring a dance theater to Nebraska.

Living Grace in Omaha, St Mark’s in Bloomfield, Sheridan Lutheran in Lincoln, St. Paul’s in DeWitt, Luther Memorial in Syracuse and the UNL Lutheran Student Center have developed relationships with HTF to support their ministries to the impoverished in Haiti.

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Pastor Nancy Nyland
St. John Lutheran Church (Atkinson)
St. Peter Lutheran Church (Bassett)

During the month of December, both St. Peter Lutheran Church in Bassett and St. John Lutheran Church in Atkinson housed a 25-Cent Store.

People from the two congregations were asked to bring new or gently used items (except for clothes or shoes) to donate to the store. All items, no matter what their value were priced at a quarter.

Why did we do this? Because we wanted to give children an opportunity to buy Christmas gifts for parents, brothers, sisters and other loved ones. In this declining economy, there are families in our community who would benefit from the opportunity to purchase Christmas gifts at a low price. Because we have been blessed, we can be a blessing to others.

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