Immanuel Lutheran Church In Grinnell Is Turning 30
The congregation has chosen to celebrate by accomplishing many little projects or goals under the heading of Mission 30. While the thought was to have at least 30 mission challenges, almost 50 were submitted. Submissions ranged from taking a trip to Mission Central in Mapleton, Iowa, upgrading the Christmas program costumes, redoing some landscaping, reading/studying a Chapter of the Bible each week, combatting the summer slump, matching up adult and Sunday School students as prayer partners, etc. Some community related projects such as painting some shabby welcome signs at the entry to Grinnell and adopting the Bike Trail which passes the congregation were also proposed. Immanuel’s Pastor, Rev. David Brandt, comments “Mission 30 has stimulated a lot of ownership and good suggestions. Likely some of these ideas have been present for some time, but this way of celebrating has provided a good avenue for the ideas to be shared and implemented.”
In addition to the Mission projects, the congregation will have a Celebration Sunday on June 14th at 9:00 a.m. with a potluck brunch to follow at 10:00.
To provide an additional time of celebration with the goal of having the ministry area invited and present, a community open house for the public with entertainment, food, and family games on the church grounds is scheduled for early afternoon on August 16th. The open house date of mid August was specifically chosen to coincide with school start up. As the community is thinking of back to school, we will be highlighting the Christian Education offerings of the congregation, and in particular Sunday School. Our goal is to scatter the seed of the divine blessings God’s Holy Spirit promises will come through hearing the message of the doing, dying and rising again of our Savior.
