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Hello there, Father’s Day is coming up this weekend.  I recently came across this quip:  “I gave my father $100 and said, ‘Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.’ So he went out and bought a present for my mother.”  But then I believe it was Mark Twain who said this: “When I […]

Hello there, IT IS PENTECOST SUNDAY!  WEAR SOMETHING RED! We celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit and the birthday of the church.  So find something red in your closet or use this as an excuse to go out and buy a new shirt or blouse. Paul Holstein will be singing this Sunday for our […]

Hello there, It is my great pleasure to announce that we have hired a new organist.  Marilyn Mark has held various music positions at Lutheran churches in the Cedar Rapids area, and is a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church as well as the American Guild of Organists.  She also retired from Linn-Mar as a […]

Hello there, Reminder: We are starting our summer scheduled this week, with ONE SERVICE at 10:00! It is probably a busy weekend for most of you.  It is a holiday, of course, as well as graduation for many of the local high schools.  So there are parties and celebration and we wish the new grads […]

Hello there, This will be our last Sunday with two services for a while.  On May 26th, (Memorial Day Weekend) we begin our summer schedule with one service at 10:00.  The reason we are shifting to 10:00 is that it is unlikely you will have an interim pastor in place on August 1st, when I […]

Hello there, We have begun to look for a half time Director of Christian Education that, as the job description says, “…will have primary responsibility for designing and leading weekly K-12 Bible Study/Sunday School, Wednesday night K-8 programming, providing support for the middle school and high school Youth Coordinator, and planning for Adult Christian Education […]

Hello there, We will be back to two services this Sunday, at 9:00 and then at 11:00, and we will have two services for May 5th, 12th and 19th.  Then on the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend, May 26th, we will start our summer schedule of one service at 10:00.  Session has voted to have […]

Hello there, It is Gifts of Women Sunday this week at FPC Marion.  We will have only one service at 10:00.  The Rev. Connie Peake will be preaching.  Her text is John 15:1-8 and her sermon title is: Lessons from the Orchard.  Other women will be leading in the various parts of worship, and a […]

EASTER SUNDAY – APRIL 21 – ONE SERVICE AT 10:00 Hello there, It is Holy Week, the most important time of the church year.  We will be having a Communion-Tenebrae service this evening at 6:00.  “Tenebrae” means darkness and it is an observance of the Lord’s Supper, reading passages of scripture and extinguishing candles.  The […]

Hello there, It is that time of year when the weather can be warm and spring-like one day and grey, cold and miserable the next. But so far the weather forecast for this Saturday looks a bit chilly, but dry and sunny.  So starting at 8:30 we will be having our spring clean-up day, for […]