Neighborhood Rummage Sales this Weekend!

Morgan Park’s community rummage sale weekend is this week! Be sure to swing by the church and some of these other awesome sales!

● United Protestant Church
830 88th Ave west
Thursday June 15th
1pm-6pm
Friday June 16th
8am-4pm
Saturday June 17th
9am-3pm

● 963 88th Ave West
Friday June 16th, Sat June 17th, Sunday June 18th
10am-7pm

● 8709 Beverly St
Friday June 16th, Sat June 17th
8am-2pm

● 1118 87th Ave West
Thursday June 15th and Friday June 16th
8am-4pm

● 1063 86th Ave West
Friday June 16th, Sat June 17th
9am-5pm

● 1251 91st Ave West
Friday June 16th, Sat June 17th
9am-2pm

● 1316 Hilton St
Saturday June 17th
8am-3pm

Bringing Back the Halloween Carnival

Small child dressed as Batman in 1996It’s been a few years since we have been able to hold a Halloween Carnival. This year we are hoping to revive the tradition. With the closing of St. Margaret Mary’s Catholic Church, we will no longer be able to use their wonderful rec hall. As such, we are moving the carnival back to our own Fellowship Hall. We will be selling tickets for games, as well as food and drinks. Parents and kids of all ages welcome!

2017 Annual Meeting

As we move into February of 2017, we look back on the close of another successful year.  Our church’s annual meeting is held each year in late January.  At this time, we gather to look back on the year – our successes and struggles. In 2016, we were pleased to be able to host a number of events for the community, including the Bill Bastian and the Holiday Quartet Christmas Concert, New Orleans Gumbo Dinner, 5k Run/Walk, Fall Bazaar, Olive Garden Spaghetti Dinner, Easter Breakfast and others. We continued to offer Sunday School and Bible Study on Sunday mornings.  We were also blessed with the donation of two new boilers from Fond Du Lac Tribal and Community College and the labor to install them from Stack Brothers, keeping our old building comfortably warm all year.  This has also helped considerably with the heating bills. We also had a new computer donated by Saturn Systems and set up by Keith Erickson.

In addition to looking back at the annual meetings, we plan for the year head, passing a budget and nominating council members to open positions.  We were fortunate that Karen Robnik has agreed to continue another year as the Council moderator. All new and renewing council members will be confirmed at the regular service on February 5th. Finally, we also set goals for the year, such as hosting additional events that we can offer the community throughout the year, providing more  activities for children and young families, and increasing membership (an ongoing ambition).

After all orders of business are concluded, we close with a prayer and set to demolishing the amazing spread that appears at every pot luck!  And this year was no disappointment.  I believe we had four lasagnas just to start!