Looking Forward

Special Welcomes
Sunday, June 22

Keith Wasserman with Good Works will be preaching this Sunday. 

This Sunday, we also warmly welcome the WoodsWork Mission Group, youth and adults who are building three Habitat for Humanity homes in Nelsonville this June. During the build, they will be staying at Nelsonville High School. To learn more about this organization, click on the pdf link below. Thank you for sharing your mission and ministry with us!

Following worship, please welcome them and join us for hospitality.

Congregational Meeting
Sunday, June 29
after worship

Please join us for a congregational meeting next Sunday. Your input and participation is greatly appreciated. You can review the committee reports, treasurer's letter, 25-26 annual budget,  and the June statement of financial position below. 

Athens County Children's Services is collecting jars of peanut butter and jelly to help offset the impact of children going without school lunches this summer.  Donations can be placed in the bin located in the narthex. 

Office Notes: This week Pastor Chad and Peter will be out of the office. Jane Unger will be in the office filling in. In case of an emergency please contact Pastor Bob Cochran or Mike Cleland.

Do you have a favorite memory of Christ Lutheran Church?  Maybe it was decades ago or even just last week?  Would someone be interested in hearing it?  YES!!!

The Outreach Committee of CLC would like to “memorialize” such memories in a pamphlet for others to reminisce and enjoy.

We are looking for brief vignettes to include in this document.  And we are looking for folks who are currently members OR folks who have been members or supporter in the past.  So please share this request far and wide to those with whom you are still in contact.

They can be as brief as you’d like!  This information is needed by August, although we can’t say just now when they will be published.  We will need time to organize before publishing!

Here are some topics that have popped in our minds:  

                  *Church beginnings in the movie theater

                  *Our previous rental house

                  *Renovation of our current building

                  * Special memories of a particular church service (Such as something that happened, or a special song you remember or a particular sermon that moved you)

                  *Former pastors

                  *Former interns

                  *Building of the LLC apartments

                  *Worship during Covid

                  *Music

                  *Activities :  Montana de Luz trips, Youth Gatherings, Service Trips by college students, children and family events such as Halloween hay rides, swimming parties, Lutefisk Dinners, “lock-ins”, Children’s Christmas programs, St. Patty’s Day parties, “Small 
Groups” during the 1980s, Women’s Retreats, AAL activities, working with non-profits such as My Sister’s Place, Athens County Food Pantry, CWS Hunger Walks, Blessing of the Animals, various church committees and their activities, and so much more!   

                  * Was there something that made you feel like you welcome at the church, or something that made you think, “This is the church for me.”

We would like you to send your memories to the Outreach Committee. You can email them to Nick Claussen at nickc324@gmail.com,  or write out your memories and hand them to Committee members Linda Sauer, Karen Beverly, John Laughlin or Nick Claussen or mail them to Christ Lutheran Church, 69 Mill Street, Athens, Ohio 45701. Thanks!