Please mark your calendar for August 29^th from 1 to 4 PM! Join us to celebrate God’s light here at Peace and in our neighborhood! We will be celebrating education by giving away school supplies for children and youth! We will be celebrating our blessings by sharing with a canned food drive! We will be celebrating our neighbors by welcoming, visiting and sharing a meal together! Don’t miss this opportunity to shine your light on our celebration! If you can help with donating school supplies, or money for same, or help the day of the party with some elbow grease, please contact Carmen Lampman at 627-5020 or the church office.  

Join us for a getaway day on July 25. We are planning a day trip to Poulsbo Washington. We will eat lunch together, shop if you like, and enjoy fellowship with one another. Bring some money for lunch, or pack a sack lunch. We will meet at the church at 10 am and leave from there together in the church van. We will return in the late afternoon. Hope you can come! Talk to Ami Schroeder (223-7864) or Vihollie Rice (759-1433) for more information.

Come enjoy an evening of jazz standards from the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s…and more! Saturday, July 11 at  7 pm, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 101 E 38^th St., 474-0525. Featuring: Bethlehem Lutheran Jazz Ensemble with special guests Red Delicious. Call Steve Body, 253-709-1048 for more information.

This is a spoken word poetry production by local artist Luke Smiraldo (who lives very near the church on S. Cushman). The piece lifts up the voices of the voiceless and marginalized in the world with a social justice emphasis and will be performed Saturday July 18 at 7pm and Sunday July 19 at 3pm at Peace by members of the Peace community, directed by Ieisha McIntyre, to raise funds for the Century Celebration Mission Fund. This is an artistic work, and we will have a time for conversation afterward with the writer, director, and actors.

Dear Care Package Team:Those care packages are still life savers!Even now they come at the perfect time when I'm doing finals and I'm stressed out. And it’s getting a lot harder. I consider these packages to be great comfort to me and I always trust them to come at the perfect time. You all do such a great job there and I am so grateful to still be thought of by you all and sent these packages. Just wanted to give a big thanks!!

~ Sylke Dixon

Join other youth from the Peace community as we get away to Ocean Shores for a time of fun, spiritual refreshment and group building. We’ll be staying at the Galilean Retreat Center. Leaving Friday, July 10 at 10 am, returning Sunday, July 12. Cost is $40. Space is limited so please let Malcolm (282-0218) or Kerri Greenaway (383-1317) know your interest to come.

Bring your lunch to First Lutheran Church and sit inside or out while you enjoy local talent each week. Every Thursday, 12-1 pm from June 25-August 27 in the church sanctuary, 524 South I Street.

Attention health professionals!  Would you be willing to connect with Nancy Burris McIntyre, Peace’s point person for a new health ministry, to share ideas, expertise, support, or anything else?  Please contact Nancy at (253) 507-4550.

Pastor John will be leading a Communion Workshop during Sunday School on Sunday, July 12 from 9:45 – 10:45 am for children, youth, and families. This event will break open the story, actions, and elements of Holy Communion. It is especially good for children and parents as a first-time event or a review depending on your child’s participation in Communion so far.

If you sew, knit, or crochet, we need you to help make a crib size quilt for low-income new moms. These may be the only “new” and special gift they receive for their newborn. These quilts will be given through the Tacoma Pierce County Health Department. Donations of time for cutting and sewing, fabrics, batting, or money for fabrics would be truly welcomed. When completed these quilts will be blessed at the church. A “Blessing” date of July 12 is planned. Please contact Barbara Hartness for volunteering, (253) 272-2780.

We are looking for people/groups/ organizations who would like to buy and prepare lunches for Camp Peace!  Each meal should include: a main dish (ex. sandwich), a side dish (ex. chips), a fruit or vegetable, and a drink. For available dates please contact Kerri Greenaway at 383.1317 or kerrig@peacetacoma.org.

 

·        VBS leader meeting June 14 after 11am service for 1 hour

·        No Sunday school June 21 - Fathers Day observed

·        VBS Family leader and Shopkeeper training June 28 after 11am service for 30 minutes

·        Group Sunday school instruction for PreK - 6th grade on June 28 and July 12

·        No Sunday school July 5- Independence Day weekend observed

·        VBS registration July 19 and July 26 from 9:45 - 10:45 in the multipurpose room

·        Vacation Bible School, Monday-Thursday, July 27-30, 5-8 pm: The theme this year is “Rome & the Underground Church.” It’s a 4 Day Evening Camp for all ages and includes dinner!

On Fri Aug 14- Sunday Aug 16, we’ll head to Alder Lake (about 1 hour away) for an exciting Peace church weekend camping experience. Interested? Call Celeste Stoll (229-6907) ASAP so we can make reservations soon!

If you'd like to sign-up to "host" an after-worship fellowship time, email kerrig@peacetacoma.org or call Kerri at 383.1317.

Exercise for Life is taking a summer break. Look for it again soon! Questions? Call Nancy Burris-McIntyre, 507-4550.

In gratitude to God this 100^th Anniversary year, consider giving toward God’s mission. Write a check to the church marked “Century Celebration Mission Fund,” to be divided:

·         1/3 to local mission (the Peace Community Center)

·         1/3 to regional mission (1000 Mission Friends strengthening existing Lutheran congregations and starting new ones in Southwestern Washington)

·         1/3 to world mission (split between the Davis family mission in Kenya through Empowering Lives International, and ELCA World Hunger)