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I hope you are well-rested from your holiday and pray this week was full of beautiful experiences. I don’t know about you, but I am looking forward to this weekend. It’s Christmas Decorating weekend for me and I must admit, when I decorate, I am known to go overboard. Last evening, some items arrived at the house, and my husband… We have completed another busy week with gusto! I am so pleased with our progress in program development, fiscal processes, and overall organizational efficiencies. I have been watching with amazement at the work you do. Thank you for all that you do to serve the needs of the various communities. For the 10th consecutive year athletes from Long Beach Polytechnic High School’s swim and water polo teams are raising food and awareness for Lutheran Social Services Long Beach. “Long Beach Poly is located in inner city Long Beach,” said Kalani Caldwell, a teacher and girls’ swim coach. “I think a lot of our students that come to Poly are not… Here we are at the end of another week. As we continue to focus on gratitude, I cannot help but think about how challenging life has been for so many people over the last year. When I want to complain, I stop myself. Instead, I remind myself of just how blessed my life has been. Do you do the same? November is the month we set aside to focus on GRATEFULNESS. For years I have been intentional not to rush from Halloween to Christmas, and I take time to be grateful in November by focusing on joy! That is where I start today. Psalms 118:24, “This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad! Lutheran World Relief collections, often called Ingatherings, are key to getting thousands of quilts and kits to LWR’s warehouses for processing, packing and shipping overseas. LWR Key Leaders, the committed volunteers that manage the details of the Ingatherings, are unsung heroes of this ministry. In this series, we highlight some of those special people and the ways they make their local collections happen. I hope you have enjoyed your week. Thank you for the prayers and support you give to me and each other each day; I wish I could hold a function where we could all be together and laugh and enjoy one another. We continue to make plans, but the pandemic has different ideas. I pray next year we will be… I think the older I get, the faster time flies. Today is the 22nd of October, three weeks in already, with next week or weekend finishing out the month. I don’t know about you, but I feel that the month has just started. I guess time flies when you are having fun? Can you believe that we are only weeks away from Thanksgiving and then Christmas? Thanksgiving and Christmas, the most beautiful time of the year! I guess some may think it’s too soon to talk about the holidays but not me. Do you love the rain? I do. I was in another state earlier this week and when my husband called and said it was pouring down in our area, I was sad. He said, “…and it’s thundering and lightening also.” Double sad I was because I missed it.
December 3, 2021
November 19, 2021
10th Annual “Turkey Trot”
November 12, 2021
November 5, 2021
LWR Ingathering
October 29, 2021
October 22, 2021
October 15, 2021
October 8, 2021
