Dear Church Family,

Happy Father’s Day to all you father and father-figures out there. Being a caring and nurturing man in today’s world is not always easy, thanks for taking the job on.

I am sad to pass on the news that we have had two deaths in our church family this past week:

Jennie Sukut whose family graveside funeral was held on Friday. To share memories and condolences with her family, please visit www.parkfuneral.ca
Paul Freitag – sisters Mary and Monica are with Paul’s mom Meta. Please keep them in your prayers.

Our wonderful grass cutter and snow remover, Otto Thresher, is unable to continue. I have really appreciated his work especially in the winter when he takes such great care to make our sidewalks as safe as possible. He was always very particular on a Sunday morning so that no one slipped coming to church. Church council is looking for someone to take this job on.

We do have guidelines for returning to worship in the building. We are going to go slow because there are lots of little boxes that need to be “ticked” so we can do it safely. We will continue with on-line worship during the summer. We will do some “practice runs” during the summer on a Thursday evening as we record Sunday worship. That will help us get used to a new practice of worship. The goal is to return to worship in the building in September. One thing we possibly could do in the meantime is hold a worship service outside for 30. Please let me know if this is something you would like to do.

If you have items for the Summer edition of our newsletter, Augustana Previews, please forward them to Bryan Tastad at bryan.tastad@gmail.com by Tuesday June 23.

God bless and keep you well,

Pastor Marilyn

This week’s link to worship: https://youtu.be/yFSLo4Q4MLg