Has been described as giving to God a portion of the blessings God has given to you.  It includes time, talent and money.  Your church budget mostly requires the last one.

Financial stewardship is a bit of the chicken and the egg.  Do we sell the budget or pitch proportional giving, or both?  A Biblical tithe is defined as 10% of your income to the work of the Lord.

Protestants today tend to be closer to 2%.  If we received 5%, we would have no budget problems.  The amount of our problem through March 31 is a deficit of $24,791.

2. Jesus spoke to this disciple while hanging on the cross, saying, “Here is your mother.”

3. This disciple wasn’t with all the others when Jesus appeared to them on the evening of His resurrection?

4. One disciple objected when Jesus washed his feet at the Last Supper; another objected when Mary washed Jesus’ feet with expensive perfume. Who were these two objectors?

5. Jesus assigned these two disciples the important task of preparing the Upper Room for the Passover meal, also known as the Lord’s Supper?

6. Which of Jesus’ disciples were the first to die?

7. While they were fishing, Jesus appeared to these five named disciples after His resurrection?

We had the pleasure of having the Brownie Troop, which the Guild sponsors, present a program at our monthly meeting Wednesday, April 11th.  They sang several of their Brownie songs and also showed us their rededication ceremony.  Each Guild member was presented with a beautiful flower made by a brownie. Thank you Elena Kircher and your Troop for an enjoyable program.

In addition interesting refreshments were provided by Catherine Voorhees, and each Brownie received a pansy plant given by Flo Torok.

Our business meeting followed with Doris Weber presiding.  Nominating committee for next year’s officers will be Dot Klesitz, Lori Reeves and Dot Schroff.

New business:

May 6th - Phase I Celebration. All members are encouraged to attend.

May 19th - Men’s Roast Beef Dinner.  Ladies will provide the desserts.

Our meeting was closed with an appropriate reading by Doris, “Easter Story We Like to Remember”.  This was followed by a prayer.

Next Guild meeting will be May 9th - Covered Dish.

Esther and Martha Circle met on Monday evening, April 23rd at the home of Doris Weber.  The large attendance necessitated Doris getting out some additional chairs.  It was nice to have two visitors, Claire Christie and Catherine Voorhees.  Flo Torok had devotions, her reading and prayer was an inspiration to us all.

We reviewed many important upcoming dates:

May 6th Completion of Phase I Restoration Celebration. Please register if you plan to attend.

May 9th Guild Covered Dish Supper - 6:30 p.m. Social Hall. Sarah Circle will have table set up.

May 19th Women will provide cakes for the Men’s Roast Beef Dinner.

May 22nd Regular group meeting 12:00 noon in the Social Hall.  Please bring lunch.  Evelyn Junker will have devotions.

June 3rd Esther & Martha Circle will have the coffee hour following Church service.

June 13th End of the year reports are due.

June 18th Martha & Esther Circle dinner at 6:00 p.m. at Sir John’s.

We received a thank you note from Hazel Ecker for having the luncheon for Church Women United.

Alice Plantec of Golden Chain Care, informed us there are twenty-seven shut-ins.  She is in need of help to make contact with these individuals.  If you can be of some assistance call Alice at 828-1873.

Jack Weber provided us with “words of wisdom” he had received on this computer.  Brought some hearty chuckles.

Thank you Doris for the refreshments.

In April the Jr. Youth Group helped serve meals at Elijah’s Promise.  Special thanks to Mary Katherine Lynn, Rebecca & Samantha Jones, Nicole & Laura Fricke, Kelly Krisza, Matt Lucid, Jackie Perry, and Alyson Kircher.

Thanks to the parents who helped: Linda Jones, Dave & Donna Fricke and Donna Lucid. We also worked with the Hymn Books and placed the place markers from the old books into the new books.