St Paul Church

Freeport Industrial Roofing has completed the re-roofing of the fellowship hall and Sunday school wings and has come in $2900.00 under their bid. The final cost of the roofing project is $81,100.00. Of that, $24,457.54 will come from the Capital Campaign, $13500.00 from our PrimeVest Account, and $1,642.46 from Garage Sale proceeds, leaving a balance of $41,500.00 borrowed from the Endowment Fund. The Council would like to let you know that you can contribute tot e cost of the new roof by earmarking your gifts to eitehr the Roof Project or Capital Campaign. Thank you to those that have already contributed to this project and for those that will now that the project is complete. May God guide you as you give.

The Board of Christian Education continues to sponsor monthly food drives for The Salvation Army and the month of March will be a general collection with an emphasis on canned meats, pastas and mac and cheese. As always, thank you for your continued support of this outreach to our local communities.

The Board of Christian Education met on February 9th discussing the following:

• Secretary and Treasurer reports read and approved with a treasury balance of $1,578.35
• Angel tree misssion project — $900 given to the Geiseman Family
•  College boxes — 26 boxes sent. Will ty and organize earlier for 2009
• Christmas Eve refreshments
• Sunday School Secretary update
• Salvation Army collection for March — pastas, mac & cheese, canned meats
• Rotation Sunday School — could still use more teachers, specifically for Geography room for March/April
• Teacher Recognition — May 17th during worship
• Easter Outreach — March 29th as this is a 5th Sunday and works well with the rotation schedule
• Election ofOfficers — Karen Kleckner, President; Brooks Henneman, Vice President; Ann Kriens, Secretary and she will serve thru 2009
• Bible School — dates are being discussed with decision to be made at the March meeting

Next meeting will be March 9th at 7pm.

It’s time to start thinking about things you can donate for the church garage sale set for April 17th and 18th. Start cleaning those closets, dressers, cupboards and basements and start sorting. Please box your items accordingly, label them and after Easter Sunday bring those boxes to the church! Thank you in advance for your willingness to donate items that you no longer want or need.