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PERSONAL MISSION SUPPORT
ELCA Global Church Sponsorship. Sign up today! $20 a Sunday. (Select your Sunday from the chart in the hallway.) 
The mission project for the 2020 Lenten Journey will be LWR Personal Care Kits.
Cleanliness may not actually be next to godliness, but it certainly makes a person feel more human. When families find their homes destroyed or must flee for their safety, soap and a towel rarely make the cut for what they can carry. Arriving in a refugee camp or other place of safety, they are scared, vulnerable and dirty from the travel. The simple items included in a Personal Care Kit provide much needed self-care, critical germ fighting, and the chance to regain dignity amidst situations of fear and uncertainty WE CANHELP! The mission project for our Lenten Journey 2020 will be Lutheran World Relief Personal Care Kits. Each Sunday during Lent we would like you to bring the items needed to make up a care kit. Those items are listed below. Please bring the item that is suggested for each Sunday, or if you prefer, you can purchase them all at one time and bring them all on any one Sunday during Lent. Just put them into the basket provided in the narthex near the office door. The shipping cost of each kit is $2.65. If you would like to help defray this cost mark your donation “LWR Care Kits”. These are the items needed: Mar 1: Two or Three bath size bars of soap equaling 8 to 9oz., any brand, in original wrapping, no mini or hotel size.. Mar 8: One new light-weight bath size towel (20”x40” to 52”x27”), dark color recommended. Mar 15: ONE adult size toothbrush in its original pkg. Mar 22: ONE sturdy comb. (no picks or fine-toothed combs) Mar 29: ONE metal nail clippers. (attached file optional) April 5: Make-up day. Bring anything you might have forgotten other days. THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION! For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever. Psalm 9:18 
Thank you to all who donated and worked at the Cannon Falls Feed My Starving Children Mobile Pack. St. Ansgar’s raised $2,684.65
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March is Food Share Month!
There will be a Temple Talk on the Cannon Falls FoodShelf on Sunday, March 1st. St. Ansgar’s will be collecting food through the month of March. You may put your food items in the grocery cart in the sanctuary. Please check dates on food items. See the Mission section on pg.6 for a list of items needed. Canned Fruit is always welcomed. They never seem to have enough. If you would like to donate to the FoodShelf, make checks out to St. Ansgar’s and write “Food Shelf” in the memo. $1 buys several meals at the Food Bank. 
Food Shelf Distribution Schedule:
1st Saturday of the Month 10 am - Noon 2nd & 4th Thurs of the Month 10 am-Noon 3rd Thursday of the Month 4:30 – 6:30 pm Food donation drop-off is M-F: from 9-noon & 1-3 pm Items in need: Toothpaste, shampoo, canned peaches, pears and mandarin organs, bath tissue, Kleenex, dish soap, laundry detergent, deodorant, canned soup, canned meals, boxed meals, 64 oz fruit juice in plastic bottles, canned vegetables & fruit, & deodorant. Feed more families by donating cash. Every dollar donated to the food shelf provides 5 meals from the food bank. The Cannon Falls Community Food Shelf is housed at 1st English Lutheran Church: 511 W. Belle Street Cannon Falls, MN 507.298.1500 |