Newsletter - November

From Pastor's Desk

When I think about the month of November I think about the changing Seasons. I saw the seasons change in a 24 hour period in my first year in Wisconsin. It was around Thanksgiving and my Father came up to see my Aunt and to hunt. The first day started with a wonderful Thanksgiving meal. Then we spent the rest of the day driving around looking at places they could set up to hunt deer. This was an almost perfect Fall ay. I wore a spring jacket, and it was nice and sunny. The next day I woke up and several feet of snow had fallen. My Father was literally outside hunting in a strong snow fall. They had purchased hand warmers and they needed them. The only thing I could think was, man I am glad I am not out there with him. It had changed from Fall to Winter.

The seasons are not the only thing that changes. Our lives change. One day might be a wonderful seemingly perfect day. The next day might be a terrible no good very bad day. On our terrible days God has a message for us, "Be Still and Know that I am God." (Psalm 46:10) No matter how bad our days are we can know that God is present in our lives and will not leave us nor forsake us. We also know that no matter how much our lives change God never changes. Hebrews 13:8 tells us "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” We can be confident that his love will not change. So we can face the changes of our lives with confidence knowing God is with us.

Lutheran Hour Ministries

Christmas Shoppers: Amazon Will Donate to the Ministry! Do you shop on Amazon at Christmas (or any time of the year)? Your purchases can help support the ministry—-without costing an extra cent. With the Amazon Smile program, each time you make a qualified purchase, Amazon will donate a portion of its profit to Lutheran Hour Ministries. It’s open to all Amazon customers. You can sign up in 3 easy steps: 1. Go to smile.amazon.com (NOT www.amazon.com) and log in like usual. 2. When asked which charity, type Lutheran Hour Ministries into the search box and select it in the results. 3. Start shopping. You must enter through smile.amazon.com each time for the donation to occur. It’s another way to help fund Gospel utreach! Thanks for your support.

St Peter’s Board of Witness and Stewardship

Church officers and Nominating committee are requesting your help. Witness and Stewardship is the responsibility of the entire congregation. Currently the Board of Witness and Stewardship needs your help. There will be a short meeting after church on Nov 3rd. Please consider coming and sharing your input. We need help dividing up next year’s programs, if you could take a month or two of the activities that would be greatly appreciated. ie, Mother’s Day flowers, Father’s Day treat, welcome back in the fall for Sunday school with juice and donuts, We Care Project (adopt a family) with purchasing clothing and toys, trunk/treat, church Christmas dinner, etc. Deb Oberhaus has notes on all of these activities to help you. Perhaps 2-3 people would like to work together on monthly activities. Many hands make light work. Please plan to attend. Thank you!

Henry County Christmas Cheer Program

Throughout the Month of November and until December 8th canned goods, dry goods and paper products are being collected for Christmas Cheer. Monetary donations (Checks payable to Henry County Christmas Cheer) may be sent to: Henry County Christmas Cheer c/o LeRoy Helberg Q610 County Road 19 Napoleon, OH 43545. In the Narthex you will find a listing of suggested items (remember NO home-canned products, preferably no microwave only products and Please NO items past their expiration dates). Also are forms that can be handed out to those families that are in need. If you wish to volunteer in assembling the baskets The date is Wednesday December 11th at the Filling Home.

Reduce Your Taxes with an IRA Gift

The IRA charitable rollover permits individuals who are 70 1/2 to rollover up to $100,000 from their IRA to charities like St. Peter Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Hour Ministries (LHM) free from federal income tax. An IRA rollover gift also qualifies for your required minimum distribution, permitting you to lower your income and taxes for this year while helping us to share the Gospel. You can redirect your unneeded IRA income to our Church by having the contribution check made payable to the Church, you can also have the check mailed directly to the church to the attention of the Financial Secretary. To direct your rollover contribution to LHM, contact their gift planning staff to learn more about how you can redirect unneeded IRA income to them at lhm.org/ira, lhm-gift@lhm.org or 1-877-333-1963. Thanks for your support.

Preschool Pizza Fundraiser!

Orders are being taken now for the Pizza Fundraiser. Pisanello’s Cheese, Pepperoni or Sausage pizzas are available at $8 each (the preschool will make $5 profit on all pizza’s sold). Payment must be made at time of order (checks can be made out to St Peter Preschool). Ordering deadline is November 3rd .

Pizzas can be picked up at the church on Sunday, Nov 10th. Order blanks will be available in the Narthex.

Greetings from Preschool!

Things are going very well in Preschool so far this year, 15 students are enrolled, largest classes yet! So exciting! We've been very busy learning our letters and having weekly themes. Firefighter Kyle Richards is in this week for Fire Safety week ~ we love when he visits us!

Pisanello's Pizza sales are in full swing, please help support our Preschool and order some great deli style pizzas! $8 each and your choice of cheese, pepperoni or sausage!!! The Preschool makes $5 off each pizza sold!

Thanks so much to everyone for the prayers since my Cancer diagnosis. Sure has been amazing to have all the support from our community. Means so much to my family and I.

In God's Blessings, Mrs. Rees

Newsletter - October

From Pastor’s Desk

October in our wider Cultural world is usually seen as a time of Ghost and Goblins when we celebrate Halloween on October 31st. Yet, as Lutherans it is on the same day we celebrate the Reformation. The reason we celebrate the Reformation on that day is simple. On October 31st 1917 Martin Luther nailed his Ninety Five Thesis on the Castle Church in Wittenberg. The reason he nailed it to that door was it was practically the Universities bulletin board.

What was Luther addressing when he wrote the 95 Thesis? He was addressing a few controversies at thetime, and one of the issues was how a person saved. "The true Treasure of the church is not the superabundant merits of Christ and the Saints, subject to Papal control, but the most holy Gospel of the Glory and grace of God, freely offered to repentant Sinners by Faithful Pastors." In other words, it is the free gift of Salvation offered to us by Christ that Saves people, and nothing else. For this Luther was called a Heretic. His 95 theses along with his later writings helped start the reformation.

Today the whole Christian Church has come to appreciate Luther. Even in Catholic circles Luther is seen as a worthy Partner in theological dialogue. Which means Luther and his writings have helped the Catholic Church a great deal as they reach out to other church bodies and have ecumenical dialogues. [Some of the information for this article were taken from: Walker, Willison; Norris, Richard. A History of The Christian Church Fourth Ed. Published in 1985. (Pg.419-423)]

St Peter Men’s Dartball Schedule

All games begin at 7pm

Oct 15th – Away at Emanuel Napoleon

Nov 19th – Away at Trinity Bryan

Dec 17th – Away at Wesley UM Bryan

Jan 21st – Home vs Bethlehem Lutheran Okolona

Feb 18th – Away at St John Deshler

Mar 3rd – Home vs Trinity Wauseon

Mar 15th – Tournament at St John Deshler 2pm

Friendship Sunday at St Peter

Let’s Celebrate Our Friends on Sunday October 13th – Share the fun and Good News with someone else, bring a friend (one or more!) to Sunday School and Church. There will be light refreshments served after church by the Outreach Committee.

Trunk or Treat

Alicia and her dog Ellie

Although the Date is not determined yet -Everyone is invited to come out to St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Florida, Ohio and participate in the Trunk or Treat night. Times will be 5:30 - 7:30 You can participate by decorating your vehicle and passing out treats to the kids OR bring your children or grandchildren to the event! Watch future bulletins for the Date!!

LWML Defiance Zone Christian Life Workshop

St Peter-Florida is hosting the Christian Life Workshop on Sunday – October 13th from 2:00-4:00pm The Guest Speaker is Rev. Dr. Carl E. Rockrohr. Rev. Dr. Rockrohr is presently serving as Pastor of Zion Lutheran Church in Ridgeville Corners. He will be sharing his experiences as a missionary in Ghana, South Africa and Ethiopia. He was a teacher/professor in the LCMS Seminary and will share many interesting details of the cultures and the status of Christianity in those areas. No registration is required – All women of the Defiance Zone Churches are invited to attend this Christian Life event. Light refreshments will be provided.

Greetings from Preschool!

We’ve had an amazing start to the school year and I am so blessed & thankful for 2 perfect classes this year - 15 students total!!! We’ve talked about our classroom rules, learned about each other, had our weekly themes and enjoyed everyday. Thanks to Emilie Parsons for taking our school pictures this week, I can’t wait to see all the amazing smiles!!

As always, I am so thankful to have this job and be your preschool teacher. St Peter Preschool committee, the church members and everyone else have been so supportive with everything. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart. In God’s Blessings, Mrs Rees

Newsletter - September

From Pastor’s Desk:

I’m writing this in Late August. The school year is fast approaching. For the last few weeks I have been talking to students at both Churches. I always ask them, “Are you ready for school?” And most of them answer yes. I have also asked, “are you excited about school?” The answer usually, NO! It’s true rarely are kids excited about going back to school. I certainly was never excited about going back to school. I do see a lot of parents excited for their children. And think we can be excited as a child to go back to school, since we should be excited about someone else learning. This September both churches are going to resume Sunday School. I think it would be fitting to pray for the teachers and the students:

Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, even as You are committed to the care and nature of children to Your people, this coming school year graciously enlighten those who teach and those who are committed to their instruction that they may know Your eternal truth and trust in You all the days of their lives; through Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN

Sunday School and Catechism Classes

Catechism Classes will begin on Wednesday, September 4th at 6:30pm the first class including a parent meeting will be held at St Peter.

Sunday School – Join us on September 8th at 9AM for our FIRST day of Sunday School as we celebrate Rally Day at St. Peter! Don’t forget to bring your backpacks for our backpack blessing during our 10AM worship service.

Joint Council Meeting

Monday, September 16th at 7:30pm at St Peter.

LWML Retreat – Defiance and Napoleon Zones

Saturday – September 21st St John, Stryker – Corners of St Rt 6 & 66 8:30am-2:00pm The LWML provides the planning for the program, church service conducted by Pastors Stuenkel and Stottlemeyer, Rev. Logan Scheiwe is the speaker for the day, (Please bring your Bible!) meals and book store for this event but all women of our churches are invited and urged to attend. Registration forms are in church narthex and need to be sent to Linda Bostelman with a check of $14 for each registrant Ingathering donations will go to the Ft Wayne Seminary Food Co-Op (See the list by the Registration for the “Donation Bag” suggestions.)

Thank You to St. Peter Lutheran church for the use of the building for the blood drive on Wed. Aug. 28. They were able to collect 19 units. Thank You again for supporting the American Red Cross.

Seminarian Ryan Pumphrey

Seminarian Ryan Pumphrey has again been designated as the adopted Seminarian of St. Peter, Florida LWML for the 2019-20 school year. His home church is Redeemer Lutheran of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. He is a third year student at Concordia Seminary in Fort Wayne and will be serving his vicarage in the Fort Wayne area ministering to the residents at the Lutheran Home Care facilities. He and his wife Jennifer have two daughters, Rebecca and Cassandra and continue to live in Fort Wayne where the daughters attend high school.

We were privileged to have Ryan conduct worship services at St.Paul and St.Peter during the last academic year and look forward to the family’s visit this year as well.”

Newsletter - July

Pastor's Desk,

This July I will travel with the St Paul Youth group to The LCMS National Youth Gathering. We are also joined by some St Peter Youth Members and a few youth members of other churches. The last time I went to a LCMS National Youth Gathering, it was when I was in High School. It was in New Orleans. There were some good speakers and I went to some good breakout sessions. After a whole week there is one thing I remember clearly though, how many Lutheran Kids were there. It was Shocking, I think it was like 40,000 youth. It was good to know there were so many other kids that had the same faith I had. I hope the youth we take have wonderful experiences of their own and learn more about their Creator on this trip.

This year I have had several articles about Prayer, so I wanted to end this article with a prayer for Travel:

Lord God our Father, You kept Abraham and Sarah in safety throughout the days of their pilgrimage, you led the children of Israel through the midst of the sea and by a star you led the Wise Men to the Infant Jesus. Protect and guide us now in this time as we set out to travel. Make our ways safe and our homecoming joyful, and bring us at least to our heavenly home, where You dwell in glory with Your Son and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. AMEN.

[Lutheran Service Book page 287].

Our Youth Groups are heading to Minneapolis!

Thank You - The Youth group would like to thank everyone for their support as the youth prepare for the trip to Minneapolis, Minnesota July 10-15, as we have a group of 16 attending this year. We wanted to make sure you all knew how much your support means to us and we will be attending the National Youth Gathering. We wanted to let you know that it cost $1200.00 a person to cover the registration, hotel and transportation for the event. We have done numerous fundraising activities and would not have been able to reduce the cost without the help of the congregation and community. The youth groups cannot say thank you enough for all your support. If anyone would still like to give a donation for the youth groups attending, we are able to accept any donations until July 5. These donations will help offset the cost of food and other activities throughout the time at the gathering. Thank you! St. Paul, St. Peter, and St. Stephens Youth Groups The Reverend James Fundum will be leading our Churches in Worship Service on July 14th as Pastor Stuenkel will be traveling with the Youth Groups to Minneapolis.

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GERMAN LUTHERAN HERITAGE Program

On Sunday, July 21, 2019 at 2 PM. Public is welcome to an interesting time spent relating to foods and customs that our families enjoyed and that were passed down from German heritage to the present time. Board member Jason Frederick will prepare some of those traditional dishes that he makes for his family and friends to share. Please come and join us at the Lutheran Social Services Building which is south of Archbold on State Route 66 across from the Four County Career Center for an enjoyable Sunday afternoon.

St Peter’s - VBS THANK YOU

Thank you to all of our VBS volunteers for taking the time to help this week. We had a total of 35 students and the kids sure had a BLAST learning through science-inspired Christ-focused bible lessons. On Friday June 21st, we ended our VBS with a wonderful closing program where the kids were able to show their friends and family what they learned over the week.

Newsletter - June

From Pastor’s Desk

Over the last several months I have been discussing how to pray. I gave an outline of what prayers can look like. We did not discuss WHEN to pray or WHERE to pray.

Answering the question of when and where should you pray, I think it is helpful to use an analogy. I often find people who work out regularly do it the same time every day, and have a specific workout routine. I think approaching our Christian life in a similar manor can be helpful. If you find a good time and place to pray in your house I would encourage you to try praying in that same place at the same time each day for a week. If it works try it for another week. If that works try a month. You might be surprised that once you get in the habit of doing something you begin doing it without thinking.

What should you do with that time? I would encourage you to take your bulletin home each week. That gives you three readings to do, or you could begin reading a book of the bible; maybe a few chapters. Then I would encourage you to pray after the reading. If you look at your small catechism you will notice there is a Morning Prayer, and an Evening Prayer. Depending on what time you are praying, you can decide which prayer to use. The Morning Prayer asks us to face our day knowing we are God's redeemed Children. The Evening Prayer invites us ask forgiveness for our sinful behavior, and ask God forgiveness. [I think it is also good to pray before each Meal.] - Rev. Jacob Stuenkel

Our Seminarian

Our Seminarian student adopted by St. Peter Lutheran Church has received his Vicarage assignment. A Vicar is a placement for one year as an assistant to a Pastor. Ryan Pumphrey will be the Vicar at Lutheran Life Village in Ft. Wayne, IN.

Online Prayer Requests

You may now make online prayer requests! Click HERE and click on: “HOW CAN WE PRAY FOR YOU?” All Forms submitted will be privately sent directly to Pastor Stuenkel.

424 Garage Sale & Orphan Grain Train

Orphan Grain Train will be hosting their yearly fundraiser during the 424 Garage Sale Event on June 6-7-8 at the Fire station in Florida. This is the one and only fundraiser that OGT does for the year. Money raised is used for fuel and transportation funds to get the donations to the needy areas. So how can you help OGT in their efforts? They are looking for the following items to sell: Household & any type of garage sale items (no clothing please); Bake sale items. They are also in need of volunteers – those who can help collect and set up the items for sale and those that can assist during the event as salespeople. They also serve lunches during the event. Finally – take time to stop by and purchase an item, baked good or lunch! Contact Nancy Helmke @ 419.758.3539.

Monday Night Out At The Barn Restaurant At Sauder Village

The LWML invites all our members to join them for a Dutch Treat Monday Night Buffet at THE BARN RESTAURANT on JUNE 10, 2019 at 5:30 PM. Please mark your calendars now and advise Sharlene Bunke on or before June 4, 2019 if you can come. Tell her personally or by phone at 419-782-9136

Newsletter - May

From Pastor’s Desk

Over my last few newsletter articles I have been encouraging everyone to pray more this year. I believe one of the reasons we don’t pray a lot, is we don’t know how to.

I have been suggesting an outline to use for Prayers. I have already suggested you begin with an ADDRESS. In the Lord’s Prayer, Our Father is an address to Our Father in Heaven. You follow an address with a Rational. In the Lord’s Prayer our Father who art in Heaven is the Rational. He is in Heaven so He can see everything and knows everything. You can then add what we call a Petition. These are the Things you actually pray for, so it’s sometimes called the requests. Then came The Benefit; this is what we hope is accomplished by our prayer.

The next part of a prayer is the Termination or sometimes called the conclusion. The termination is what you end the prayer with. It can be very simple, “in Your name we pray, Amen.” This might seem simple enough, but it sometimes is very beautiful way to end a prayer. The Termination often times takes on a very Trinitarian character. For example some prayers end like this: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit as it was in the beginning; is now, and will be forever. Amen.

We usually just end our prayers with AMEN. I do believe ending a prayer by readdressing God can help us remember who we direct our prayers towards. Do we just pray to any God, or do we direct our prayers towards the Triune God which is revealed to us in Scripture. I hope for all of us it’s the God we learn about in Scripture.

Thank you to the following who donated Easter flowers that decorated the Sanctuary!

Bette Weddelman – In memory of Bert Weddelman

Their Family – In memory of Paul & Lillian Franz

Her Family – in memory of Carol Franz

Karen Leaders – In memory of John Leaders

Frieda & Lavina Boesling – In Memory of Lisa Miller

Sharleen Bunke – In memory of Elmer & Ruby Bunke

Jacob Rausch – In memory of Paul & Dorothy Rausch and

Beverly Gerken

Mark & Debra Oberhaus – In memory of Art & Betty Botjer and

Leland & Loretta Oberhaus

Tom Meyer & Nelma Church – In memory of Melvin & Laura

Meyer and Glen Church

Alice Knepley – In memory of Ken & Aly

Jim & JoAnn Arens – In memory of Floyd & Emma Scheele

Betty Hoy – In memory of Jim Hoy and Alex Kuser

Renata Von Deylen – In memory of Don Von Deylen

Mary Ann Ramey – for Family who have gone to the Lord

Russ & Sherry Krueger – In memory of John Leaders

St Peter – Memorial Day @ Florida

The Florida Volunteer Fireman are planning to have a chicken barbecue on Memorial Day, May 27th. Our church members will be helping. We will need food and workers. Watch for more information in the bulletins.

Orphan Grain Train

Orphan Grain Train will be hosting their yearly fundraiser during the 424 Garage Sale Event on June 6-7-8 at the Fire station in Florida. This is the one and only fundraiser that OGT does for the year. Money raised is used for fuel and transportation funds to get the donations to the needy areas. So how can you help OGT in their efforts? They are looking for the following items to sell: Household & any type of garage sale items (no clothing please); Bake sale items. They are also in need of volunteers – those who can help collect and set up the items for sale and those that can assist during the event as salespeople. They also serve lunches during the event. Finally – take time to stop by and purchase an item, baked good or lunch!

Greeting from Preschool!

Can’t believe we’ve reached the last month of school for the 2018/2019 school year!

April was busy with our monthly library visit. Bible lesson with Miss Evie, visit from firefighter Kyle Richards and his fire truck, and our annual St Judy Trike-a-Thon next week!! We’re also working on our numbers and have had the themes of weather, caterpillars, Easter, space and lions! May will be busy as well as we start to prepare for preschool graduation!

Our spring open house was a huge success in April. Lots of new families and we’ve enrolled a lot for Fall already! We love Preschool!

In God’s Blessings, Julie Rees

Confirmation Day

Congratulations to our Confirmands!

May you always look to God

and His guidance every day

as you seek to follow Him

and His good and perfect way.

As you go along the path

that He’s chosen just for you,

may He richly bless your life

and bring joy in all you do. - unknown

The Amazing Race Around St. Peter!

St. Peter Youth Group enjoyed an Amazing Race around St. Peter on March 27th. We started our evening out with spaghetti, garlic toast and cookies. The 14 students divided into 5 separate teams and were instructed on the rules of the game. The beginning clue was found in a kiddie pool filled with packing peanuts. They were to follow the instructions on the clue and find their first station. After each station was completed they were handed another clue. Our 7 stations included a strength training in dartball, crafting a card for our shut-in members, singing to Zacchaeus our Wee Little Man and Jesus, memorizing the Nicene Creed and reciting it to Noah at his Ark, visiting with Jesus at the Last Supper table, talking to our angel in the balcony and picking the most daring person on their team to either milk a cow or eat worms! The first team was finished in record time! It was a great team building project and the kids and volunteers had a BLAST!

Thank you to our volunteers - Andy, Bridgett, Dana, Emilie, Henry, Jonathon, Pam, Pastor, Robyn & Roger!!

Newsletter - April

Pastor’s Message

Over my last few newsletter articles I have been encouraging everyone to pray more this year. I believe one of the reasons we don’t pray a lot, is we don’t know how to.

I have been suggesting an outline to use for Prayers. I have already suggested you begin with an ADDRESS. In the Lord’s Prayer, Our Father is an address to Our Father in Heaven. You follow an address with a Rational. In the Lord’s Prayer our Father who art in Heaven is the Rational. He is in Heaven so he can see everything and knows everything. You can then add what we call a Petition. These are the Things you actually pray for, so it’s sometimes called the requests.

I would suggest some of your Petitions be followed by what’s called The Benefit. Here is an example; Let’s say you pray, “Lead us not into temptation”. Then you say the BENEFIT. You might say, so I do not fall into “false believe, despair, and other great shame and vice.”

This is the benefit to not being lead into temptation. You do not always have to say a benefit, but it can be helpful. It can make your prayers more meaningful, and it can also help your prayers not to be selfish ones. It’s hard to ask for a new car, if you can’t come up with a good Holy Benefit. You could pray for a car in this way. Let’s see what this would look like: God I pray that I can get a car, so that, I can get to work and serve my neighbor.

Here is an example from the Prayers of the Church for The First Sunday in April: [Address] Holy Father, [Rational] You raised up Your Son from the dead so that He might bestow upon us His Holy Spirit and the forgiveness of sins. [Petition] Grant that we might live joyfully as those who have been crucified and raised up with Christ in Holy Baptism, and [The Benefit] that we might boldly testify of Him, His forgiveness and peace, to all who will hear. Lord, in Your mercy, hear our prayer.

Lent and Holy Week Schedule

April 10th & 11th - Lent Service – 7pm

April 14th - Palm Sunday – Confirmation 10:00am

April 18th - Maundy Thursday Service – 7pm @ St Paul

April 19th - Good Friday Service 7:30pm

April 21st - Easter Sunrise Service – 6:30am & Easter Breakfast – 7:30am

Congratulations to our Confirmands

MaKenna Helmke – daughter of Andrew & Robyn Helmke

Zander Watson – son of Bridgett Volkert and Clifford Watson

LWML Defiance Zone Spring Rally Saturday

April 6, 2019 Zion Lutheran Church – Edgerton Registration and Breakfast at 8:30am Being the Lord’s Blessings for the Children featuring Pastor Kurt Letcher will speak on Rosa Young: Pioneer Lutheran Educator and Missionary. Anne Compere, a representative from the Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch in Minot, ND will be present to give information about the Ranch and its mission. Monetary ingathering will be for the Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch.

German Lutheran Heritage

You are invited to a German Lutheran Heritage Meeting at 2 PM, April 21 at the Lutheran Social Services Building South of Archbold on State Route 66 across from the Four County Career Center. The special program is entitled “Researching My German Lutheran Heritage” by Joanne Richolt Allison. She and her German speaking Daughter-in- Law toured Austria and Germany so she has a very interesting presentation to share. Beverages and German coffee cake will be served. Public is welcome.

St Peter’s Ladies Tea

Plans are being made for this event on April 28th so mark the date on your calendar! Invite your family and friends, all ages. Anyone interested in helping plan contact: Deb Oberhaus, Nancy Michaelis, Kristin Leaders.

Attention ALL SENIORS! We would like to feature our graduating Seniors (from High School or College) in the May newsletter. Please send or drop off a copy of your senior picture with a bio of your senior accomplishments and future plans to the Church Secretary. Email to stpeterflorida@gmail.com

Greetings from Preschool!

We are so happy that the weather has finally gotten better and we're able to enjoy recess outside ~ the fresh air has sure felt great after that long winter.

March was a busy month in Preschool. We celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday early in the month ~ always a big hit with the preschoolers. Ms. Barb from the Napoleon Public Library always visits us each month with new books to read. Ms. Evie comes monthly to teach us a wonderful Bible lesson ~ we love her visits! The leprechauns made a visit around St. Patrick's Day ~ and made quite the mess in our classroom! We tried so hard to trap one, but it didn't work! Henry County Hospital came to visit and talked with us about Poison Prevention. A wonderful presentation from them and much appreciated they came to speak to us.

April will consist of our library visit and Bible lesson. Firefighter Kyle comes back this month and will bring the Florida/Flatrock firetrucks!!! We can't wait. We will have our 3rd annual St. Jude Trike-a-Thon the end of the month ~ always such a fun day and raising money for a great cause.

Our Spring Open House is scheduled for Wednesday, April 17th from 4:30-6:30pm. Please spread the word! We have a lot of students returning and have already enrolled a bunch for Fall! This makes me so happy!

Thanks again for allowing me to be your Preschool teacher ~ I am blessed!

In God's Blessings ~ Mrs. Rees

Love Monster

Love Monster - Storytime & Craft

St. Peter Lutheran Preschool hosted another fabulous Storytime & Craft on February 13th. Kids and parents enjoyed a reading of Love Monster by our very own Mrs. Julie Rees.( link to bio) After the story, the kids and parents enjoyed craft time by designing their very own Love Monster. We definitely had some little Picasso's this night. The kids were able to satisfy their sweet tooth with some homemade preschool cookies. What better way to show how much we love our preschool?

We would like to thank everyone who attended. As usual, we had a wonderful time!  Now registering for Fall classes. Please check out our upcoming OPEN HOUSE! Teacher/Director: Julie Rees Ph: 419-966-3263 . We LOVE preschool!

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