2011 WCC Fashion Cornucopia Tickets Available

Tickets for the 2011 Fashion Cornucopia are now available in the church office. On Saturday, October 29th, we will have two great shows of fall & winter fashions along with an exquisite meal prepared by our own CFS Team (and served by the handsome OSLC Men’s Club). This show is a fundraiser to help meet on-going expenses and to increase exposure and donations for the WCC. Tickets are $30 each or a table of eight for $200.

Inquires for the show may be directed to Betty Linse.

View the 2011 Fashion Cornucopia Flier

RIC Pride Table Volunteers Needed

In August, Our Savior’s will be one of the exhibitors at the 10th Annual La Crosse Pride Festival held at the Southside Oktoberfest Grounds. La Crosse Pride seeks to educate, celebrate and embrace diversity and talents of ALL people in the Seven Rivers Region. The purpose of this event is to build bridges and develop a community in which ALL individuals are accepted and treated equally.

If you would like to volunteer at the OSLC table and share in this “bridge building”, please contact Rod Tisthammer. Thank you!

Confirmation Pictures Needed

Confirmation pictures are needed for the picture display in the Fellowship Hall! We are missing the following years: 1905, 1906, 1923, 1927, 1929, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1951, 1955, 1961, 2001 and 2005.

If you have pictures for any of the missing years please contact Martha Sesvold 788-2689 or Esther Harman 788-8705. Copies will be made and your original will be returned to you.

Book Club Selection for July: For Labor, Race, and Liberty

Our book club selection for July is one where we will learn that an African-American man who lived in La Crosse around the turn of the 20th century made presidential history. The book, For Labor, Race, and Liberty: George Edwin Taylor, His Historic Run for the White House, and the Making of Independent Black Politics, by Bruce Mouser (146 pages), tells the story of how more than one hundred years before Barack Obama, George Edwin Taylor became the first African American ticketed as a political party’s nominee for president of the United States, running against Theodore Roosevelt in 1904. Born in the antebellum South to a slave and a freed woman, and orphaned as a child at the peak of the Civil War, Taylor spent several years homeless before boarding a Mississippi riverboat that dropped him in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Taken in by an African American farm family, Taylor attended a private school and eventually rose to prominence as the owner/editor of a labor newspaper and as a vocal leader in Wisconsin’s People’s Party. At a time when many African Americans felt allegiance to the Republican Party for its support of abolition, Taylor’s sympathy with the labor cause drew him first to the national Democratic Party and then to an African American party, the newly formed National Liberty Party, which in 1904 named him its presidential candidate.

Bruce L. Mouser follows Taylor’s life and career in Arkansas, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Florida, giving life to a figure representing a generation of African American idealists whose initial post-slavery belief in political and social equality in America gave way to the despair of the Jim Crow decades that followed. (From the Publisher)

Vacation Bible School 2011: Baobab Blast

It’s off to the African Savannah!

Baobab Blast is an open invitation to be a part of God’s Great Get-Together. Set under the impressive Baobab tree, kids will have the opportunity to hear the Word of God, be amazed at God’s wildlife creations and be a part of a supportive and fun community right here at Our Savior’s. All children and adults are welcome! Children of all ages will participate in multi-sensory activities that allow them to learn, and experience the joy and adventure of being part of God’s community. Set in the wild of the Sahara desert, this VBS has something for everyone!

Our 2011 VBS program is scheduled from 5:30 pm-7:30 pm on Friday and Saturday, June 24th – June 25th, and 10:00 am-12:00 pm on Sunday, June 26th. The program cost is $10.00 per person ($20.00 max. per family) and includes dinner, snacks, crafts, music, bible study and other fun activities.

VBS Splash Party on June 26th

It’s that time of year again!

Come enjoy a break from the hot summer sun at our annual “Summer Fun” Splash Party on Sunday June 26th. Join us for slip n’ slide races, a water balloon toss, spray bottle battles or just sit in the sun and enjoy a cool glass of lemonade after worship. All are welcome!

Don’t forget your swimsuit and a dish to pass for the VBS potluck!

WELCA Meeting on June 16th

WELCA will meet on Thursday, June 16th at 1:30 pm. Peggy Herbeck from the Aging Disability Center will be our speaker. She should be very interesting.

Servers are: Barbara Seidel, Barbara Clark, Sue Brobeck, Betty Linse, Jane Wood. Ladies, hope to see you all there!