Six churches will hold elections during coffee hour on November 21st:

Lutheran Church of the Cross
Peace Lutheran Church,
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
Cross and Crown Lutheran Church
King of Kings Lutheran Church
Resurrection Lutheran Church

Lutheran Church of the Cross will hold elections on November 7th.

Please be sure to check your church's bulletin and vote in the upcoming coffee hour elections. Your participation supports community volunteerism in many rewarding ways.

This year, the Chapter has provided many congregations and other organizations and services with funds and grant monies to support community projects and endeavors. Volunteerism is a large part of giving to communities, and a great number of volunteer work hours was contributed by our members and board members.

Preschools that received grants include:

Lutheran Church of the Cross Preschool
Peace Lutheran Preschool
Holy Trinity Lutheran Preschol
Cross and Crown Lutheran Preschool
King of Kings Lutheran Preschool
Grace Lutheran Preschool
Zion Lutheran Preschool
Lord of Life Lutheran Preschool
Sunshine Mountain Preschool

Show you care for your community through an exciting Thrivent Financial program called Care Abounds in Communities™. Through this program, Thrivent Financial provides funding to support members like you who want to make a difference. Accessing supplemental funds for fund-raising efforts or funds to purchase supplies for hands-on service activities is easy through our chapter leadership board. Your first step is to form a community service team—a team of volunteers that conducts an activity to help individuals, families and/or qualified not-for-profit organizations. Then you can contact our chapter leadership board for more information and help.

Mid King County Chapter approved the reading program and library project for Holy Trinity Lutheran Preschool, entitled Stepping Stones to Learning, held October 17th and 24th. This program provides Learning Centers and reading books for young 3 and 4 year-old children.

A learning center consists of a table and chairs for young children where they listen to a book on tape or CD using headphones so they can follow along through the book while it is being read. Preschool books were purchased using a wish list prepared by the preschool director. Thrivent Financial members and participants attended this event held over two Sundays. Attendees purchased additional books to supplement library books so that each child at the listening center can use their own book.

Additionally, adults, teens, and children read books aloud and recorded the stories onto tapes. Teams of two worked together. While one person read aloud, the other person silently read along and made a sound with a musical instrument when it was time to turn the page, to indicate the command for the listening child to turn the page.  

It was great fun... Mothers and sons, sisters and brothers, and fathers and sons all laughed and smiled as they read and listened to many wonderful stories. Everyone in the libary enjoyed the entertainment, and applauded at the end of the story. After the tapings, young children donned the headphones and listed to the stories. Green Eggs and Ham, Noah's Ark, The Purple Crayon, and many other books on tape were available for Listening Center use.

President:  Mae Tacke, 253-839-3405, maetacke@comcast.net

Vice President:  Terry Dallas, 425-271-5987, t.dallas@comcast.net

Records Director:  Sharon Holter, 253-941-0655, dsholter@hotmail.com

Financial Director:  Tamera Hausman, 253-630-1496, tjhausman@hotmail.com

Congregational Service Team Director:  Carole Wrolstad, 425-226-2545, caudiewaol.com

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