WELCOME TO IMMANUEL! We are so pleased that you visited our website today. We hope that you will visit again. God’s rich blessing to you!

We celebrate the Lord’s Supper on the first and third Sunday of each month. The center of each tray for the distribution of the wine is 1/3 wine and 2/3 grape juice while the remainder of the tray is all wine.

Immanuel has individual receivers to help you if you have hearing difficulties and a wheelchair is available if needed. Also, large print hymnals and service folders are available. Please ask for assistance from one of the ushers if desiring this help.

Over the next weeks we will begin the process of moving ILS to the education rooms at Immanuel Church. By mid May we will need to move over there so the initial steps of demolition can take place.

Thank you for all of your prayers, encouragement, and attendance at meetings, and for being willing to share your heartfelt support of Immanuel. We look forward to a bright future of preparing children for life in this world - - - and the next!!!

We are looking for storage space for many things that we cannot take over to church. So, if you have or know of any possibilities, please call or email ILS.

We will also be looking for help boxing up many, many things. If you have some time and would like to help out, please let us know.

Psalm 127 declares: “Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build, labor in vain.” From the very beginning of our efforts to provide a new education and family life building, it has been clear that the Lord is indeed the builder. Again and again, week after week, we have been overwhelmed by the way in which God has moved in the hearts and minds of His people, encouraging them to be generous stewards of the gifts He’s given them. But God is working in other ways as well. For example, earlier it appeared that the total cost of our project (including the building of the gym and youth group room and the demolition of the old school building) would approach 2 million dollars. Now, however, thanks to a weak economy which has substantially lowered the cost of both materials and labor, it appears that this total cost has been reduced by about $400,000 to under $1.6 million.

For which, we say… “Praise God”! And all this, of course, has but one goal: to insure that our children and the children of this community will continue to have a place where they can be taught daily, not only to understand and love God’s world…but also to understand and love His Word!

Below is the information that was given during the Quarterly Voter's Meeting on Sunday, April 15th. If you have any questions, please call the church office at 507-237-2380.

Stepping Forward in Faith – Generation to Generation

Cash pledges to date $644,000.00
2011 Receipts $ 99,883.46 (15.5%)
1st Quarter 2012 Receipts $132,926.88 (20.6%)
Expenses paid in 2011 $ 10,536.49
Building Fund Balance $ 240,000.00 +

Projected Contributions (yet to be received)
2012 $ 112,300
2013 $ 149,500
2014 $ 149,500
Total$ 411,300 Grand Total (est) $644,110

Mortgage Payments
(estimated start date May 2013)

$900,000 Loan at 4.50% interest
Monthly payments of $5694 =
Annualized payments of $68326
(weekly $1314)

$750,000 Loan at 4.50% interest
Monthly payments of $4744 =
Annualized payments of $56938
(weekly $1095)

Annual Revenue (beyond current) to service mortgage

Tuition increase (incl 5% enrollment increase) $ 23,300
Projected member $17/mo = $168/yr phased in over 2 years

Fundraiser Allocation
Best of the Wurst $ 5,000
Add’l Fundraisers (garage sale, pizza sales, etc) $ 3,500

School endowment fund interest $ 1,000

Memorials/Bequests (major estate gifts not included) $ 10,000

Ongoing Stewardship (beyond initial capital campaign) $ 15,000

Alumni Support (annual drive) $ 5,000

LCMS Congregations / Non LCMS Congregations $ 7,500

Total $ 70,300