There is a $2.00 convenience fee when placing credit/debit card orders online. This fee is assessed by Angel Food - not by Hope Lutheran.

Processed to eliminate the eight top serious allergens: Peanuts, Soybeans, Milk, Eggs, Fish, Crustacea, Tree Nuts and Gluten (wheat, rye and barley). Great for children and adults!

Frozen Items
1 lb. Breaded Chicken Breast Chunks
1 lb. Breaded Formed Tenders
2 lbs. Breaded Chicken Drumsticks
1 lb. Breaded Cube Steak

Signature Box The cost per box $30. The specials range from $20 to $23 with $22 being the typical price for a special.

In person, we accept: cash, food stamps (EBT), checks, and money orders for payment of your order!

We are taking in person orders for December's delivery. Stop in and see us on
Saturday, November 14th from 9:00 - 11:00
Wednesday, December 2nd from 11:45-2:00 and 4:00-6:30
Saturday, December 5th from 3:15-7:00
Sunday, December 6th from 8:30-10:30

We will accept mail in orders until Thursday, December 3rd. Late orders will be returned to you unfilled. You must make your check or money order payable to Hope Lutheran. You must include a self-addressed stamped enveloped (SASE) with your order form and check/money order so that we can return your receipt to you. (PLEASE NOTE: Returned checks will be charged a $20 fee. You must pay the fee and the cost of your order in cash before you will be allowed to pick up your order.)

You can also order online as noted above. Click the link and follow the directions.

November's distribution date is Saturday, November 14th. December's distribution date is Saturday, December 12th. You must pick up your purchases between 9:00 and 11:00. No orders can be saved for you. If you cannot or do not pick up your food during the hours listed above, it will be donated to a non-profit organization. Please do feel free to arrange for someone to pick up your order for you but call and make arrangements prior to Distribution Day.

When you come to pick up your food, you must bring a large box or clothes basket AND the YELLOW receipt you received when you paid for your order.

If you have any questions, please call Carla Ekman at 857-4891 or Pastor Dan Clark-Bridges at 350-5484.

Hope Lutheran Church
Angel Food Ministries
2736 Bowling Street SW
Cedar Rapids, IA 52404

2010 Silent Auction- The Outreach Ministry Team will be meeting to plan for the Silent Auction in April of 2010. The ministry team is small and needs new members to join us or at least check what is needed. We will be meeting in the following dates in 2009: November 15th. Please contact Tami Rairdin, 743.7937, if you have any questions or ideas.

Adopt A Family This Christmas season, Hope Lutheran Youth Group is sponsoring an Adopt a Family/Individual/Couple Tree. Share the spirit of Christmas. The tree with gift wishes will be up in the Narthex by November 20th. Contact Debbie Walderbach with any questions at 364-5706.

THE CHRISTKINS ARE COMING!!! Christkin time is here. Would you like to have a “secret pal” during the advent season? Someone to remember, pray for and give little gifts to during the Advent season? If you would like to participate in this event, Todd Stelling is in charge of the Sunday School age children, Pastor Dan will be in charge of the confirmation kids and Rose Doughterty is in charge of the adults. Sign up sheets are available through these people. Sign up dates will be November 14 + 15 and November 21 + 22 with drawing being held on November 28 + 29.

ECUMENICAL THANKSGIVING SERVICE Our SW side Ecumenical Thanksgiving Service will be held at Hus Presbyterian Church on Wednesday evening, November 25 at 7 pm. Pastor Ed Powers from Asbury Methodist will preach the sermon and a joint choir will perform. Participating congregations are Asbury Methodist, Hope Lutheran, Hus Presbyterian and St. Ludmila's Catholic. EVERYONE is invited as we give thanks with our SW side neighbors. The offering will benefit on-going flood relief through a non-denominational agency.

CHILDREN'S BOOKS We are again collecting books for the Marian Arens Book Drive this year. Needed are books for children through early teens. They can be new or used in good shape. These books are distributed to daycares, Head Starts, etc. at Christmas time. Some are used for gifts for the children to take home.

The flood caused a severe reduction in donations last year and they are hoping to have a good response this year. Thank you for your help with this project. There is barrel in the coatroom for the books.

Hope Lutheran Youth Lock In No Adults Allowed!!
Grades 5 and above

Drop Off: December 29, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
Pick Up: December 30, 2009, 3:00 p.m.
Cost: $25.00
More Information will be coming.Save the date!
Contact Debbie with any questions at 364-5706.

EMPTY INK & TONER CARTRIDGES WANTED All brands of empty ink and toner cartridges are being collected. Proceeds from this will go to buy office supplies. There is a box in the coatroom for your donations.

PRAYER SHAWL MINISTRY Our prayer shawl ministry has gotten off to a good start. We have three women from Hope joining the women at Gloria Dei once a month. We encourage others to join us. If we get enough people to join us we will start meeting at Hope Lutheran. Take time to check out the display in the narthex. There are brochures and shawl instructions for you to take, samples of the card that is given to the shawl recipient and a sample shawl. If you knit or crochet and would like to participate in this wonderful ministry, feel free to pick up some instructions and start a shawl. We are also taking donations to purchase supplies to help offset the expense of the shawls. If you wish to make a donation or have any other questions feel free to contact Nancy Coffman @ 396-0387, Betty Nelson @ 362-0721, or Rhonda Taschner @ 363-5789.

Going on vacation? Can't make church this weekend? Make it easy on yourself and check out the Simply Giving Program. This program allows you to have your offering automatically withdrawn from your checking account. This is perfect especially during the summer months when attendance is down because everyone is so busy. If this sounds like a good time saver for you, contact the church office or Betty Nelson and they will get the paperwork needed to get you set up.

Update and Clarification of Memorial Money All money given for memorials is held in the Memorial Fund. This Fund is within the General Fund, but Memorial Funds are never to be used to pay bills associated with the day to day operation of the church.

If there is a specific request that the money is to be used for at the time it is given, that money is set aside and used only for that particular item or purpose. If there is no specific request at the time the money is given, the money remains in the Memorial Account until a specific item, or items are purchased for the church.

All items to be purchased, with Memorial Money must be approved by the church Council.

All Memorials are to be place in envelopes specially marked for Memorials (available in the narthex) and placed in the weekly offering, or given to Rose Dougherty or Betty Nelson.

What is Angel Food Ministries?
This ministry began in 1994 in Monroe, Georgia. A group of Christians realized that there were many food companies that had an overstock of food. These people asked if they could buy the overstock at a reduced price and resell it to help the hungry. These companies eagerly agreed. The companies got rid of their overstock and the hungry were helped. Good business, good stewardship and good publicity!

One Half Million Families Fed in November 2006! In the first 11 months of 2006, more families have been fed than the first 11 years of our ministry! You can learn more about Angel Food Ministries by visiting their website at www.angelfoodministries.com.

How Does the Program Work?
Every month congregations that are involved take orders two weeks before delivery from those who wish to participate. Each order costs $30. Orders must be paid for in advance. Cash, checks, Food Stamps, and debit/credit cards are accepted.

THIS IS IMPORTANT! Everyone, regardless of his or her financial status is encouraged to participate. Even if you’re wealthy you are encouraged to participate. The money you pay for the food you receive goes back into the ministry and $1 from every package goes into the benevolence budget of the congregation sponsoring the program. You can order as many packages as you wish.

Approximately two weeks after the order is placed, the food is delivered to our church. This would be a Saturday mornings in our case. The food is sorted and boxed. The people who ordered the food pick up the food from 9:00 to 11:00 that same morning.

How Does This Help the Poor?
Several ways:
1) People with limited incomes can get a good amount of food for a lot less than they could buy it at the grocery store. (Yes, we have quite a few members of our congregation who could truly benefit from this program, to say nothing of the many other people in our surrounding neighborhood.)
2) For people who can’t afford to buy this package the Church Council has approved using the money from Coffee Hour to buy as many orders as we can. Pastor Dan would then distribute the food to those who need it. (Money would be held back to continue to buy the coffee, etc we need for Coffee Hour.)
3) Different groups or individuals in the congregation can order packages to be given to those in need.

If after you see how smoothly Distribution Day runs and you want to volunteer your time to help out with the process, please call the church office at 365-3105 or Pastor Dan 350-5484.

There are a lot of things that most of us don’t like very much. We don’t like phone calls at dinnertime informing us that, “we are being offered the opportunity to dramatically reduce our long distance rates!” We don’t like it when the pastor says, “and finally…”, during a sermon, but then continues to speak for an additional 15 minutes. But I think that very close to the top of our list of things we don’t like would be when a church asks its’ members to give more money. I can’t tell you the number of people I’ve talked to who have begun shopping for a new church primarily because they were upset that their old church kept asking for more money. So, it’s with no little amount of fear and trembling that I am writing this letter. (I can hear the “Church” section of the yellow pages in the phone book rustling even as I type!)

The fact is we’re running behind on our giving. Now, there isn’t any need to panic, the church doors will still be open Saturday and Sunday, (it might be a little cool if we can’t afford to turn the heat on, but we can always sit closer together). The truth is we’re not getting enough in regular offerings even to make ends meet. During the last five years we have cut the church budget dramatically, but we’re still averaging about $1000 a week below what we need to meet budget! We simply have nothing left we can cut from the budget, and this is the time of the year when giving generally increases. Unfortunately, we’ve actually seen giving decrease, (obviously the economy is terrible right now and people are struggling).Having said that, if giving doesn’t increase we won’t be able to pay our bills or salaries!

So, regretfully, we simply need to ask the members of Hope to find a way to increase their giving. I’d like to ask everyone in the congregation to make the commitment of donating every week to the church, whether you attend worship on that particular weekend or not. This may sound too easy, after all, how much of a difference could that make. Well, the truth is the average member of Hope attends twice a month, (some every weekend, some once a month, but it averages out to twice a month). So, if everyone would give every week we would double the amount of giving!

I know that with the bad economy, etc, we are all pushed to the maximum of what our budgets can stand. Yet, if everyone who attends regularly would give, even when they don’t worship at Hope during the weekend, that would take care of all of our needs and provide us with a significant sum to reach the goals we set out in our budget for this year.

In light of this fact, I would like to ask all of us to do the following;

1) Make up for missed offerings when we come back from trips or when we miss attending a worship service.

2) For those of us who suffer from Temporary Cognitive Retrieval Syndrome, (otherwise known as forgetfulness), sign-up for our Simply Giving Program. This program has the amount you decide to give automatically deducted from your bank account weekly, bi-weekly, monthly or however you wish.

3) Pray for God to provide us with all that we need and to continue to help spread His Word. This point is certainly the most important!

4) If you’re already giving every week, consider increasing your giving by $5 a week.

5) Many of our members won’t be able to do any of the above. They may be on fixed incomes, laid off from work, etc. I don’t want anyone in these types of circumstances to feel guilty about not being able to give more. We’ve all been in similar circumstances. But if you are able to give more please do so. I guarantee you I wouldn’t ask unless it was absolutely necessary!

President: Larissa McC
co-Vice President: Hannah CB
co-Vice President: Alicia E

Are you getting credit for your offering? When you give your offering, please be sure to put your name on the envelope. Many times a blank envelope comes through the offering without any identification. Without a name or member number, the counters have no way of knowing to whom they should be giving the credit. Unidentified offerings go into "loose" change.

From Highway 30, exit onto the Bowling Street/Kirkwood Boulevard exit. Turn north on Bowling Street.