Christus Victor Lutheran Church

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This is a special plea for help in the Nursery.  Approximately 8 families currently use the Nursery on a regular AND irregular basis and all of those families are making a point to “help.”  To share the love, we’d like several more adults to sign up to help.

 It’s as easy as walking in the door and spending an hour with beautiful children.

 However, as we become aware of how we need to protect our children, there are some requirements.

• The “staff” attendants for the CV Nursery are high school youth; therefore, at least one “adult” must be present if there are ANY children to care for.
• Anyone helping with children in the Nursery must complete and pass a background check, as outlined by the Church staff and council.  Blank forms are available from the office, in the Nursery and at the Children & Family and Worship & Music bulletin boards. It takes just a few days to receive background check results.  Simply drop it off, mail or fax (952-454-0300) it to the CV Office.
• Anyone who has passed a background check for other activities (i.e., Faith Trek, VBS, etc.) has completed the requirements.

 Among those children who are often in the Nursery, we are unable to predict when and/or how often there will be children to care for in the Nursery.  If there is “one” or more, an adult must be present; if there is none, the volunteer adult isn’t needed, but we still need to have someone scheduled.

 We truly need your help and would appreciate it if you could occasionally find one hour to be the “adult” in the Nursery.  Watching our children “grow” is a gift from God, as are the children.  If you know of anyone else who might be interested in helping, they should sign up on the schedule at the Worship & Music bulletin board or contact any of the team leaders.

 Please help!  As always, let us know if there are any questions or suggestions.

 Janice Johnston

Joyful Servants Coordinator

952-432-6452 / jjj2@charter.net

The thinking, planning and anticipation has begun!!

VBS 2012 is going to AWESOME!!

We will be rocking with Backstage with the Bible by the popular local children’s Christian rock group Go Fish!! Invite your friends, family and neighbors as this will be a VBS experience like no other. The fun will happen July 22-26 with the VBS worship and family picnic on July 29th.

Registration and volunteer sign-up will begin on May 13th.

May 2 – Regular Large and Small Group Time

May 9 – BBQ Potluck Picnic with parents and kids!

We’ll provide the hot dogs, brats, and buns, families bring a dish to share (salads, side dishes, desserts).  We’ll have some activities and then end the year with a rocking Recharge worship service!

Next Fall:  Confirmation Service of Affirmation of Faith, Sunday, October 28 during the 11:00am service!

By Ed Odden

A few weeks ago one of my co-workers came to work not looking so good. Inquiring about his health, he told us that they had a small get-together with his family and his wife made two different hot dishes.

The guests ate from one and he and his wife ate from the other. That night he and his wife got very sick. Yep, they had given themselves food poisoning.

Have you ever had a food borne Illness? I have, and it was not what I would call a fun time. It can also cause death in some groups of people.

To prevent this from ever happening at CV, I will be putting together a training course on Food Safety and offering it to all at CV. My goal is to get 100 people to take the course.

The course will run approximately 30 to 40 minutes and there will be NO test.

Why are we doing this you ask? Certainly to prevent food borne illness, but also because the state of Minnesota is telling us we must have a trained food safety person for some of our food events that we have at CV.

Our leaders at CV feel that at ALL of our food events we should be adhering to good food safety practices.

So keep your eyes open for the signup sheet and please sign up.

In the meantime, here’s a good food safety tip: WASH YOUR HANDS with soap and warm water for 20 seconds before beginning food
preparation, after handling food, and after using the bathroom, changng diapers, or touching pets.

The Golden rule of food storage is “When in doubt, Throw it out!”

Gods blessings and Happy Safe Cooking.
The Food Cop (Ed Odden)

May 4 & 5 — Mark your calendars for fun, friends, food, service, learning, Jesus – oh, and getting away together! We’ll meet at 4:30 p.m. at Christus Victor on Friday to carpool to Gustavus Adolphus College, and return to CV on Saturday around 6:00 p.m. Thirty dollars each, but please call Pr. Mary Kaye if the cost is an issue, because WE WANT YOU ALL THERE.

The Children and Family Ministries would like to invite ALL KIDS to our annual Easter Puppet Show and egg hunt on Easter Sunday morning!  We will meet in Room 113 (PraiseHim Playhouse) for a puppet show at 10:00am.  Then we will decorate Easter Egg bags, followed by the egg hunt!  And not just plastic eggs filled with candy.  These eggs will be filled with items relating to the Easter story.  So hop on by and join us as we use this tradition to teach the wonderful news of our risen Savior~the TRUE reason-for-the-season!