March marches on

So much of my life is Faith in Action, that I thought I would share a couple of pictures from work... This is a picture from our last Coalition Meeting last Monday. Edi and Sarah presented me with a BIG Check from their church, Big Springs Congregational Church in Big Springs WI.
They are a very small congregation, but one that cares about loving their neighbors in a big way.
I did some research on Congregational churches for our newsletter, and I like their philosophy...
Basically each church is independent, and they believe that the Holy Spirit will guide them -- sort of takes the wind out of all of the rules and such.

This is a picture of one of our recipients, Pat. She is an interesting lady... she's the one who fed the cats and I had to take to the hospital. She knits hats, scarves, and other things and sends them to a Catholic Orphanage for native americans in Nevada. She also painted the picture behind her.

I am beginning to "belong" here in Adams County... I joined Romemakers, which is a women's club sponsored by the University of Wisconsin Extension.... it is officially called Home Community Educators. I am on the Service Committee, imagine that, and recently became the chair of the committee, because, you guessed it, nobody else would do it! At any rate here is a picture of some of us modeling mittens we made for elementary school kids in Nekoosa who don't have any.

I also was invited to join a book club, The Queens, and a Bunco Group. I have been to one book club meeting, where we read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows. It is an intersting book, and the hostess for the evening served potato peel pie... which wasn't bad! Our next book is called Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Laroson. I have started reading the book, and it too is good. About a girl who moves to Montana (I think it's Montana) to take over her dead uncles homestead. It's a great book to read if you think life is hard, or you are depressed... so I am enjoying it!

Here is the Bunco group. It is a lot of fun... I am hosting the group in April....

So of course I have already started cleaning and obsessing.... even the girls have been "cleaned"... don't they look cute? Sally is a blond!

Tonight I had dinner at Zion Lutheran Church's pancake supper. DECLICIOUS!!!! And I knew more people there than I do at the Catholic Church we go to. Mark had to work late, so I went alone... but found people I knew to sit with. Friendly group.. almost everyone is related to someone else but they were warm and welcoming. I miss that.. or I should say I missed out on that, never lived anywhere long enough to be related to everyone else... or maybe that's not how it works!

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
—Helen Keller (1880-1968), author, lecturer, activist