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South Dakota Regional Division Fall 2007 From Jeannette Stensland: We are thankful for all the help we are getting to serve God's people! South Dakota Regional Division recently was the recipient of a Thrivent award of $400 in supplemental funds for a benefit Wisconsin-style fish dinner held in September at Emanuel Lutheran Church, Milbank. In October a sausage dinner was held at Mt. Olive Lutheran Church in Watertown and money received there will also be supplemented by Thrivent.
Above: Dianne Hammond, representing Thrivent Chapter 30581, presents the check to Vernon Koopman, treasurer for the South Dakota Division of Orphan Grain Train Inc. Also shown are several of the volunteers who assist at the new packing site in Milbank. Presentations about Orphan Grain Train were made to the South Dakota District Pastoral Conference in Spearfish as well as the LWML Milbank and Yankton zones' fall rallies. The Milbank zone rally, held at Wilmot, included an ingathering of materials and funds greatly needed for shipping them. Several quilts have been donated by St. John's Lutheran Church in Wolsey and Mt. Calvary in Huron. We have more people who are using the Thrivent GivingPlus forms for their donations. Thank you all once again! Spring 2006 The S.D. Division office has been working with two thrift shops in the area. In March we sent 178 boxes of mostly clothing with a few quilts to the collection site in Morris, MN. To help cover the shipping costs for these boxes, $1,246 was sent to the Wisconsin Division. Our warehouse is open Wednesday and Saturday mornings. We have been contacting our circuit churches for donations of clothing and especially quilts. Mt. Olive in Watertown sends the money from one of their Sunday AM coffee hours plus they have also contributed funds from rummage sales they have had. On March 15 our Milbank LLL group served a soup supper before Lenten services that netted $228.00. We give out the film canisters often. We plan to give a short presentation to the District LWML convention in Brookings in May. A fish boil dinner is scheduled in Milbank in September and a benefit dinner is scheduled at Tripp, S.D. also. We are happy to see that we are attracting more volunteers to help!
Left to Right: Publicity, Mae Saeger, Milbank; President, Jeanette Stensland, Milbank; |
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