Lutheran Campus Ministry at KU

Thanks to everybody for making this year’s alternative spring break the best. trip. ever.     Thanks to Dayna our trip leader and our wonderful hosts in New York, we spent a week serving the poor and homeless in New York City.  We delivered meals to rich and poor apartments from New Jersey to Brooklyn with God’s Love We Deliver.  We served meals (and moved food, and cleaned up afterwards) at Trinity Lower East Side, Holy Apostles, and the Catholic Worker House, and we hugged kids and helped with homework at Transfiguration Lutheran in the Bronx.   We got to explore the city, watch KU basketball at the Village Pourhouse, and meet up with Victoria, a trip veteran, at Rice to Riches.    From walking the Brooklyn Bridge to sweeping the floor, more pictures are availablehere and on Facebook. (Nobody was hurt on the trip.  His shoulder was already busted.  Really. ).

Hey everyone!

Get excited… Feed Your Faith is finally going to start up the Book Discussion of The Shack by William P. Young.  We will be reading and discussing the book in three parts. The tentative schedule is this: Chapters 1-6 on March 9, Chapters 7-12 on March 30, and Chapters 13-18 on April 13. We will meet at Bethany on those Wednesdays at 7:00 with a tasty meal prepared by Emma and me. If you are interested let me know so we can get books to everyone.  There are also about 4-5 copies available at the Lawrence Public Library.

If you are still not sold on the book or want more info, check it out here: http://www.theshackbook.com/index.html

Thanks to the more than 60 people who helped sweep, mop, leafblow, and sweep again at Allen Fieldhouse after both the men’s (Colorado) and women’s (Mizzou) games on Saturday.  Thanks to Thrivent Financial for Lutherans too for donating matching funds for the cleanup.   These funds support next month’s  alternative spring break mission trip to New York City!    The cleanup was a lot of hard work, but there were highlights along the way:  stretching with Emma, trash dunking with Darren, discovering nacho cheese doesn’t sweep well, a midnight breakfast at 4 a.m., and the hard working support of youth groups from Atonement, Overland Park and Gloria Dei, Wichita.  Thanks everybody for your help!

-Brett

Hey Guys,

Just wanted to let you know about an awesome service oppurtunity happening February 19th. We will be cleaning Allen Fieldhouse not once, but twice to help raise money for the awesome LCM Spring Break Trip to New York City! This is how the day is going to go. At Noon we will meet at the LCM house for lunch and to watch KU take on Colorado. Then, at around 3 PM, we will head over to begin cleaning, followed by the womans game at 7, and then more cleaning. We will end the day with an awesome midnight breakfast and a lockin at Trinity Lutheran! I hope you all can make it!

Any questions, contact Shawn!

At the end of Toy Story 3, who has Woody?

Trivia Night, 2011 was all about endings.  From movie endings to the end of the road, from religious endings to famous last words (who said, “I never should have switched from scotch to martinis”?), more than 100 people from as far away as Oakland made our seventh annual trivia night a success.   More importantly, over $2100 was raised for our alternative spring break mission trip to New York City.  And, thanks to the Shawnee Chapter of Thrivent Financial for a matching grant of $1000!   So, how did it all end?   Once again, the Tender Loving Christians from Trinity Lutheran Church in Lawrence walked away with the coveted Bear trophy.  Congratulations to TLC, and thanks to all of you!