Save the Dates! VBS Aug. 5-9

Save the dates for this summer's Vacation Bible School Sunday to Thursday, August 5-9 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. Invite your kids, grandkids and neighborhood friends to explore SonRise National Park! Get ready for exciting wilderness thrills as kids learn the most important survival skill of all: To depend on Jesus and His promises of True Peace, True Riches, True Power, True Love and True Hope! This will be a wonderful outreach for children that need to know about Jesus. Please consider sending the kids in your life and pray about how you can get involved. Contact Jeff at jeff@ssefc.org with questions and for info on areas available for service. Many more details to come, but for now, please save the date and begin praying for this outreach. Thank you!

Next Book Club: Thurs. April 12 @ 7pm

Our next Book Club will meet Thursday, April 12 at 7 pm at SSEFC to discuss the novel, Nightingale by Susan May Warren. Susan May Warren will join us for the discussion! And she will bring along some of her other books available for purchase. There will be free book give-aways as well. So join us for the fun and invite some friends!

The following is a list of upcoming books. Meeting dates are still to be determined. Questions? Contact Sharon Moore 651-687-0509 or bookclub@ssefc.org. See you at Book Club! It's a great way to connect and make new friends!

Romance: Fools Rush In by Janice Thompson
Historical: Wonderland Creek by Lynn Austin
Young Adult: The Healer's Apprentice by Melanie Dickerson
Contemporary: Dandelion Summer by Lisa Wingate
Suspense: True Valor by Dee Henderson
Other: No Greater Love by Kathi Macias
Christmas: Baby Its Cold Outside by Susan May Warren

"Journey Well," a Women's Retreat

Ladies, are you in need of some time away for some rest and renewal? Then let's get a group together and attend Journey Well, a Navigators Women’s retreat featuring Paula Rinehart March 16-18, 2012 at Oak Forest Center in Frederic, WI. Cost is $99 if you register before February 26. Handouts are available at the Welcome Desk at SSEFC. Questions? Call Roxi Julian at 651-686-7183.

Book Club THIS Thurs. FEb. 23 @ 7pm

“Rahab learned to cling to God in the midst of her sorrows, to believe in Him more than she believed in fear. For me, that is one of the most crucial components of faith: becoming a person who gives God full access to every part of one’s soul, even if that access sometimes hurts because it involves the demolition of one’s defensive walls." – Tessa Afshar, author

Discussion of Pearl in the Sand by Tessa Afshar will be THIS Thursday, February 23 at 7 pm at Ring Mountain Café in Eagan. It will be great to hear everyone’s reaction to the story of Rahab. A special give away of two copies of The Pastor’s Wife and voting for the remaining book club selections for 2012 will round out the evening.

Then we meet again Thursday, April 12 to discuss the novel, Nightingale by Susan May Warren. Questions? Contact Sharon Moore 651-687-0509 or bookclub@ssefc.org.

Click here to view the short promo video for Pearl in the Sand.

Make Cards for "Bundles of Love"

Here's another opportunity to love the world around us. Make cards for Bundles of Love, a local organization that provides clothing and bedding for newborn babies whose mother’s have no other means of support. They are in need of cards to include with their bundles as a way of providing encouragement to new mothers. Let’s get together to make and assemble cards for this ministry on Saturday, February 11 from 10 am to Noon in the Fellowship Hall at SSEFC. Questions? Contact Deb Hoekstra at 952-432-4023 or jdhoekstra@frontiernet.net.