Activities and Event

Mid- week Fellowship meal and Lenten service

Wednesdays:  March 3, 10, 17, 24: 
           Come between 5:30-6:30pm for a hot meal in the downstairs Fellowship Hall -- $5 per adult, $2 children under 12 (max. $15 per family).  If you would like to help or have a favorite dish you'd like to prepare, please see Marian Soderberg.  There will be an activity and/or singing for children each week.

            7:00pm...Holden Vespers in the Sanctuary

OLYO Middle School Gathering

March 13-14 at Atonement Lutheran in Newport. Service, songs, scripture, tons of games, meeting other MS youth from all
over Oregon, great food, etc.!  Invite a friend.  See Genny Butenshon. 

Pictorial Directory 

Sign-ups are in progress for Tuesday, March 16, through Saturday, March 20, and Tuesday, March 30 through Thursday, April 1 photo sessions.  What better gift can we give our new pastor to help him connect names and faces - the rest of us too!  Everyone participating receives a complimentary 8x10 portrait and the new directory. See Judi McElroy, Merilyn Jensen, or
Arlene Landwehr with questions.

STORY OF BELL FROM IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH

Story of the churches in which the bell reside

1890   Bell is used in Knappa Methodist Church.  The early history of this church is not well known.

1917   Blind Slough Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church (in Brownsmead) is incorporated in the State of Oregon and in the Suomi Synod.  The parish met in the homes of members.

1922   Knappa Methodist Church building was purchased for $125 from Miss Keene.  It was dismantled by Mr. Vinson and moved to Brownsmead and rebuilt in 1922-1923.

1925   Brownsmead Evangelical Lutheran Church building was dedicated

1926   Supplementary Articles of Incorporation filed for the Brownsmead Evangelical Lutheran Church

1946   The church was renamed Immanuel Lutheran Church of Brownsmead

1967   Groundbreaking for Immanuel Lutheran church of Knappa

1968   First service at Immanuel, Knappa held on Easter Sunday

Who we especially thank today:

·        Dennis Vinson of Vinson Brothers Construction, Knappa, whose boom truck hauled the    approximately 600 pound bell from Jim Allen’s field in Knappa to Brownsmead for cleaning, and then hauled it to FIRST, Astoria.

·        Joyce (Vinson) Smith – Dennis’ mom, who provided old photos of the parishes and knowledge about the bell.

·        Mike Autio whose Brownsmead business sandblasted and primed the bell.

·        Jim and Mary Allen, who stored the bell for several years, and let us know about the availability of the bell.

·        The crew who helped unload and move the bell into the church and are preparing it for use.

What we still want to do with the bell:

1.     Finish cleaning and sanding the bell.

2.     Straighten the bent clapper, weld the broken hinge, and install new bolts.

3.     Replace the skid beams under the bell, possibly with 6x6 pressure-treated beams

4.     Cover the bell with a durable silver paint and paint the braces and beams a different color,   possibly black.

5.     Find a suitable place, perhaps by the double doors, so it can be enjoyed, and enlist some helpers and tools to move it.

6.     Mount a weather protected photo and history on the wall near the bell.

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