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United Methodist Church Clear Lake, SD & Gary, SD

Pastor: Rev. Franklin McKeehan

June and July 2017

Friday mornings 10:45 am

To 11:45 am June 9th – July 14th

Clear Lake United Methodist Church

Each week will be a Bible lesson, craft and music.

Pre-register by calling or texting Rachel Baer at 605-237-2046 or

Becky Krause 605-881-6235 by Thursday, June 1st.

This event is free to any child K-5th Grade in our community.

The Clear Lake United Methodist Administrative Board met May 17, 2017. Pastor Frank opened with prayer and Mike called the meeting to order. Secretary’s Report was accepted as printed in the newsletter. Financial Secretary’s Report was accepted and placed on file. The Building Fund has been placed into a separate account. Treasurer’s Report was accepted and placed on file. Education Team – No Report Outreach Team – Chuck Crain will be here in Clear Lake on Monday, August 28th. Worship/Nurture Team has im-plemented several changes to wor-ship service. The first Sunday in June and July, Phyllis Niemann will be providing music for a hymn sing 15 minutes before worship service. UMW had over 80 people attend their Mother/Daughter event last Wednesday. Thank you to all those who helped with the event. In June the Shepherdess from Watertown will be visiting the ladies at the next UMW meeting. Preparing for UMW Sunday on June 11th. UMYF – No Report Pastor Parish Relations Commit-tee – No Report Stewardship & Finance Commit-tee – No Report Trustee Committee did not meet tonight due many members unable to meet this evening. They are

working on several items, includ-ing the lighting of the cross out-side the church. Building Committee - No Report. Lay Leadership Committee has found a new treasurer for the church. Becky Krause will be start-ing as treasurer in July. Old Business: ITC Notify – updates are being made as people have made changes on how they are being contacted. Building Fund has been established. Need a worship leader for June 11th. Audit Report still needs to be done. New Business: Bishop’s Miracle Offering will be taken on June 4th. More detailed information will be in the newslet-ter. Camping list was presented to council. Dakotas Conference Camping fund request. The board made a motion to table this re-quest and to delegate it to Chris-tian Outreach. Rhonda spoke of the mission work they did this past winter while in Texas. The pastor from that church will be coming to South Dakota, and would like to speak to our church. Phyllis Nie-mann requested that the UMW coordinate a food drive this June for the food pantry. List of needed items will be obtained from the Audrey Poppen. The next meeting will be June 14, 2017 at 8:00 PM.

To: Education Committee and United Methodist Youth Group Leaders -

During this meeting the committee will be reviewing the classroom and education areas for the proposed new church addition. They would like to invite you to join them in this review to give your opinion about classroom size and numbers and other education area needs.

Clear Lake UMW Wed, June 14th - 2:00 PM

Our shepherdess, Marge Alwin from Watertown

will be the guest speaker. Hostesses are Charlo Bleeker and Carol Estebo. There will be no mee. ng in July.

The Gary Administrative Council met on April 19th, 2017 at 8:00 p.m. Pastor’s Points “Bishop’s Miracle Offering for Annu-al Conference”. Kids Count North and South Dakota offer-ing for new congregations. Secretary’s report was accepted and filed Linda motion and Lily seconded. Treasurer’s re-port was received and filed Doyle motion and Shirley se-conded. Ministry Missions - Beacon House Watertown Shelter received quilts, pillows, blankets, quilting supplies. Box of Cards to Good Samaritan Center. Box of art Supplies to Marty Indi-an School. Education - Last day of Sunday School May 21, 2017 Worship and Nurture - New pew Bibles are here UMW - Women’s Brunch Saturday, April 29th, 2017 Pastor Parish Relations Committee - No Report Trustees - Hire Paul Levijoki to fix the stucco on the building-passed unanimously, talk to flooring places to get ideas, raise insurance. Lay Leadership Committee No Repor t Old Business - ITC Notify working great, Camping in-voices. New business Fund Balance Report for 2016 Confirmation Sunday April 30th, 2017 Church Camp- early bird sign up deadline May 1st, 2017 Mother’s Day May 14, 2017- flowers Memorial Sunday May 28th, 2017 Next meeting July 19th, 2017 at 8:00 p.m.

Food Pantry Collec�on

Baby Shower For Rein Lynne

Daughter of Cody & Brittany Kenyon

Sunday, June 11th 2:00 to 4:00 PM

Clear Lake UMC

Everyone Is Welcome

Thank you for the

geranium that I won from the UMW dur-

ing the Mother—Daughter Event.

Mary Jane

Ingalls

The UMW will be collec.n g items for the food pantry the month of June. There will be a cart in the foyer of the Clear Lake UMC. We will be collec�n g personal items and not food. Items such as tooth paste, tooth brushes, bar soap, shampoo, condi�one r, bug spray, sun screen, creams for bug bites, pads or tampons, peroxide, rubbing alcohol, etc. are some things we will be collec�n g.

There will be a hymn sing Sunday, June 4th and July 2nd, beginning at 8:45 AM and con�nu e un�l church service at 9 AM. Anyone having a favorite hymn, please bring the number and we will sing the � rst two verses. Otherwise the lead-er and pianist will pick the hymns. Hope to see you in church a li� le early those two Sundays!

Sunday, June 11th the CLUMW wom-en will be leading the service. Spe-cial speaker will be Sister Theresa Ann Wolfe from Mother of God Mon-astery at Watertown. She will be speaking on the Bible and Human Sexuality as well as sex tra�c king in our communi� es.

Thank you to everyone who donated to the Mercy Meals program for Haiti food sacks. Between both churches over $1,300 was raised for the pro-ject. For every twenty five cents you fed a hungry child today! Thank you for your generosity!

MS and HS UMYF Retreat – coming this summer

watch for email and text messages for details!

As the Sunday School year comes to a close, I’d like to recap what the Clear Lake Christian Education program encompasses throughout the year: Weekly Sunday School for grades PK-12 (September through May) Junior Youth Group for grades 3-5 – three events per year Middle and High School Youth Group for grades 6-12 – four retreats per year Confirmation for 8th grade students Music Ministry for grades PK-5 Rally Sunday, Christmas Program and meal, Promotion Sunday events Deuel High School Fellowship of Christian Athletes Host Church Acolyte training and scheduling Ecumenical Vacation Bible School Adult Bible Studies & Sunday School I’d like to thank the following people for teaching in the classroom: Kasey Krause, Alissa Krause, Julie Cook, Emily Krause, Jane Gubrud, Angie Hotzler, Nikki Olson and Michelle Gross; substitute teachers: Rachel Baer and Sue McKeehan; Adult Ed teach-ers: Rev Frank McKeehan, Wade Gubrud, Pam Luecke; Music Ministry: Kelli DeRoy; Middle School and High School Youth Group: Julie Cook, Tammy Baer; Junior Youth Group: Jane Gubrud & Angie Hotzler; Helps Ministry: Dee Eide, Kathy Sween, Julie Cook and Charlene Stein.

I’d also like to thank the following students and their parents for faithful attendance in Sunday School over the past year.

The following students were in class at least 70% of the time: Taytum Pope Josie Andersen Elise Hotzler Mataylah Pope Tucker Adkins McKenna Olson Mallory Wells Jacob DeRoy

The following students were in class 80% of the time: John DeRoy Jared Hotzler Garrett Olson Isabella Fertitta Dylan Brandt Brittney Sween Ethan Gross Sarah Cook

The following students were in class 90% of the time: Aidan Baer – 96% Kaitlyn Gubrud – 94% Nolan Gubrud – 96%

The following students had perfect attendance: Jackson Baer Mason Baer

As we know, Sunday School and worship compete with other activities on Sunday mornings, so I appreciate your attendance in class and I know your teachers do as well! I’d also like to thank the congregation for their financial support of the education pro-gram. We now look forward to Rally Sunday on September 10th! Have a great summer! Becky Krause, Chairperson of Christian Education

Dear Friends in Christ, Thank you for supporting Mission Café and Bakery last September. Together with other mission events throughout the Dakotas Con-ference, we were able to raise more than $235,000 to alleviate hunger and poverty local-ly and globally. This year’s Mission Café and Bakery will be held on Saturday, September 30 at Southern Hills UMC in Sioux Falls (3400 E 49th Street) from 10:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m. We will once again have a variety of food stations, a bakery, live entertainment,

silent auction, craft fair and activities for children! We are thankful for your ongoing support of our mission efforts and want to let you know how you can help this year. Here’s how you and your congregation can get involved: BAKERY ITEMS – Any and all baked goods are welcome! Please bring items packaged and ready to sell. SILENT AUCTION – Items should be valued at $25 or more and may include handcrafted items, gift cards, gift baskets, etc. The Silent Auction will run from 10:30-1:00. CRAFT FAIR – Your church may reserve a table for craft items you would like to donate and sell. We ask that you price the items, set up your table and take home items that do not sell at the end of the day. We will have cashiers available. Please contact Karen at [email protected] to reserve your table. UMCOR RELIEF-SUPPLY KITS – Check out http://www.umcor.org/UMCOR/Relief-Supplies for kit details. The greatest demand is for health kits and school kits. Kits need to be boxed and taped shut. Label the box with the type of kit and the number of kits in the box. DAKOTAS HUNGER GRANTS – In 2016 we distributed more than $15,000 to programs serving hot meals in communities across the Dakotas. Programs that received grants in-cluded: Bismarck, ND – Ruth Meier’s Hospitality House, Fargo, ND – New Life Center-Mandan, ND – Wonderful Wednesday All Church Meal, Mission, SD – Warm Welcome at Tree of Life, Pierre, SD – Community Banquet, Sheyenne, ND - Conversations of Faith at Spirit Lake Ministry Center, Sioux Falls, SD – Neighborhood Outreach for Feeding Kids at Wesley UMC, SD Rural Office of Community Services – Dakota Senior Meals in 8 SD com-munities, Watertown, SD – Tuesday Morning Breakfast, and Yankton, SD – Area Banquet. We are very excited to continue this collaborative effort. Our aim is to attract new people, raise awareness and continue our mission to be the hands and feet of Christ locally and globally.

For further updates, go to DAKOTAS CONFERENCE WEBSITE (http://www.dakotasumc.org/) or

our FACEBOOK PAGE at MISSIONS CAFÉ AND BAKERY In Christ, Mary Jane Richardson [email protected] Karen Congdon [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.umcor.org/UMCOR/Relief-Supplies

http://www.umcor.org/UMCOR/Relief-Supplies

http://www.dakotasumc.org/



During the past six months, the church office has been imple-menting the use of ITC Notify for church notifications.

Recently we have reached our maximum amount of names that can be listed in the “Notify Phonebooks” for the Clear Lake and Gary churches. Many of you are using several ways of being notified. At this time we are asking for your input so that we may reduce the number of contacts for each person/family.

When deciding on your preferred options, please keep in consideration that we pay a flat monthly rate for this service, but each time we send out a notification, charges are also added on for long distance phone calls. Text messages, emails, and local numbers are not charged extra.

Please notify the church office by June 12th of your preferred method of contact. If we don’t hear from you, the office will delete extra contacts to bring our “ITC Notify Phonebook” numbers down to under the maximum listings.

Thank you for your help with this matter, and we appreciate your patience as we continue to implement and improve on this service to our church families.

Having a great and up to date website is vital to church growth! Websites are how young people today choose which church to at-tend.

In the past, the church website would be setup by one volunteer, but then would quickly become out of date. The church understands that the time demanded to keep the website up to date by one person is hard.

Recently a church member has been working hard to make and install a new website for the Clear Lake United Methodist Church. The new website will have many new and interactive functions that the old website lacked. How exciting! But the best part is that because it is all online, the website can be updated by more than one person.

What we are looking for are volunteers who would help keep the new website updated. These persons would be responsible for im-puting information to the web pages on a regular basis and removing information when it becomes dated. Training will be given so each volunteer will have the knowledge to access and update the web page via an online service. We are also needing volunteers that would help gather information for others to place on the website.

If you want more information about this ministry or if you have the skills necessary or are willing to learn the skills to help us keep our new website updated please contact the church office. This is an op-portunity for church service that you can do from your home and a service that is vital to our church growth and vitality.

PLEASE NOTE: The website pages are accessed online. There is no software to install. The company providing

the website has great support and video tutorials.

Michelle Gross will be leading train-ing sessions on the software, Pro-Presenter, that is used by several of the volunteers for the screen images for the Clear Lake UMC. The ses-

sions are open to all who have an interest in learning this soft-ware or are interested in joining the volunteer rotation for the projector. Contact Michelle Gross at 605-237-4882.

Starting At 7 PM June 13th & 15th July 6th August 1st & 3rd

His Fortune Was Close at Hand In the 1800’s a prospector went to California in search of his fortune. The man spent his entire life scouring the mountains for gold, only to die as a pauper. When they were digging the grave behind his house to bury him…do I really have to finish the story?

Sometimes the gold we’re searching for is locat-ed in our own backyard. We don’t need to search the world over to find happiness. We simply need to follow wherever the Shepherd leads and then lie down and rest in God’s will.

See You In Church Pastor Frank

For the past five years the Dakotas Annual Conference has collected a Miracle Offering during the annual conference session. The theme of the 2017 Annual Conference session—taking place June 8-10 in Bis-marck, ND—is “Encounter the Spirit: Live Expectantly.” This year’s of-fering, “Kids Count Miracle Offering,” has both a hands-on and financial component.

Volunteer at your local school We invite you and your congregation to allow the Holy Spirit to break-through your life and the lives of the children in your community by in-vesting your time volunteering at your local school. There are many ways to volunteer at school reading to children, helping in classrooms, helping at a school event, assisting with a special school project, donat-ing school supplies, creating or assisting with an afterschool program. Funds for church-school partnerships and camperships Over 100,000 children are living in poverty across North and South Da-kota. Over 75% of the children have parents who work out of the home during their school years. Church-school partnerships can help fill the gaps for kids who are lacking in school supplies, clothing, books and positive role models.

The goal of the 2017 Kids Count Miracle Offering is to raise $100,000 for grants for church-school partnerships and to help new worshipping congregations send the children in their target communi-ties to our United Methodist camps. Eighty percent (80%) of the cash offering will go to support church-school partnerships and twenty per-cent (20%) will go to help our new churches send children and youth to camp.

The deadline for the August newsletter is Tuesday, July 25th. All information for the newsletter will need

to be the church office by the deadline.

Michelle will be in the office at other times, but will be there on a limited bases.

Leave a voice mail or call ahead.

This Newsletter Prepared Especially For:

Tuesday mornings 10:00 to 11:30 AM

Clear Lake UMC: Gary UMC: Tuesdays and Thursdays Wednesdays 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Anytime by appointment Anytime by appointment

Pastor Frank can be reached at:

Church: 874-2750 Parsonage: 874-2520 Cell Phone: 321-2835

E-Mail: [email protected]

Please limit phone calls to between the hours of 7:00 a.m. to 10 p.m. except for emergencies. Pastor Frank’s day off

is Monday but he is available by cell phone.

Clear Lake & Gary United Methodist Church Church O. ce: 605-874-2750 Church Email: [email protected] 407 Fifth Ave South Clear Lake, SD 57226 308 Main Ave Gary, SD 57237

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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

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Doug & Ruth Kreger Dennis & Jane Evenson

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Jon & Deb Lessman James & Sandi Block

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Jolene Krause Darby Koenecke Tim & Eda Timmons

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8:45 AM Hymn Sing 9:00 AM Worship Service – Communion / Bishop’s Special Offering 10:00 AM Fellowship Time

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Cameron Olson Matt Engelbrecht

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7 Annual Conference in Bismarck, ND Begins

8 Sue McKeehan Janet Holm Dave & Julie Cook

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10:45 AM Sidewalk Sunday School

Gary & Rhonda Baxter

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11 Connie Hoftiezer

9:00 AM Worship Service 10:00 AM Fellowship Time 2:00 PM Kenyon Baby Shower

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James Block Lane & Jessica TeKrony

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7:00 PM Projector Training

Mary Kirby

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2:00 PM UMW Meeting 7:00 PM Building Comm and Trustees Meeting 8:00 PM Ad Council Meeting

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Kathy Ronne Laron & Jolene Krause

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Linda Gauger Jenna Houseman

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Emily Krause

18 Father’s Day Kyle & Julie Hendrickson

9:00 AM Worship Service 10:00 AM Fellowship Time

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Stan & Barb Giese Wade & Jane Gubrud

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June Crume Lela TeKrony

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Ashley Stein Lane TeKrony

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9:00 AM Worship Service 10:00 AM Fellowship Time 2:00 PM Good Sam Service

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Edwin & Shirley Krause Darren & Nancy Barondeau

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8:45 AM Hymn Sing 9:00 AM Worship Service – Communion 10:00 AM Fellowship Time

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Jack & Dee Eide

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Office Closed 4th of July

Adam Lauseng

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Joel & Dianne Brandt

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8 Britney Lovre Nikki & Byron Olson

9 Dave Cook 9:00 AM Worship Service 10:00 AM Fellowship Time

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Tate Pope Dorothea Koenecke

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Kirk & Deb Adkins

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10:00 AM Communion at Good Sam

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Rylie Bass Mike & Annette Kellen

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Jason Toben

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Jackson DeRoy Matt & Tammy Baer

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9:00 AM Worship Service 10:00 AM Fellowship Time

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Gary Stava

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Dennis Stein Barry & Debbe Koenecke

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New Hope Cancer Walk

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31 Tracy Noem Charlene Stein Marianne Skatvold Baylor Engelbrecht Luke & Stacy Andersen

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Newsletter Deadline

Janice Nordseth

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Megan Hendrickson Mike & Becky Schiefelbein

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Kirk Adkins


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Wayne & Angie Viessman

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Jason & Sara Winter

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Leona Stamp

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Troy & Amber Kenyon Dennis & Marlene Cole

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Jerrad & Leah Beer

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Clara Collins Breanna Hinders Luke & Kayla Johnson

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Brookson Collins

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Anna Collins Gary & Linda Sander

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7:30 PM Trustees Meeting 8:00 PM Ad Council Meeting

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Date Reader Greeter Organist Ushers

June 4th Larry Vogt Rod & Patty Meadors Sara Winter

Doyle Thompson and Jim Irvine

June 11th Shirley Wiese Shirley Denekamp Cornelia Limberg

June 18th Elonne Veen Sheryl Irvine Kayla Johnson

June 25th LuAnn Thompson Doyle & LuAnn Thompson Leah Beer

Date June 4th June 11th June 18th June 25th

Organist Phyllis Niemann Jane Gubrud CD / Praise Music CD’s / Praise Music

Ushers/Acolyte Mike & Becky Schiefelbein

Barry & Debbe Koenecke

Jayme & Ethan Gross Corky & Audrey Poppen

Computer Pam Luecke Debbe Koenecke Michelle Gross Sue McKeehan

Sound & Video Dylan Motzer Noah Dumke Byron Olson Dylan Brandt

Reader Rhonda Baxter Shirley Krause Julie Cook Kasey Krause

Fellowship Carol Estebo Sween Family Michelle Gross Marg Stava

Kay VandenBerg

Drivers Shirley Krause Doris Schiefelbein

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Date Reader Greeter Organist Ushers

July 2nd Larry Vogt Sara Winter

Perry and Joan Heaton July 9th Shirley Denekamp Cornelia Limberg

July 16th Kari Vogt Kayla Johnson

July 23rd Linda Sander Linda Sander Leah Beer

July 30th LuAnn Thompson Doyle & LuAnn Thompson Cornelia Limberg

Date July 2nd July 9th July 16th July 23rd July 30th

Organist Phyllis Niemann CD’s / Praise Music CD’s / Praise Music

Ushers/Acolyte

Computer No Projector Michelle Gross Pam Luecke Debbe Koenecke Sue McKeehan

Sound & Video Mason Baer Landon Krause Dylan Motzer Noah Dumke Byron Olson

Reader Britt Sween Jane Evenson Michelle Gross Kathy Sween Dennis Evenson

Fellowship Michelle Gross

Byron & Nikki Olson

Kay VandenBerg

Drivers Deb Lessman

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