Author: Jimi

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April Newsletter - United Parish

UKRAINIAN PROJECT UPDATE
The Task Force is meeting weekly and things are progressing quicker than expected. We are going to host two families and I am working on the Immigration form (I-134A) for the first family—a husband and wife who are expecting their first child. He is “a builder, master of electric, plumbing, heating and build houses.” They live in Odessa and have been without electricity and a consistent source of water for six months. Odessa continues to be bombed by the Russians. We are hoping to get Diana and her husband out before April 15. Otherwise she might not be able to fly until after their baby is born.
Both families who we hope to bring to Bottineau can pay their own flight expenses.
We have a couple options available on housing. One possibility is a house near the school which we can use for a year without rent, if we finish the remodeling work (owner will provide materials). I will be looking at the house this week. We have a similar offer (much less work) for another house, but we will only get reduced rent for completing that project. We hope both houses will qualify for TANF until the family gets working.
We now need household items so we can furnish a house for Diana and her husband. (No baby stuff yet in case she cannot fly to Minot.)
We also need people to help with the remodeling projects. If we can get enough volunteers will save a lot of money.
If you have things to donate or can help with remodeling please let me know. 605-879-1453.
We can use more volunteers for the Task Force. Let me know if you would like to join us.
Thank you for all you help and support. This is such important work and I know God is leading us as we go.

On the outskirts of Jerusalem the donkey waited. Not especially brave, or filled with understanding, he stood and waited.
How horses, turned out into the meadow, leap with delight! How doves, released from their cages, clatter away, splashed with sunlight.
But the donkey, tied to a tree as usual, waited. Then he let himself be led away. Then he let the stranger mount.
Never had he seen such crowds! And I wonder if he at all imagined what was to happen. Still, he was what he had always been: small, dark, obedient.
I hope, finally, he felt brave. I hope, finally, he loved the man who rode so lightly upon him, as he lifted one dusty hoof and stepped, as he had to, forward.
Mary Oliver, “The Poet Thinks About the Donkey”

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
9:00 Sun Sch / 9:00 Fellowship / 10:00 Worship						1
2 / Psalm Sunday	3 / 10 Quilters / 6 Happy Hearts	4	5 / 2:00 PW / 7:00 Parish Council	6 / 7:00 Maundy / Thursday	7	8
9 / Easter	10 / 10 Quilters	11	12 / 2:00 UMWIF	13	14	15
16 / Special Offering	17 / 10 Quilters / 6 Happy Hearts	18	19	20 / 10 Widow’s / Luncheon	21	22
23 / 5:30 Family Fun Nite - pot luck	24 / 10 Quilters	25	26 / Newsletter Deadline	27	28	29
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Thank you,
Thank you to United parish Members for your donation to Turtle Mountain Cancer. I will help provide funds for individuals in our area who are fighting cancer.
Dear Presbyterian Women
Thank you - thank you - for always thinking of us here at St. Andrew’s! We appreciate all the goods you donated! Fun Bingo prizes, chips, they love them!
May God bless you all
St. Andrews
Thank you to everyone who worked and brought food for the Bottineau County Food Pantry in February and March.
United Parish received a thank you from Jacquie Robertson.
Thank you to those who usher and light candles.
Thank you to all the groups who provided meals during Lent and those who provided the service.

United Parish Building Fund
Rhonda Beyer - Ron & Marsha Martin
N.R. Smith - Linda & David Kyle
Curtis Hahn - Linda & David Kyle
Marlys Kippen
Darlene Holmes - Marlys Kippen
Lila Marsden - Marlys Kippen
Linda & David Kyle
Methodist Church
Curtis Hahn - Howard & Dorothy
Beyer
Presbyterian Church
Jack Woods - Linda & David Kyle
United Parish Memorial
Lila Marsden - Peggy & Lloyd Nelson

April
1 – Logan Pewe
2- Hector Moss
2 – Ken Bangs
8 – Joan Wettlaufer
13 - Dennis Gravseth
18 -Kynzie Allard
23 – Rod Bahn
26 – Paul Milbrath
Anniversaries
12 – Peggy & Troy Marsden

United Parish
801 Main , Box 175
Bottineau, ND 58318
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www.unitedparishbottineau.com
Newsletter News:
Send unitedparishbottineau@gmail.com
Deadline for May is April 28
Church office - 228-2800
Secretary - 228-8123
Pastor’s cell 605-870-1453
Please let the church know if you have a e-mail address
Pastor Hours are
Monday-8:30-12, 1-4:30
Tuesday & Thursday 8:30-12, Afternoon visitations
Wednesday-8:30 -12
Fridays off

April 16th there will be a special offering taken for Missions of the United Methodist Church and Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Twice a year this is done to support the missions of these churches.

United Parish Mission Project for April .
Looking for Men’s & Women’s socks, toothbrushes, motel lotions, soap, etc. Pantry foods - spices, boxed items, hamburger helper, Mac & Cheese, Roman Noodles, coffee. These items will go to the Dunseith Homeless Shelter.