If you couldn’t get to Messiah this weekend or watch online, we are sharing this weekend’s sermon with Pastor Jeff and guest speaker Jevon Diming. Jevon first spoke at Messiah 2-years ago when Messiah first held a HTA meeting with MPD detectives and other agencies that help HT Survivors. 

Jevon’s work is healing generational trauma in Black mothers & teenage girls and she is making a difference in their lives. Messiah Lutheran Church is proud to support her in our Anti-Human Trafficking initiative.

Link to the sermon

Below also find,  Jevon’s 5-minute video she just made to be viewed by other venues, churches, schools, agencies, etc.

Here is the link for Jevon's 5-minute video.

Messiah is accepting donations this next week for Jevon’s work. You can donate online and use the drop-down menu and choose POSH or checks can be made out to Messiah and in the memo line write POSH. The GFF will match all donations.

Messiah Emails from

REALM email issues

Recently multiple people have mentioned to us that they are no longer receiving emails that they used to get from REALM such as the weekly news or emails from their groups. The messages are going out through Realm but they are not getting into their email folders.

Email companies are getting stricter about what they put into your spam folder, so it could be the case that your email is starting to see emails from REALM as spam.

One solution is to check your spam folder to see if there are any REALM emails in there.

The email comes from notifications@onrealmmail.org 

If so, slide them into your inbox so they get delivered in the future.

You should also add the above email your address book.

Boomerang Bag Group needs Volunteers - You don't have to sew

Can you sew? Would you like to make bags? Join us!

                                        We sew at home instead of bringing our machines to the monthly work party, so nothing heavy to haul.

Can't sew? You can help with some of these tasks instead:

Shop for us!

•    Purchase and donate sewing thread (preferably cotton or cotton/poly blend)
•    Shop thrift stores and purchase white, ivory and pastel sheets and pillowcases, then      launder and iron them for use as pockets

  Come to a monthly work party to:

•    Cut fabric for bags and pockets. Bring your cutting mat & rotary cutter if you have them, or come anyway and use somebody else's
•    Help sort fabric donations, then take them home to launder and iron
•    Bring an iron and ironing board and iron whatever needs ironing

Any way you can help will be greatly appreciated!!

Pizza will be served for lunch! Come join the fun!

There will be jobs outside and inside.

The Theme for the 2025 Lenten Devotional is

“The Transformative Power of God’s Love”.

Copies of the Lenten Devotional are available for you to pick up in the Gathering Space.

 Daily reflections are also posted on our  Facebook page daily.

Here is a  link   to the full devotional in PDF form 

If you think you might want to write for a future devotional, please contact Elizabeth Crummy at volunteer@messiahchurch.com or call or text 608-235-6910 to be added to the list in REALM. This just puts you on a list to be contacted to consider writing in the future, you are not making a commitment!

Fund Drive for Goodman Center Thanksgiving Baskets

Updated end date is Easter Sunday

Our monetary collection for the Goodman Center Thanksgiving Baskets will end on Easter.

The Goodman Center has sponsored Thanksgiving Baskets for many years, last year giving away over 4,000 meals!  A complete meal, including a turkey and all the trimmings, is provided to those in need who have registered. Goodman historically had to buy foil roasting pans as donations were low. It was decided to step in to purchase as many as we could. 

Our goal for 2024 was to provide ALL 4,000 pans and Messiah met that goal and more! 

Please consider donating to this cause so we can reach our goal and be ready to purchase the pans at the best price we can find (roughly $5500). If using a check, please put Thanksgiving basket in the memo line so it is put in the correct account.  Online, please use the Thanksgiving basket button. Your donations are greatly appreciated!

Ray Robinson

Nursery Hours - 8:00 - 9:20am and 10:15 - 11:35am

Every Sunday unless specified.  If nursery is cancelled for any reason there will be a sign on the church door.

No nursery Easter Sunday April 20

No nursery Mother’s Day May 11

No nursery Father’s Day June 15

No nursery June 29

If the nursery is not open, you may still use the space during services. The service can be streamed on the screen in the nursery room.

At our March Ladies Lunch Bunch

we collected $80.00 

toward Easter Candy and Baskets.

Ladies Lunch Bunch

at Kavanaugh's Esquire Club

1025 N Sherman Ave, Madison, WI 53704 

Wednesday, April 9th at 11:30

If you have any questions please contact Claire Gensch at (920) 319-6731 or

Mary Kedzie at 608-716-4600

Michelle Jolly

Women's Ministry Book Study -  Loving Jesus by Mark Allan Powell

Thursdays, March 13 - April 17th  - 10:30am - 12:00 noon

in the 2nd Grade Sunday School Classroom.

This book study is full.

SAM Hike Season begins soon!  Get your hiking boots ready.

Tuesday, April 8 - McCarthy Park, 4841 Co Hwy TT, Cottage Grove, WI

A favorite 1.5 mile walk on unpaved and uneven trails in woods and along fields with open  views and gentle hilled areas. Non-flush comfort station at parking lot.
Coming from Messiah: Go left on Cottage Grove Road past Metro Market and turn left at  the light onto Sprecher Road. Continue through the Milwaukee St. intersection (4-way  stop), then turn right at the next intersection’s traffic light onto Co. Rt. T. Continue  straight ahead when it becomes Co. Rt. TT. When you arrive at the traffic circle, proceed  through it and stay on County TT. The park entrance is about a half mile ahead on your  left. To see the route mapped out, go here: https://goo.gl/maps/kzVCofdQ2sqtZML89  A GPS might try to put you on Pierceville Road, but that will take you past the park  entrance and out of the way.
Meet at park. Depart from parking lot for hike at 10 AM.

 SAVE THE DATE for additional hikes to familiar places and maybe to someplace new:

Wednesday, April 16                             Tuesday, May 6                                       Wednesday, June 4
 Tuesday, April 29                                   Wednesday, May 21

The exhibit's 14 pull-up banners and will be displayed in 12 libraries, starting with Monona Library to coincide with Black History.

The subsequent events are as follows:

• Waunakee Public Library - April 2025 (reception 6:30 pm, 4/17)
• Cross Plains Public Library - May 2025 (reception 1 pm, 5/3)
• Marshall Public Library - June 2025 (reception 1 pm, 6/21)
• Mt. Horeb Public Library - July 2024 (reception 6:30 pm, 7/21)
• Bookmobile - August 2025 (reception Tuesday August 5 in Cottage Grove, Monday, August 11 in Shorewood Hills, and Tuesday August 19 in Maple Bluff. 7:00)
• Verona Public Library - Sept. 2025 (reception 1:30 pm, 9/20)
• Sequoya Library, Madison - Oct. 2025 (time TBA, 10/6)
• Mazomanie Library - November 2025
• Oregon Public Library - December 2025 (reception 1 pm, 12/13)
• Middleton Public Library - January 2026 (reception 6 pm, 1/22)

Contact Person - Pr. Dan O'Brien - pastordan@messiahchurch.com

The weekend of May 3-4, Mark Taylor,

Food Pantry Coordinator at St. Mark’s,

will join the services to tell us about what they

do and answer any questions you may have.



Contact Person - Dee Schwoegler - raschwoe@charter.net

May is our annual Mountain of Food drive in support of St. Stephen’s Food Pantry and St. Mark’s Food Pantry. We build a metaphorical mountain with monetary donations, knowing that the pantries can often make those dollars stretch further with access to bulk purchases, etc.

Every donation makes a difference. A few small donations add up to significant support. Sometimes it helps to know the impact that a certain dollar amount makes, so consider these conservation estimates:

• $115 can feed a family of 4 for a week
• $155 can feed a family of 6 for a week

As we all know, the price of food has gone up, especially the cost of milk and eggs which has significantly impacted the costs to feed a family in a week. The number of clients in need has also gone up. Our donations will allow the food pantries to reach more and more families in support of their food needs.

Messiah has always been very generous and we can’t thank you enough for your continued support of the drive. Your continued support this May would be much appreciated.

Dee Schwoegler, St. Stephen’s Food Pantry Donation Coordinator

Thank you to the following people who sponsored

 "Give Kids Another Lift

Week of March 31 - April 4

Marge Jones & Sharon Noltemeyer

Two requests from Kennedy

We are still collecting gently used winter clothing, specifically all sizes of snow pants, boots, coats, waterproof mittens and gloves .

We also need smaller sized sweatpants/ pull on pants for when kids get wet in the snow (sizes 5-8)

• Please donate new or gently used winter gear:
• Smaller sized sweat pants sizes 5-8
• underwear all sizes

• Please no adult sized clothes

• NO PERSONAL CARE ITEMS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
  

Annual Blood Drive - Tuesday, May 13th

We will be looking for 60+ donors and also about 10 volunteers to work 2-3 hour shifts between noon and 7 PM.

If you are interested in helping as a volunteer, please contact Elizabeth Crummy at volunteer@messiahchurch.com   or call or text 608-235-6910.

You can already schedule yourself to donate. Click here to make an appointment

Community Meals

Triangle Community Ministry - April 21

Set up, serve, eat with residents and clean up 4-6:30 PM on April 21st for a special Easter Monday meal.

Healing House - May 11-17

Prepare a meal for 12 people, bring it to Messiah on a designated day and Scott DeBroux will deliver it. Meal should include a main course, sides and dessert. 

Please contact Elizabeth at volunteer@messiahchurch.com or call/text 608-235-6910 to be added to these groups in REALM to receive updates and to sign you up (or you can sign up on the kiosk in the gathering space.)

St. Stephen’s Food Pantry especially needs:

condiments, baking items and laundry detergent–they recently lost the support of a long-time detergent donor.

They pour liquid detergent into soda bottles that have been rinsed clean (they are sturdier than water bottles) and distribute them to shoppers in manageably-sized containers.

Contact Person - Dee Schwoegler - raschwoe@charter.net

Contact Person - Nancy Battist - battistnancy@gmail.com

Bingo Cards are due on November 1st