a Projection Task Force is being formed to study the issue of permanent sanctuary projection capability. This short term task force will study at least:
projection (as currently used) or TV screens
where and how screens and projectors or TV monitors may be placed
3. cost estimates
This task force will meet during the summer months only and make recommendations back to Worship & Music Committee as well as Property Committee. Would you consider this short-term commitment? Contact: Lois Beach, Worship & Music Committee Chairperson, Marty Jensen, Property Committee Chairperson or either pastor. Thanks! *The first meeting to organize this task force will be mid - July. Date and time to be determined.

There are no donors for altar flowers on these dates:
October 3, 10, 24 December 5, 12, 19

To place flowers at the altar, please call Dawn Sanders, 630-279-2546. She will take your dedication information, explain the payment procedure (cost is $36.00), and put your name on the flower chart in Epiphany Center when your request has been processed. To avoid confusion, please do not sign on the chart. Thank you for assisting in providing an appropriate setting for our worship.
Epiphany Altar Guild

Group Work Camp is Friday July 23rd until late Saturday, July 31st, in Birmingham AL. We’ll be leaving about noon on Friday (at least one vehicle), since a few of you will be in summer school. We’ll be stopping overnight for Fri/Sat, arriving in Birmingham, AL for GWC on Sunday.  There is a group of about 30 of us going, and we do have spaces available. If anyone is thinking about joining us, contact Kareen. 

The Ruth Circle continues to collect items for much needed health kits that will be sent with the Lutheran World Relief shipment of quilts, layettes, and school bags next fall. During the month of June, we will be gathering one sturdy comb (please remove the packaging). Please place them in the white wicker basket placed in Epiphany Center. Thank you for your help. It is much appreciated.

The Annual Epiphany Golf Outing sponsored by the Lutheran Men in Mission,  August 29th, 2010 at Sugar Creek Golf Course. Tee times start at 1:00 p.m.  Golf/dinner cost this year is $35.00 for golfers and $15.00 for non-golfers. This includes great food and unlimited soft drinks & coffee. Other beverages are available for purchase. For more information email: Golf@EpiphanyElmhurst.org or visit
http://Golf.EpiphanyElmhurst.org for selection of Tee Times.  Award ceremony and dinner will start after all golfers have finished the 9th hole.

As usual we are in need of “Prizes.” If you have any suitable golf prizes, please contact Roy Schroeder Jr., or Tom McGonigle.

Just a reminder that our hearing assistive devices are available for whomever needs them. Just ask an usher for help. These fine instruments can be found outside of the usher’s closet. Steve Hier or Grace and Wilbur Lippert are at the 8:00 a.m. and 9:15 a.m. services to assist you in putting them on.

They never seem to end. Bad storms, gulf oil spills, tornados, floods, earth quakes …. they wreak devastation everywhere they hit. This week has shown us locally how hard it can be. People become helpless through no fault of their own. Our ELCA Lutheran Disaster Relief Fund works with many other agencies to be there for people needing assistance. Please consider those who in need. There are at least 3 ways to help:
Red pew envelopes are available that allow you to designate where you would like your disaster donations to go.
Blue pew envelopes for world hunger.
Bring non-perishable food and hygiene items to our
table of sharing.

to all who are hospitalized or in some way shut-in. However, we (Pastor Denny, Pastor Ron, Pastor Brandt, and your Stephen Ministers) cannot provide pastoral care if we are not made aware of the need. If you know of someone who is hospitalized or needs a visit, PLEASE contact the church office.

The Epiphany Outreach Committee would like to thank the following people for making our Bethel New Life Service Days a success: Michael Hodgson, Katie Connolly, Ian Wincentsen, Steve Hier, Annelle Fletcher, Pastor Beach, Ian Fletcher and Paul Rimington. We look forward to continuing our endeavors with Bethel New Life and growing our volunteers from Epiphany in the future!'

The Cover Girls will be gathering on the following Thursdays:  July 8, 22.   We'll start around 8:45 a.m. in Fellowship Hall and work until around noon. There will be NO QUILTING on July 15 or 29.  There are quilts to be completed so they can be included in our fall shipment so it's time to get busy. Newcomers are welcome… the coffee pot will be perkin' and we hope you can join us. Questions?... call Joan Schroeder at 630-230-9369.

Outreach Team January - April
Focus On Economic Justice

Our 3rd featured Outreach area is for Lutheran Day.

Lutheran Day -- Save the Date! Mark your
calendar for Wednesday, April 21st, 2010.
For the past 4 years members of Epiphany have journeyed to Springfield to meet with our local legislators to advocate for economic justice. Join a group of your fellow Epiphany members and several hundred Lutherans and friends in our state's capital to learn about key issues affecting our state, advocate for people in need,
and spend time in fellowship. See Bill Thiel to volunteer or learn more at www.LutheranDay.org

Lutheran Advocacy— Lutheran Day is sponsored by Lutheran Advocacy, a justice ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the three ELCA synods in Illinois and Lutheran Social Services of Illinois.

For those interested, ELCA World Hunger coin boxes are located in Epiphany Center. Feel free to take one, fill it, and bring it back and put it in the offering plate. Thank you!

Hosts Annual Victorian Tea

On Saturday, April 24, at 12:30 p.m. the Women of Bethel, of Bethel United Church of Christ, will hold their 12th annual Victorian Tea at the church, located at 315 E. St. Charles Road in Elmhurst.

Thank you for the continued generosity of those contributing to the Epiphany Endowment Fund.  Listed below are donations that have been made over the past several weeks.

and The 2010 Spring Children’s Toy & Equipment Resale
Were a huge success!
Congratulations and thank you to the Resale Administration Committee, the Clothing Resale Committee, the Toy & Equipment Resale Committee, LYO and our confirmands who worked so hard, and to all the wonderful volunteers and helpers who made this all possible! A special thank you to all the shoppers and sellers and to our Epiphany Church family who graciously permitted us to close off the basement for the two weeks. The final tallies are not in yet, but we will post all the final numbers as soon as they become available. Sellers will receive 75% of sales after a registration fee of $10.00, and the balance will be donated to the designated charities including, The Think First National Injury Prevention Foundation, and Epiphany LYO. Funds may be matched by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.
Again, thank you to everyone who participated in this event!

Eighty percent of the jobs being filled today come from networking contacts. The way networking works is a friend or professional contact that you know, knows someone who has knowledge of a job opening. Usually this 2nd or 3rd level contact provides us with the job notice that results in ultimately getting hired.

Do you have ideas on new ways Epiphany can support and further our mission (Rooted in Christ, Growing in Faith, Reaching to Invite and Serve)? Your idea might impact our congregation, our community or have an impact on people far from Elmhurst. Perhaps your idea will enhance an existing Epiphany ministry. Either way, the Mission Challenge Fund was established in the 2010 annual budget as a means for people or groups within the church to solicit funds to help turn their mission related passions into reality. The process for applying for funds is simple and all Epiphany members can apply. Just fill out a Mission Challenge Fund “Request for Support” form which is available in the church office. The process is easy and the one page form includes all the necessary information. There is even a small group of Epiphany members led by Ron Feltman willing to help you refine your idea and fill out the application. Let’s make 2010 the year that your ideas and the Mission Challenge Fund unleash powerful missional growth.

Hope to see you all this evening at 5:30 p.m. for LYO Dinner/discussion! There will be a Mentor Program Meeting at 7:30 p.m. (Sunday, March 21), immediately following LYO dinner/discussion. Please plan on finding out more about the LYO/Confirmand Mentor Program if you haven’t come to a meeting yet. Also, LYO will be hosting our annual LYO Easter Sunrise Service Breakfast on Easter morning, following the sunrise service.  We’ll get together Saturday, April 3 from 6 p.m. - 9 p.m., make our breakfast goodies, decorate eggs and get everything ready for Sunday morning.

We are very happy to announce that Francine Garman has accepted the role of Epiphany's Sunday School superintendent.  Francine has taught in the preschool, pre-kindergarten and kindergarten rooms and is very excited to take on this new challenge.  Welcome, Francine!

FOR HEALTH KITS TO SHIP TO LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF NEXT FALL… Ruth Circle continues to collect items for much needed health kits that will be sent with the Lutheran World Relief shipment of quilts and layettes next fall. During the month of March, we will be gathering washcloths in a dark color. Please help us. Place your donation of a dark washcloth in the white wicker basket placed in Epiphany Center. Thank you for your help.