• Presiders: Pastor Sean Avery
• Assisting Minister: AbieLiz L.
• Children's Message: 
• Readers: AbieLiz L. & Trudi P.
• Pianist: Nancy W.
• Communion Assistant: AbieLiz L.
• Altar Care: Lori S. 
• Acolyte: Jack S.
• Cross-bearer: [open]
• Gifts-bearer: [open]
• Ushers: Karen P. & Henry H.

Thank you for serving in worship. Your faithfulness and heart for God help create a space where His presence is felt. Our Sundays are truly blessed with servants like you.

Join us for a potluck-style brunch! We gather for brunch immediately after worship. All are welcome to join us for delicious food and fellowship. This is one of the ways we build community with each other. There is no Sunday School or Confirmation class - this way everyone can join! 

We celebrate Confirmation Sunday on May 17th as Noah B. affirms his faith in Christ. Join us in giving thanks for his journey and praying for his continued growth in faith. 

Join us after worship in the Narthex for cake.

The Strategic Planning team has completed the listening phase of our work. This has included the congregational survey last fall, the focus group meetings this winter, and most recently a series of meetings with community organizations to hear about our neighbors and our neighborhood. Jessica Noonan, our LEAD consultant, met with us and the congregation the weekend of April 17-19.

To recap what we have heard so far:

• Our congregation cares deeply about the message of God’s grace
• Hearing God’s word with one another is sustaining and affirming for all of us
• We love to share food, to be welcoming, to include children and youth, and to find opportunities to serve our community
• There are many needs in our community, from practical needs such as food and clothing, to more intangible needs such as a sense of community and belonging, to spiritual needs such as an awareness of God’s boundless love

Those next phases are to focus what we have heard into our shared values and purpose. Then we will set our direction to act on what have heard and learned. This will not be a new and improved to-do list, but a way of helping us stay true to ourselves and our mission.

Our team will keep working with Jessica and with the church council to develop specific ideas for us to consider as a congregation. Stay tuned!

Register now to join Joy’s team, Joyful Women, in this year’s Alaska Run for Women. With virtual and IRL 1-mile and 5-mile timed and untimed events beginning and ending on the UAA campus, we celebrate and honor those among us who have experienced breast cancer. Our team count is up to nine!

The Alaska Run for Women unites thousands of women from Alaska and beyond, and it’s one of the biggest events in the country. $6.2 million in cash and donated mammograms has been generated by the event since 1993 – all of which has been distributed to organizations associated with and/or researching breast cancer. Visit akrfw.org to register and to find out more, or contact Nancy Hemsath at nancyhemsath@gmail.com. Think pink!!

Our youth and young adults are preparing for a service-learning trip to South Texas this summer where they will partner with Border Perspective to learn, serve, and grow in faith. Experiences like this can shape a young person’s faith for a lifetime!

Would you consider donating to this opportunity for our young people?

By supporting this trip, you help create opportunities for students to encounter new communities, hear powerful stories, and reflect on God’s call to love our neighbors. Your donations will help lower the cost for participants and pay for transportation. Your generosity helps make this experience possible for every student and young adult who feels called to go. Thank you!

Grades 6-12th

Every summer the Alaska Synod hosts a summer trip for youth across Alaska! It's a week-long retreat filled with fun, fellowship, and building faith! We'll spend time canoeing, playing games, doing a service project, and other outdoor activities.

Join us by registering below. Bring a friend with you! 

Each month, Joy will pray for another ELCA congregation, as part of the Synod Prayer Partner mission. 

It’s simple, and it’s powerful. We lift up their joys, their challenges, their ministries. In this way, we remember that God’s work doesn’t stop at our doors. We are part of something bigger: a church that stretches across towns, states, even countries, united in prayer and love.

We invite each of you to join in. Let’s be faithful in holding our partner congregation before God, trusting that God is holding us in return. This is our prayer for one another, and for the world God loves.

Open on the first Sunday of each month 1-3pm.

Thank you so much for your help stocking our size 5 clothes.

We are currently in need of boys and girls size 7/8 (pants and shirts)  Thank you all for your donations and help serving our community in this way, you are a huge part of the success of our ministry. 

Join us as we crochet projects for a good cause. We are now meeting on the First Sunday of the month right after Worship. Projects include prayer shawls for those in the hospital or extended care settings, hats for the Jump for Joy Kid's Closet, or other projects for our community. For Questions reach out to Hazel S.

 Visit our website for information about our book club, including book titles, a full list of dates and locations.

Please join us!

Please contact the office on 907-694-9601 if you would like any more information.

Community Meetings that take place here at Joy Lutheran Church. For more information please visit our website.

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) CLICK FOR PRINTABLE FLIER

Narcotics Anonymous

Alcoholics Anonymous 

• For those struggling with mental health and anxiety.
• For Amazing Grace Lutheran Church  (Anchorage, Alaska), our May Prayer Partner.
• Ami S. for healing and strength
• The Otterstedt’s (Wayne and Judy’s granddaughter, Olivia, her husband Matt, and their children, Holden and Ella. Matt, a US Army Ranger, is deployed)
• Pastor Rich Mauer (ELCA pastor in Delta Junction, hospitalized in need of prayers)
• Derek (Corrine’s granddaughter’s husband) has stage 3 colon cancer.
• Swain-Kotlarchuk family as they mourn the loss of Donald, Kristi's father.
• Corrine F.  (for strength)
• Judy (Christy Dailey's mom for strength and healing)
• Clarke H. (prayers for continued healing)
• The Hegna Family (as the mourn the passing of Marsha’s brother, Mark)
• Kaela W. (strength and courage for on-going treatment)
• Layli (Trudi's granddaughter, for good decision making)
• Dave Mitton (for strength)
• Kent & Victoria Rush, Wayne’s brother and sister-in-law (Kent is fighting cancer again.)
• Diana Flaherty (for pain and healing)
• Stella Scamman (Kristi Swain’s aunt)
• For all those who continue to grieve the loss of loved ones.
• For all military members and their families, especially those serving in Alaska and our veterans

Online: To sign up visit joy-lutheran.com/give

Cash/Check: You can place cash or check into the offering plate or send by mail.

Text-to-Give: Text "Give" to: (833) 685-5023

Joy Lutheran App: Coming Soon

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