March 1, 2026
People We Are Praying For (We included prayers for these individuals in our recent church services): Patricia Elwood, Katie Tweit, Jenny Krosch, Marsha Natvig, Lorena Merseth, Asher Graham, Pam Davis, Annette Feistner, Mark Olson, Ruth Faye, Kathy Vaughan, and all our loved ones who have been sick and facing ongoing health challenges.
Mount Olive member Donna Lee passed away on Thursday, February 26. Funeral arrangements are pending.
Special Voters’ Meeting: On February 15, the three Member congregations overwhelmingly approved the amendment changing the corporate name of Newco Lutheran School to Cornerstone Lutheran School. However, a procedural requirement (providing a complete copy of the amendment in the two-week meeting notice) was inadvertently missed in that process, and legal counsel for the school has advised that the congregation should ratify the original approval to align the corporate records. To ensure the corporate record is complete and accurate, Mount Olive Lutheran Church will hold a brief special voters meeting on Sunday, March 8, immediately following the first service (estimated around 9:15am) to formally confirm the action, with the amendment included in the notice materials.
For more updates and all other new announcements, pick up your copy of the March 2026 edition of the Olive Press from the narthex table. The Olive Press is also available on the Mount Olive website: mtolivelutheran.org/publications. For Mount Olive members who receive the Weekly Announcements via email, note that the March Olive Press is attached to the March 1 Weekly Announcements.
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LAST WEEK’S ATTENDANCE/LORD’S SUPPER
Sunday: 8:15am, 243; 10:45am, 133; Post Service Communion, 28; Monday: 38/33
Wednesday: 188
Live Online Viewing: Sunday: 28
WE THANK THOSE SERVING OUR LORD THIS WEEK
Greeters: Emily Pleiss, Steve & Sue Beilke
Keith Anderson, Steve Lussky
Offering Counters: Lisa Holt, Brenda Garbers, Connie Meyer
Altar Guild: Beth Ulman, Joni Bode, Beth Westphal
WEEKLY FINANCIAL UPDATE
Given Last Week (excluding Year of Jubilee): $6,985.05
Year of Jubilee Debt Reduction Given Last Week: $1,081.54
Year of Jubilee Debt Reduction Total (7/1/2025 to 2/26/2026): $113,672.36
Fiscal YTD Actual Expenses vs. Budget Surplus (Deficit) as of 1/31/2026: $7,444.70
Care Share Tuition Assistance Account (balance as of 2/26/2026): $52,658.39
Romans 8:31-32 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
To give your offering online, go to mtolivelutheran.org and click on the “Online Giving” tab.
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