July - First Presbyterian Church, Burlington Iowa

Newsworthy NotesPlease give a rousing ‘hooray!’ to Carrie Blom for all her hard work on behalf of our church family.Carrie has served as a Trustee, the last as its secretary, for the past 3 years. She also has been aGodly Play teacher for the past two years. Carrie is taking a well-earned break.Please give a rousing ‘hooray!’ to Brenda Frederick, for all her hard work on behalf ofour church family and beyond. Brenda has been a coordinator for the Knitwits the past severalyears, as well as a faithful contributor of many, many beautiful prayer shawls, and also has servedon the Board of Deacons as a secretary the past year. Brenda is taking a well-earnedbreak.Please give a rousing ‘hooray!’ to Don Krekel, for all his hard work on behalf of our church family.During his three-year term on the Board of Deacons Don has served twice on the Nominating Committee.He has also sent out countless notes and cards for special birthdays, anniversaries and occasionson behalf of the church and he has cared for our Young Adults ministry, sending gifts of careto our college students and military personnel.Please give a rousing ‘hooray!’ to Bruce Morrison, for all his hard work on behalf of our churchfamily and beyond. Bruce has served on Session as Elder for the past three years. He has been chairof the Nominating Committee for two years and has also been member and then moderator of theMissions Committee. Bruce is taking a well-earned break.Please give a rousing ‘hooray!’ to Debbie Opiekun for all her hard work on behalf ofour church family. Debbie has served as Trustee, last year as its president, for the past 3 years. Beforethat Debbie served on the Strategic Task Force, and she has made countless meals for theLenten Liaisons with God and Each Other. Debbie is taking a well-earned break.Please give a rousing ‘hooray!’ to Carl and Donna Siefken, for all their hard work on behalf ofour church family. For the past three years serving on the Board of Deacons they have beenworking on behalf of organizing greeters, serving communion to the special friends and organizingspecial friends’ contacts. Donna and Carl are taking a well-earned break.Please give a rousing ‘hooray!’ to Ken Velharticky for all his hard work on behalf of FPC. Over thepast several years Ken has served as moderator of the finance committee, as a member of the Trustees,as Deacon and this past year was deacon moderator. Ken is taking a well-earned break.Please give a rousing ‘hooray!’ to Craig Gilchrist for all his hard work on behalf ofFPC. Craig has been a member of the Endowment Committee for the past three years, and served asmoderator the last year. Craig has also served on the Nominating Committee this year. Craig is takinga well-deserved break.Please give a huge ‘thank you!’ to Cindy & Tom Murphy foroverseeing the Snake Alley Fair Food Booth for the 4thstraight year! And to Sue Lyon & Bill Carter for being cooverseersthis year.4