Updated May 27: 

• Worship this Sunday, May 29 will be outdoors at 9:30.  This will be our only worship service, but it will also be livestreamed online.  We’ll have metal chairs available, but you can bring your own camp chair or blanket.  If the weather is bad, we’ll communicate arrangements to move worship indoors. 

• We mourn the passing of member Art Harnish on May 26.  Art’s health declined rapidly over the past few weeks, and passed away peacefully at home at the age of 92.  Funeral arrangements will be announced when they come together and posted here.  

• Intersection improvements are coming.  Beginning June 1, crews will close the intersection at Route A and 112th Street (the Roosterville corner) until mid-August.  

• Got a Skid Steer or Wood Chipper?  We’d like to do some work in the congregation’s back acreage to reduce the volunteer trees and shrubs, remove invasive plants, and increase the area we can mow and use behind the church building.  If you have a skid steer or wood chipper, know someone who’d let us use them at low- or no-cost, or know someone who might do the machinery work for us at low- or no-cost, please talk with Pastor Mike. 

Past Updates:

• A 3rd Hosanna! cookbook is in the works!  Hosanna's Prayer Weavers would like to start collecting your favorite recipes.  If you have a tried-and-true recipe (or several) that you love, please share!  Please forward it to Pam Schmidt. More information about sales will be announced as we get closer to production.  The proceeds from the cookbooks will be used to further the Prayer Weaver ministry of making blankets for area children in need.  ​

• A group helping our congregation become more welcoming of neurodiversity will begin meeting soon.  If you’d like to join this team, please let Pastor Mike know soon.  Becoming more neurodiversity-friendly means we’d acknowledge, support, share resources, and value neurodiversity, particularly for people with diagnostic labels such as ADHD, autism, anxiety disorders, dyslexia, intellectual disabilities, OCD, and more.  If you’d like to learn even more about neurodiversity, listen to this YouTuber with autism help explain it.  

• Watch the memorial service for Louise Fisher, held at Hosanna! on May 21.  

• Feeling Down?  We’ve compiled resources here to help. We also encourage you to share your struggles.  Talk to a trusted friend, family member, doctor, or to Pastor Mike.  We may not have quick-fix answers, but we can walk this journey with you and help you find hope and joy again. 

• Help Us Keep Hosanna! Cool.  Our congregation has 11 heating and air conditioning units.  Most are over 20 years old.  We’re seeking to raise $30,000 by October 1 to help us replace 4-6 of the units most at risk of failure.  You may contribute to the campaign now in one of these ways:

• • Place a check with “HVAC” written on the memo line in the offering plate or mail it to the church office.

  • Give online with your bank account or credit card.  

HOSANNA! LUTHERAN CHURCH

2800 N. Church Rd., Liberty, Missouri

816-781-7991