2016 IRS Mileage Rates.
The IRS has announced the new standard mileage rates, effective January 1, 2016:
- 54 cents per mile for business miles driven (decrease from 2015)
- 19 cents per mile driven for medical or moving purposes (decrease from 2015)
- 14 cents per mile driven in service of charitable organization
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2016.
The Lutheran-Catholic Covenant Commission invites Catholics and Lutherans to commemorate together the 2016 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, January 18-25: Called to Proclaim the Mighty Acts of the Lord (1 Peter 2:9). For celebration resources, visit the Graymoor Ecumenical and Interreligious Institute website, www.geii.org. For more information about ecumenical dialogue, visit the USCCB Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs website, www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/ecumenical-and-interreligious/ and the ELCA Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations website, www.elca.org/ecumenical/.
The 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Service
will be held at Prince of Peace, Westlake on Sunday, January 17, 2016 at 3:30 p.m. The Theme is "Remembering the Journey." The Rev. George Hrbek will be the speaker and the offering will be given to Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry's Community Re-entry. Bishop Abraham Allende will speak toward the end of the service. The church is located at 28455 Center Ridge Road.
Available:
2 brass 7- candle candelabras, including 15 refillable candles and wooden candle carrier. FREE to an active congregation or chapel. Call Emmanuel, Elyria, at 440-323-4552 between 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., Monday - Friday.
Available Items.
Augsburg, Orrville has the following items available:
- 13 blue with white yoke choir robes (1 pianist robe)
- 39 plain blue with 20 cream stoles
- 15+ metal folding chairs
All of the robes are a heavy-weight polyester (by Collegiate Cap & Gown for Cokesbury). Contact the church office at 330-682-2581 between 8:00 a.m.- 12 noon, Monday-Friday, or email [email protected].
Organ Available.
St. Jacob, North Canton has the following organ available to any congregation in need.
Rodgers Scarborough 110 electronic organ, purchased new in 1978
AGO standard keyboard 2 manuals 61 notes
32 pedals 2 4 8 16 fagotto
Internal and external speakers
Leslie rotating speaker element for tremolo
1expression shoe
Transposer -4 to +4
Headphone jack
Silent play with headphone
Owner's manual
This organ is in very good working order and has been kept-up well with repairs to volume shoe and start key system in April 2015. Due to its age they are not asking for money for it but would like to see it go to a church who can use it to enhance their worship and allow it to continue to bring glory to God! If interested please call the church office at 330-877-2676 or contact Karen Gay, organist, at 330-896-0345.
Wanted:
Someone to donate a commercial or riding mower to Euclid Lutheran Church, 431 East 260th Street, Euclid OH 44132. Contact Bob at either 216 731-4874 and leave a message or
[email protected]
. Will pick up!
Free To A Good Home.
Bethesda On The Bay, Bay Village, has an altar that is available free of charge to any congregation in need. The altar is approximately 10 foot long by 3 ½ foot wide made of light colored (possibly pecan) wood. If interested please contact the church office at 440-871-2276.
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