• Shari Maloney, Clerk of Session
• Shirley Helberg, Treasurer
• Keven Withers, Building and Grounds
• Pastor Randall Knuth, Pastor

• Our excitement for the year 2020 has been before COVID19 pandemic hit, we were able to baptize six people in February.
• This coming Sunday, three of those people will be joining us as members.
• During this unprecedented time, we have been attempting to carry on our ministry as best as we can.
• Our pastor, Randall Knuth, has accepted the call to serve the First Presbyterian Church, Fulda in October; so we, as well as he, are going through a transition during this difficult time.  
• God will make a way for us through these transitions into a "new" normal and so we seek the Presbytery's prayers as we go forward. 
• In spite of the challenges of life with this pandemic, we have proceeded forward with the Osakis Backpack Attack/Hunger Coalition program participation in conjunction with United Way of Douglas and Pope Counties – provides bags of supplemental food to students in need through Osakis Public Schools.
• We have hopes of restarting our monthly "community/Friendship" table meals, but at this time we are not sure when that might be. Hopefully by Thanksgiving, because it has become a vast success over the years. This past year we served over 120 people.

• An introduction to the series, including some suggestions about how to use history in thinking theologically about current issues related to race.
• A brief introduction to some of my own experiences with learning about race and Christianity and how that has affected me as a white person and a Christian.
• Some guided exercises (based on the curriculum) to help people think about what they are bringing to the series.
• Time for questions.

• Complete the courses at your own pace
• Use the courses as a resource later
• Share your playlist with other congregational staff
• Access courses and resources at no cost to you

1. An Eye for Emerging Leaders.  Keep our eyes focused outward at potential new leaders, both long-time members and first-time visitors. Believe that God will bring to the congregation the persons needed to carry on the church's vision for the future.
2. A Mandate to Include and Invite. Existing leaders will intentionally include and invite others into relationship with them.
3. A High Value on Personal Transparency. Leaders mentoring new leaders is not about wielding authority; it is about humility and service. We share both our successes and failures with one another. We invite others to walk alongside us in the messy journey of our lives.

The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?—Psalm 27:1

• For Rev. Bill Yueill, retired pastor, Zimmerman
• For Rev. John Lindholm, retired pastor, Fergus Falls
• For Rev. Mark Chamberlain, retired pastor, Willmar
• For Rev. Bob Bartlett, First Presbyterian Churches of Brewster & Round Lake
• For Rev. Michael Roys, retired pastor, Winnebago
• For Rev. Elaine and Kent Boyd at First Presbyterian Church of Amboy

• Rev. Araceli Itzep from the Occidente Presbytery
• For Bety Cifuentes, the treasurer of the Partnership Committee, undergoing chemotherapy
• For the "Men in the Mirror" program. Men from Occidente that MVP supported financially to attend the classes are sharing the information they gained with different churches in the eastern and central parts of Guatemala. They, along with the chaplains of the national Presbyterian church, are training Christian policemen in what they learned from "Men in the Mirror."
• The Executive Committee met in April, but has not been able to meet since as folks in Guatemala cannot travel between cities. Occidente Presbytery has not met; the projected purchase/buying of buildings is on hold; pastoral elections are on hold; they do hold services via Zoom; the economy is very bad.
• They continue praying for us and ask that we continue to pray for them and for all of the things they cannot get to, and for their living conditions that get more complicated every day.