FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH

Since 1895, First Lutheran Church has been a constant, caring, community presence, serving the needs of the South Shore Lake Superior area.

83105 Washington Avenue
Port Wing, WI 54865
715-774-3576
Pastor Dick Bouton
9:15 am on Sundays

WELCA News

WELCA - Women of the ELCA
All women welcome!
Next meeting is Wednesday, June 3rd, 9:30am
in the church basement.
Area women interested in joining should call
Sue at 715-774-3759 or Karen at 715-774-3742.
Fall Pie Festival Coordination: Needed 2 people
Funeral Coordination: Janet Johnson & Betty Bailey

Senior Meals at First Lutheran
Wednesdays - 11:30am site opens
Meals served from noon to 1pm
Call 715-373-3396 by noon the previous Monday to reserve your meal.

Brunch After Church Once/Month
Sundays, once/month

Open 12-step AA Meetings
Wednesday Evenings - 7pm

Hope from Honduras

A Honduras Note from Gayle Gonsior
Dear friends and family members,
All of your previous support of Health, Potential, & Opportunity through Education, (H.O.P.E.) in Honduras, financially and otherwise, pays off every year with our annual visit to the communities in northern Honduras we work with year round. When Alejandro Pineda, our friend and liaison, came to spend time with us last fall, community folks had the opportunity to connect and learn more.
Thank you all! Your previous support and encouragement of our small, but energetic and dedicated, nonprofit community organization service near Santa Barbara, Honduras makes a real difference to daily lives of our friends in an extremely poor, mountainous area in one of the poorest countries in the hemisphere. We assist with basic support for daily home life needs such as clean water, nutrition, illness prevention, and hygiene, small comforts.
These communities, descendants of the indigenous Lenca, have been marginalized, as so many indigenous and isolated groups are.
We visited and assisted the school built by H.O.P.E. in La Libertad over a decade ago (we visit every year) and the one in La Union. The children and mothers there are always excited for our return and we get many, many hugs. Children wherever we go look forward to receiving little toy cars as a small gift - they have no toys. This year our special project was to bring a book (in Spanish) for each child at their reading level to take home. No child has any books. Everyone got one and we left some with the teachers.
We visited with a small community clinic in La Concepcion to provide some needed supplies, traveled to meet with 4 community members from Travesia who are asking for assistance to build latrines (they walked 3 hours to see us), met women from Las Vueltas who have asked to be part of our small group, where we returned to deliver some food and gift bags, traveled to La Union with food and gift bags for the women and the school there. Included in the gift bags this trip were candles, sheets, and towels and reusable bags.
We focus our efforts on basic nutritional support, chimneys and cooking pans needed for their stick and mud houses, provide some baby chicks to start home flocks for future eggs and meat production to improve diets.
In the past we assisted with buying a communal horse to allow for assistance in traveling to medical care and to help haul heavy items to and from the community. We would like to repeat that with other communities.
Future special projects: each family to receive a bucket with a cover to keep their clean potable water in; machete for each male head of household to continue work for sustenance and means of earning cash with more wealthy landowners and coffee plantations; continue the work of building latrines in all communities (a special endeavor).
And again, none of this would be possible without Alejandro Pineda.
Below is information to send checks and attached are our new Venmo and PayPal options, the poster about the March 8th event and a few of great photos!
In partnership and love to you all,
Gayle

Project descriptions and examples of where your donations may go:
-Chimneys and planchas (pans) $25 /
-family Clean water bucket with lid $6/
-family Clinics $ to purchase everything we can bring or buy there for medical supplies
-Nutrition/supplement food $18 bag including vegetables - Latrines (we are gathering cost estimates now)
-Chicks $20 per family to get started
-Machetes $13 each Schools
-books and supplies donations or $ to purchase
-Cloth diapers /pins
-donations or $ to purchase Communal horse around $700 (including transport)
-Liaison Alejandro Pineda - $65 per day time in addition to transport fuel expenses
HOPE in Honduras
14045 Carlson Rd.
Brule, WI 54820

First Lutheran Market Days - Under the Pavilion - July 4, August 1, October 3
and
Plan now for the Fall Festival First Lutheran WELCA Pie Sale
Sunday, September 5. 2026
A signup sheet for pies & help will be in the church entrance in August.
Call Sue Luoma, Karen Anderson or Beth Carlson with questions.

First Lutheran Supports Local Charities

Food Donations for BRICK Ministries

TheBRICK food shelf ministry is open in Cornucopia at the Town of Bell Community Center on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays from 10am to 3pm.
Donations of food items are always welcome.

The Fig Leaf Thrift Shop new hours

The Fig Leaf Thrift Store is now open for business on Monday-Saturday, 10am-3pm, in a new facility on Main in Iron River.
New donations are accepted everyday during business hours with a limit of 3 bags or boxes per person.
Proceeds from the Fig Leaf come back to area communities in the form of monetary donations.

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83105 Washington Avenue, Port Wing, WI 54865
Pastor Kristin Boland
Phone: 715-371-0195 Email: [email protected]
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