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Valentine’s Pizza & Game Night - February 7 - 6:00 PM
Nothing says Valentine’s like pizza and games. We will be having a church pizza and game night in the fellowship hall on Friday February 7th. We will meet at the church at 6:00pm, and pizza will be delivered. We are asking that people who come bring a favorite game with them, and we will gather in groups to enjoy the evening together. We will also have a station where you can make your own valentines to give to your sweetheart or perhaps someone in the church. Please come and join us for this fun event. Also, please let Pastor Brian know if you think you might attend so we have an idea of how much pizza to order.
2025 Annual Meeting
We held our annual meeting on Sunday January 26th in the sanctuary and over Zoom following our fellowship meal. We had a quorum and voted on our standard business for the year. The meeting minutes from the 2024 annual meeting were approved, as well as the 2024 financial reports. The 2025 budget was also approved. We approved that the distribution of the Deal gift will be 50% towards the endowment and 50% towards special maintenance projects. The congregation also approved a special budget allocation to be spent on fixing gutters and tree removal.
The congregation approved various amendments to the bylaws that were sent out prior to the meeting, which included creating a deacon board. The slate of candidates for the consistory and the deacon board were approved as presented. A list of current and new consistory members is listed below, along with who the officers are for 2024. There is also a list of our new deacons. We would like to thank all of the consistory members who served in 2024 and all of the members who participated in our annual meeting.
Consistory 2025-2026 Term:
Alice Clausing (Asst. Treasurer), Tom Rauls, and Jeannette Papajcik (Secretary)
Consistory 2024-2025 Term:
Charlie Williams, Gretchen Weiler (Vice President), Doug Goudy (President), and Mindy Severtson
Deacon Board 2025-2027 Term:
Marty Smith (Senior Deacon), Pat Ferguson, Lisa Rauls, Dean Severtson, and Shirley Nelson
Generous Gift from John Deal
Beaver Church would like to thank John Deal and his family for the generous gift he left the church after his passing. John was a faithful and important servant of the church for decades and he will always be remembered for how he supported this congregation in so many ways.
Offering Envelopes
The new offering envelopes are here for 2025. They are in their usual location at the rear of the church by the flower chart. If you cannot come to pick up your envelopes, but want them, you can contact Pastor Brian at 937-469-1383 and he can arrange to get them to you.
Beaver Church Food Pantry
Our food pantry has been operational now for a little over a year. Thank you to everyone who has contributed items to make it work. The pantry is filled once a week in addition to items that some of you put in directly versus putting on the shelves in fellowship hall. If you drive by and see that it is empty, it means it has helped someone who was in need of food. Listed below are some suggestions for items that can be used for a meal either alone or with another item such as pasta and pasta sauce. When shopping you can also ask yourself what you might be looking for if you needed to come to our pantry.
Oatmeal
Cereal (low sugar)
Pancake mix (needs water only)
Milk (canned or boxed)
Peanut Butter
Crackers
Hearty soups such as Campbells Chunky
Corned beef hash
Canned Chili
Dinty More Stew or similar
Pasta Sauce
Pasta
Ramen noodles
Canned meats: tuna, chicken, salmon, ham, roast beef
Sometimes you can find some of these items on sale in the major grocery stores but in general Aldi’s, Dollar Tree and Dollar General are good places to shop as well as Sam's Club and Cosco.
Kroger Card Rewards - Beaver Church Fundraiser
Beaver Church enrolled in the Kroger Community Rewards fundraiser program in 2011. Since then, the church has received several thousand dollars in rebates. These rebates are earned by members and friends who sign up for Kroger Community Rewards and select Beaver Church as the beneficiary for their Kroger purchases. This is an easy way to donate to the church.
Here’s how to do it:
1. Get a Kroger Plus card, if you don’t have one already.
2. Create a digital account using the Kroger app on your smart phone, or the kroger.com website online.
3. Link your Kroger Plus card to your digital account.
4. In the Community Rewards section, search for “Beaver United”. Click the “Enroll” button under “Beaver United Church of Christ.”
5. Once this is done, Kroger will automatically donate a small percentage of your purchases to the church, at no additional cost to you. Kroger sends a check to the church every few months. If you have trouble registering your card, see Alice Clausing after church, and she will help you set it up.