Area News

Visitors
Terry and Sandy Kizziar of Gruver, Texas, spent Thursday to Tuesday at the home of Sandy’s sister, Belinda Harpster of St. Peter. On Saturday, Belinda and Sandy visited their mother, Helen Limes, at Lutheran Care Center in Altamont.
St. Peter’s Lutheran Church
Sunday morning worship attendance was 186.
The Pastor is the Rev. Ryan Meyer.
The organist was the Rev. Alan Holtz.
Gaige Phillips served as acolyte.
Attending elders were Darrell Wollin and Kevin Wodtka.
Remember in Your Prayers

Announcements
Friday, December 22
• Classes will be dismissed at 11:30 a.m. for the winter break. There will be no school until Thursday, Jan. 4.
Sunday, December 24
• First Church of God-Christmas Eve worship service, 9:30 a.m.; no Sunday school. Come-and-go Candlelight Communion 4-7 p.m.
• First United Methodist Church-Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship service, 10:35 a.m.; and  candlelight Communion, 6 p.m.

Thanksgiving Day Guests
Thanksgiving Day guests of Dane and Belinda Harpster were: Nathan, Mahala and Harper Jacquin of St. Peter; Mitch, Gretchen, Owen, Aaron and Henry Harpster of Jackson, Mo.; and Mike and Renee Haarmann of Edgewood.
Later in the evening, Dane and Belinda went to the home of Larry and Sue Urban to meet Halle Adams, the fiancée of Matt Urban. When they returned home, Belinda’s brother, Tony Limes of Dyersburg, Tenn., was there for a visit.
St. Peter’s Lutheran Church

Our Creator has again decorated our little corner of the world and surroundings with beautiful, subtle hues, and brilliant and bright colors to see, and provided crisp, clean country air for us to breath, the scent of wood smoke coming from fireplaces, our neighbors’ stoves and, if we are lucky, campfires (my favorite).