After forming our new Parish, the next task was hiring a full time staff. Our Pastoral Team is led by Reverend Dorothy Lundgren, Reverend Ellen Lichfuss, and Deacon Don Helfer. The team provides morning worship services to all 5 congregations each week, as well as, oversees the Youth Group, meets with congregations and the community, makes home visits to shut-ins, as well as nursing home and hospital visits. They are kept very busy leading us as individual churches and as a Parish. 

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This year we at St. Abrahams have been kept busy enjoying special joint services with our new sister congregations; we held our Community Picnic in July and Vacation Bible School in August and this year we held our first Ice Cream Social with music provided by the Alesia Band. It was a nice event and a nice reason to take a Saturday afternoon off and enjoy time with friends and family eating ice cream (who doesn't like ice cream?) and listening to some wonderful music. We have continued collecting food and personal items for NESAP, including special holiday food boxes or Thanksgiving and Christmas and in the Spring we held a special 'Soup-er Bowl' collection which coincided with that other Sunday SuperBowl. 

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We continue to collect extra pocket change weekly for our Jingle Jar which goes to The Fisher House Foundation to benefit veterans undergoing medical treatment; and we supported our first Parish project of adopting a Ukrainian family, providing necessary items to furnish an apartment that was rented to start them off in their new life in  their new home in America.