The Adult Homeless Shelter Coalition (of which SOTV is a part) and Dakota County have agreed to develop a working relationship to secure a shelter provider and meet the needs of people experiencing homelessness in the community.

Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes…” Billy Joel sang. Beginnings and endings make our time, our lives, our life together as a congregation.

Since 2002, Shepherd of the Valley travelers have made annual (and sometimes more frequent) trips to visit our companions in Tanzania. This July will be no different. Pastor Rick Summy will be making the trip for his first time, along with Kirsten Levorson, Matt and Bobbie Bainbridge, Christina Nissen and her children Drew, Lydia and Isabella Thuras.

At the Women’s Ministries Tour of Tables, four generations of Sue Carlson’s family enjoyed a table setting depicting the Wizard of Oz, and dressed in character for the event. The table included Sue, her daughters Emily Carlson and Sarah Lauer, granddaughters Greta (“Dorothy” who decorated the table) and Audrey Lauer, mother Joan Hawkins, mother-in-law Lucy Carlson, and Greta and Audrey’s Grandma Lauer.

There are website headlines that promise an easy formula to follow in order to renew one’s life. For example, have you read the one: “Lose Weight by Avoiding These 11 Foods”? It is a list of all my favorite junk foods!

For members of the Endowment Committee, we have always agreed that the Endowment Fund will be “for real” when we have made grants impacting the lives of members of SOTV and the community.

The Shepherd College Scholarship Committee is proud to announce its 2017 winners. These awards are funded by proceeds from the annual Golf, Gears, and Gutters for the Good event.