Three Mormon Towns

BYU Art Exhibit

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Announcements!!!

1.  Next weekend is Stake Conference with leadership and adult meetings on Saturday (Mar 5) at the Stake Center (Adult session at 7:00 PM)  Sunday (Mar 6) is a video conference to be available at the Stake Center at 10:00 AM.

2.  Coming soon is the Relief Society Birthday Party on the 8th of March at 6:30 with a lovely meal and an inspiring look at this wonderful organization we all belong to, plus the best visiting in town.  Bring a friend, a sister who perhaps has not been to Church for a while, a non member friend, or any sister that would enjoy a great night out. Please watch for the email invitation which you can use to RSVP so that we can get a head count for the food.  Nice casual dress, please (no jeans please even if you did mortgage your first born to buy them!)

3. Remember to consider being a part of the March Sewing Service Project, making bags and neck coolers for the troops.  Friday March 25th at the building starting at 9:00 and running until noon.  Donations of patriotic or light colored cotton fabric (for the neck coolers) will be gratefully received. 

BOOK CLUB REMINDER!

Relief Society Christmas Party~

PARK DAYS 2010!!!

Laura Farish has provided the NEW 2010 Park Days list for this summer!! Whoo Hoo, let the fun begin!

(click the sunshine for the .pdf document)

Book Club June

Hello Sisters,
Our next book club meeting will be Thursday, June 24th, at 7pm (location TBA).  We will be discussing The Help by Kathryn Stockett. 
"Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone." "Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken." "Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own." "Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed." "In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women - mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends - view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't."  Book jacket
Hope to see you there!

December, a Season to remember....

Relief Society Christmas Party

Come and enjoy visiting with the sisters in our ward Tuesday, December 8th at 6:30 pm in the Anderson Barn. This will be a night to “Come Unto Christ Through Sisterhood.” A lovely Dinner and dessert will be served followed by games and Christmas Carrols. Please bring a “White Elephant” gift (This would be something you don’t spend any money on… it can be funny or frilly, something used, old, or re-gifted…)

Book Club

December’s book club title is “The Christmas Sweater” by Glenn Beck. Hosted by Amy Ward at 1:00pm on December 16th.

#1 New York Times bestselling author and renowned radio and television host Glenn Beck delivers an instant holiday classic about boyhood memories, wrenching life lessons, and the true meaning of the gifts we give to one another in love.

Ward Christmas Party

December 11th from 6-9pm. Bring your neighbors, family, and friends to a Christmas in Zarahemla. This year we are focusing on Christ’s birth in the America’s. We will have a delectable dinner, a fantastic program, and fun activities including a photo opportunity in local Zarahemla dress (provided.) Please join us in celebrating Christ’s birth and strengthening our bond as a ward family. See you there!

Handel’s Messiah

Sunday, December 13th at the Kent Stake Center (12817 SE 256th St.) at 7:00pm (Please arrive early to be seated by 6:50pm) This is a wonderful community event where you will experience Handel’s musical masterpiece with professional vocalists and musicians and be able to participate in a traditional sing-a-long rendition of this Christ-centered presentation. This will be a great evening of culture, spirit, and inspiring music centered on the Savior. We would highly recommend that you invite your friends and neighbors to attend with you.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Maple Valley, WA presents:

The Christmas Crèche
a community nativity celebration

We invite everyone to attend our 6th Annual Crèche Exhibit:

A Nativity Celebration with over 400 treasured crèches on display

~ attendance is free~

December 4th - December 6th, 2009

Friday: 5:00-9:00 PM

Saturday: 2:00-9:00 PM

Sunday: 5:00-9:00 PM

Maple Valley Stake Children's Creche Choir!

Ages 7-12

Practices start Sunday, Nov. 1st from 7-8pm in the Enumclaw Building

They will perform on Friday, Dec. 4. Performance Time: TBD.

Any questions contact Nicole Blad @ 253-332-6119