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2025 Mount Olive Lutheran School Crusader Feast

THE School Fundraiser is just around the corner! Mark your calendars for the ONLY school fundraiser the school holds to raise money for needed materials, books, and other necessities, like more desks! Consider buying a dinner ticket, enjoying a meal, entertainment, and shopping for amazing donated items. There are two rounds for silent auction items, baked-goods raffles, and the live auction with exciting items!

Not able to attend? Participate in the BIG Raffle this year to win a Frigidaire, 10 cubic foot, chest freezer AND $1,000 gift card to Ranch House Meats! You do not need to be present to win. Know a student that attends Mount Olive School? When you buy a BIG Raffle ticket and designate a student, 50% of the money goes straight to that student’s tuition for the 2025-26 school year!

Friday, May 9th starting at 5:30 p.m. at Mount Olive Lutheran School 2336 St. Johns Ave. Billings, MT 59102

Buy tickets for the dinner and/or BIG Raffle in advance by calling or visiting Donna Johns at 406-656-6687 or stop by Mount Olive during school hours.

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Volunteers Needed for The Lutheran World Relief Truck





The Lutheran World Relief Truck will be at Mount Olive
on Saturday, May 10th, from 10 a.m. to noon.  A special thank you to Karen Lee for
graciously volunteering to be the Billings Site Coordinator this year! If you
would like to volunteer to help with loading the truck that day, please let
Karen Lee know. Thank you!

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LWML SouthEastern Zone Spring Rally!

Women! Faith, Fellowship and Fun! “God’s Grace in a LEMON-FILLED World” Guest Speaker is Nancy Ebel. April 26th at Trinity Lutheran Church in Billings. Registration starts at 8:00 am with opening service at 9:00 am. Rally ends at 2:30ish.  The fee is $10.00, ingathering is for Billings Rescue Mission (such as, socks, underwear, twin white sheets). RSVP to Sherrie Murray by Monday, April 21st.   

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LaVie portable ultrasound fundraiser

Consider donating to St. Paul’s Lutheran Church for LaVie’s ultrasound fundraiser. This brand new portable ultrasound machine will provide clarity, essential medical information, education opportunities, and, most importantly, hope to vulnerable women and families in our community. Rev. Dewell at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church will consolidate your gifts to maximize the Life Ministry Match Grant from the LCMS. The grant will match up to $10,000! Deadline for the grant is Easter Sunday, April 20th.

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Celebration of Life Baby Shower Sunday

April 6th 2:00-4:00 pm Local congregational members are encouraged to bring family and/or friends with new (1 year or less) babies or pregnant mothers to be showered with gifts, food and fellowship. Food and entertainment will be provided by the host, Yellowstone Valley Lutherans for Life, at Christ the King Lutheran Church 759 Newman Lane. You are encouraged to bring unwrapped gifts of baby supplies, toys or gift cards to help shower these mothers and families.

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Kindergarten Open House

This year’s Kindergarten Roundup open house is Friday, March 21st. Come and learn more about the Mount Olive Day School! Miss Rodriguez’s classroom (upstairs at the end of the hallway) will be open to visitors from 11:00-3:00.

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THRIVENT CHOICE DOLLARS

Are you a Thrivent member?  If you are, you may have accumulated Thrivent Choice Dollars in 2024.  Those dollars must be designated to your choice of organizations before March 31, 2025.  After that date they will not be available for you to use.  Choice dollars can be designated to Mount Olive Lutheran Church, Mount Olive School, Mount Olive Early Childhood Ministry, or other charities. 

              To designate your Choice Dollars go to Thrivent.Com log in to your Thrivent account and click on “Membership Overview”. Then, scroll down to Thrivent Choice, click “direct choice dollars”; OR go to Thrivent.Com and click on “Generosity”. Then, scroll down to Thrivent Choice, click on “more” and then, click on “direct Choice Dollars”.  It will bring up your “log in”.

              If you do not use a computer, you can call Thrivent at 800-847-4836 and ask for “Thrivent Choice”.  They will be able to tell you if and how much Choice Dollars you have available and how to direct it.

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Dinner & a Movie Night

The preschool fundraiser is going to be a special night! Enjoy a spaghetti dinner and the movie Lady and The Tramp with popcorn and candy concessions. All at Mount Olive in the fellowship hall on Friday, February 21st at 6:00 p.m. All donations go to help the preschool program at Mount Olive. There will be a fun raffle too! A gift basket with a Lady and The Tramp theme will be given away. Tickets for the raffle can be purchased in advanced at the school or on the night of the event.

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Special Voter’s Meeting

Please plan on attending this meeting on Sunday, February 16th after bible study.

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LWML Prayer Service on Feb. 1st

Ladies of the Congregation,

Mount Olive’s Lutheran Women’s Missionary League
invites you to come to our 2025 Prayer Service, which will be led by Pastor
McCall, on Saturday, February 1, 2025 at 10:30 am. The theme this year
is “Blessed are they..;” Matthew 5:1-12 (Beatitudes), written by Rev. Brian
Noack of Saint John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sayville, New York.

After the prayer service, our Mary & Martha League will host a luncheon and time
for fellowship. If you would like to come, please sign-up on the special
invitation on the kiosk, so we can plan for the luncheon. We have also invited
ladies from local congregations to come. Thank you and we hope you can join us!

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