The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod

IOWAY

Individual Outreach With Adults and Youth

Julie Mann

Julie Mann
IOWAY Director
Phone: (515) 408-9696
email

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Petal Pushers 2023-2024 Updates

Follow the Petal Pushers News as they ring in the 2024 New Year on the IOWAY FB Page.

Muai Fires Disaster Relief

Many people have been reaching out to ask how they can help with disaster relief for Maui and the town of Lahaina.  At this point, financial donations are what will be most helpful in the early days working through this very difficult time.  These will help support the people of the community as well as the responders there to help minister in so many ways. We will be sending your donations to these two sources: Emmanuel Lutheran Church and School and the California-Nevada-Hawaii district of the LCMS

Here are a few ways to help:

  • Take a congregational door offering and send it to Iowa District West, marked Maui Disaster Relief
  • Pray! For the individuals and families who were directly affected in so many ways. For all the community related pieces; businesses, schools, healthcare, government, and safety. For the responding agencies and volunteers who are there to help. For hearts to be open to the work of the Holy Spirit giving hope in such a tumultuous time. 

If later, gathering clothing, home items, hygiene products, etc… will be beneficial, we will get that information out. 

Julie Mann

Director of IOWAY

Petal Pusher Registration

When: Dec. 28, 2023 - Jan. 4, 2024
Who: 18 years +
Cost: $2100 per person (includes airfare, 7 days lodging, group transport, meals, and shirt)
Spots are limited to the first 24 participants

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Petal Pushers 2022-2023

Pasadena Update #7 |Jan. 3, 2023
Ellie: Thank you to the great team that God put together to serve Him in Pasadena and Placentia. Thank you all for your prayers and well wishes since our family was involved in a serious vehicle accident. Sorry the updates were delayed. It has been a tough and very challenging week. The last day of the Pasadena adventure included a mission workday at LOT 318 where one lady followed God’s calling and has changed an entire neighborhood. The team came to offer assistance this year, following in the footsteps of last year’s team who went there for the first time. Many team members had glowing reports about this ministry and the time they spent there. To learn more about this amazing Christian outreach, check out www.lot318.com Read the rest on Facebook.


Pasadena Update #6 |January 2, 2023
Colleen: Hey Lynn, here are the POWs and Wows for today. It was a great day! Jason asked how you and Ellie are! You both have made so many connections here through the years, it is heartwarming knowing how much these people care for you!❤️ Loren - the Rose Bowl stadium vibrating when the jets flew over. Sandy - watching the parade in person and especially seeing the Lutheran Hour float. Visiting with Kurt the President of the Lutheran Hour at the football game and having our picture taken with him. Dan: I enjoyed the bands a lot in the parade from all over, from Italy, Japan ,Taipei. Also loved the horses of course and the floats! Read the rest on Facebook.

Pasadena Update #5 | January 1, 2023
Sandy shares: On Monday night, December 26th, I received a phone call from Ellie that there had been a car accident and she was in the hospital. That was the worst call ever and was a call that caused me much concern. I was asked if I was comfortable leading the group with Colleen. I said I was, but oh how my nerves made me think otherwise! I spoke with our pastor about what was about to happen for I was concerned how the trip for Ellie and Lynn had changed. He pointed out that my trip was about to change also. I never thought of it that way. I am so glad that my trip changed! With Ellie’s leadership over the years, leading a group of hard-working Christians has been a joy! Read the rest on Facebook.

Pasadena Update #4 | Dec. 31, 2022
This first part of the update is centered around Matt Warnke’s report
On our third day of decorating, our group worked mostly on the Trader Joe’s float. There was much work to do on this float since a large number of their volunteers did not show up until much later than they were expected. Even though this was not supposed to be one of the Petal Pusher floats to decorate, our good Iowa work ethic was brought into play and we tackled the job head on. The Mutual of Omaha float many of us had worked on the day before was finished. That crew chief told us he had questioned whether they would be able to get his float done in time for the judging. With the help of IOWAY people, it was one of the first floats finished. He was very happy and excited. Read the rest on Facebook.

PASADENA UPDATE #3 | DEC. 30, 2022
TEAM MEMBER, MATT WARNKE SHARES: The group really misses Lynn and Ellie leading the trip, but we are adjusting and everyone is doing their part to help out. Ellie had told us to expect plans B and C or more when she shared plan A with us at our training meeting the first of December. I think we are through with plan Z and starting the alphabet over already. On our first decorating day, 10 of our group worked on the Illinois float. It was a late entry into the parade and was only approved a month ago, so they just recently got it built and are way behind on decorating as they are still doing much of the dry seed portions of the float. Read the rest on Facebook.

PASADENA UPDATE #2 | THURSDAY, DEC. 29, 2022
HELLO EVERYONE NEAR AND FAR! This email is compiled from information sent by Colleen Petzenhauser, IOWAY Coordinator, who is on the Pasadena team for the first time. She and Sandy Bubke, also an IOWAY Coordinator who has been on the trip previously, are the leaders of the team since Ellie and I had the auto accident and couldn’t be on the trip. Following are personal notes from Colleen on her first day of decorating. She said, “I had many first experiences today.” Read the rest on Facebook.

IOWAY PASADENA UPDATE #1 | WEDNESDAY DEC. 28, 2022
There is excitement in the air! Our team is finally headed to sunny California to decorate floats for the famous Rose Parade in Pasadena. Ellie had a group training meeting in Jefferson on December 3. The group gathered to get acquainted with each other and to hear about the adventures that lay ahead. At the end of the day, everyone left with a mounting anticipation of their upcoming adventure in California. There are twenty-seven in the group this year not including Ellie and Lynn. Because of an auto accident, they were not able to lead the trip this year. But there are six who have gone on this trip in other years and Sandy and Colleen are taking over the lead part. For most people, being a Petal Pusher will be a new and unique adventure... Read the rest of Facebook.

Service Project Ideas

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Kid's Coloring Book (Joseph's Story)

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IOWAY Coordinators Contact Information

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Kids' Coloring Book (Jesus Loves Me)

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ETCH - Sponsor a Child in Haiti

As the Individual Outreach With Adults and Youth (IOWAY) Director, I have had the opportunity to see ripples from many different situations. A “stone” was thrown in at the Los Angeles, CA mission trip in the summer of 2011 by six amazing team members. They decided that IOWAY needed to spon sor a trip to Haiti. I searched in vain for a connection in Haiti until God crossed my path with the path of the President of the Lutheran Church in Haiti when I was attending a meeting in St. Louis. That meeting rippled into a mission trip to Haiti in the summer of 2012 where the six previous team members, along with five additional team members, spent a week in Jacmel, Haiti. While there, their hearts were broken by the poverty and the affect it has, especially on the children.
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