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From the Library Committee
Annual Photo Contest 
It’s time to share your favorite photo from 2025! Nine photos will be selected by an independent judge to hang in our library for a year, but this is more than just a contest. It’s a way to share a little bit about yourself with your church family. What did you do in 2025? Where did you go? What piqued your interest enough to take a photo? 
In March we’ll display all of the submissions for this year, and the new winners will be announced. Join in the fun by submitting one of your own this year!
Informational fliers are available in the narthex and in the library. The deadline for submission is Valentine’s Day (because that’s easy to remember) but photos will be accepted through Sunday, February 15th.

First Lutheran Church Book Club Meeting Via Zoom      

The Reindeer of Chinese Gardens by Barbara Sjoholm
Tuesday, February 24th at 7 PM
Discussion Leader: Donna Gilbery
“Norwegian-born Dagny Bergland and her husband arrive in turn-of-the century Port Townsend, Washington after years of sailing their merchant ship around the globe. They’re just in time for the Yukon Gold Rush and the arrival of a group of Sámi reindeer herders from Lapland on their way to Alaska to supply the ill-prepared miners. Dagny’s journals, beginning in 1897, tell a fresh and riveting history of the Pacific Northwest and its immigrants. A novel of friendship, love, loss, and motherhood, The Reindeer of Chinese Gardens is the story of a remarkable woman who learns to steer a new course in a new country.” (Summary by goodreads.) 
Please contact Katie Pyne, Ann Aagaard or Roger Steinke for additional information about the Book Club. A copy of the Featured Book of the Month is available in the First Lutheran Church Library.