Lake Hanska Lutheran Church Council Meeting May 3, 2026 The Lake Hanska Lutheran Church Council met on Sunday, May 3, 2026. President Melissa Engelhart brought the meeting to order at 10:10 AM following worship service.
Special Sunday services were discussed with the following days scheduled.
⁜ May 17 - First Communion Service for Kellan Kamm, Nolan Kamm, Nadia Goblirsch, & Paxton Schmiesing
⁜ June 14 - 9:00 AM -- Settler’s Service in the School House
⁜ July 5 --- 9:00 AM Coffee & 10:00 AM - 4th of July Service at Lake Hanska County Park
⁜ September 27 --- 10:30 AM -- 3 year olds and 3rd Graders receive Bibles
⁜ October 11 --- 10:30 AM -- New Member Sunday
July 5th at the county park will be our 50th year of doing this. Necessities (altar, flags, keyboard, etc.) were discussed and assigned for person to be in charge of getting them to the park. Coffee hour is at 9:00 AM in the park shelter. Faith Lutheran will provide the rolls. Bring your lawn chairs or blankets to sit on. In case of inclement weather conditions, the service will then be held at Lake Hanska Lutheran Church.
On May 14th, there will be a Securing Sacred Spaces meeting in Mankato from 5:30 – 8:30 PM. This will discuss the safety of attendees at worship services. Melissa and Jim will consider going to this event.
The new contract for Ralph Flitter ending his contract on December 31, 2027 has not been received and signed at this point.
Lenten Service for 2027 have been set with 3:30 PM service at Lake Hanska Lutheran Church, and Good Friday worship will be at Lake Hanska.
A Clean-Up date to clean outside and inside was discussed. Melissa will deal with it and let us know when.
A new Water Heater was installed on March 27 by Vee Plumbing and Heating. This one is a 50-gallon tank. There have been some issues with the old one. When plumbing in the new one, they found that there needed be new wiring done before getting it started. The project is completed.
Our church will be used for four wedding, so far, in 2026. The narthex carpet needs to be cleaned drastically, so 3 estimates were gotten. GW Cleaning will do the cleaning. Jim Lilleodden m/m and Norm Skarphol s/m, with the cleaning approved.
The tree situation was discussed again. We need to go out and observe the situation and decide what we want to do. Pete has given Norm some estimates on various evergreens.
Harvest Festival will be celebrated on September 13th. There will not be a morning service as the service will be held at 6:00 PM in the parking lot. A meal will be served in the church basement at 5:00 PM. We will hope to be able to use Thrivent dollars to help with the costs. More details will be planned closer to the date.
Bonnie Lilleodden m/m and Melissa Englehart s/m to adjourn the meeting.
