Chapter Officers

President Karen Saari
Vice President TBN
Secretary Rhonda Tedlie
Treasurer Diane E. Simon
Correspondent Anne Ierien
Historian - Shirley Rasmussen 

Next Meeting / Event

Past Events

The Fox Valley Chapter Spring meeting was held, Saturday, April 21st, at Calvary Lutheran Church, 1301 S Ridge, in Green Bay, WI 54304.The theme for this meeting was "Will Your Library be Alive Tomorrow.....YES!" Our speaker was Lynn Stainbrook, the director of Brown County Library Systems, here in Green Bay. She spoke on the changes within the library system, with focus on technology,..nooks, kindle fire, upcoming programs, etc., and what technology changes we can look forward to in the future with library use,...even within our church libraries.
Our fall meeting was held September 24th, at St. Thomas More Parish in Appleton, with the Bishop Robert Morneau as our speaker. Bishop Moneau is also the author of 28 books.

Our spring theme for the meeting was "Planting Seeds of Fun", with focus on the Children's Section of our church libraries. Amy Vanden Plas from Butterfly Books will be our key speaker, giving a brief presentation of new children's book releases and other favorites that can liven up the children's section of our libraries, making reading not only fun,...but the "Best" it can be! Bethel librarians showed us their newly renovated children's library, followed by Round Table Discussion. Librarians are asked to bring ideas and suggestions to share that they have found to be of help in working with children in their libraries.

The Fall Meeting of the Fox Valley Chapter of the National Church Library Association was held Saturday, October 2nd 2010, at Shepherd of the Lakes Lutheran Church, Waupaca, WI. The meeting began at 9:00 AM with registration and coffee and concluded with a light lunch around noon. Devotions led by Pastor Dave Martin zeroed in on our meeting theme,..."Grief and Loss - Library Resources and Church Helps" Guest speaker, Len Sheard spoke on his personal loss of his wife due to breast cancer, and presented clips of a video from the Grief Share recovery group, touching on thoughts and helps from persons that have experienced grief, and how we too, can benefit from the community, understanding, support and encouragement of such a groupl He also focused on dealing with grief during the holidays. Round Table Discussion led by Karen Saari, recapped the spring meeting's discussions, followed by church librarians sharing books and resources their libraries have found helpful on the topics of hurting people,....death, divorce, loss of jobs, lifestyle, loss of homes, illness, military deployment, etc. Kathleen Bowman, now NCLA President of the Board, gave a brief presentation of NCLA happenings, followed by a video named "From Deep Roots Grow New Branches", made by Chuch Mann.

Fox Valley Chapter of NCLA met May 1st, 2010 at First English Lutheran Church. Our theme for this meeting was "The Past Becomes the Present" as our speaker, Rev. Neil Eckstein author of Norton's Folly and Jacob's War, shared his stories of research and writing in telling of the history of family life, hardships, joys, religious activity, and political events facing the Norwegian immigrants as they established themselves in nineteenth century Wisconsin.  

The Fox Valley Chapter met October 3rd, 2009, at Ascension Lutheran Church, 2911 Libal Street, Green Bay, WI. Our theme was: Shelf 13 - What's On It For Kids? Amy VandenPlas from Butterfly Books will be our guest speaker, presenting children's books dealing with many serious topics and family issues of today. Roundtable discussion, with churches invited to bring and share materials/books they have on the above issues.

The Spring 2009 meeting of the Fox Valley Chapter of the National Church Library Association was held Saturday, April 4th, 2009 at Peace Lutheran Church in Neenah, WI with 40 persons in attendance. Our meeting began with registration and coffee at 9:00 and concluded with a light lunch. "Conference Highlights - Celebration Continues" was our meeting theme, with those members that attended National Conference last fall sharing reports on the convention and workshop highlights. Neenah authors Hazel Johnrud Anderson and Carol M. Parker were our guest speakers. Hazel and Carol wrote the book Woman of Will, Servant of God and Carol wrote God With Skin and Other Poems. Hazel and Carol shared with us their friendship through the years, how they came to author the book/s together, with poems/excerpts from each book being read and talked about,....each poem/story inspiring and uplifting, as one could envision the faith woven into the lives of these women with their sharing. Both books were available for purchase and autographs.

 

The Fox Valley Chapter of NCLA met at Calvary Lutheran Church in Green Bay on October 11th, 2008, with 31 persons in attendance. Following a warm Welcome by Joy Johnson and Devotions by Pastor Gail Sowell , guests and new members to NCLA and first time attendees from St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church of Wausau were introduced and welcomed.

 

Anniversary Links told our story as we celebrated 20 years as a Fox Valley Chapter. Following the business meeting, Cyndi Forster 's PowerPoint presentation took us through the History of our Chapter to our 20th Anniversary. Guess speaker and NCLA Board member, Chris Magnusson lead us forward, with her PowerPoint presentation of NCLA, "linking" things as they were 20 years ago to today, giving us a look at NCLA now, the internet options it provides, and pointing us to the future. Thank you Cyndi and Chris. Our meeting was brought to a close with recognition awards for our Charter member churches, door prizes, lunch and anniversary cake.

 

In the Spring of 2008 the Fox Valley Chapter of NCLA met at United Methodist Church in Appleton with 35 persons in attendance. Following a warm Welcome by Joy Johnson and Devotions by Pastor Grace Cajiuat , Our guest speaker, Dr. Susan McFadden , a professor at the UW-Oshkosh, addressed the group with our theme for the day, "Serving the Young at Heart".

 

The Fox Valley Chapter of NCLA met October 6th at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Appleton. Following registration, coffee hour, and the business meeting, our guest speaker, Rev. Dr. Roger McQuistion, one of the pastors at Prince of Peace, spoke to the group, sharing tips of Biblical Story Telling. By the end of his sharing session and helpful tips, he had everyone in attendance feeling that they too, could do Biblical storytelling with ease. RELATE MAGAZINE (a new publication dealing with teen age girls) sent the Preview and following issue to be handed out to each person in attendance. Recipients felt this is a great publication and has good moral values/faith based topics for young teens of today. Many churches plan to share this magazine by placing it in their Youth Rooms and Libraries. If anyone/Chapter is interested in receiving copies of these past issues, please contact: Mary Bowman - 636.444.9994 - http://www.relatemag.com/.They have many copies of the Preview and past issues that they would be willing to share with other Chapters or church libraries. Subscription cost and issues published per year can be checked out with Mary. McFadden's talk and Power Point presentation addressed many aging issues of today. By 2030, 1 of every 5 persons in the US will become the Silver Tsunami...being over the age of 65. What is the elderly's value in life?....LOTS!! Susan continues to study aging issues of persons 60-80 with memory loss. How does this group of people feel about their connection to community and congregations as they battle with memory loss?.....and how we, as church librarians are "hidden treasures", by placing resource materials in our libraries for use by Pastors, our congregations and community. Our roundtable discussion included sharing of books from our libraries that addressed the aging issue or were fun reading books for the elderly.