Mike Myers, Rev. Joan Fumetti to speak at Lenten breakfasts at Zion UCC

The tradition of weekly ecumenical Lenten Breakfasts continues next week at Zion United Church of Christ in Waukon. The breakfasts begin at 6:45 a.m., serving coffee, juice and rolls, with the program starting at 7 a.m. Everyone is welcome to attend each week.

The men gather each Monday during the Lenten season and the women meet each Thursday for the breakfast events. Locations will be rotated between area churches each week, according to the remaining schedule below:

Mar. 7 and 10 - Zion United Church of Christ

Mar. 14 and 17 - St. Paul's United Methodist Church.

The featured speakers for the third week of the Lenten breakfasts, Monday, March 7 and Thursday, March 10, are:

Mike Myers

Mike Myers will be the featured speaker at the Monday, March 7 Men’s Lenten Breakfast being held at Zion United Church of Christ. Myers is the Administrator at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon, serving in that capacity since 1998.

Myers will talk about “Renewing Our Community – Together”, During the last year, he has been chairing a community-wide Task Force that began by exploring the matter of fixing up our schools. In the process of studying the school issue, he and his colleagues came to the strong conviction that our task is much bigger than just renewing our schools.

Myers is a 1980 graduate of Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, and earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing at Mount Mercy College in 1983. He returned to school to earn his Master’s degree in Healthcare Administration in 1993 from Des Moines University.

Myers and his wife, Teresa, are the parents of three daughters, Amanda, Rachel and Abby. They reside in rural Waukon.

Rev. Joan Fumetti

Rev. Joan Fumetti will be the speaker at the Women’s Lenten Breakfast at Zion United Church of Christ Thursday, March 10. Her topic will be “An Exciting Way for Rural Communities to Battle Hunger.”

Rev. Fumetti is field representative for the Foods Resource Bank (FRB), with responsibilities for the Upper Midwest area. She resides in Dubuque.

Foods Resource Bank is a Christian, non-governmental humanitarian organization committed to helping those in developing countries feed themselves through sustainable, small-scale agricultural production. It provides grants to existing Christian agencies that already are familiar in other countries. Its funds are raised through locally organized “growing projects” in rural areas of the United States. Interested individuals from several area churches are organizing such a “growing project” for Allamakee County this spring.

Rev. Fumetti became familiar with FRB while serving as pastor at Peace United Church of Christ in Fredericksburg, a community where they have had a very successful “growing project” for several years. Now working full-time for FRB, her enthusiasm and excitement in promoting this model is contagious and informational.