Trinity Lutheran Church Women

The Trinity Lutheran Church Women hosted a heritage tea for the first time at 1 p.m. June 4. The tea honored all members 80 years and older. The younger women were also encouraged to attend.

The women were welcomed by cochairwoman Bev Jackson-Cotter. She gave a short history of the start of the TLCW and its groups.

Ann Goodmanson gave the devotions. She told the story of how the tea cup originated and where. The women of the TLCW recited the table prayer.

A lunch was served by the Deborah and Eunice circles. The menu consisted of ribbon sandwiches, chicken salad petit-choux, cucumber bites and olive pinwheels. The dessert was chocolate tea bread, lemon curd pastry shells, Helen Nelson’s coconut cookies, Erna’s butter horns and raspberry bark. Ann Goodmanson and Kim Nelson, co chairwoman decorated the white tablecloths with centerpieces of pink tulle, pink peonies, lilacs and assorted white flowers. The teapots were furnished by the TLCW Women and each woman brought her own tea cup and saucer. An English tea was brewed and served in tea pots placed on each table.

The program, “Memories and Tea,” by Peggy Havener was introduced by Ann Goodmanson. Peggy is the library director of the Albert Lea Library. Peggy was born and raised in Memphis, Tenn. Life in the south has traditions, how and when to have tea, how to fix the tea, with sugar, milk or lemon. Children are taught manners, being polite and courteous. She and her husband have their tea each afternoon. She had many books, teapots and kinds of tea to come and look at on a long table.

Virginia Plantage gave the offering devotions. A goodwill offering was taken for the TLCW expenses. Donna Sonnek and Doris Hansen were ushers.

At the close the Lord’s Prayer was recited by all.