October 1 Weekly News

TODAY WE CELEBRATE and pray for the ministry of the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League as Christian women continue to live out their lives in active mission ministries and support missions around the world through their gifts of mites, tithes, offerings, and tireless service. May we all Be Ready to Confess! faithfully and boldly of Christ’s redemptive work for us and for all the world.

TODAY’S ALTAR FLOWERS have been given by Tim & Judy Hoene in thanksgiving for their marriage and the blessings of their children and grandchildren.  God’s blessings to you, Tim & Judy!

A SPECIAL THANK-YOU to Jean Voelker, Janeen Blomenberg, and members of Jean Jack’s Bible study for the Reformation banners.  Five of the banners are the five solas, Sola Scriptura (scripture alone), Sola Fide (faith alone), Sola Gratia (grace alone), Solus Christus (Christ alone), and Soli Deo Gloria (to the glory of God alone).  The Five Solas are five Latin phrases that emerged during the Reformation to summarize the Reformers’ theological convictions about the essentials of Christianity.  The sixth banner is the LCMS logo commemorating the 500^th Anniversary of the Reformation:  It’s Still All About Jesus.

PLEASE BE REMINDED that all Reformation Theses items for the Orphan Grain Train School Backpack Project need to be by TODAY.  A box is in the narthex to receive these items.

YOUTH GROUPS will meet this evening at 7:00 p.m.

THE BOARD OF ELDERS will meet this Wednesday evening after worship.

THE FOUNDATION will meet next Sunday, October 8, after worship.

THE QUARTERLY VOTERS’ MEETING will be held next Sunday, October 8, at 7:00 p.m.  All confirmed members of our congregation, 18 years and older, are encouraged to attend.

BUILDING FUND UPDATE:  The congregation set the goal of paying off the school expansion loan in October, 2017.  As of September 15, the bank account balance of the Building Fund was $10,021.71.  The loan payoff is now $42,300.00.  To reach our goal, we need to raise $32,278.29 by the end of October.  Building Fund envelopes are available in the narthex for your remaining pledge/contribution. – Phil Burbrink, Building Fund Treasurer    

SHARE YOUR GERMAN/LUTHERAN HERITAGE:  As part of our 500th Anniversary of the Reformation celebration, we would like to have on display items related to our German/Lutheran heritage - German baptismal, wedding, and confirmation certificates, old photos, German books, German Bibles and hymnals, and anything relating to the past.  If you have something that you would like to share, please contact Jean Voelker, Janeen Blomenberg, or Becky for information cards to go with your items. 

LWML ZONE FALL RALLY:  Showing Mercy Near and Far is the theme of the LWML Fall Rally to be held at Grace, Columbus, October 21, beginning at 1:00 p.m.  The program will feature Gene Ernst, manager of the local Orphan Grain Train, followed by a workshop to assemble cleaning buckets for that organization. The following donations are being collected for this workshop:                      **1 large sponge    **1 roll paper towels    **2 gallons liquid cleaner 

(Mr. Clean, Pine Sol, Lysol)       **1 powder cleaner (Comet, Ajax)        **1 pair kitchen latex gloves **1 broom      **1 mop   

The Orphan Grain Train is also receiving hygiene items: soap, wash cloth, toothbrush and paste, shampoo, deodorant, tissue packets all wrapped up in a large bath towel and secured with two heavy rubber bands.  All items may be brought to the narthex.

OPEN HOUSE: Trinity Lutheran High School invites students and their families to an open house today 2:00-4:00 p.m.  Please enter through the commons. All interested eighth grade students in attendance will receive a $75 voucher that covers registration costs at Trinity for the 2018-2019 school year.

OCTOBERFEST will be held today at Faith Lutheran Church, 2200 S. High St., Bloomington, noon-3:00 p.m., celebrating the Lutheran Reformation’s 500th anniversary with food, live music, and demonstrations of German life.  Kids will help build a large-scale castle from boxes.  Everyone invited to join them!

ST. JOHN’S, SAUERS, Men’s Club is sponsoring a Soup & Sandwich Supper and Bazaar today from 4:00-7:00 p.m.  Carry-outs are available.  Everyone invited.

                 

MOTHERS OF PRESCHOOLERS (MOPS) would like to invite all mothers to their meeting this Friday, October 6, from 8:45-10:45 a.m. at Zion Lutheran Church, Seymour.  Sandy Franke will be speaking on the topic, “Prioritize Your Life.:  Childcare is provided as well as a light breakfast.  Please email mops@zionseymour.org to register.

FISH FRY:  St. Peter, Waymansville, Adult Fellowship will hold its Annual Fish Fry on Sunday, October 15, from 4:00-7:00 p.m.   Thrivent Financial for Lutherans will provide supplemental funds.  Everyone invited.

LAKEVIEW MINISTRIES will hold its 13th Annual Dinner Auction on Saturday, November 18, at the Primo Banquet Hall in Indianapolis.  If you have new items, collectables, antiques, goods or services, handicraft items, monetary donations, or even a week at your time-share that you would like to donate to this auction, please contact Dave Vandercar at 812-498-4742.   All donations are tax-deductible, and all proceeds benefit the work of God at Lakeview Ministries.

HISTORICAL EVENT RELATIVE TO THE REFORMATION:  1517 – Pope Leo X declares indulgence for rebuilding of St. Peter’s

·         Luther nails Ninety-Five Theses to the Castle Church door in Wittenberg on October 31.

STEWARDSHIP THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:    Matt. 21:26              

“But if we say, ‘From man,’ we are afraid of the crowd…”  Foolish Pharisees!  They fear men more than they fear God, and so they miss out on the great blessing of knowing Jesus and His love.  All our sins are like this: we fear something more than we fear God.  And how foolish that is!  Just think of the blessings we miss out on whenever we place our fear or trust in something other than God.       

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