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News for the week of 7/18/2021
MARK YOUR CALENDARS
August 1: We have the chance to hear one of our own, Pastor Matt Becker, as our guest preacher!
To make his worship leadership as uncomplicated as possible, we will have one, hybrid (both
in-person and livestream) service at 10:30am.
August 8: For our in-person worship, we’re going to the beach! We join our siblings at Bethel Lutheran Church for a joint worship service on the Lake Michigan shore at 10:30, followed by a picnic. Our livestream will be at 9:00 as usual. (see below for more information)
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B094CA9AC2EA4FB6-worship
August 29: Confirmation Sunday! We hear our students’ Witness to the Church at 9:20am (in-person and online), with a hybrid (both in-person and livestream) worship including Affirmation of Baptism (Confirmation) at 10:30. We are adding an additional in-person service at 8:00.
September 5: We will have a livestream worship at 9, with an in-person service at 10:30.
Starting September 12: As our program year begins, we are returning our Faith Formation Hour to Sunday mornings at 9:20. We will also return to our pre-COVID in-person schedule of worship at 8:00 and 10:30, which will be a hybrid (both livestream and in-person) experience.
Worship and Picnic at the Beach
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Members from Bethel Lutheran Church and Christ Lutheran Church have been fellowshipping and praying together for several months to form a partnership where we come
together as siblings in Christ. We are looking forward to worshipping together and spending a wonderful afternoon together in God’s great outdoors. This will be a great summertime opportunity for prayer, food, fun, and games!
DATE: August 8th
WHERE: Marquette Park (in Miller) Area 5 (located by the lagoon)
TIME: Worship is at 10:30am Picnic to follow
WHAT ELSE?
- Bring a chair
- You may need to pay a parking fee
- Bring your family and come ready to have a great time!
If you are willing to bring a dish or help with set-up click on this link https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B094CA9AC2EA4FB6-worship. If you have any questions call or text Kathy Sutherland (219)309-4414.
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Unfailing Light
Thursday Evening Worship
7:00 p.m. Near the Memorial Garden
In case of inclement weather, Thursday evening worship will move into the sanctuary for an abbreviated service, with our usual practices of distancing and masks.
Updates to our COVID
planning
As Porter County’s infection rate, number of cases, and advisory level continue to look promising we are adjusting our COVID response
planning, especially for worship. Already we are no longer requiring pre-registration, have returned to sharing the Peace and using our offering plates, and receiving Communion at the altar rail.
Starting this week, those who are fully vaccinated may attend worship without masks.
Those who are not yet vaccinated are expected to wear masks while in the building, for their own and others’ protection. (Of course, vaccinated folks are welcome to wear masks for protection or solidarity with those who cannot yet be vaccinated.)
We are asking everyone to bring masks to wear during our sending
hymn. Since guidance continues to show that singing together is a concern, by no longer wearing masks together we are making it more difficult to sing more often. Asking for masks at the sending hymn seems a reasonable trade-off we may revisit in the future. Please bring a mask so we can at least have this bit of group singing in our
worship!
As always, we hold our planning lightly: developments in infection rates and relevant guidance will mean we revisit our protocols and
will update as we go along.
A note from ELCA World Hunger
News from our friends, Linda & Mark Jacobson
We just returned from our most recent time in Tanzania. Unfortunately, Mark developed a chronic headache which upon our return to the US was diagnosed as a malignant brain
tumor.
We’ve been surrounded by a cloud of witnesses of love and caring for us with family, medical colleagues, and myriad friends coming in to support us and pray for us. We dearly covet your prayers for
healing, wisdom, and hope.
Our long legacy of medical missions in Tanzania has brought to us a whole support team around the globe which has allowed us to receive advice and wisdom from some of the very best brain cancer teams in the
world.
We’ve adopted a plan to do a laser technique to reduce the burden of cancer cells followed by radiation and chemo in the near future. Mark goes in for the laser ablation therapy on Thursday morning and
we are eager to have you join us in prayer. Our three daughters are all here with us in St. Paul.
We live in faith and in hope of a remission and extended survival with a good quality of life.
You can follow us on Caring Bridge as we travel through this next journey together. https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/daktarijacobson
Blessings,
Mark and Linda
CLC Social Ministry and Mission
July 2021
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Each month the Social Ministry highlights a special giving
opportunity with July’s emphases to provide monetary support for 1- ELCA’s Global Missions’ Selian Lutheran Hospital in Arusha, Tanzania and 2- AMOS, “A Mission of
Service” in Guatemala/Honduras.
Management of Selian Hospital http://selianlh.or.tz (founded by Mark and
Linda Jacobson) continues to thrive under local Tanzanian African leadership. In past years CLC volunteers have sent medical supplies to Selian Hospital. CLC is designated as an ELCA missionary partner congregation and continues to support Selian in their ministry of “providing competent and compassionate medical care, promotion of community health programs and proclamation of
the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
ELCA’s Global
Mission nurtures the ELCA’s world engagement through the theology and practice of accompaniment by walking together with our global companions. Our work together has a multi-faceted approach to mission, from sending missionaries and personnel, to offering grants and scholarships designed to strengthen global church leadership and to support the ministries of
companions. https://elca.org/About/Churchwide/Global-Mission.aspx
AND
https://www.facebook.com/amissionofservice. An AMOS ministry team, including Gail Mannington (Board member and Treasurer), has Medical Mission trips in March and September 2021 to Esquipulas, Guatemala. On each trip AMOS provides medical clinics, speech pathology services and
education to remote mountain villages surrounding Esquipulas and Copan, Honduras where they have limited/no access to medical care.
On average during each trip the team sees and
treats about 1000 patients in five clinic days and, the needs are voluminous. AMOS raises funds to purchase the prescription medications, ointments, vitamins to provide to this population and collect over-the-counter medications to take with us (CLC members donated over the counter items in Jan. 2020 that were sent to Guatemala). In 2019 prior to COVID, the group carried over 1200 lbs. of medications and set up a clinic to provide glasses to the
people.
Help achieve our goal of $2500 in July (over and above giving combined with
CLC’s budgeted amount). By achieving our goal CLC will help Selian Hospital and AMOS continue mutual support and service activities that are crucial to effective ministry. Use your weekly worship giving mailed in check to CLC and indicate “Selian/AMOS” or contribute through PushPay on the CLC website https://clcvalpo.org via the “Give” button. Thank you to members for supporting monthly social ministry emphases.
Help achieve our goal of $2500 in July (over and above giving combined with
CLC’s budgeted amount of $1200). Use your weekly worship giving envelope mailed with check to CLC and indicate “Selian/AMOS” or contribute through PushPay on the CLC website https://clcvalpo.org via the “Give” button and choose Monthly Social Ministry Emphasis. Thank you to members for supporting monthly social ministry emphases.
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Men Shelter
Update
The men in the New Creations program have overnight housing through Housing Opportunities for the next year.
For food needs we have been providing sack lunches so that’s our greatest need right now. We need things like water bottles, lunch meat, sub rolls (they hold up better than bread), small chip bags, pudding cups, fruit, Gatorade, and snack cakes.
The need for dinners, breakfast and pantry items are ongoing. Many things like canned foods, milk, bread, plastic wrap will be needed for the men.
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What do Stephen Ministers do? Who needs a Stephen Minister? I know someone who might need a SM. How can I let you know? How might I become a SM? Please call the office if you have any questions.
Sandy & Dave Keammerer are always collecting the following items for Lutheran World Relief (LWR). Please check out garage and estate sales and drop off at the church.
BABY CARE KITS
All clothing items newborn to age 2
(2) gowns or sleepers: long- or short-sleeved (no feet)
(2) t-shirts: lightweight cotton
(1) jacket/sweater/sweatshirt: with hood, or include a baby cap
(2) pairs of socks
(2) receiving blankets: medium-weight cotton or flannel, or crocheted, or knitted with lightweight yarn, up to 52" square
(4) cloth diapers: flat fold preferred
(1) hand towel: dark color recommended
(2) gentle soap bars: 4-5 oz., bath-size, in original wrapping
(2) diaper pins: or large safety pins
3-ply baby yarn and flannel fabric in increments of .75 yards.
Please indicate if items given are laundered.
FABRIC KITS
(2) spools of thread (250-300 yards)
(2) pieces of cotton/cotton blend fabric (3 yards)
PERSONAL CARE KITS
New and in original packaging
(1) bath towel: lightweight, dark color preferred (between 20' x 40" and 27" x 52")
(1) toothbrush: adult size/NO TOOTHPASTE PLEASE
(1) nail clipper
(2) bars of soap
(1) STURDY comb
PRAYERS
MEMBERS: Janet Scheuerman, Herb Hofer, Connor Byrne, Deb Will, Joyce Spoljaric,
Ed W. Seykowski, Becky, Seth & Maria Mannington baby girl due on August 1
FRIENDS AND FAMILY: Baby Zinnia, Jason & Kirk (friends of Kris Albers), Eddie (fiancée of twin sister of Melissa Summerville), Sophie (friend of Jacquie Chevalier), Dave (SIL of Pastor Jane Aicher), Dennis (family of Kathy Stefans), Rose (friend of Pastor Jane Aicher), Pastor Phyllis (friend of Phyllis Schroeder), Bob (nephew of Irene Adams), Mark Jacobson, Michael (nephew of Jerrie & Stu Walesh), Andrew Tiebert, Nancy Christner (mom of Tammy
Hofer), Wayne Christner (step dad of Tammy Hofer), Lee Gun Seeto (friend of Jessica Byerly), Carol (friend of Jessica Byerly), Juanita (Mother of Linda Griffith), Gary & Sharon (parents of Melissa Summerville), Victor (friend of Ramona), Amanda (friend of Melissa Summerville), Ed Krentz, Sharon (Mother of Melissa
Summerville)
Military: Justine, Joe and all of those serving in the military, especially in the time of a pandemic.
For all those affected and infected by COVID
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