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This Church changes lives!
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News for the week of May 22, 2022
Register for VBS
From June 19-23, we’ll be on the Rocky Railway with Jesus!
(VBS welcomes kids who have competed a year of preschool through 5th grade – adults and youth 6th grade and up are needed to help – see signup
sheet in the East Link)
Use the link below or visit the CLC Facebook page to
register now!
VBS 2022 - Rocky Railway! - Registrations (planningcenteronline.com)
(VBS welcomes kids who have competed a year of preschool through 5th grade – adults and youth 6th grade and up are needed to help – see signup
sheet in the East Link)
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What? Strategic Planning Forum
When? June 12th at 9:00 AM
Where? Church Hall
Why? To contribute to the process of discerning the future direction of our congregation
Over the season of Lent during our Sunday worship, our congregation responded to surveys around five key values our council identified as the core to who we are at CLC. The five values are Ministry Across Generations, Worship and Music, Service/Social Ministry, Welcome and Community, and Growing Deeper. The Strategic Planning Team
has gathered the results of the Lenten surveys and we would like to share those results with the congregation. We will thus be holding a forum on June 12th at 9:00 AM in the Church Hall. We invite all members of the congregation to attend, regardless of whether they participated in the Lenten surveys. In addition to sharing the results, we will also be asking attendees to respond to the survey results and dream along with the Strategic
Planning Team of the council as we discern how to “Live Bold” into the ministry God is calling us to. This forum is your opportunity to contribute to setting the future direction of our congregation. The feedback provided will be incorporated into the strategic plan that guides our council and congregation.
Thank you!!
"Wow. Thank you to everyone who came to the recital May 1 - I wasn’t expecting that kind of turnout, and certainly not that kind of support.
I’ll do my best to make a return on your investment both at LSM and outside. Many LSM performances are free and open to the public, and I’ll continue to play in church. Feel free to listen! Thank you again and again. - Daniel Gibson-Even"
Lutheran Summer Music is held at Valparaiso University June 26-July 24. All events are free and many concerts, recitals, and worship services
are open to the public, in-person and/or via live-stream. More information at https://www.lsmacademy.org/
Book Club at CLC
When: Every 4th Tuesday @ 7:00 p.m.
Where: Christ Lutheran Church - Room 107
Contact: Susan Rodeck @ carlsonshome@msn.com and
call or
text 317-435-1876.
The next book is The Au Pair by Emma Rous. It will be available in the box in the East Link coat room after our meeting on 5/24.
CLC Social Ministry and Mission
May 2022
Do justice…love kindness…walk humbly with your God (Micah
6:8)
The Social Ministry special giving
opportunity and focus for May is to provide support for a ministry that is international, CLC’s upcoming Summer 2023 Mission Trip to Costa Rica - in conjunction with Casa Adobe www.facebook.com/casadobe.
CLC’s Mission Trip group has been undertaking
projects virtually and locally while planning to travel to Costa Rica next summer (after the Pandemic is finally behind us). Resources are still needed to support several CLC adults and youth and families who will travel. Continuing with the Mission theme of stewardship of the earth, last summer the team partnered locally with Living Green Gardens for a community garden in Gary, with guidance from Casa Adobe in Costa Rica, and with some funding from Thrivent and Von Tobel. This summer the team is focusing on water conservation through a local river monitoring project. VU student/CLC member Lucia Otten traveled to Costa Rica for six weeks at Casa Adobe last summer and shared videos of her experiences fall 2021 at a Faith Formation
session.
Help achieve our
goal of $2500 in May (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 “H.O.” 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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Other Opportunities
Northwest Indiana Lutheran Food and Supply Pantries
Donations.
- Men’s Shelter (and Resale Shop) https://newcreationresaleshop.com at 2102 Calumet Ave, 219-548-3548. You can help feed our neighbors experiencing homelessness: New Creations Men’s Center continues to be home base for both single men and women between homes, providing daily meals and a space to be during the day. Overnight shelter resumed at area churches last fall. Christ Lutheran will resume our hosting in late April 2022.
In the meantime, you can help NCMS feed their guests. Lunch supplies can be dropped off at the resale shop counter during hours of operation (usually 10-5). Requests
include: Lunch meat, Fruit, Individual juice, Snack cakes, and Chips. Dinners are also appreciated; please call New Creations (219-548-3548) for more information about quantities and scheduling of dinners. Information to follow soon on our scheduled night to feed the men. Meanwhile please pray for those in our community living in cars, tents and on the streets. There is a basket inside door #3 for suggested food donations for Men's Shelter.
There is a basket inside door #3 for food donations for Housing Opportunities.
- Immanuel Food Pantry https://immanuelvalpo.org/food-pantry 1700 Monticello – drive up drop off items. Donations can be dropped at Immanuel, best done Tuesdays and Thursdays
1-3 pm, at entrance between church and school. Contributions especially appreciated now are holiday food items such as gravy, stuffing, cranberry sauce, cake and cookie mixes. Also, cooking oil, salad dressing, ketchup, mustard, olives, pickles.
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Sandy & Dave Keammerer are always collecting the following items for Lutheran World Relief (LWR). Please drop off at the church and put in white basket in Gathering Place and feel free to call the office if you have any questions.
LWR Baby Care Kit Project
2022 Goal-500
Current Kits Packed-485
Items Needed- Sleepers (with or without feet), 4 oz. soap & Onesies
LWR Fabric Kit Project
2022 Goal-150
Current Kits Packed-72
Items Needed-cotton or cotton blend fabric in 3 yard lengths
Personal Care Kits
Current Kits Packed - 375
Items Needed - Cash, so Dave can buy in bulk, tooth brushes and 4 oz. bars of soap
BABY CARE KITS
All clothing items 6 months to 2T
(2) gowns or sleepers: long- or short-sleeved
(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: 4oz., 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
(1) nail clipper
(2) bars of soap (4 oz.)
(1) Sturdy comb
PRAYERS
FOR ALL OF THE FAMILIES IN UVALDE, TEXAS; Pray for the end of gun violence.
Hospice:
- Clarence Moss (father of Barb Lieske)
- Donald Reinhold
- Bill Parker
Long-term/ongoing:
- For the country/citizens of Ukraine
- Fawn
- Pat & Lee Betz
- Pattie
- Ian (friend of Angie Wehner)
- Jack Bigham
- Connor Byrne
- Collin (cousin of Clint Mullet)
- Deb Will
- Janet Scheuerman
- Joyce
- Pat/Lee (Dave Burnside’s sister & BIL)
- Carolyn (Lisa Jennings Mother)
- Larry Leatz
- Stacy (friend of Phyllis Schroeder)
- Phyllis Kersten (friend of Phyllis Schroeder)
- Bert Urbytes
Members/Family/Friends:
- Connie Hughes
- Nicole (friend of Paige)
- Sara (friend of Faith Vittitoe)
- Sue (mother of Steve Vittitoe)
- Wayne (Dad of Joel Koch)
- Curtis (friend of Jessica Landrum)
- Jean (friend of Sheila Burnside)
- Ron Lawson (friend of Becky Fry)
- Jan Bowman (friend of Dot Ruuksa)
- Kurt (friend of Marla Tiebert)
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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