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This Church changes lives!
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News for the week of June 19, 2022
Weekly Worship Services
Sunday 8:00 and 10:30 a.m.
Unfailing Light
An evening setting of Holy Communion
Join us every Thursday evening at 7:00 p.m. outside around the Memorial Garden
Faith Formation Opportunities
Sunday, 9:20 a.m.
Partners
in a New Creation
Dave
Keammerer
Room
120
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Mark your calendars
Family Night
Saturday, July 9 @ 4:00 p.m. for pot luck & games.
Please contact Nikki Soleim for more information
End of Summer Rally Picnic at CLC
Saturday, August 20 from 5-7 p.m.
Volunteers needed for Overnight Shelter ministry
Men who are experiencing homelessness and part of the New Creations program have been getting a hot meal and a place to sleep every Saturday night thanks to Christ Lutheran church volunteers. There are 7 churches that cover the April through October months and we are home to these men every Saturday night from 7pm-7 am.
This is one significant way we as a church change lives as we serve our neighbors for Jesus’ sake.
The men's shelter team is always willing to train new volunteers and support them. If someone only volunteers once in
the 6 months, it makes a big difference.
Our greatest need right now is the 2:30-7:00 shift. We currently have July 2 and July 9th without coverage for that
shift. This is a quiet shift so many who give up sleep also catch up on projects like reading, sewing, answering emails, etc.
We have two other shifts: intake shift from 6:30-10 and first overnight shift from 10-2:30am.
The shelter leader team is so grateful to be able to say that intake and 10:00 o'clock shifts are fully covered through
July 30. But we still have several months to go. If you're far enough along in your summer planning to consider August, please let us know or jump right in and sign up on the app.
Many meal dates are open in July and August too.
The links to use for signing up are on the CLC app and below:
To sign up for supervision shifts, both intake and overnight:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0e49abaa2aaaf9c25-shelter
To sign up for a meal:
https://takethemameal.com/DNZU3411
The truly easiest, fewest-clicks way to reach these sign ups is via the CLC app. You can find it at the App Store by
searching Christ Lutheran Valparaiso. You'll recognize our new logo. Once you have the app, select 'Adults' on the home page, then select 'Service.'
Once on the overnight Sign Up Genius, you will notice the first shift intake, 6:30-10, and as you scroll you see all the Saturdays we host the men through Oct 15th. The next section as you scroll is the 10:00-2:30 shifts through Oct 15 and lastly 2:30-7:00 time slots are listed. Keep scrolling down to find the shift and date you want to volunteer.
If you need help or never volunteered before and want to learn more, please contact us
directly.
Lisa Owen: call or text 219-477-9240 or jlo46383@msn.com
Diana Iltzsche: call or text 219-628-0950; diltzsche@hotmail.com
We have an app!
Along with our new logos and new website, we have a new Christ Lutheran Church app! In it you can find upcoming events and calendars, media, and a place to watch
our online services both live and recorded, with more options and content planned. We’ve built it for both Android and iOS phones and tablets, plus Apple TVs. In addition, we have a channel for Roku smart TVs; search for “Christ Valparaiso” in the Roku store to add us and access our livestreams and media options right on your TV.
LOST AND FOUND
There is a table in the Gathering Place with items that we have found around the church in the past year.
Please take home what is yours and after 2 weeks what is left we will donate. If you cannot make it to church and
know that you left something please call the church office and we will hold it for you. Thank you!!!
CLC Social Ministry and Mission
June 2022
As you do it for the least of these, you do it for Christ. (Matthew 25:40)
Social Ministry Emphases for June. Each month the Social Ministry highlights a special giving opportunity. June’s emphasis is providing support
for the Food Bank of Northwest Indiana http://www.foodbanknwi.org and Project Neighbors https://projectneighbors.org or https://www.facebook.com/ProjectNeighbors.
The Food Bank of Northwest Indiana’s (FBNI) mission is “to provide food for hungry people in NW Indiana through a network of charities increasing public
awareness and advocating solutions for the issues involved with hunger and acting as an info &referral source to the community”. FBNI is based in Merrillville and is affiliated with and meets the guidelines of Feeding America www.feedingamerica.org and distributes over 2 million pounds of goods/year through 90 network charities in NW Indiana.
Project Neighbors (454 College Ave.) is a Not-for-Profit organization in Valpo. By addressing issues of race, class and poverty, Project Neighbors’ goal is to build healthy families and neighborhoods, where diversity of all kinds is welcomed and cherished. Project Neighbors’ accomplishments in Valparaiso include affordable housing at Caroline's Place and Neighbor's Place and Respite House, childcare and preschool at Hilltop House, community health centers in HealthLinc, and the region's only low-power, all-volunteer community radio station, WVLP, among other
“risks-turned-rewards.”
Help achieve our goal of $2500 in June (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 “FBNWI/PN” 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.
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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Getting to Know
CLC
Join us to learn more about Christ Lutheran's ministry, history, and teaching. We'll
gather for a 3-week series during the Formation Hour on Sundays (9:20am-10:20) September 4, 11, and 18, followed by an opportunity to formally stand with the congregation, confess our faith together, and declare that "Yes! God has something for me here." Register for our group here.
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
Prayers for the country/citizens of Ukraine
Hospice:
- Clarence Moss (father of Barb Lieske), strokes, has moved into assisted living
- Donald Reinhold
- Bill Parker
- Ruthanne
Long-term/ongoing:
- Karen Owen
- Wayne (Joel Koch’s dad)
- Fawn
- Connie Hughes
- Nicole (friend of Paige Reichardt)
- Pat & Lee Betz
- Pattie
- Ian
- Jack Bigham, numerous medical issues due to MD
- Connor Byrne
- Collin (cousin of Clint Mullet)
- Joyce
- Larry Leatz
- Dr. Bert Urbytes (former member, waiting for liver transplant)
6/16
- Jean Jones (friend of Sheila Burnside
- Keegan (great nephew of Sheila Burnside)
- Roberta Conover
- Cathy Osborne (college roommate of Kris Albers)
- Dorothy Lake (cousin of Nancy Bernthal)
6/7
- Bill Roberts, friend of Holly Knauff
- Jenny Pecina (neice of Dave & Sheila Burnside)
5/31
- Roger (family to the Stefans)
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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