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News for the week of May 7, 2023
Adult Formation Hour
Options 9:20 a.m. May 14, 2023 Happy Mother's Day Jesus: The Greatest Story: Bible Study with Cheryl Slack ~ Church Hall Engage. Surprise. Transform. Journey through the Gospels in this exploration of the life and ministry of Jesus. Jesus Calls Us ~ Room 120 with Dave Keammerer When does Jesus call? Where does Jesus call us? How do we answer? Sunday School Parent Coffee Klatch ~ Room 119 May 21, 2023 Last Day of Sunday School Jesus: The Greatest Story: Bible Study with Cheryl Slack ~ Church Hall Engage. Surprise. Transform.
Journey through the Gospels in this exploration of the life and ministry of Jesus. Jesus Calls Us ~ Room 120 with Dave Keammerer When does Jesus call? Where does Jesus call us? How do we answer? Sunday School Parent Coffee Klatch ~ Room 119 May 28, 2023 Jesus Calls Us ~ Room 120 with Dave Keammerer When does Jesus call? Where does Jesus call us? How do we answer?
Over the past year the Deepening Our Welcome team engaged our congregation in listening, conversation, and education around how we might more clearly welcome our LGBTQIA+ family members, neighbors and guests. This work has led us to create the proposed Welcome
Statement below; now we are bringing it to you for your good questions. Note we are not voting at this time! We are asking for your feedback. Please read it, pray about it, and give us your feedback and questions by this Sunday, May 14. PROPOSED WELCOME STATEMENT We Welcome You to Christ Lutheran
Church!
We are a community of people sharing God’s love and growing together in faith. Joyfully, we embrace diversity and
celebrate unity. With courage, compassion, and creative adventure, we welcome, uplift, and include all people. We honor each person’s gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, skin color, physical ability, mental well-being, socioeconomic standing, relationship status, family composition, and age. Together, we strive for social justice and racial equity. We are glad you are here! We would love to journey with you toward deeper love, understanding, service, and
grace.
Peace be with you.
Pastor Erica is going on Sabbatical! In case you missed it in the Newsletter or on Sunday, please see the below information about Pastor Erica's renewal leave and what it will mean for her, and for us. And be sure to join us May 28 as we pray her into this time of renewal and re-creation!
Vacation Bible School Registration is Open!!
VBS 2023: Food Truck Party - God is setting out a feast!
We'll pull up to the table for
VBS 2023 on June 19 - to learn the stories of God's faithfulness, sing, craft, and play!
June 18 is Family Day - families attend together from 4-5:30pm
June 19-22 children attend from 9:30-noon.
VBS will welcome children 4 years old (having finished a year of
preschool) through entering 5th grade.
Registration fee is $15/child, max $30/family - please see your confirmation email for a link to pay registration fee.
Youth 6th grade through High School are needed to help! Register here:
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Please consider donating to the Welcome Center. You can scan the QR code or use the Sign-up Genius Link. Treats can be dropped off Sunday mornings by 9:00 a.m. in the Welcome Center. We are also in need of Greeters who can give a friendly hello, set out the baked goods, and show visitors where to sign in before or after service. Thank you ! Please call or text Jacquie with any questions 219-309-6437 https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F054AAEA72EA1FC1-welcome
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Graduations On May 21 we will acknowledge those members and friends of our congregation who have graduated from High School, College, Technical and/or Advanced Degree Programs during the past year (summer 2022 - summer 2023). Please add your name to the list in the East link so we may recognize your accomplishments or email the office: jen.bias@clcvalpo.org Retirements Similarly, if you have retired during the past year (summer 2022 - summer 2023) please sign on the list in the East Link so we may recognize your years of service and dedication or email the office: jen.bias@clcvalpo.org.
Book Club Our next book is Children's Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin, now available in our book box. Our next book club meeting will be May 23 @ 7:00 p.m. in room
107.
VBS 2023 - Adult and Youth Volunteers Needed! We need you! In order to welcome
our CLC children and neighbors joyfully, to share the stories of God's love with them, we need our faithful and kind youth and adults on the mornings of June 19-22. Adult crew leaders are especially vital - your job would be to lead a crew of kids from station to station and help them participate - no preparation is needed as the station leaders provide all the content. Youth helpers are needed to accompany crews and to assist in different stations.
When you are in church, please take a moment to look down the row you are sitting in- see any cute lovable Teddy Bears? These adorable furry friends are the Christ Lutheran Mission Bears. These
bears are full of hope and healing, and ready to share with someone you may know who needs a new special friend. If you know someone who could use
a Mission Bear, please take a bear for them, or let us know if you need assistance in delivering a bear. Jacquie 219-309-6437 These Bears have special tags and have a QR code which links to our Mission Bears Adoption Page. We would love to hear about the Missions Bears travels and include their new owners in our prayers.
CLC Social Ministry and Mission May 2023 A 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
Costa Rica
Mission Team - Shared Stories for Transformation:
At the end of June, Christ Lutheran Church will send its first intergenerational, international, service-learning mission team to Costa Rica. Seven members of the
twenty-two on the team are youth ages 12-16. The team will be split up to stay with two different host families who came to Costa Rica as refugees. There will be host families in an urban setting near San Jose that are part of Casa Adobe; a ministry center that is in partnership
with the Christian Reformed World Mission and with the study aboard program of Valparaiso University. The other host families will be living in the intentional refugee farming community of Monga Mai in a more rural part of Costa
Rica.
Knowing that God is already in the places they are going, the team will learn from their hosts and
share their skills in partnership with them. The trip goals include learning about refugees, caring for creation and nurturing faith in God's love. The team will learn about climate change and farming and some will participate in gardening projects. Some of the team, trained here on the Little Calumet River, will be conducting river monitoring for pollutants which is a problem in the areas they are visiting. Some will work with neighborhood children either by taking them to a museum that they
normally could not afford or by doing some tutoring their English.
What the team learns about issues that affect people and creation, they will bring back to the congregation, and especially if
those issues are related to our daily lives in the United States. Knowing that this experience will be transformational as stories are shared and relationships built, the team will return and reflect on what they and our congregation might do next in response. The hope of this trip is... Shared stories for
Transformation.
Expenses and ways to give support: $4,750 is going to the host families for opening their homes and preparing meals for the team $3,000 to Casa Adobe for accompanying the team $1,000 for service projects $250
to offset CO2 from flying to Costa Rica (National Fund for Forestry and Finance)
Help achieve our goal of $3000 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.
The AMOS TEAM is on the move again. NOVEMBER 2023 Needles, yarn and things like that, could you help us make a baby hat. New to this world a babe is born, breezy and cold.
Let’s keep him warm. Off to
Guatemala in November will be, training the midwives, thanks, CLC. AMOS and our ladies,
hand-in-hand, making a difference, together we stand.
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. Baby Care Kit Project 2023 Goal-500 Items collected - 410 May Needs: Baby Care Kits: Hats and shirts 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
Kit Project 2023 Goal-150 Items collected - 64 May Needs: Fabric: 3 yard lengths of cotton fabric
FABRIC KITS
(2) spools of thread (250-300 yards)
(2) pieces of cotton/cotton blend fabric (3 yards)
Personal Care Kits Item collected - 435
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
Thank you to all who contributed to the personal care kit project during Lent. With your help we received almost $800 to help those
in need. Your contribution was very important and highly appreciated. It will be put to a good use. Remember the need goes on the year around, any help you can give is very important. LWR QUILTERS 2023 Goal: 500 Quilts Made: 180 CAN
NEWS
Can you help? Do you ever drink from an aluminum CAN? Then you CAN help! Save those aluminum
CANS for LWR. Put CANS by the red Ford truck or by the white basket in the Gathering Area. No CAN donation is too small.
Weekly Prayers Celebration: Karen & Brian McCorvey, daughter and son-in-law of Paige & Karl Reichardt, married Sat. May 6. Grief: - Prayers for the family of Patty Bohacik
- Family of William Buckler (Uncle of Ed W. Seykowski)
- Family and friends of Zach, mourning his sudden death.
Lauren & family on death of her sister Liv - Rob Wilson on the death of his sister
- Friends and family of former member Bill
Adams
Hospice: - Julia & family
- Bob
- Frances Thomas
Long-term/ongoing: - Katrina Martinez
- Jimee Armstrong
- Baby Gabriel
- Wanda Rodgers
- Pastor Phyllis Kersten
- Malcolm
- Bob
- Tim
- Wayne
- Fawn
- Joyce
- John
- Bruce Malchow
- Mark Ring
5/7 - Becky Bakalyar
- Andrea
- Krista
- Tim
- Pat
- Karen Seykowski
4/23 - Larry
Leatz
- Duane Thormalen
- Kathi T.
- Diane Nelson
- Barb Lieske
- Candice
- Avis
Tracht
- Mike Magiera
- Larry Garrett
- Pam Lewis
- Mike
- Dianna
- Crystal
- Alexis
- Clifford
- Jim Kish
- Rachel
- Brenda
- Faye
- Tom
- Kristen
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