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News for the week of May 21, 2023
Adult Formation Hour
Options 9:20 a.m. PENTECOST SUNDAY ~ WEAR RED May 28, 2023 Jesus Calls Us ~ Room 120 with Dave Keammerer When does Jesus call? Where does Jesus call us? How do we answer? June 4, 2023 The Righteous Reign of God ~ Room 120 with Dave Keammerer Quilt Tying ~ Gathering Place with Kathy Stefans June 11, 2023 The Righteous Reign of God ~ Room 120 with Dave Keammerer Introducing a New Liturgy from "All Creation Sings" ~ Sanctuary with Brian Bartusch June 18, 2023 The Righteous Reign of God ~ Room 120 with Dave Keammerer Costa Rica Trip Forum ~ What's It All About? ~ Sanctuary with Diana Iltzsche June 25, 2023 The Righteous Reign of God ~ Room 120 with Dave Keammerer
Graduations & Retirements HIGH SCHOOL
GRADUATES Olivia
Lozano ~ Valparaiso High School; Attending Mount Union College Rebecca Mathisen ~ Valparaiso High School; Attending Biola University, La Mirada, CA - Ministry Bee Wehner ~ Washington Township High School; Attending St. Francis University, Fort Wayne Nathaniel Malchow ~ Valparaiso High School (National Merit Scholarship winner, National Honor Society,
2023 IBA All-State Honor Band member, Varsity cross country and track athlete); Attending Carleton College, Northfield, MN Emily Abbring ~ Valparaiso High School; Attending Valparaiso University—studying mechanical engineering Jake Niksch Elizabeth Provenzano Holly DiPrisco ~ Valparaiso High School; Will be take time off and start looking at colleges in the future COLLEGE & ADVANCED
DEGREES Rachel Lundstrom
~ Georgia Southern University—Masters in Higher Education. Future plans: Where God leads. Rev. Erik Grayvold ~ Loyola University/Chicago—Masters/PhD at LSTC Kaitlyn Jedrzejowski ~ Valparaiso University—BA in
Theology/Ministry and General Economics; Director of Youth Ministries at CLC. Nate
Smith ~ Bellarmine University—Graduated Cum laude in Exercise Science: Sport Performance; continuing second year in Grad school for Athletic Training Early Entry. RETIREMENTS Kristen Mathisen ~ retiring from Elementary Teacher @ Portage Township Schools; Hiking in the mountains of
Utah. Kurt Stefans
A note from Deepening our Welcome Thank you for the incredible response to our Exploratory Survey! We received 186 responses which is a
significant portion of our weekly worship attendance. We received overwhelming support and encouragement, as well as thoughtful suggestions, questions and concerns. We are reading every response, gathering questions and concerns, praying over revisions, and planning further conversations. Watch for opportunities for discussion and learning we will be offering this summer and fall, based on your responses. Thank you for your participation and feedback! Update from our "Growing Faith" emphasis Our display in the Gathering Area shows the current results of our Growing Faith emphasis: our
target was an increase of $1,303 per week. Current results (more come in every week!) indicate a projected weekly increase of $1,659.15. We are so grateful for the households who indicated they are able to maintain their giving from last year (28%) and those who indicated an increase in their giving (65%). We are thankful for the families who indicated they need to reduce their giving but are continuing to support our mission and ministry (2%). Our participation rate (57%
of our regularly-giving households returned a Statement of Intent) is quite high, and we are grateful. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Library News Effective immediately, library donations are being suspended indefinitely. We have run out of
space.
Thank you for all your wonderful donations over the years! Please visit our library in the Gathering Place, we have a lot of books that you can check out and enjoy.
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Clap When You Land, written by Elizabeth Acevedo, is a young adult novel published by HarperTeen on May 5, 2020. The audiobook, produced by Harper Audio and
narrated by Melania-Luisa Marte and Elizabeth Acevedo, was released on the same date. Clap When You Land is a New York Times and IndieBound bestseller. If you are interested in joining book club,
reach out to Susan at 317-435-1876 (text) or e-mail carlsonshome@msn.com for more information. Book Club meets on the 4th Tuesday of each month @ 7:00 p.m. in room 107.
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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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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.
The "We Tie Together Quilters" are offering you the chance to tie some quilts for Lutheran World Relief. Join us in the Gathering Space during the Faith Formation Hour between services on Sunday, June 4th (9:20am-10:20am) to add your ties and blessings to a few of these lovingly made quilts. All materials will be provided and someone will show you what to do! Questions: Kathy Stefans 847-612-3025
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 “Costa Rica” 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.
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 - 430 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. Baby Care Kits-10 yards of
flannel
Fabric Kit Project 2023 Goal-150 Items collected - 80 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 - 495
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
Personal Care Kits-10 towels LWR QUILTERS 2023 Goal: 500 Quilts Made: 206 ARE YOU PLANNING A PARTY WITH ALUMINUM CANS? Save the cans and bring them to church. Put them in/by the red Ford truck in the parking lot or by the white basket in the Gathering Area. No CAN donation is to small. THANKS!
Weekly Prayer Prayers for all those on the roads this weekend and during the summer - safe travels. Prayers for all the men and women that serve our country in the armed forces (Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force) Hospice: - Julia & family
- Bob
- Frances Martinez
- Malcolm
- Clifford
Long-term/ongoing: -
- Lety Chona
- Katrina Martinez
- Jimee Armstrong
- Baby Gabriel
- Wanda Rodgers
- Pastor Phyllis Kersten
- Bob
- Tim
- Wayne
- Fawn
- Joyce
- John
- Bruce Malchow
- Mark Ring
- Mike Mageria
5/21 - Olga Koch
- Mack
- Krista
- Tim
- Pat
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