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News for the week of October 15, 2023
Adult Formation Hour Options 9:20 a.m.
Congregational Forums and Annual Meeting Dates Congregational Forums Sunday, October 22 @ 9:20 a.m. in the Sanctuary Sunday, October 29 @ 9:20 a.m. in the Sanctuary Annual Meeting Sunday, November 12 @ 9:20 a.m. in the Sanctuary
Are there things you would like to share with the Deepening Our Welcome team? Do you have
concerns or questions about where we are going and what is next for our beloved community here at CLC? The DOW team would like to invite you to meet individually with a member of our team so we can listen carefully to your perspective and discuss with you anything you would like to discuss with us. If you would like to have a one-to-one visit with us, please contact Kathy Sutherland (ksutherland54@yahoo.com). Thank you! We look forward to hearing from you.
LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INGATHERING Our annual Lutheran World Relief Ingathering is just around the corner. As in years past we will be loading boxes of quilts, personal care kits, sewing kits and school kits for our siblings in need across the globe on Saturday, October 28
from 8 am until noon. We are looking for homemade baked goods to share with folks coming from other congregations to deliver boxes and some helping hands to move the boxes into the trailer for transport. Sign up sheets are located in the gathering space. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out. Becky Fry justplainbecky@gmail.com or 219.241.6854.
QUILTS FOR LWR Although we make these quilts to give away to those in need if you see one in the sanctuary that you would like to purchase, the quilters are requesting a donation of $50, which will be used for shipping the quilts overseas. Of course if you are not interested in purchasing a quilt but would like to make a donation for shipping please do so. Make the check out to Christ Lutheran and in the memo section fill in “LWR Shipping” Thank you for helping show God’s Love. The quilts were displayed by this wacky youth group, thank you for your time and beautiful work.
Nursery Attendant Needed Christ Lutheran is looking for a responsible adult (over 18) to serve as the paid primary nursery staff person on Sunday mornings, twice a month, approximately 7:50am-11:50am. Children from 0-3 are welcomed in the nursery, and
volunteers assist each week. Please contact Pastor Erica Gibson-Even (pastorerica@clcvalpo.org 219.462.6660) for more information.
Senior Group October Meeting The Senior Group's October meeting will be off site on
Thursday, October 26, 2023. We will meet for lunch at 11:00 a.m. the Valpo Soup Company, 57 Franklin Street (in the old South Bend Chocolate store) and will order off the menu as you wish. They specialize in soups, salads, sandwiches using the produce of the season. Feel free to check its website for further details. At 12:15 thereafter, we will walk across the street to the Porter County Museum (20 Indiana Avenue) for a docent lead tour. They currently have a unique exhibit on old, local post cards, as well as many other displays that Quinn, our docent, will share. Benches and chairs will be provided
for those of us that need occasional seating throughout the tour. Entrance into the museum is free. A sign up sheet will be in the Gathering Space at
our Senior Group bulletin board after Thursday of this week. Parking lots are one block north of the Porter County Museum, at the NE corner of Michigan
and Indiana Streets. I believe that First Source Bank (which sits directly east of the museum) has one strip of parking abutting Franklin Street. If anyone would like to carpool from the church parking lot, please call Beth Bigham, 219-477-3937, so that we can make arrangements. Mark your November calendars for our November 16, 2023, meeting at church where will have a speaker from Phil's Friends share the good work that organization does for cancer patients."
CLC Social Ministry and Mission October 2023 As you do it for the least of these, you do it for Christ. (Matthew 25:40) The focus this month is to provide volunteer time and monetary support for Lutheran World Relief www.lwr.org and ELCA World Hunger/Disaster Response
www.elca.org/hunger and www.elca.org/disaster Lutheran World Relief is affirming God’s love for all people, working with Lutherans and partners around the world to end poverty, injustice, and human
suffering. LWR vision is to be empowered by God’s unconditional love in Jesus Christ, envisioning a world in which each person, every community and all generations live in justice, dignity, and peace. Also, here is a volunteer opportunity in October: helping with the annual northern Indiana Lutheran congregations ingathering collection day at CLC (Sat. morning Oct. 28) - loading a semi-truckload of items to be delivered to LWR for shipment overseas. Many items come from
CLC: quilts and baby/fabric/personal/school kits. If you would like to volunteer to help, please contact Becky Fry at justplainbecky@gmail.com ELCA World Hunger/Disaster Response two hunger/disaster response programs (plus Lutheran World Relief) work closely together on world humanitarian issues, providing relief and hunger assistance, as well as providing opportunities for hunger education and advocacy activities. 79% of funds are used around the world, 12% in the U.S., and 9% for education and advocacy. Help achieve our goal of $2500 in October (over and above giving combined with CLC’s $1200 budgeted amount). By achieving our goal CLC will help Luth. World Relief and ELCA Hunger/Disaster Relief continue mutual support and service activities that are crucial to
effective ministry. Use your weekly worship giving mailed in check to CLC and indicate “LWR/ELCA Hunger” or contribute through Subsplash 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.
CLC YOUTH October Updates from the Youth Realm! CLC Congregation, The year
is now officially in full swing and as I write this letter, all I can think of is the gratitude I have for each and every one of you. This year is an especially busy one in our Youth Ministries here at CLC and the unwavering support that has been shown to our youth programs has made everything done so far this year the success that it has been. At the beginning of September, we had our annual Popcorn Fest fundraiser. Thank you to all of the wonderful volunteers who made it possible! Our annual fundraisers could not happen without the contributions of time, energy, and resources from the CLC community. This year, we raised $2,400 that will go towards sending our youth to the ELCA Youth Gathering. Thank you for
your support and prayers with this year’s Popcorn Fest! As we enter the month of October, we begin our Silent Auction season. If you have any baskets, homemade or newly purchased items, or services that you would like to submit to this year’s
Silent Auction, please reach out to me! Submissions should be sent in by October 20th. Once again, many thanks for all the ways you each have blessed our youth ministries here at CLC. My gratitude to each and every one of you is without
end! Blessings on your October, Kaitlyn Jedrzejowski Director of Youth Ministries ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ October 2023 Schedule October 20th- Deadline to Register for ELCA Youth Gathering High School (9th-12th) October 15th- No Circle! (Fall Break) October 21st | Silent Auction Setup | 12pm October 22nd | Circle | 6-8pm October 29th | Halloween Celebration | 6-8pm Confirmation Confirmation | October 25th | 6-7:30pm Fusion (5th-8th) October 15th- No Fusion! (Fall Break) Fusion | October 22nd | 9:20-10:20am Fusion | October 29th | 9:20-10:20am
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Silent Auction The Silent Auction is coming on Sunday, October 22 and ends on Sunday, November 19. If you would like to donate a new handmade or store-bought item, make up a theme basket, donate services (such as holiday baking, tax prep, tutoring, etc.), or volunteer to set up or close the auction, please contact Director of Youth Ministries, Kaitlyn
Jedrzejowski or the church office. Please have your donations in by Friday, October 20. Thank you for your support! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Circle Dinners Each week at Circle, our high school group, the youth share a dinner together as a way of building community and spending time with each other! Over the past years, this has been a major part of the Circle experience our youth have. If you are willing to provide a dinner for our Circle members, please consider signing up using the QR code below. Dinners can be brought anytime
between 5-6pm of that Sunday and we encourage you to stay and join our youth for dinner! Thank you so much!
ALL SAINTS DAY We will be celebrating All Saints Day on Sunday, November 5. We will honor those who have entered into eternal life and have their names listed in the bulletin. If you have any loved one, family or friend, that
you would like listed on the insert, please fill out a form located in the Gathering Area.
Join the Northwest Indiana African American Alliance and Guest Speaker Christina Staats for VIOLENCE AGAINST IMMIGRANTS AT THE UNITED STATES/MEXICAN BORDER First Presbyterian Church 3401 N. Valparaiso Street Saturday, October 28, 2023 10-12 p.m. Refreshments Served
The AMOS group sends
to Christ Lutheran Church their sincerest appreciation for our generous donations, all of the yarn will be used on the trip to Esquipulas. The AMOS basket is available
for the following list of the medications needed, bold means high volumes needed, underlined means we run out quickly, they are leaving for Guatemala on November 3. The following ointments: Neosporin, Hydrocortisone, Anti-itch cream, triple antibiotic, Diaper Rash, antifungals, muscle rub, Benadryl. Vitamins: Adult and Children Chewable (NO GUMMIES PLEASE, they melt) Children’s Pain and Fever medications, cough syrups, Flu relief. (We run out each time) Infant Pain and Fever medications. (We run out each time).
Benadryl, Tums/Antacid meds, Anti-diarrhea meds, Daytime and Nighttime multi-symptom meds, any NSAIDS (Ibuprofen, Aleve, Naprosyn, Motrin, Advil, Baby Aspirin 81mg) Acetominophen/Tylenol, Pepcid, Omeprazole, Zantac, Baby Aspirin, Urinary health meds, Prenatal vitamins. They are having a silent auction fundraiser at the LambStone Cellars Winery (1555 W Lincolnway, Valparaiso) on October 8 from 1-5 p.m. $25/ticket and can be purchased on-line or at the door. “Our congregation makes a difference, thank you so much for allowing us to be God’s hands during our medical mission work in Guatemala, without you this would not be possible.” Gail Mannington
Annual Meeting: November 12 Our congregation will meet Sunday November 12, 2023 at 9:20am in the Sanctuary for our Annual meeting, gathering prayer, conversation, and discussion. Join us as we hear stories of the impact of our year in ministry, elect our Council leaders, review our finances, and pray over our current Ministry Plan for August, 2023 - July, 2024. In addition, this year we will consider the Welcome Statement developed out of our Deepening our Welcome process as a description of who we are as a congregation.
This Statement has been written and rewritten based on the congregation's feedback, encouragement and concern: We Welcome You to Christ Lutheran Church! We are a community of people sharing God’s love through Christ and growing
together in faith. We celebrate all the ways we are made in the image of God, seeking to see God in everyone. We honor and respect each person’s age, ethnicity, family
composition, gender identity, gender expression, life history, mental well-being, physical ability, relationship status, sexual orientation, skin color, and socioeconomic standing. Together, we strive to love and serve our neighbor and all creation, including working toward racial and social justice. We would love to walk with you on this creative adventure* of faith, grace, and love. * The first sermon ever preached at Christ Lutheran was titled “A Call to Creative Adventure.”
In order to make the Welcome Statement an official document of our
congregation, our Council is proposing to establish a Bylaw and two Continuing Resolutions which clarify the Statement and how it intersects our ministries. (Note: the formal
language of resolutions uses "Whereas" clauses to explain the context and rationale, and "Resolved" clauses to denote the action being taken.) Our Council unanimously supports the proposed Statement and recommends passing the proposed amendments. We will also consider a Bylaw revision to clarify the term of office for our Youth Representative to Council. The Council
recommends revising Bylaw C12.02.03 to add the bold text: C12.02.03. A youth or young adult at-large representative will be elected each year to serve a one-year term beginning on January 1 and ending on December 31.
Finally, please note that this year, as a continuing evolution of our switch to a fiscal year for our Ministry Plan, we will meet again in May, 2024 to approve our Ministry Plan for August, 2024 through July, 2025. The links above are collected here, along with other documents that may be helpful to understand the above proposed changes to the Bylaws and Constitution: Printed copies of these helpful documents are available in the Gathering Space. Questions on content or process can be addressed to Pastor Tim or Ellen Swayne, Council President. See you November 12!
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 - 905 Baby Care Kits October Needs are JACKETS, SWEAT SHIRTS, SWEATERS, AND HATS sizes 6 months to 2T. 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 - 168 Fabric Care Kits September Needs are three (3) yards of cotton fabric.
FABRIC KITS
(2) spools of thread (250-300 yards)
(2) pieces of cotton/cotton blend fabric (3 yards) Check out stores for clearance, mark downs, reduced, and summer sales for cotton fabric and baby clothing. Resale and retail shops will soon be changing their stores from summer to the fall and winter seasons.
Personal Care Kits Item collected - 675
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 September Need—Financial support to purchase needed items. ALUMINUM CAN PROJECT $32.00 more raised with a year total of $130 10 towels/10 yards of flannel/36 yards of cotton fabric purchased October: KEEP ALUMINUM CANS COMING! CANS CAN DO MUCH GOOD! No amount of CANSs is too small. CAN placement white basket/Red Truck. LWR
QUILTERS 2023 Goal: 500 Quilts Made: 357
Weekly Prayers Global: Violence in the holy land Earthquake in Afghanistan Hospice: - Julia & family
- Frances
- Norma
- Gerry
- Ramona
Long-term/ongoing: - Mary and Pete
- Jeff
- Matthew
- Kelly
- Charlie
- Letty
- Katrina
- Jimee
- Wanda
- Pastor Phyllis
- Bob
- Tim
- Wayne
- Fawn
- John
- Mark
- Mike
10/12 9/29 - Bill
- Tony
- Molly
- Phyllis
- Laura
- Hilda
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