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Weekly
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Glendale Lutheran Church Newsletter
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March 6, 2016
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WEEKLY CALENDAR
Sunday, March 6
9:15am -- Worship Service
10:30am -- Sunday School/Adult Ed
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Monday, March 7
6:30am-6:00pm -- CCLS Preschool
6:00pm-7:00pm -- CCLS Bball (K Boys)
6:00pm -- Elders' Meeting
7:00pm-8:00pm -- KJBL Bball
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Tuesday, March 8
6:30am-6:00pm -- CCLS Preschool
9:15am -- Bible Study
9:15am -- Women's Bible Study
12:00pm-8:00pm -- LFCS Counselor
6:30pm-8:00pm -- Soccer (Slinkard)
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Wednesday, March 9
6:30am-6:00pm -- CCLS Preschool
9:00am-8:00pm -- LFCS Counselor
4:00pm-5:15pm -- Confirmation - Youth Room
5:30pm -- Lenten Dinner
6:30pm -- Midweek Lenten Worship
7:30pm-8:45pm - Choir rehearsal
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Thursday, March 10
6:30am-6:00pm -- CCLS Preschool
8:00am-4:00pm -- LFCS Counselor
9:30am-9:45am -- CCLS Preschool Chapel
1:00pm -- Noble Knotters
5:45pm-7:15pm -- Soccer (Potter)
6:30pm-8:30pm -- AA - Lower Level
7:00pm-9:00pm -- Lightroom Fundamentals - FLC
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Friday, March 11
6:30am-6:00pm -- CCLS Preschool
6:30pm -- AA Meeting - FLC
8:00pm -- Women's AA Meeting - FLC
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Saturday, March 12
8:00am-4:00pm -- LFCS Counselor
5:00pm-9:00pm -- Rawlings Event - Gym
5:00pm -- Worship
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Sunday, March 13
9:15am -- Worship
10:30am -- Sunday School/Adult Education
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Faith Formation Ministry
One Family Bible Class
This week we are studying the parable of the prodigal son from Luke 15. This parable shows the extravagant love of God our Father for all. Discuss at home this week: How is the attitude of the younger son and the older son toward their father alike? How does the father demonstrate his love to both of his sons?
Lenten Series - Places of the Passion
This year's Lenten series is drawn from Luke's account of our Lord's Passion. Each week, a different section of the Gospel is read; and each week, Luke will take us to a different place-the Places of the Passion. However, the focus will not be on those physical places. Instead, throughout the series, the hearer is invited to gaze in wonder on the spiritual work that our Lord does in those places. Jesus will share His strength in our times of weakness. When Jesus enters a place, He never leaves it as He found it. The most troubling places in our lives become the most amazing places of God's grace when Jesus visits them. Week after week, hearers will enter the places of the Passion, only to discover their Lord . . . waiting for them . . . willing to share with them a love that was set in place before the foundations of the world.
- Midweek of Lent 4 (Luke 22:54-62) "The Courtyard: A Place of Renewal"
- Midweek of Lent 5 (Luke 22:63-23:25) "The Trial: A Place of God's Will"
- Holy Thursday (Luke 22:7-23) "The Last Supper: A Place of Forgiveness"
- Good Friday (Luke 23:44-49) "Golgotha: A Place of Simple Love"
- Easter (Luke 24:1-11) "The Empty Tomb: A Place of Remembering"
Stewardship Sentence
Luke 15:12 "And the younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.' And he divided his property between them." This prodigal son only sees the father as a source of wealth: give me my inheritance now! Which is to say: you are better off dead in my eyes. This is the sin at the heart of all greed: valuing things over people. This parable calls us to "come to our senses" as well: to see God as the loving Giver of all good, the true Father to be valued above and beyond all the things of this world.
Women's Evening Bible Study
The Thursday evening Bible study began a new study on February 18. The study guide is "God's Love Through You: A Guide to 1 John." All women are welcome; gathering together is a great opportunity to share prayer concerns and be strengthened by God's Work and by each other. Eighteen women currently are a part of this group; not all can attend every time and that is understood. We meet on the first and third Thursdays of each month at 7:00pm.
Women's Tuesday Morning Bible Study
Beginning Tuesday, February 23 at 9:15am we started a new seven week Bible study. Please consider joining us as we explore "Discerning the Voice of God" presented by Priscilla Shirer. Through this study you will become more familiar with God's Holy Spirit, His character, language, and tone of voice. Call Carol Froesel or Jeanne Clark if you have any questions.
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Pre-Lenten Service Meal
This Wednesday is the last pre-service meal (Easter is fast approaching). On the menu will be sloppy joes. The Men's group is putting on the meal.
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Palm Sunday Fair and Egg Hunt
 Glendale Lutheran Church is having the Palm Sunday Fair and Egg Hunt on March 20 after the service. There will be coffee, tea, lemonade, fruit and pastries in the gym. There will be several craft tables for the kids and Goliath waiting to be slain on the stage. Plan to join us.
In the meanwhile, the eggs are in a basket in the hallway waiting to be filled. Please take some home, fill them with wrapped candy and return them to the basket by March 16. Thanks for your help and look forward to a good time.
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Youth News
Easter Breakfast
This year's Easter Breakfast is sponsored by the GLC Youth! If you'd like to donate one of the 18 egg casseroles we need, please sign up on the kiosk at church. Planning to join us? The same sign-up sheet has a spot for your family name and how many will be attending so we have an idea for planning purposes. A free will offering will be taken at the Easter Breakfast. All funds raised will go towards sending GLC Youth to the National Youth Gathering this summer.
Thank you!
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LFCS Counseling Office
The process of adding additional shared space with CCLS requires us to re-locate the current space allocated for LFCS professional counseling. After careful consideration of a variety of locations, with input from interested members, the decision has been made to create a new space on the first floor of our new building. Since our pastor moved his office and conference area to the main floor corner of our new building, the space he had vacated has not had any dedicated use. Lutheran Family and Children Services has agreed to fund the cost of creating a partition in that space. This will provide an outside entrance for clients as well as a bit larger and more useful space for professional counseling of both adults and children. The project will result in a private office for counseling as well as an anti-room that could have multiple uses. We will be completing this project in the next few weeks .
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New AA Group to Begin Meeting Here
We have had two Alcoholics Anonymous groups using our Family Life Center on Friday nights for the past few years -one men's group and one woman's group. A new group will begin meeting here every Thursday evening at 7:00 PM beginning at the end of March. Unlike the groups that meet here on Friday, this new group with be a Mixed and Open group. What that means is that both men and women will be in attendance and they are open to welcome not only anyone who has a desire to stop drinking, but also anyone who may want to learn more about AA, alcoholism, and addiction. At these meetings, members tell what it is like to be addicted, how they came to AA, and how its program has helped in their lives. Again, anyone interested in AA, addicted or not, is welcome to attend. No reservation or prior notice is necessary. Just come a little early, and you will be welcome.
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Altar Flowers Needed
There are several upcoming Sundays available on the Altar Flower chart. Please sign up if you're interested!
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Noble Knotters
Noble Knotters has changed their meeting dates to the 2nd Thursday of the month at 1:00pm. Come and help us! The quilts we made last year went to Honduras with the Frimels.
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Worship Leaders for Holy Week through April
We are continuing our trial usage of Volunteer Spot. All services from Maundy Thursday through April are now available as sign-up spots. The Worship Committee will still fill in any open spots from the lists of volunteers, so if you have a known conflict, selecting a spot well in advance might prevent some last-minute switching needs.
Please sign up here. If you prefer, you can call Michelle in the office to get your name on the schedule. Thank you!
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 Children's Worship Materials
We are looking for someone to take charge of the children's worship materials at the back of the church. This would entail periodically checking the bags to ensure each is stocked with paper, crayons, etc. If you are interesting in serving this way, please contact the church office.
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Community Events
Keep Walking...By Faith
Interested in seeking some faith, fun, and fellowship? The 16th Lutheran Older Adults Retreat, Growing in Christ, is being held April 20-21, 2016, at Pere Marquette Lodge in Grafton, IL. The retreat is $100 per person, and includes meals, sectionals for growth opportunities in a variety of aspects of faith and family life, as well as crafts, sing-a-longs, and a servant event. The event pamphlet is on the kiosk, and registration forms are available by the mailboxes, or you can email dmwvette74@gmail.com for more information.
Sausage Supper and Spring Bazaar
Immanuel Lutheran Church Olivette invites you to attend their 28th Annual Sausage Supper and Spring Bazaar on Sunday, March 6, from noon-4:00pm. (Carry-outs until 5:00pm.) All you can eat sausage, real mashed potatoes, sauerkraut, green beans, applesauce, bread and dessert will be served. Adults, $11; children 6-12, $5, 6 and under, free. Bring your family, friends, and neighbors and enjoy a great home cooked meal. You can also shop at the Spring Bazaar, featuring many hand-made, unique items. Visit www.immanuelolivette.org for more information.
Reformation Tour
The "On the Trail of Martin Luther" Reformation tour (September 14-24) being led by Pastor and Stephani Meyer of Zion Lutheran Church in Bethalto, Illinois on September 14-24 still has openings. In order to qualify for a $200.00 per person discount, the registration fee needs to be turned in by March 15. For a brochure or information, please contact them by phone (618-377-9815) or by e-mail (revwilly@charter.net).
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From the Catechisms
Certain Passages of Scripture for Various Holy Orders and Positions, by Which These People Are to Be Admonished, as a Special Lesson, about Their Office and Service
Concerning Civil Government
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. (Romans 13:1-4)
What Subjects Owe to the Rulers
Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. (Matthew 22:21)
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities.... Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed. (Romans 13:1, 5-7)
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. (1 Timothy 2:1-2)
Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work. (Titus 3:1)
Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. (1 Peter 2:13-14)
McCain, P. T. (Ed.). (2005). Concordia: The Lutheran Confessions (p. 346-347). St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House.
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The Word Within The Word
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Worship Attendance
Saturday 2/27, 14; Sunday 2/21, 124 = 138 Total
February 2015 Average = 138
February 2016 Average = 126
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Funnies (used with permission)
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Worship Leaders for Next Sunday, March 13 (9:15am Worship)
| Preacher/Celebrant | Pastor Wise |
| Liturgist | Seminarian Cody Peterson |
| Pianist (Saturday) | Joy Elowsky |
| Organist (Sunday) | Joy Elowsky |
| Lector | Greg Frimel |
| Acolyte | Luke Redick |
| Children's Message | Seminarian Cody Peterson |
| Communion Assistant | Seminarian Cody Peterson |
Lay Communion Assistants
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Steve Phelps
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| Greeters | Greg & Karen Frimel |
| Nursery | Mary Skouby, Miles Sauer |
| Sound/Video | Jerry & Beth Nicolaus |
| Ushers | Deb Toney, Judy George, Becci Sasser, Theresa Canania |
PREPARE FOR NEXT WEEK'S WORSHIP through a careful, prayerful reading of the appointed lessons for the day:
Isaiah 43:16-21; Philippians 3:(4b-7) 8-14; Luke 20:9-20
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