Church Office: Parsonage: Office hours: Ann Thursdays & Fridays 9:00-11:00 am Sue Pastor Donald Glanzer, Jr

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1 St Peter s Lutheran Church Worship Hours Saturday Evenings at 5:00p / 1st & 3rd Saturdays of the month. Sunday Mornings at 10:00a Website: stpeters@wicw.net Church Office: Parsonage: Office hours: Ann Thursdays & Fridays 9:00-11:00 am Sue Pastor Donald Glanzer, Jr Contact information: Cell phone: (608) Pastor Don s schedule Monday - off Tuesday 9:00a 5:00 pm Wednesday 9:00a-5:00pm Thursday 9:00a-5:00p m Friday 9:00a 5:00 pm Saturday 9:00a 5:00 pm Sunday 11:00a 5:00 pm dwglanzer@gmail.com Best to call to make an appt. or to make sure you connect with him if you are stopping by. He may be making visits. Meetings in June Prayer Shawl - every 7:00p m Bible Study every 9am W/ELCA June 7pm Hartje Ctr. Mission Field Trip June 11@10am Luther League Meeting June 6pm Women s Bible Study June 1:30 Or June 7pm Council Meeting- June 6:00pm Men s Club Mtg. June 20 following service Quilting June 1:00 & 6:00pm Usher Schedule USHERING SCHEDULE June 2016 Please mark your calendars accordingly. Ushers should be there 15 minutes prior to the start of the service to assist with bulletins, etc. June 5 June 12 June 19 June 26 Dale Judd John Niemann Dave Geffert Dave Simacek Doug Schuette Dan Geffert Gary Krueger Justin Holman The Veteran s Equine Trail Service is June s Mission. Please use the White Envelopes located in the pews.. Hunter Kaun Brett Knuth Randy Roecker Jason Meyer Jim Henke Lucas Muchow Jess Eastman Rick Tourdot June 20th is Newsletter deadline

2 Congratulations to our Youth Congratulation to these fifth graders; Ashley Cunningham, Trenton Curtin, Kristine Hooker, Devin Judd & Nicole Riberich. They celebrated their first communion May 1 st. Congratulations to our confirmands; Carmen Decorah, Caylee Fry, Shelby Henke, Daniel Meyer, & Kelley Thieding. Confirmed May 15th KFC Hartje Center Field Trip June 11 th This year s KFC Mission was SOAC (Summer Outdoor Adventure Club). KFC collected $ A field trip is planned for Saturday June 11 th at the Hartje Center. We will meet at the church at 9 am for those who want to car pool & meet Gary Williams at the Hartje Center at 10:00 am. Pack a sack lunch, water will be provided. We will have a nature hike, campfire, eat our sack lunch & some yummy s mores. Any questions feel free to contact Sue Wobschall at Father s Day is June 19 th. Wishing all Fathers a great day. Remember Ladies we sing. Free Summer Outdoor Movie Night Yes St. Peters is again hosting an outdoor movie Friday, June 24th at dusk (8:30ish). Pack up the kids along with some chairs, blankets, and your favorite snack. We are hoping to have someone selling popcorn and soda. So Confirmation students, Luther League, or any group or organization who would like to do this please contact Sue Wobschall or Ruth Roecker. In case of rain the movie will be shown in the basement of St. Peters Church. This is a community event so spread the word!!! Summer Worship Hours & Hostess Sign-up Sunday worship schedule has changed to 9:00am for the summer months. Along with our summer schedule we will be needing people to sign-up to hostess. Sign-up sheets are in the back of the church. Any questions call Marge Schmidt at

3 Congratulations to our 2016 High School Graduates Please choose a quillow, our gift to you from WELCA Reedsburg Area High School Claudia Damaschke Alyssa Delp Mason Judd Brett Knuth Derek Lehman Travis Marshall Tyler Pierce Jordan Schuette Weston High School Kyle Crary Allen Knuth Richland Center High School Charlie Shieldt Our College Graduates From UW Platteville Graduate Degree Agriculture Business -Katelyn Knuth From Edgewood College Master Degree Elementary Education Sarah Statz Schartner Please wish LaVerne & Darleen Harms Happy Anniversary. They will be celebrating their 55 th Wedding Anniversary June 17 th.

4 Sunday Nursery We now have a Nursery available during Sunday services for children age 2 and under. You will find the nursery room in the basement right next to the elevator. You may drop them off as early as 10 min before the service. If you'd like to volunteer, please contact Heidi Schlieckau with your interest. The goal is to have 1-2 volunteers per service, and only have to volunteer once a month. Thank you to those that have already signed up to help The 72nd Annual Ice Cream Social will be held on Sunday, July 10 th from 4:00 8:00p. Watch for more details in the bulletins and signup sheets coming soon in the back of the church. The Men s Club is chairing this event. Your help with set up, serving, or cleanup will be most welcome. (Confirmation students: This counts as a Church volunteer project too!) VBS August 8 th 12 th Come join the fun at Vacation Bible School at Barnyard Roundup. At Barnyard Roundup kids will look into the Bible, God s Holy Word, to discover Jesus is their BFF. In fact, Jesus is better than a BFF. Jesus knows them by their name, rounds them up, and brings them home. Jesus is with us always and forever no matter what. At Barnyard Roundup we will hear barn raising stories, along with green pasture singing, creating udderly cool crafts, having bales of fun games, & enjoying bountiful blessing snacks. Friday, August 8 th is potluck where all are welcome to come and hear about our Barnyard Roundup week.. Art D/tour: looking for your favorite bible verse to be included in the art display being designed by Arold. Write it down and put it in the box in the narthex. One Year to Live Men s Retreat Sponsored by Lutheran Men in Mission (LMM) north of Madison WI. This retreat will be held September th at the Mackenzie Center, Poynette, WI. For more information, see Pamphlet which includes registration on the hybrid table in the narthex.

5 Identity Theft Workshop On Thursday, July 28, 6:30 p.m. St. Peter s W/ELCA and the Men s Club are co-hosting a workshop on fraud and identity theft. Fraud and identity theft is considered to be one of the fastest growing crimes in the country. Identity theft alone affects approximately nine to ten million Americans each year. Many of these frauds are difficult for law enforcement to investigate after the fact because many of these frauds are conducted from overseas. Detective Clay Lins, Sauk County Sheriff s Department, will present areas to help you protect your identity and money from frauds. Council News June 2016 Greetings, There are a lot of things to do and think about with this busy season. Remember to share your time and gifts with others here at St. Peter s. You build friendships when working together as a team. It was wonderful to see five young people confirm their beliefs- to become disciples of Jesus, learn in depth about his teachings. and do what he commanded. To learn that you are never alone, God is always with you. Thank you to the following individuals for sharing their time: Work day- Dale & Carolyn Meyer, Jim & Jan Henke, Arold Hamburg, Mark Muchow, Brian & Mary Brown, Pastor Don & Betty Glanzer, Janet Klipp, Nancy Schuette, Shirley Albers, Ken Wilk, Ryan & Jimmy Suemnicht, Kathy Geffert, Roy Schroeder, Tom & Lorinda Broughton, Outstanding dedication for teaching, modeling, encouraging our confirmation students- THANK YOU Pastor Don, Karen Judd & Theresa Kohlmeyer. Check out these new things: Additional Handicap Parking is now available. Please write down your favorite bible verse to share with others. Arold needs your favorite bible verse to help him with the Wheel of Faith that will be part of the Farm Art D Tour. Place it in the container on the hybrid table and watch for it during the Farm Art D Tour. Council is working on a WI FI project. Having it installed throughout the building so computers can be used when teaching our young members, enhancing bible lessons & worship. JOY, Lorinda Broughton **Thank you notes were received from the Sauk Co. UW Extension for use of the church basement area for the Tractor Safety classes held during February and March. Twenty-seven young men and women were certified to drive on the road. John Gerike & Tom Broughton were the instructors.

6 Bugle Call June 2016 Sisters and Brothers in Christ: Grace and Peace to you from God the Father; From our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; In, with, and through the Holy Spirit. AMEN! I ve been musing. Usually I find that s OK, but sometimes it leads one down the proverbial rabbit hole. Perhaps you too find that this musing stuff is a bit burdensome, or, maybe not. Regardless, I want to pose this essay starter: What is it that scares you? And when I use the word you I am also including myself in this question. So, what is it that scares you, and me? Some people are scared by circus clowns (think John Wayne Gacy). Others may be scared by the Beatles song Helter Skelter (think Charles Manson and his followers). Still others may be scared by words, or language. I ve been musing on the word, verisimilitude, and you may wonder why. The answer is, I cannot say. Not because I m protecting the reason like some fabled and singular trout stream (think Stream X), but because I really cannot say. It just popped into my head as I was contemplating a topic for this month s Bugle Call article. Along with musing, I also ponder. And when I think of the word verisimilitude I ponder why, although it doesn t scare me, why I find this word vexatious. It really is a troublesome word. I think that any 6-syllable word (ver-isi-mil-i-tude) that takes six syllables to get its point across IS a troubling cobbling-together of too many letters, let alone syllables. Enough already with the syllabification!! (Winston Persaud, a dear man and one of my Seminary professors, would have called me cheeky for writing what I ve just written) But now, returning to trying to make a point, words do scare me, some words that is. Words that are spoken in anger scare me. Words that are spoken carelessly and that unintentionally hurt someone else really scare me. And some words that should never have been thought of, the kind of words that belittle an entire class of people, or debase an entire race, really, really scare me. And some words, words that are difficult to come to grips with, or words that are nebulous, or words with confounding implications, terrify me. When I hear some words, especially the kind like that last type of word, I am left a quivering mass of human jelly. Take the word intolerant (or not, but the rest of this article deals with that word) for instance. On the face of it, it seems like a benign enough word. Its meaning seems clear: in, meaning against, and tolerant meaning, well, tolerant. And it meets our standard for a good word, in that it is not 6 syllables long, only four. But when it is used in a certain sense, that word can cause conniptions. Let s muse, no, let s ponder the following phrase: The only thing I can t tolerate is intolerance. (a real headscratcher, isn t it?) That phrase reminds me of the old Alanis Morissette song Isn t it ironic (Old? That song was released in 1995, and it s old??) How does that phrase strike you? How does it make you feel? Does it seem like utter nonsense, or is there a thread of personal verisimilitude that erupts? (There s that word again.) In the New Testament, a form of the word intolerance exists only as tolerable, and contains references to the judgement of Tyre, Sodom, and Sidon. (See Mt 10:15, 11:22, 11:24, Luke 10:12, and 10:14) And if one reads the foregoing texts, it is clear that the judgement at hand is God s judgement, and not that of humankind. How does being a Christian, how does being a Christ-follower, affect our understanding of the word intolerance? What events, what conditions, and what characteristics do we tend to tolerate, and in what events, conditions, and characteristics do we lack tolerance, or are we indeed intolerant? In those cases affecting tolerance, what is the Christian perspective? How are we to react to what we believe are commandments given to us by God? Are we to compromise what we believe are our core beliefs, those things that we consider to be our non-negotiables, for the sake of being considered tolerant? And perhaps more importantly, do we, ourselves, have within us the divine knowledge of the parameters in which God would want us to be tolerant, or even intolerant? Is it possible for humankind to know, with supreme definity, whether God would have us act, toward our fellow human creatures, with tolerance or intolerance? In the 22 nd chapter of the Gospel according to Matthew, Jesus was asked by a Pharisee, Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest? Jesus responded by saying, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself I believe those are words that we can tolerate. God s Peace to all of you Pr Don P.S. In your free time, you may want to ponder whether we, as Christians, are to be tolerant or intolerant of those who do not believe in the commandments Jesus named. (Just a thought)

7 Spiritual Reflection for June 2016 Who Am I? Go ahead ask yourself the question being asked in the title of this reflection. Perhaps you know the answer to this question. Perhaps you think you know the answer. I want to challenge you to stop and consider who you are at the core of your being. Let s explore this topic further. If you were to write your own introduction for someone to read to an audience, what would you put down on paper? What would you want people to know? Perhaps you can recall meeting a stranger and the words you used to introduce yourself to them and the words they used to introduce themselves to you. Stop reading for a moment and think about the words you would put on paper to describe yourself to others. You might go the step further and jot a few things down before you read on. From my experiences using this little exercise, I imagine you considered where you live, what kind of work you do, your membership to various clubs and service groups in your community. Perhaps you provided information about where you obtained your education. You likely included whether you are married or not, have children or not. You may have mentioned your extended family, how many brothers and sisters you have. There are many ways to answer the question, who am I and these are the typical answers. While on retreat at the Jesuit House in Oshkosh, WI, one summer, I felt a deep calling to explore this question for myself. Who am I, I asked looking toward the heavens. I was feeling a bit overwhelmed by the list of things I was doing and held an overall discontentedness in the constant rush from one thing to another. Was I doing what I was supposed to be doing? Was I where I was supposed to be in life? An artist I am not, but I felt called to draw a picture of myself and decorate myself with all the roles, obligations, titles, and commitments that defined me so I could see the answer. I drew and doodled and added and paused, added and paused. When I finished it was hard to see me. Ah ha, that was it! God was asking me to see that all that I do is not really who I am. It is simply what I do. I needed to identify the layers that needed to be removed before I would be able to discover the answer to the question, who I am? I used this exercise at a conference recently. It is a great way to introduce the reality that who we are is more than what we do. Participants were invited to gently peel away the layers of roles, obligations, titles, and commitments. They were encouraged to work slowly and visit all of their vulnerabilities, which we often suppress or cover up with our roles, obligations, titles, and commitments. You see if we take on enough stuff we don t have to deal with our imperfections. The problem is we also risk smothering who we really are. We need not be afraid of our imperfections. We are human. We can grow through acknowledging that we are not perfect. We are likely to find at the core of our being a deep desire to grow, a deep yearning for love and belonging, a deep commitment to a higher power, to God. We can embrace our life journey and empathize with the journey of others, only after we have honestly answered the question, who am I? Questions to ponder: Who do people say I am? What are my imperfections? How can I become more comfortable with my own vulnerabilities? How will knowing myself help me interact with others? May God s Peace Be With You, Tammy Koenecke, RN, BSN, MASL Spiritual Care Coordinator, RAMC Two great resources to check out: Book by Brene Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You re Supposed to be and Embrace Who You Are Song by Francesca Battistelli, If We re Honest

8 June WELCA News Hi ladies, Welcome to June a month of green grass and more of God s beautiful sunshine! Enjoy! Please join us for the General Business Meeting Thursday, June 2, at 7:00 pm. Faith Circle will host the meeting. A speaker form Our House in Reedsburg will be with us. The women of St. Peters will sing to the men on Father s Day June 19 th. Get lots of practice so we are strong and sweet.!! Check your program book for June committees Enjoy June and all of Gods Blessings! Gods Peace, Shirley Albers, Co-President St Peter s WELCA Baby Care Kit items are being collected at this time. Items needed are lightweight cotton t-shirts (hemmed at waist), socks, hand towels (dark color preferred) jackets, sweaters or sweatshirts, and baby caps. Items can be dropped off throughout the summer in the brown totes in the back of the church. A Birthday Card Shower for Myrtle Muchow Myrt is celebrating her 90 th birthday June 11 th. Cards can be sent to 338 Warren Ave, Reedsburg WI Thank you note To my church Family; Words cannot express the thanks for all of your prayers, gifts, cards, and kind words I have received from you. May the Lord bring you peace. Jeanette Judd & family

9 Experience is the hardest kind of teacher; it gives you the test first and the lesson afterwards. You cannot do a kindness to soon because you never know how soon it will be too late. Swallowing angry words is much better than having to eat them When opportunity knocks, don t get caught complaining about the noise. A lie has speed but the truth has endurance. The real measure of your worth is what you would be worth if you lost all your money. If the going gets too easy, you may be going downhill. Good examples have twice the value of good advice The best way to judge someone is to observe how he treats people who can do him absolutely no good.