GOOD NEWS FROM GRACE July 12 & 13, 2014

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1 GOOD NEWS FROM GRACE July 12 & 13, 2014 REGULAR WORSHIP SERVICES Memorial Day to Labor Day Saturday 5:00 pm Sunday 8:30 am (Please note that the 8:30 am service will NOT change to 8:00 am.) Sunday OUTDOOR worship 10:00 am at Schaefer s Wharf on Hwy L OUR SYMPATHY AND PRAYERS to the family of Colleen Smith who passed away on July 4 th. Colleen is the daughter of Lucille Heiger and the sister of Leon Christensen. May the family be comforted with the hope of eternal life. 24 HOURS OF SERVICE will take place Friday & Saturday, August 15-16, from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. All youth, 6th-12th grade, are encouraged to participate. Activities will include service around the Tomahawk & surrounding communities, hunger & homelessness awareness, service learning, campfire time, and Bible study. Questions or interested in participating? Contact co-leaders Margie Welke or Autumn Frederick. Pledge sheets can be found in the Gathering Space. All proceeds will go to area hunger programs. CAMPFIRE, Sunday evening, July 13 th at Marie Stark s cabin N10243 Erickson Lane. Experience the thoughtful sharing learned at Via de Cristo. All are welcome! Please bring a lawn chair. Erickson Lane is the frontage road that parallels Hwy 51 south of County A. Marie s place is on Mohawksin between the Hwy 51 bridge and below the Lake Alice Dam-on the north side. WILDERNESS SEND OFF AT OUTDOOR WORSHIP for those leaving on the Wilderness Trip to Grand Tetons National Park. We send them off with prayer for God s blessing on eight youth, entering 10 th grade, who will confirm their faith in October along with some of their parents: Lane Beaumier with Brett & Jennifer Beaumier, Jackie Elliott with Dale & Lisa Elliott, Emily Decker with Devin & Jody Decker, Maggee Renn with Don & Marne Renn, Makayla Becker, Holley Winker with Audrey Winker, Lucas Tjugum with Patrick Tjugum, Josh Wick with Mike & Sandy Wick, and Pastor Mark. They leave on Saturday July 19 with overnights at Gustavus Adolphus College, Custer State Park, and five nights in the Grand Tetons. Pray that their conversations, experience and encounter with God s creation deepens their faith, love, and appreciation for community. GARDEN OF GIVING NEWS The garden has started to produce. We brought 12 bags of assorted lettuce and some radishes to the food pantry this week. We will have work days for picking and weeding on Wednesday s from 10:00 to 3:00 if you would like to help out, we welcome help anytime. Thank you to all that have been helping so far! If you haven t already, check out the Garden of Giving! Questions?? Please call Margie at (715) or John Kromm at (715) CROSSWAYS CAMP HAS OPENINGS! It is still not too late especially for the specialty camps at Waypost. See more at Jr & Senior YET (Youth Enrichment Training) July 20-25, at Waypost, Kayaking for adults, July 25-26, at Waypost Camp Musical, July 27-Aug. 1, at Waypost Get Dirty for God, July 27-Aug. 1, at Waypost Jr. High Adventure, July 27-Aug. 1, at Waypost Family Camp Week, July 27-Aug. 1 or Aug 3-8, at Imago Dei Village Family Weekend, Aug. 1-3, at Pine Lake Preschool Parent & Me, Aug at Imago Dei Village Grandparent/KIDS Camp, Aug , at Pine Lake or Waypost (may be filled) Most age specific programs are still open at Pine Lake Camp has openings each week from July 20-Aug. 8: Pioneers (grades 1-3), Pathfinders (grades 3-5), Mavericks (grades 6-8), and Settlers (grades 9-12). CONFIRMATION STAFF NEEDED We have two small groups of confirmation students who need mentors. It can be individuals or a couple/team. Job requirements include a deep caring and concern for young people, a willingness to work with 8th grade students, an interest in having fun, and availability on Wednesday evenings. This is a 2-year commitment. Complete training will be provided. We also are in need of an individual to coordinate our service days for confirmation. There will be five or six special service projects during class time throughout the year. If you are a detail person who would be willing to make contacts with area project sites, determine supply and transportation needs, and organize the events themselves, we would love to have you on board! If you have any questions about either the Mentor positions or the Service Project Coordinator, or would like to volunteer, please contact Mindy Gabrich at or mindy@gracetomahawk.org. RUTH CIRCLE SEWING KITS Needy people around the world rely on Lutheran World Relief to maintain higher living standards. Ruth Circle is helping to fill a need by supplying Sewing Kits. Please help by donating three yards of fabric with matching thread (250 to 350 yards.) Your donations of fabric and thread can be placed in the labeled box by the office door.

2 SUMMER OUTDOOR WORSHIP VOLUNTEERS Summer Outdoor Worship is in full swing! Your help as Usher, Assisting Minister, Reader, Offering Delivery, Singer (individual, small group, large group), and Musician (Guitar, Piano, or any other instrument that can be used to lead music) is appreciated at any of the outdoor services. All (visitors, members, summer residents) are welcome to participate and assist Outdoor worship. To volunteer, call the church office (715) , Mary Wilke (715) , Lisa Elliott (715) or sign-up on the poster in the Gathering Area. KEENAN WEATHERFORD S LAST NEWSLETTER pick it up in the Gathering Space. Keenan is the ELCA Young Adult in Global Mission who has spent the past year working in Lekubu s Early Learning Centre. This is the Centre Grace is supporting through the July Special Offering. Keenan s pictures and stories gives much more background on Lekubu s Creche. JULY SPECIAL OFFERING LEKUBU S EARLY LEARNING CENTER This is a remarkable resource that caught the attention of Al and Deb Overhaug and Pastor Mark and Claudia when they visited our companion parish in Each of them can tell the story of a five year old boy using a flannel board to tell the Biblical Story of Joseph and his brothers. At that time the Lekubu Parish pointed out that the German Church s support was ending in The Overhaugs and Ziemers emphasized that the Early Learning Centre was truly worthy of support but that this relationship needed to be mutual, as had been asserted to them by our ELCA Global Mission Department and confirmed by Bishop Ditlhale of the Western Diocese. See the special insert in the bulletin OUR GIVING AND EXPENSES May 2014 General Fund Offerings $28,758 $24,713 Disbursements $37,930 $33,829 General Fund Balance $28,532 20,303 YEAR TO DATE General Fund 2013 YTD 2014 YTD Offerings $150,556 $148,737 Disbursements $151,564 $164,982 WEEKLY FINANCIAL NEWS General Fund: $7, Noisy Collection: $43.00 Attendance: 177 STEWARDSHIP CORNER It is God s nature to give. Because we are created in God s image, we have within us a disposition to give. Unfortunately, because of sin, we lost that image and became selfish rather than giving people. By His grace, God restores us and renews us, so that we want to give cheerfully and generously. With changed hearts, we give our first and best. God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work (2 Corinthians 9:8). God richly bestows us with the capacity to give generously. We will always be given the opportunity for doing good. You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God (2 Corinthians 9:11). Vacation Bible School at Grace! "Catch the Buzz" Vacation Bible School (VBS) will be August 4-8 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. for children age 4 through those having completed grade 5. Lunch will be included. The week will conclude with worship on Saturday, August 9 at 5:00 with a potluck to follow. See registration forms in the Gathering Area and in the June newsletter! Bring a friend or three!!! Help Wanted for VBS We are excited about our Vacation Bible School August 4-8 but we need your help. If anyone from Grade 6 through age 99 is interested in being involved, we can use your gifts! We need team leaders for various age groups, group assistants, lunch coordinators, servers, game leaders, service project helpers, and music leaders. We will also need donations of various food and craft items. Please prayerfully consider being involved with this fun, faith-building event for our young people. If you have questions or want to volunteer, please contact Patti Gaedtke or Wendy Black in the church office. LIFE LINE SCREENING - AUGUST 16, 2014 AT GRACE LUTHERAN Life Line Screening, a leading provider of community-based preventive health screenings, will host their affordable, non-invasive, and painless health screenings on August 16, 2014, at Grace Lutheran. Five screenings will be offered that scan for potential health problems related to: blocked arteries, which is a leading cause of stroke; abdominal aortic aneurysms, which can lead to a ruptured aorta; hardening of the arteries in the legs, which is a strong predictor of heart disease; atrial fibrillation or irregular heart beat, which is closely tied to stroke risk; and a bone density screening for men and women, used to assess the risk of osteoporosis. Register for a Wellness Package, which includes four vascular tests and osteoporosis screening, from $149 ($139 with our member discount). All five screenings take minutes to complete. In order to register for this event and to receive a $10 discount off any package priced above $129, please call or visit

3 PLEASE CALL US IF YOU ARE HOSPITALIZED If you are hospitalized, please call us, or have a family member do so. That is the only way we will know. We do NOT get notified by the hospitals. You may call (715) , or pastorziemer@gracetomahawk.org or dhetzel@gracetomahawk.org FAIR TRADE IN THE SUMMER Our congregation s response to the Fair Trade ministry we began in January has been very uplifting. Your purchases of various coffees, teas, chocolates and other items like honey, almonds, granola bars, etc. have been a great indication of your willingness to help farmers around the world earn a better living. For this, we thank you. We will continue to sell Equal Exchange items at our selling table on the early weekends of each month: July 5 & 6, August 2 & 3 and September 6 & 7. Remember, products can also be purchased at the church office during the week. You may also ask the Fair Trade ministry team members (Deb Overhaug, Margie Welke, Cathy Schmit, Wendy Black, Patti Gaedtke or Sherry Clements) for product whenever you see us at church. We thank you for your continued support of this worthwhile ministry. GROUP EVENTS & FUNDRAISING GUIDELINES FORMS If you are planning an event or fundraiser, please pick up one of these forms from the office or go to our website: and click on Downloadable Forms. These forms have proved to be very helpful to the office staff and we believe they will be even more useful in the future as they will provide more details in tracking expenses and will include comments by those in charge of these events. Please remember to turn in the short Report portion (second sheet) of this two page document. The office will be following up on the report forms.

4 SUBMITTING YOUR BULLETIN ANNOUNCEMENT Please submit bulletin announcements for the Sunday bulletin by Wednesday. We truly appreciate your thoughtfulness when you send your completed announcements by Wednesday. Also, make sure you have included all information pertaining to your announcement. The information you give us is what will appear in your announcement. Thank you for your help! WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY If you are willing to contribute to our window replacement fund, to replace some of the deteriorating windows in our building, please include the form below with your donation. Remember to check the progress board in the gathering space to see how close we are to our Phase 1 goal. If you have questions, please contact John Pashek, Corky Burcalow, Bill Strand, or Bob Setlak. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY TOTAL CONTRIBUTION $ NAME Envelope No. Given In Memory/Honor of ******* Contributions of any amount are greatly appreciated ******* If you would like to sponsor a window(s), please complete the sponsorship form available on the progress board in the gathering space or on the church website

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