Galilee in Transition

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1 Galilee in Transition Galilee Lutheran Church 4652 Mountain Road, Pasadena, MD Nov. 24 & 25, 2018 GREETINGS! This adapted newsletter will serve as Galilee leadership s communication of important info regarding this season of transition at Galilee. We ask that in addition to reading through this, that you would cover our congregation in prayer in this time of change ~ Emily Phoenix, Dir. of Discipleship Many Blessings to Celebrate at Galilee Lutheran Preschool! BY: Jennifer Farrelly Preschool Director CLEAN UP TIME- On November 17th the church and preschool gathered together to clean up the property. A special thanks goes out to Jim Burke and Emily Phoenix for helping to coordinate a team of church members who helped clean up the playground and church property as well. Thank you to Gary and Sara Thomas, Jerry Poling, Bruce and Kathy Bauer, Rob and Barb Schwarz, Joan Teakle, Anna Smith, Gary Bohlman and Steve Hause for donating your time to the property. The playground looks wonderful! CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS- The preschool has once again partnered with Lutheran Mission Society and participated in the Miracle of Christmas project. Preschool families and staff have collected food and personal items which will be donated to the families they adopted. The adopted families will also receive a box of gifts which were donated by the preschool. We hope you will join us to celebrate the birth of our Savior, Jesus, with our Christmas presentations. See the calendar insert for the dates and times! THE FOCUS OF OUR TEACHING THIS MONTH has been being thankful and showing appreciation for all that we have. Each class celebrated Thanksgiving with a feast and shared what they are thankful for. On Monday, November 20, the 4 year old class enjoyed their feast. OUTREACH TO OVER 125 KIDS made Galilee s 6th Annual Trunk or Treat event a success! We ran out of goody bags and candy! Thanks to all the trunksters as well as volunteers from the Outreach & Education ministry teams! PICTURED: Dave and Vicki Eden passed out candy and decorated their trunk for the event.

2 New Member Welcome & Congregational Budget Meeting We invite you to join us on the Sunday December 9, welcoming new members in worship and at 9:30am to review and vote on the 2019 congregational budget. Renovation Reaches the Home Stretch From the President s Desk Blessings and greetings from Bob Cosler, Gary Thomas, Renovation Team Chair As many of you have no doubt noticed, the renovation work is moving along very well. Again, thank you to the entire Galilee family for your cooperation and patience with the temporarily worship in the fellowship hall. Good news! We plan to be back in the Sanctuary to worship the weekend of 8 and 9 December! The outside work will most likely take a bit longer given the bad weather we have had the past month. Hurrah, some very exciting news to bring you! We received a letter from President John Denninger that included an initial list of pastors that fit the Congregational Profile that we submitted. The list includes those Galileenominated pastors that are available for call as well (two out of five). To give you some idea, of the difficulty in creating such a list, it includes only 8 pastors drawn from a nationwide list. In addition two seminarians are listed. The list along with the profiles of all those available to be called has been forwarded to the Call Committee and I have requested a date and time from the committee members for our next meeting. We will be reviewing the profiles, each about ten pages in length, and selecting those that the Call Committee would like to interview. Most of the painting is complete. The beautiful new narthex ceiling is installed and the carpet and laminate flooring is going down Thanksgiving week. Pews will be installed on November 26th. The electric and sound/media work should be complete by the first week in December. Unfortunately, an issue with the chairs is pushing the chairs delivery out to just before Christmas. In the mean time, we will temporarily move the chairs in the fellowship hall to the sanctuary for worship. Please keep the committee in your prayers, daily. God is working wonders in transition at Galilee and we need to be sure that we communicate with Him with thanksgiving and praise. Thank you again for your patience and understanding as the work continues. We covet your prayers and support throughout the work that progress goes smoothly and finishes when planned. Parking lot repair planning is also in process. We will be meeting with the engineer on December 6 to review his proposed plans for repaving in the spring. A NEW LOOK BRIGHTENS THE SPACE in both the Narthex with the ceilings redone and the brick painted, as well as new flooring and carpet in the sanctuary.

3 Join us at Galilee this Advent/Christmas Season! Please take note of these special services & events in December: EVENING ONLY ADVENT SERVICES will take place at 7pm on Wednesdays, Dec 5, 12 & 19. Meal sign up is in the fellowship hall. (If you need a ride, Lay ministry team can help! Please contact team coordinator, Debbie Bangert to make arrangements (layministry@galileelutheranchurch.org). GATHER WITH PRES. DENNINGER and Northern Region Faciliator, Don Schaefer on Wed., Dec 12 at 7:30 pm (immediately following the Advent service) to receive some encouragement as we continue through the process of finding a new pastor. Youth Christmas Party Students 6 th -12 th grade and families are invited to our annual Christmas party and decorating the church on Sunday, Dec 2 from 6-8pm. Bring a white elephant gift ($10) and your favorite holiday dessert to share! Help us decorate our new space for the season! Join us at Crave Mark your Calendars for Saturday, December 8 from 6-8:30pm for Crave! This community gathering for adults 25 years of age and older will again be hosted by the Zimmerman family in their home in Ellicott City. Free childcare will be available on site! Bring your favorite beverage and a side/dessert and the Zimmerman family will provide the main dish! RSVP by going to this link by December2: form/4346e733 There will be dinner, conversation and time to connect in God's Word! PLEASE JOIN US on Sunday, December 16 at 9:30 am for Unity Sunday. We will have only one service this weekend (Saturday service cancelled), as we come together to celebrate with the Sunday school students presenting the Christmas story. This will be a non-communion service. Coffee and donuts will be available after the service. We hope you will gather and connect with those you may not see often as we worship together! CHRISTMAS EVE WORSHIP will be at 5pm, 7pm, 9pm, 11pm. You and your family are invited to join us to celebrate the birth of our Savior!

4 Galilee Lutheran Church 12 2:30pm Glen Square Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Abbreviations: HC = Holy Communion LWML = Lutheran Women s Missionary League. 2 8am Classic Praise HC 9:15am Sunday School 9:20am Adult Ed Hour 10:45am Sunday Joy 6pm Youth Christmas Party 9 8am Classic Praise 9:15am Sunday School 9:20am Adult Ed Hour 9:30am Cong. Mtg. 10:45am Sunday Joy HC 12:15pm Choir Rehearsal 16 9:30am Unity Sunday & SS Christmas 23 8am Classic Praise 10:45am Sunday Joy HC 30 8am Classic Praise HC 10:45am Sunday Joy HC 6:30pm Boy Scout Troop 000 7pm Woman s Bible Study 6pm Mutual Care Min. 6:30pm Boy Scout Troop 000 7pm Church Council 7pm Woman s Bible Study :45am PS Christmas 6:30pm Boy Scout Troop 000 7:00pm Woman s Bible Study 24 5pm Christmas Eve 7pm Christmas Eve 9pm Christmas Eve HC 11pm Christmas Eve HC OFFICE CLOSED 5 12pm Brown Bag Bible Cl 2:30 pm Glen Square 6pm Advent Dinner 7pm Advent 6pm Advent Dinner 7pm Advent 7:30pm Gathering w/ Pres. 9:45am PS Christmas 8:30am NL 2:30pm Glen Square 6pm Advent Dinner 26 2:30pm Glen Square 6 7pm Choir Rehearsal 7pm Stewardship Comm. Meeting 20 9:45am PS Christmas 7pm Choir Rehearsal 7 8:30am 8:30am 6:30pm Book Club 21 8:30am 12pm Staff Christmas Lunch :30am 1 9:30am Sit & Knit 4:30pm Living Water 8 7:30am Men s Bible Brkfst 8am Women s Bible Class 3:15pm Sat. Afternoon Bible Class 4:30pm Living Water HC 6pm Zimmerman home 15 WORSHIP CANCELLED! Join us on 22 4:30pm Living Water HC 29 4:30pm Living Water HC

5 Galilee Transition Survey Fall 2018 Results (Results based on 112 completed surveys from September 2018) Top Priorities in Galilees present ministry: 1. Fellowship 2. Children s Ministry 3. Preschool 4. Serving the needs of others in the local community 5. Youth ministry 6. Outreach 7. Adult Education 8. Financial Mission support 9. Music Galilee s performance from greatest strength to greatest weakness 1. Friendliness 2. Children s Ministry (Sunday School, VBS, etc ) 3. Communication 4. Outreach (Preschool, Trunk or Treat, etc ) 5. Transparency 6. A Variety of Types 7. Mission Support 8. Music Ministry 9. Volunteerism 10. Adult Education 11. Youth Ministry (Jr High Young Adult) 12. Website Ranking of the responsibilities of the pastor? 1. Ability to make people feel welcome 2. Servant Leader 3. Teacher 4. Current Knowledge of Religion & Society 5. Ability to cast vision 6. Ability to lead different worship styles 7. Ability to equip others 8. Conducts Shut-in visits & hospital calls 9. Administrator TOP 3 Role expectations for a pastor Shepherd (Spiritual Leader) Counselor Orator Visionary Friend THE TRANSITION TEAM turned in the results of this survey along with our congregational profile to the district office to assist with compiling a list of pastoral candidates. The leadership of Galilee is also analyzing this information to assist with making improvements of the mission and ministry of our congregation. Christmas Mail Store coming Dec 8! The Christmas Mail Store is a fundraising service that Galilee Youth and parents provide during the Advent and early Christmas season. For 25 cents, Galilee members can send a Christmas greeting to any other Galilee member. Put the card and quarter in the box on the Mail Store table in the narthex (lobby). Youth will sort the cards and post names on the You've Got Mail board for the recipient so watch the display. When you see your last name, go to the mail store and ask the youth for your cards! We hope to see many cards and many happy Galileans during the Advent and Christmas seasons.

6 GALILEE LUTHERAN CHURCH 4652 Mountain Road Pasadena, MD (410) NON-PROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 39 DATED MATERIAL; mailed Nov. 28 GLEN BURNIE, MD Please do not hold Return service requested Jesus offers His Spirit of life to: Choose your option for worship: 4:30 p.m. Saturday Living Water come as you are informal 8 a.m. Sunday Classic Praise traditional sung liturgical worship 10:45 a.m. Sunday Joy modern liturgical worship with a variety of musical styles Galilee Lutheran Church 4652 Mountain Rd, Pasadena, MD Galilee in Transition is published monthly for members and friends of Galilee Lutheran Church, Pasadena, Md. Edited by Emily Phoenix, produced by Dawn Whittaker, proofread by Dale Bennett; printed by Debbie Bangert; assembled and mailed by our volunteer Newsletter assembly team; Digital edition prepared by Jean Hase, webmaster. Emily Phoenix, director of discipleship dodemily@galileelutheranchurch.org Dawn Whittaker, church office secretary office@galileelutheranchurch.org Jennifer Farrelly, preschool director preschool@galileelutheranchurch.org Jeanne Garrett-Coward, dir. of music min* Wade Ritchie, organist* Judy Engelmeyer, handbell choir director* Gene Sanders, visitation associate * Penny Burke, cleaning service* * = Part-time