CHRISTMAS AT OSL. December Worship and Events. Parish Scope/ December 2017

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Parish Scope/ December 2017 CHRISTMAS AT OSL December Worship and Events December 3 rd First Sunday of Advent: 8:30 & 10:30 Services December 7 th OSL Advent Luncheon at Noon December

8:30 Service December 17 th Children s Christmas Program at the 10:30 Service December 17 th Christmas Cantata at Peace Lutheran at 2 PM December 24 th Fourth Sunday of Advent: 9:00 AM

1 Parish Scope/ December 2017 CHRISTMAS AT OSL December Worship and Events December 3 rd First Sunday of Advent: 8:30 & 10:30 Services December 7 th OSL Advent Luncheon at Noon December 10 th Second Sunday of Advent: 8:30 & 10:30 Services December 13 th Dick Edwards Eldercare Presentation December 17 th Installation of Kelly Jensen as Director of Youth Ministry at the 8:30 Service December 17 th Children s Christmas Program at the 10:30 Service December 17 th Christmas Cantata at Peace Lutheran at 2 PM December 24 th Fourth Sunday of Advent: 9:00 AM Service December 24 th Candlelight Christmas Eve Service: 3:00 & 5:00 PM December 24 th Candlelight Christmas Eve Service with Communion: 10:00 PM December 31 st Worship Service at 9:00 AM

2 Memorials and Special Gifts Building Fund Mark & Sarah Chambers, Mark & Karen Jansen, Marie Young Preschool Mark & Sarah Chambers, Richard & Pat Edwards, Barry & Julie Bloom, Ken & Jeannette Breckner, Hank & Marge Kunkel ELCA/Disaster Kim & Karen Fruit, Bob & Kathy Hirsch Youth & Youth Education Ken & Jeannette Breckner, Peace Lutheran Church, Rich Vernon, Tom & Deb Hass Radio Broadcast Mary Busalacchi, Cal & Bonnie Christianson, Gayle Holte OSL Women Tracy & Mike Sabelko Benevolence Missionary Sponsor: Louis & RoseAnn Husby Mission Endowment Fund OSL Women General Anonymous, in memory of Vern, Clarice, Robert, Roger & Lynn Lecander, Laura Walleen (in honor of Mary Langford) Greatest Needs Joel & Ruth Seppa (Memorial for Gerry Olson), Megan Bayrd (Thanksgiving meal donation), Worship/Music Fund Marion Jensen, in appreciation of the Praise Band The Monday Morning Quilters would like to thank everyone who has helped us with donations of material, sheets, yarn, money and most importantly, their time. We also want to thank the OSL Endowment Fund, a grant from Dunn County Energy and a grant from Thrivent. Without these donations we wouldn t be able to make our quilts. We ve made a total of 122 quilts so far this year! Here is where they went in 2017: Lutheran World Relief 77 Quilts Stepping Stones 26 Quilts Sold 11 Quilts Palliative Care-Sacred Heart Hospital 5 Quilts A family whose house burned 3 Quilts If you are cleaning out closets or know of someone who wants to get rid of cotton material or cotton sheets (solid or printed), please drop off any donations at the OSL office. We meet every Monday morning from 8:30 11:00 please join us. Thank you and God Bless! Monday Morning Quilters

CHILDREN, YOUTH & FAMILY Youth from Our Savior s and Christ Lutheran helped pack 30 Thanksgiving meals 11/19 Support Our Trip to the 2018 ELCA Youth Gathering in Houston!

3 CHILDREN, YOUTH & FAMILY Youth from Our Savior s and Christ Lutheran helped pack 30 Thanksgiving meals 11/19 Support Our Trip to the 2018 ELCA Youth Gathering in Houston! In June of 2018, fifteen high school students from the three ELCA churches in Menomonie (10 from OSL), along with 3 adult leaders, will travel to Houston, TX for the ELCA Youth Gathering. Similar to Luther s 95 theses, these participants have compiled 95 Reasons Why they want to attend this gathering. Each reason can be found on envelopes on a display in the Friendship Room. Each envelope has a dollar amount on it. Please take an envelope with a reason you like and return that envelope to the offering plate or the office with that dollar amount enclosed. Your tax-deductible donation goes directly towards the trip, which we estimate to be around $1100 per person. Thank you SO MUCH for your support! High School Youth Group: 7:45-9:00pm Wednesdays in the youth room in the basement of Peace Lutheran. Come enjoy time with friends while we watch movies, talk about God, have fun and eat snacks! Coffee with Kelly: All middle/high school students are welcome to have coffee with Kelly on Wednesdays from 3:00-4:00ish at Caribou Coffee/Einstein Brothers in north Menomonie. Mark your calendars! On Sunday Dec 17 th at the 8:30 service we ll be installing Kelly Jensen as our Director of Youth Ministry, and at the 10:30 service our Sunday School students will be presenting New Star. Come and listen to the Christmas story as told and sung by our OSL kids! On December 20 th, our confirmation class and youth choirs will be caroling at the American Lutheran Home & Autumn Village. Caroling begins at 6 PM. The Lighten Your Load meal begins at 5:30 PM at the American Lutheran Home. There will be NO meal at OSL.

4 MUSIC December is an exciting month at OSL! This month s opportunities to hear great music: December 2 nd UW Stout Choirs perform at OSL at 7 PM December 17 th Children s program at the 10:30 Worship Service December 17 th Christmas Cantata at Peace Lutheran at 2 PM Information: December 27 th No choir rehearsal (youth or adult) December 31 st 9:00 AM service only. A big thank you to the OSL Choir and Michael Dayton for the beautiful music at the Ecumenical Service at St. Joseph s Catholic Church on November 22!

5 Alternative Gifts! Health ministry encourages you to consider the purchase of a unique gift this Christmas season. ELCA Good Gifts offers more than 50 gift-giving options, including $10 for a mosquito net or a baby chick, $30 for a piglet, $40 for a uniform for a girl, $50 for a goat and many more! On December 3, 10 and 17 a table will be set up in the Friendship Room with an opportunity to purchase a gift that can truly make a world of difference! For more info visit HEALTH MINISTRY Global Health Ministries (GHM) On November 8, seven of us (Kathy & Bob Hirsch, Jane Kingzett, Carol Seppa, Cal Christianson, Mary Bensen and Becky Kneer) spent the day at GHM in Fridley, MN. In addition to volunteering (packing hospital gowns and scrubs in boxes), we delivered many items, including dressings, a CPAP machine, devotional booklets, and roller bandages made by our members! Thanks to all who donated. If you would like to donate or join us, contact Kathy Hirsch at Blood Pressure Checks will be Dec 10 From 9:30 10:15 AM in the Friendship Room Share a Christmas Greeting Please consider sending a greeting this Christmas season to our members in care facilities and our missionaries. Updated lists are available near the entrances to the sanctuary. New Medicare Cards here s what you need to know The new Medicare cards arriving next year will no longer display Social Security numbers to protect against identity theft. The cards will be mailed in April The cards will automatically be mailed to all beneficiaries The cards will feature a randomly assigned identity number Your benefits won t change: beware of scams

Dick Edwards to Speak on Subject of Eldercare According to the Pew Research Center, over 70 million Americans between the ages of 40 and 60 the sandwich generation of Boomers are dealing

6 Dick Edwards to Speak on Subject of Eldercare According to the Pew Research Center, over 70 million Americans between the ages of 40 and 60 the sandwich generation of Boomers are dealing simultaneously with their own needs and concerns, and the needs and concerns of their aging parents. The AARP estimates that 30 % of American families are involved in caring for aging parents. Local Eldercare Specialist and OSL member Dick Edwards will be presenting Mom, Dad Can We Talk? Family Conversations That Make a Difference as our Parents Grow Older on Wednesday, December 13 th at 6:00 PM in the Our Savior s Lutheran Church Sanctuary. Edwards has made this presentation to over 125 audiences of adult children across the country and professionals in service to older persons and their families. Edwards presentation and book are conversational, humorous, poignant, informative and encouraging, as he aims to help adult children anticipate and thoughtfully plan for caring conversations with loved ones. By attending this presentation you will gain understanding and appreciation for aging parents; learn how to help insure success in this stage of family life; to evaluate, anticipate, communicate, navigate and celebrate; and, to acquire helpful hints for identifying and managing issues like dementia, drinking, depression and driving. Dick Edwards has 40 years of experience working closely with older adults and their families. For the past 20 years of his career he served as administrator of Charter House, a nationally recognized model for excellence in retirement living and long-term care, affiliated with the world-renowned Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Currently, Dick consults and lectures extensively in the US and abroad. Our Savior s Lutheran Church is located at th Street in Menomonie. Nursery care will be available for young children.

7 Dear Friends of the Northwest Synod of Wisconsin, The year was 1986 and it was a beautiful December morning in our new home in Minnesota. We had recently moved and I was preparing my Christmas Eve message for my new congregation. But I was having difficulty focusing on the task at hand. Each time I attempted to pen relevant and impressive thoughts, my eyes were diverted to a photo on my desk; a photo of a baby with thick dark hair and deep brown eyes. Although we had never met, she had been named and she was loved. Her name was Laura and Lutheran Social Services had assured us that she would soon be on a plane that would fly her from Seoul, South Korea to the Minneapolis airport and then into our arms. But for now, she was in a crib in an orphanage in a faraway land. And that made me sad I was sad because this little one would spend her first Christmas alone or as alone as one can be in a room filled with cribs. But she would not be held in the arms of loving parents and surrounded with gifts. And that was sad. And it made me feel alone. But I had a sermon to write so back to the words in my Bible and back to the story they told. Immanuel - God with us. This word is first written in the book of Isaiah and then again in the Gospel of Matthew. Both times it is written as a promise that God will be with us, and God will never leave us. It is a promise that a baby will one day be born and that baby will fulfill the promise of God s presence with God s people. Oh my goodness could this be true? Could God s promise not be an ancient one, but one that was being fulfilled, even as I attempted to write a message of hope to my new people? Is God really with us? Her first Christmas; wrapped in cloths and lying in a hard bottomed crib in the center of a faraway orphanage. And God is with her. God had knit her together in her mother s womb, and God would never leave her. And her name was Laura. And she was a child of God. I remember this beautiful December morning often. I remember it when I am feeling alone. I remember it because I need to believe that God is with me. And that God will never leave me. And I believe it. This will be my last Christmas message to you as your bishop. Next year at this time, you will read words from a new bishop but the promise will not change. God is with you. His name is Immanuel and the promise is real. Have a blessed Christmas and go to church! God will be there!

COMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES SCANDINAVIAN BAKE SALE SATURDAY, 12/2 at 9:00 AM Come and join in the excitement!! Be a volunteer! Watch & Learn!! Mark your calendars! Tuesday, Nov.

8 COMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES SCANDINAVIAN BAKE SALE SATURDAY, 12/2 at 9:00 AM Come and join in the excitement!! Be a volunteer! Watch & Learn!! Mark your calendars! Tuesday, Nov. 28 th 9:00 AM Krumkaka & Rosettes Wednesday, Nov. 29 th 8:00 AM Peel Potatoes for Lefse & Set Up Thursday, Nov. 30 th 9:00 AM Make Lefse 12:00 PM Famous Potluck Lunch Friday, Dec. 1 st 9:00 AM Packaging & Set Up Saturday, Dec. 2 nd 9:00 AM SCANDINAVIAN BAKE SALE The profits from the Bake Sale will be used for Scholarships for the OSL Youth going to Luther Park Bible Camp - a great place for Christian growth! Winter Haven Volunteer Opportunities Winter Haven is the seasonal overnight shelter for homeless adults run by Stepping Stones of Dunn County. The shelter runs November 15 th March 31 st. There are 10 beds available at the shelter located at 1518 Stout Rd. The shelter is run entirely by community volunteers. Overnight volunteers are the most crucial to the wellbeing of the shelter. There are two shifts with two volunteers per shift: 7:30 PM 1:30 AM and 1:30 AM to 7:30 AM. All volunteers must go through a training session. For more info, contact Jill Seichter at or communityconnect@steppingstonesdc.org The OSL Mitten Tree is ready and waiting in the Friendship Room to be filled with mittens, gloves, hats and scarves for distribution to local schools and youth organizations! Your donation can be placed right on the tree at any time. Don t forget to sign up for Tuesday s Table, happening this month on December 19 th. Sign-up sheets are under the skylight in the Friendship Room.

REMINDERS & ONGOING MINISTRIES Baptismal Family Meeting Pastor Heather will be conducting a group baptismal orientation at 9:45 AM on the second Sunday of each month.

9 REMINDERS & ONGOING MINISTRIES Baptismal Family Meeting Pastor Heather will be conducting a group baptismal orientation at 9:45 AM on the second Sunday of each month. This month s meeting will be held December 10th. Please call the church office at or office@oslme.com to schedule a baptism. If you have contribution questions, contact Bonnie Christianson at: contributions@oslme.com If you need to contact John York, please him at: bookkeeper@oslme.com If you would like to volunteer on Sunday mornings, contact RoseAnn Husby at: info@oslme.com If you have an announcement for the bulletin or Scope, contact Charis Collins at: charis@oslme.com Contributions & Giving If you are out of giving envelopes, let the office know. We can easily print more. If your offering is in a plain envelope, please make sure you write your name and number on it. Online giving is available on OSL s website. Whether you re a member, a visitor or a friend, you re able to make regular contributions, a special one-time donation, or a memorial gift online using your debit or credit card. As a way to celebrate your online Simply Giving, feel free to use the brightly colored giving cards during offering during the service (located in the pew racks) OSL now has a QR (Quick Response) Code: Give directly using the QR Reader app on your device! Men s Bible Study Meets at the Menomonie Family Restaurant at 7 a.m. on the first and third Saturday mornings of each month. Contact: Doug Larson AMers Meets the First Thursday of each month at Denny s in Menomonie at 8:30 AM Contact: Jan Willow Leah Circle Meets second Monday of the 11 AM. Contact: Gloria Kraemer Brown Bag Bible Study Meets at Noon on Wednesdays. Women in Action Meets Mondays at 8:30 AM in the Recreation Room. Quilting Queens Meets the third Thursday of each month at 9 AM in the Recreation Room. Reading Club Meets the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 1 PM in the library. This month they ll meet 11/15 to discuss Ron Chernow s Hamilton. Members do not have to have read the book before meeting. 500 Card Party Meets the third Tuesday of each month at 6:00 PM. All are welcome.

10 Our Savior s Lutheran Church STAFF: Senior Pastor: Rev. Heather T. Wigdahl, heather@oslme.com, Ext. 203 Associate Pastor: Rev. Sarah Miller, sarah@oslme.com. Ext. 204 Pastor Emeritus: Rev. Don Wisner Bookkeeper: John York, bookkeeper@oslme.com, Ext. 202 Contributions: Bonnie Christianson, contributions@oslme.com, Ext. 202 Director of Youth Ministry: Kelly Jensen, kelly@oslme.com Health Ministry/Parish Nurse: Becky Kneer, becky@oslme.com, Ext. 207 Parish Nurse: Amy Whelan Administrative Assistants: Charis Collins & Janell Evan, office@oslme.com, Ext. 201 Director of Music Ministry: Michaela Gifford, michaela@oslme.com, Ext. 216 OSL Choir Director: Michael Dayton Joy & Jubilee Choir Director: Emily Hansen Bell Choir Director: Merlyn Aude Wedding Coordinators: Kim McNaughton & Michaela Gifford Preschool Director: Tami Borcherding, tami@oslme.com, Ext. 205 Custodian: Josh Madsen, Ext CHURCH COUNCIL MEMBERS Mary Solberg: President Roxanne Close: Vice President Tom Rundle: Secretary Paul Horvath Jane Kingzett Kris Lemke Karl Palmer Kara James Diane Hausler Mark Kalscheur: Treasurer

11 OUR MISSION God calls all members of Our Savior s Lutheran to: +WELCOME all to faith in Jesus Christ +WORSHIP our Lord and Savior +EQUIP us for a faith that works in real life +SEND us into the world to minister in Jesus name Contact Us Our Savior s Lutheran 910 9th Street Menomonie, WI (715) office@oslme

Wednesday night lineup: 5:20 PM Dinner. 5:30 Worship. 6 PM Confirmation. 6 PM Jubilee Choir. 6:15 PM OSL Choir. 6:30 PM Joy Choir DINNER CHURCH

Parish Scope/September 2018 DINNER CHURCH Wednesday night lineup: 5:20 PM Dinner 5:30 Worship 6 PM Confirmation 6 PM Jubilee Choir 6:15 PM OSL Choir 6:30 PM Joy Choir Memorials and Special Gifts Building