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1 UNITED REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH THE VOICE Newsletter Voice The month of Febuary 2017 Office & Staff Contacts Pastor Marggi Sippola (952) Youth: Cindy Wilson (507) Bold in Giving, Active in Service, Vibrant in Faith Please remember to submit your 2017 Sharing and Serving forms to the office or in the offering plate before Giving tip: Feb 12th. Thank you To increase your automatic giving you need only fill out a pledge card and sign it & return to the office. Office Hours Monday Thursday : 9am 4pm Fridays: 9am 12pm Office Manager: Jane Burkhardt admin@urlchurch.org fax: Finance: Teri Paulson bookkeeper@urlchurch.org Custodians: Paul & Lori Severson custodians@urlchurch.org Music Ministry Jubilee Bells: MaryAnn Urban urbanma@hcinet.net Sanctuary Choir: Ruth Reppe mumreppe@charter.net UR Singing Sisters: Dianne Isaacson dimaisaacson@aol.com With One Voice: Cindy Wilson youth@urlchurch.org Check us out on Facebook, or at our website: urlchurch.org where you can find our calendar of events and more information about us! You may also call the office at (507) with any further questions or concerns. We would be happy to speak with you about visiting, our future events, or becoming a part of the congregation.

FLOWERS & ALTAR for February : Sue Ecker Eileen Bjorngaard Guatemala Mission Trip Dates for the mission trip are March 11 21st 2017 Minnesota Adult & Teen Challenge Join us Sunday, February 26 during

2 FLOWERS & ALTAR for February : Sue Ecker Eileen Bjorngaard Guatemala Mission Trip Dates for the mission trip are March 11 21st 2017 Minnesota Adult & Teen Challenge Join us Sunday, February 26 during SMF Marie Furuseth will give a brief overview of Teen Challenge and explain their program. MN Adult & Teen Challenge is a faith based recovery program from addictions for all ages. Their will be 2 of their clients gibing testimony on how this has changed their lives. PLEASE KEEP THE FOLLOWING IN YOUR PRAYERS: Graycelyn Sather Todd Magnuson Garry Froelich Mary Lund Jerry Rauvola Gail Hager Lillian Froisland Future Trips September Splendor-Norway with Spectacular Stockholm Join Ken Magnuson and Ron & Faye Gabrielson on a 10 day journey through Stockholm & Norway. September 10-19, 2017 For more info contact Altar Flowers We are starting a new Altar Flower idea! Sign up to honor / or in memory of that special someone, & buy Altar flowers. We ll list in the bulletin who we are honoring / in memory of. If you purchase from Flowers on Main, Brenda will deliver these to the church & place on the two Altar stands for free. Let s all help put a decorative touch in front of the church! Look for the sign-up sheet by the Usher stand. Please contact Bernice with prayer concerns. **Names submitted to the Prayer Chain will stay on the list for three weeks. ANNOUNCEMENTS for the Bulletin or Voice: Any announcements for the bulletin, need to be ed or dropped off by Wednesday at Noon for the upcoming Sunday bulletin. Any announcements for the Voice needs to be ed or dropped off by the 18th of the month for the following month s Voice. Machu Picchu Brochures available!!! Dates of this exciting trip June See Pastor Marggi for a brochure!! Date 1 st Service 2017 Activity Report 2 nd Service Total Plate Offering 1/1 66 $ /8 111 No count $ / $ /22

3 URLC YOUTH YOUTH CALENDAR confirmation February 1st: Small Group (You will be notified as to what your child s group is doing) February 8 th : 6:15-7:15pm Large Group Class February 15 th 6:15pm Large Group Class February 22 nd : 6:15 Large Group Class CBC Christian-Breakfast-Club Come for Breakfast at 7:15-7:45am in the Reception Hall on Jan. 4 th. We have breakfast & great conversation before your school day. There is always a ride to school, so don t worry about that! The Youth fellowship is open to ANYONE in the community! Invite your friend! Please bring a couple $ to help pay for the delicious food. The ONLY Wednesday we WILL NOT have breakfast is Wed. Feb. 22 nd. Sunday School We invite anyone to Sunday school from 9:15-10:15am. We sing on Sun. Feb. 12 th at the 10:30am service. Please come & hear their awesome voices! We will NOT have class on Sun. Feb. 19 th because of the Pres. Holiday weekend break. Ask for a Youth Handbook at Sunday school. This will have information from Nursery Sr. high age. We are always looking for volunteer help for our season of classes. Please consider this. We welcome any help, whether it s in a little or big way! However it fits you re your schedule, it will fit into ours! Please contact Cindy at Youth@urlchurch.org for any questions. Office: Cell: Noisy Offering Thanks for all your donations at our last Noisy offering. Our total to help Sunday school was $168. Our next Noisy Offering is March 2nd. Keep all the loose change you can to help support Sunday school here at URLC!! 7 th Grade Class If you are in 7 th grade, we have a fun class for you held in the Youth room! This room is FULL of fun classes & games. We have ping pong, foosball, air hockey, & a giant screen TV! The 7 th gr. will also start looking forward to confirmation camp You should have received Confirmation Camp information by mail. If you have not, please contact Cindy. This was due Feb. 1 st. If you haven t sent it in, please do so. The 7 th gr. Youth are scheduled to Acolyte now each week through May. Please check the Youth Handbook for the dates your child is signed up. Please contact Cindy if you have any questions. Youth@urlchurch.org Canoe trip 2017 July 22 nd -29 th 2017 A Canoe group will be going to Boundary waters/canada. We have 13 kids & 6 Chaperones going on the adventure. We have a Canoe Meeting planned for Sunday, Feb. 12 th at 6pm. Please come and hear all the info. about your awesome upcoming trip. Super Night It s time for Super Night again! Fri. Sat. March 3-4 th. This is an awesome time with many different activities to choose from at the different locations we shuttle to all night long! Basketball, Broomball, Ice Skating, Swimming, Racket ball, Tennis, Laser Tag, Bowling, & more! The tickets are $35.00 for Youth & if an adult wants to come, they are $20. Please sign-up with Cindy. The deadline for sign-up & money is Wed. Feb. 15 th. We could use some adult drivers too! Please contact Cindy if you are interested in driving Fri. night for drop off or Sat. morning to pick up a group of kids.

4 WELCA FEBRUARY 2017 Picture this: Your family has belonged to the same church all your life. One morning you wake up and the church is gone. This happened to the Henrytown Lutheran Church of near Canton, MN. Their church building burned to the ground. This happened about 2 years ago, Nothing much was left! It so happened we had purchased new dishes for our kitchen. The board was pondered what to do with the old ones. A thought appeared to give them to Henrytown. A couple from the congregation came to pick them up. We shared coffee and cookies with them. They were so very sad about their loss, very grateful to begin the path back to a new church. Words are hard to find to express how it made us feel. According to a Post Bulletin article of 12/28/16, their new church is very close completion. Their words: God continues to bless us. We are getting excited to be home again. I feel our WELCA was a small part of that! Jan. board meeting a lengthy discussion was held consisting of planning our new year and planning ways to contribute more to 3R project. A donation of $1000 has been given to 3R. Until next time, Looking forward to spring! February meetings: Leah Wichmann Hinz, WELCA President WELCA Board Meeting 2/8/17 6pm Church Rebekah and Naomi Circles will be meeting together for months of Feb. and March at church. Month of Feb. 2/9/17 1:30pm Rebekah Circle hosting. (Item for Women s Shelter-Shampoo or conditioner) Ruth Circle 2/8/17 8am Bridget s Café Quilting 2/26/17 Church 9am Naomi Circle Serving

5 United Redeemer Lutheran Church 2017 Directory Information This year we will be creating an updated directory. The last one was done in 2011 and due to changes that take place for the congregation it becomes necessary to renew it every so many years. The directory will be produced by Life Touch. This company will be taking the photos of the members and construct a directory at no cost to the church. A church committee including Jessica Ottem, Jess Hoeper, Peggy Keller & Roger Rueckert are organizing the effort. In order to make this a success we will need your cooperation. When complete directories will be given to the families who had their pictures taken and the company will update it as needed for the next 4 years. Listed below are points of note regarding the scheduling of the photo sessions: Jessica and Jess will be overseeing the scheduling process. There will be two ways of scheduling; One is via online by connecting to a link on our church web site. And two is via the hand sign up method at a designated location and time. Announcements will be made about the photo session sign ups. The photo session dates and times are scheduled as follows: Friday March 3 (2pm-9pm) Saturday March 4 (9am-3pm) Thursday March 30 (2pm-9pm) Friday March 31 (2pm-9pm) Tuesday June 6 (2pm-9pm) Wednesday June 7 (2pm-9pm) Looking for Photo of Church Events! If you have photos from events that went on at church please send them to Admin@urlchurch.org We Need Your Old CELL PHONE We would like to recycle your cell phones to benefit the Hope Coalition. Money will be earned for each recycled phone. If your cell is in good working order please bag (or box) it up with its charger to be used as a 911 emergency phone for Haven of Hope Women s shelter in Red Wing. Please drop off your cell in the donation box located under table outside office door United Redeemer Lutheran church 560 w 3rd street, Zumbrota Or bring your cell to the Hope Coalition: 1407 w 4th St., Red Wing Hope Coalition Questions: Call Barb (507) cell Phone Recycling Question (651) ext. 19

6 Sunday Fellowship and Forum It looks like our kitchen is up and running. What a great look and setting we now have to enjoy drinking coffee and eating cookies. As we journey to the second month of the year, we continue our Reformation journey. We will continue throughout the year using DVD s and discussions to talk about Luther. All are welcome for coffee and cookies. Please feel free to stay for the forum part of our morning. What does our February journey look like? 2/5: Coffee and conversation, unless we find a surprise presenter!! 2/12: We explore another DVD looking at Reformation Roots. Session # 2 "From Bondage to Freedom". Discussions lead by Nathan Hellyer. 2/19: We will have a travelogue of sorts. Charlie and Diane Nelson journeyed to China to visit their son Jonathan and his wife Deanna who were living there. They promise some fun pictures! 2/25: Plans for this date are still being worked on. I know that I am repeating myself but want to remind folks, making the coffee and putting out the cookies is dependent upon volunteers. A sign-up sheet is available and is passed about on each Sunday to fill up our spots. Please feel free to volunteer. As always, ideas, information and suggestions are welcome. Thank-you to all for your attendance and continued support. SFF Committee ACOLYTES AND URLC Acolytes are an important part of our worship at URLC. Beginning with our seventh graders they start their journey towards confirmation and being an acolyte is part of that journey. Eighth graders continue to serve as acolytes until they enter ninth grade and are confirmed. I meet with the acolytes in early November to give them an orientation as to what their responsibilities are. I try to impress upon them that by lighting the candles they are letting the congregation know that the service is about to begin. I ask that they pause momentarily before the altar to kind of set the mood. I also tell them about the collection plates and helping with communion if need be. While acting as an acolyte I ask that they wear nice shoes and present themselves well. If they have any questions before or during the service, they can ask Pastor Marggi and she will help them out or remind them. At the time of the orientation they can practice lighting the candles and the candle lighter itself. I encourage them to try on the robes. They can ask questions. Do they remember everything they were told? Probably not. They are given the acolyting schedule at the beginning of confirmation. Cindy W gives them reminders as to when they are scheduled. They are supposed to find someone to change with if they can t make it on a particular Sunday. Does it always go as planned? Probably not. As congregation members we notice when only one might be present or maybe no one shows up. Maybe they need to find transportation. Or perhaps they just didn t look at the schedule. There could be a variety of reasons. Why do I write this note? I d like to encourage congregation members to take the time to thank these young men and women for the job they do. Let them know you notice them and tell them they are important. Sure they might forget to get the collection plates either at the time of the offering or receiving them at the end. Help them out. They are not responsible for keeping oil in the candles or the candle lighter so if they come out and light the candles with the small igniter, I consider that resourceful!! We want to keep these young folks active and involved. Take the time to thank them for all they do. Thank you, Genella Mussell

7 February 2017 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 5 AV:Steve Lodermeier Boy Scout Sunday Worship w/ Jubilee Bells & Communion 9:15 AM SMF Sunday Morning Fellowship Worship w/ Jubilee Bells & Communion 6 Food Shelf Open 7 Early Child Development Bible Study Girl Scouts :30 PM A.A. 1 7:15 AM Breakfast Club 8:30 AM Ruth Circle- (os) 3:30 PM Youth Chimers practice WELCA Meeting 6:15 PM Confirmation Class Small Group The Sanctuary Choir Practice 8 7:15 AM Breakfast Club 1:00 PM Youth Chimers practice 6:15 PM Confirmation Class Property Mgmt. The Sanctuary Choir Practice 2 Groundhog Day W.I.C. Jubilee Bells practice 9 9:00 AM Naomi Circle 1:30 PM Rebekah Circle Jubilee Bells practice Food Shelf Open AV: Greg Korsten youth Sunday Worship w/ Sanctuary Choir 9:15 AM SMF Sunday Morning Fellowship Sunday School Sings Worship w/ Sanctuary Choir 4:30 PM Social Ministry Meals 19 AV: Nolan Biorn No Sunday School Worship w/ Communion 9:15 AM S MF Sunday Morning Fellowship Worship w/ Communion 26 AV:Gary Grover Transfiguration Sunday Worship w/ Sanctuary Choir 9:15 AM SMF Sunday Morning Fellowship Worship w/ Sanctuary Choir 13 Boy Scouts Troop OFFICE CLOSED President's Day Food Shelf Open 27 Boy Scouts Troop Valentine's Day Early Child Development Communion at Zumbrota Towers Bible Study 7:30 PM A.A. 21 Bible Study Girl Scouts :30 PM A.A. 28 Bible Study 7:30 PM A.A. 15 7:15 AM Breakfast Club 10:00 AM Food Shelf Open 3:30 PM Youth Chimers practice 3:30 PM Chimers practice after school at church 6:15 PM Confirmation Class The Sanctuary Choir Practice 22 7:15 AM Breakfast Club 2:15 PM WELCA Coffee at Care Center 3:30 PM Youth Chimers practice 6:15 PM Confirmation Class T he Sanctuary Choir Practice 16 Paul Rockne Finance/Executive Meeting Jubilee Bells practice Church Council Meeting 23 9:00 AM Quilting Jubilee Bells practice Food Shelf Open :00 PM Check us out on Facebook, or at our website: urlchurch.org where you can find our calendar of events and more information about us! You may also call the office at (507) with any further questions or concerns. We would be happy to speak with you about visiting, our future events, or becoming a part of the congregation.

8 United Redeemer Church Council Meeting 15 December 2016 Minutes prepared by Mary Goplen Present: Dennis Larson, Roger Rueckert, Mike Brengman, Mary Goplen, Chuck Rohe, Tim Quam, Shirley Buck, Jana Scholl, Rene Arendt, Jessica Hoeper Absent: Pastor Marggi, Joan Henriksen, Anna Haugen, Landon Rauen Call to Order by Dennis Larson, President Addition to Agenda: new business facility rental, copier machine rental Agenda Approval; motion to approve by Goplen, second by Scholl. All in favor, motion passed. November 2016 minutes correction: none November 2016 Minutes: motion to approve by Brengman, second by Rohe. All in favor, motion passed. Finance: Roger Rueckert Financial Report: November 2016 presented. Approval of Financial Report; motion to approve by Arendt, second by Buck. All in favor, motion passed Directory Update: By end of January 2017 a company will be chosen, and dates set. Committee members Jess Hoeper, Jessica Ottem and Ruger Rueckert. Loan Update; current amount $115, Budget Discussion: Salary for 2017 need to be completed. Budget will be finalized by executive committee beginning of January 2017 to be presented to council for approval. Arendt raised question about need for including a second pastor. Plan to address need for second pastor with Pastor Marggi during her upcoming evaluation. Pastor Report New Members: 12 new members, 8 adults and 4 students. New member welcome; Pot luck after second service hopefully in January Marggi will be instructed to pick date. Suggestion made to assign type of dish to bring by first letter of the persons last name. President Report: Dennis Larson Project 3R: Kitchen is near completion. Decorating Committee still working on finishing touches around the building. Fund raising efforts will begin again in March. Used Electronic equipment disposition; unused equip to be valuated and then sold. Future Decorating Committee: will be formed after the 3R project is complete. The role will be to handle changes/additions to decorations of church. Handicap Accessible Doors: outside doors, and inner door in basement hallway, and rest room in basement. Need to re-evaluate the removal of inner door on second level. Committee Reports Worship: Mike Brengman No report Property Management: Chuck Rohe Sale of table/chairs (folding chairs & tables for outside use will be reserved). Recommend setting a price and open to members to first then to public at later date. Old kitchen was examined for storage. Christmas decorations will be taken down January 17. Outside lighting options are being explored with X-Cell. These changes will occur in Mission Support: Mary Goplen Focus groups held to formulate a giving plan for mission support. The 2017 focus for URLC mission support will be Hunger & Housing. 60% of dollars will be spent at the church/local level, 20% at the National level and 20% at the International level. The set priorities will be: Church/Local Zumbrota Food-shelf (15% of total budget) Meals on Wheels (15% of total budget) Back Packs at School (15% of total budget) Ministerial Fund of Zumbrota Trust Fund (15% of total budget) Habitat for Humanity Volunteer time National Habitat for Humanity (20% of total budget) International Good Gifts World Hunger ( 10% of total budget) Guatemala San Luis ( 10% of total budget) The Plan will be presented at Sunday Fellowship and Forum January 15, 2017.

9 Adult Education: Mary Goplen Calendar for Sunday Fellowship reviewed. Staff Support: Mike Brengman Evaluation of staff under way. Salaries are being reviewed for 2017 budget. Youth Education: Jessica Hoeper Cindy s update; Christmas Program December 18. Discussion about plan if Children s Program will need to be cancelled due to weather. President will make the decision about cancelling. Laura babysitting on Saturday. Canoe trip this summer. Sign up is light. Need to encourage youth to consider going. Dates are July Youth and Family Ministry: Shirley Buck Wonderful Cookie Auction this year. Jars for cookie & Chili still for sale. Oodles of noodles in January. Evangelism: Tim Quam Committee will set up meeting to plan new membership welcome. Social Ministry: Rene Arendt Ministry Meals, serving about 21 people. Youth Report: No report. Old Business None. New Business Transfer of Funds Table Rental Account: move amount to 3 R Adult Mission Trip: move amount to Lutheran Bible fund: move to 3R for memorabilia room cost Kitchen fund: move to 3R kitchen project Neighbor Helping Neighbor: move to mission support for Housing and Hunger. Youth Ministry Fund Certificate of Deposit: move to 3R Youth/Sunday School Project Confirmation Camp: move to 3R Youth/Sunday School Project Motion to approve above transfer of funds by Scholl, second by Hoeper. All in favor, motion passed. Sale of used tables/chairs; next spring. Proposed budget will be distributed to council members to review. Revised form for Contract for the Use of Facilities reviewed. Copier Machine presented as suggested by Terri. Motion to go forward with copier change as presented by Hoeper, second by Buck. All in favor, motion passed. Council Terms. Motion to change council member numbers by this method; in 2017 we will reduce by 2 members leaving 9 active members. Motion to approve by Goplen, second by Buck, all in favor motion passed. Office will be closed December 26, 2016 and January 2, Executive Committee will meet January 4, 2017 at Next Council Meeting Thursday January 12, Budget Presentation at Fellowship Forum Sunday January 22, Annual Meeting at Fellowship Forum Sunday January 29, Motion made to adjourn by Buck, second by Hoeper. All in favor, motion passed.

10 Women s Summer Superior Hiking! Aug 20 23rd! Grand Marais Lodging Superior Trail Hiking if you are interested please contact Pastor Marggi by Feb 5th Limit of 20! Meeting between Service Feb 5th

UNITED REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH THE VOICE

UNITED REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH THE VOICE Newsletter Voice The month of January 2017 Office & Staff Contacts Pastor Marggi Sippola (952) 594-2092 pastormarggi@urlchurch.org Youth: Cindy Wilson (507) 421-4105