The Messenger Of Messiah Lutheran Church January 2018

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1 The Messenger Of Messiah Lutheran Church January 2018 HAPPY NEW YEAR! Do not look back. Start anew and be ready to face the New Year with your head up. Learn from the past and use it as a tool to start another year without fear. With God as our Leader, may we be prepared to live another year under His guidance. Make it a point to start each day of this New Year with a prayer. It works wonders. Do not be afraid to face life. This New Year has a lot of promises for us. Trust God and everything will be fine. Do not bring with you the memories of the past. Let them serve as your guide to keep moving on your journey. God is our strength. Let Him be the strong foundation of our life so that we will not stumble when things go bad.

2 CHURCH UN-DECORATING Please come help un-decorate Messiah at 4 p.m. Tuesday, January 2. Thank you for the Poinsettias to beautify our Sanctuary. To the Glory of God and In Memory of: My Grandparents: Art & Anna Bucknell, by Lou Brennan-Holzer Our Grandparents by Bruce & Chris Eldridge Our Parents: Donald & Gladys Ackman and Stan & Inez Horn; and our Grandson, Benjamin Wellman, by Karl & Leila Horn Our Family by Charles & Alice Krumwiede Steve s Brother and Sister & Connie s Dad by Steve & Connie Schiller To the Glory of God and In Honor of: Our Grandchildren: Liam, Connor, Beckett, Layla, & Lucy by Marcie & Dean Andrews (2) My Family by Jane Hoppenworth Our Children and Grandchildren by Jeff & Kaye Engelhardt My Grandparents: Marvin & Lucille Solberg and Charles & Alice Krumwiede, by Anna Krumwiede (2) Our Family by Charles & Alice Krumwiede My Mother, Marcille Green, by Becky Smith The Congregational Annual Meeting will be held Sunday, January 21, after the worship service. Committee chairs: please remember to submit your reports - via to ccmessiah@mchsi.com so they can be uniformly formatted. NO report will be accepted after 9:00 a.m. Tuesday, January 10. The Annual Reports will be available on the back table in the sanctuary - on Sunday, January 22. Thank you. MEALS ON WHEELS Volunteers are needed to deliver Meals on Wheels the week of January Sign-up sheets are on the back table in the sanctuary. Call Becky Smith at for more information. DAVE S NON-SNOWBIRD SPECIAL Beginning Sunday, January 7, 2018, and continuing every Sunday through February 25, 2018, Dave s Restaurant is running a special promotion. Anyone who brings their current church bulletin to Dave s will receive $1.00 off each adult member in their party who orders a regular priced breakfast/brunch buffet. They will not keep the bulletins; they will just verify the dates and return them. Come to church, get a $1.00 off at Dave s! FREE CONCERT Rachel Kurtz will be in concert at 2 p.m. Sunday, February 18, 2018, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Mason City. Please see the press release on the bulletin board for further information. INCLEMENT WEATHER **Note: If Messiah s Sunday worship is cancelled due to ice or snow, it will be announced on KCHA Radio and KIMT Television. If Channel 3.1 does not have the announcements, please tune to Channel 3.2 for local cancellations. LIFESERVE BLOOD DRIVE LifeServe will hold its monthly blood drive from 8:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. Saturday, January 27, in the Fellowship Hall at Messiah Lutheran Church. GIVE THE GIFT OF LIFE

3 IN OUR PRAYERS Our Sick: Diane Bellinger; Steve Buseman; Kim DeBower (Jan DeBower s son); Marcille Green (Becky Smith s mother); John Guthart; LaRue Hagen (Roy & Janice Matthew s sister-in-law); Dorothy Meineke; Lori Nettleton; Linus Schrage; Diana Schwictenberg (Noriene North s daughter); and Jenni (Youngerman) Miller (Krumwiede family friend). Our Shut-ins: Dody 11th Street Chautauqua; th Street Please send mail to Dody c/o Becky Thome; 1941 Gil Avenue; Charles City, IA Elizabeth 9 th Street Chautauqua; th Street; Charles City, IA Sharon Emerald Crest; 8150 Bavaria Rd.; Victoria, MN Jim Clarksville Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation Center; 115 N. Hilton; P.O. Box 159; Clarksville IA Karen Johnston, Linus Schrage, Maryan Shipley, Bernice Taglin, and Hannah home January 2018 Worship Attendants SUNDAY, JANUARY 7 Greeter: Darrell Harless Ushers: Jesse & Kari Marzen Family Lector: Karen Krumwiede Communion Asst.: Cassie Michael January Altar Guild Les & Rosemary Fjelstul January Trash Takeout Need Volunteer SUNDAY, JANUARY 14 Greeter: Noriene North Ushers: Charles & Alice Krumwiede Lector: Rosemary Fjelstul Organist: Leila Horn SUNDAY, JANUARY 21 Greeter: Leonard & Eleanor Bornstein Ushers: Les & Rosemary Fjelstul Lector: Christopher Arp Communion Asst.: Mark TePaske SATURDAY, JANUARY 28 Greeter: Jesse & Kari Marzen Family Ushers: Ray & Janice Matthews Lector: Chris Eldridge Please take the opportunity to volunteer as ushers and/or greeters for February and March. Sign-up sheets are located on the table in the back of the sanctuary. There is also a new signup sheet for trash takeout in Please remember that it is your responsibility, as a worship attendant, to find your own replacement if your plans change and you cannot fulfill your commitment. Please notify Messiah s office the Wednesday before the Sunday you are to serve. The office will then notify the correct person about the change.

4 SPECIAL DAYS IN THE LIVES OF OUR MEMBERS If we have inadvertently omitted your special day, Please notify the church office so we may update our records. JANUARY BIRTHDAYS JANUARY ANNIVERSARIES 1 Adam Hull 20 Elmer & Judy Buchholz 6 Gerrie Phillips 31 Brent & Lisa Hinz 11 Amy Weber 13 Alex TePaske 18 Cassie Michael 24 Norienne North 28 Hunter Cother 29 Jeanne Meyer Messiah WELCA Wednesday, January 3 9:30 a.m. WELCA Board Meeting Naomi Circle 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, January 10 Bible Study: Alice Krumwiede Hostess: Judy Kelly Ruth Circle 7:00 p.m. Thursday, January 11 Bible Study: Jeanne Meyer Hostess: Leila Horn NOTICE The 2018 WELCA Program Books are in your mailbox. RETIREMENT OPEN HOUSE First Baptist Church of Charles City invites you to a retirement open house to honor and thank Rev. Ruth Yeaton for her 19 years of dedicated service to their church and the community. The open house will be held from 2:00-4:00 p.m. Sunday, January 7, 2018 at the First Baptist Church located at 105 Chapel Lane in Charles City. A rain date has been scheduled for Sunday, January 14. Please take a moment to jot down a message to Pastor Ruth as a heartfelt keepsake that she will enjoy reading for many years to come a memory, a story, a greeting, etc. You may bring it with you or mail it to the church. THANK YOU Thank you to the congregation of Messiah for opening your hearts and participating in the family gift giving for the LSI families chosen. These families had a brighter and merrier Christmas due to your generosity. Community Concerns Committee

5 Raising our Voice for Iowa Children and Families Lutheran Day on the Hill Families living in poverty. Iowa children in need of a forever family. Former refugees building new lives. These kinds of issues are rarely the center of attention at the Iowa State Capitol. Let s change that! Please consider joining Lutheran Services in Iowa (LSI) and the three Iowa synods of the ELCA for Lutheran Day on the Hill, an annual day of advocacy in Des Moines to uplift the needs of our neighbors. The event will be held on Thursday, February 8. Visit next month for event details, online registration, and an online toolkit for your congregation. If you are new to advocacy, come learn more about the legislative process and your role as a citizen. If you ve attended before, join us again. We hope this year s schedule will also allow you more opportunities to connect with legislators. If you would like more information, please contact Deb Whitford, LSI s director of philanthropy and church relations, at or Deborah.Whitford@LSIowa.org. Our Mission: Lutheran Services in Iowa responds to the love of Jesus Christ through compassionate service. LSI is an affiliated social ministry partner of the Iowa congregations of the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) and a member of LSA (Lutheran Services in America). We proudly serve people of all ages, abilities, religions, sexes, gender identities, national origins, ethnicities, races, and sexual orientations. Learn more at and Friendly Competition When the time came to take their U.S. Citizenship Exam, Bhakti and Chhali felt overwhelmed. Originally from Bhutan, the couple moved to Des Moines from a refugee camp in Nepal. Since then, they have been busy improving their English and settling into their new home. They both worked seven days a week and struggled to find time to study for their exam. LSI s Refugee Community Services were there to help. LSI provides English as a Second Language (ESL) classes, and Bhakti and Chhali studied hard in class to prepare for the writing and reading component of their exam. They supported and competed with each other, pushing themselves to succeed. Their work paid off, and Bhakti and Chhali recently passed their exam and are now U.S. Citizens. We appreciate the help our LSI volunteers gave us on the Citizenship Exam, Bhakti says. They are so committed to seeing us meet our goals. Thank you for empowering your Iowa neighbors. We couldn t do this important work without you! MESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCH (641) ccmessiah@mchsi.com FACEBOOK: messiah lutheran church charles city iowa website: Secretary: Aletha Berding-Powell Worship Schedule: 9:15 a.m. Worship 10:20 a.m. Sunday School Fall session has ended Spring session begins in March Communion 1 st, 3 rd, & 5 th Sundays Office Hours: Aletha Mon.-Thurs.: 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m CONGREGATIONAL COUNCIL Mark TePaske President Dean Andrews Vice-President Karen Krumwiede Secretary Les & Rosemary Fjelstul Worship Cassie Michael Education Martha Cavanaugh Comm. Concerns Donovan CPA Firm Treasurer Vacant Ste-evan (non-council) Bruce Eldridge, Property (non-council) Bill Cavanaugh, & Bill Mainprize Messiah s Mission Statement Witnessing God s Love Through Christ We do this through: Bible Studies & Small Groups; Prayer & Worship; Fellowship & Support; Service to the Community