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1 Lord of Life Lutheran Church Fax: Website: MAY 2014 L O R D O F L I F E L U T H E R A N C H U R C H LIFELINES LORD OF LIFE LUTHERAN CHURCH ANNUAL MEETING on JUNE 8 th, 2014 at 9:00 A.M. Please plan to attend our Annual Meeting. We will vote to approve the Budget for , to elect Council members, and to elect members to the Nominating Committee. LIFELINES IS TAKING A VACATION. There will not be a June or July edition of Lifelines. However, the Calendar and Worship Leader Schedule will be printed and made available on the usher s table, as well as posted on our website. The deadline for articles to appear in the August edition of Lifelines is July 14 th. LOL HAPPENINGS Sunday, May 18 Last day of Sunday School 9:30 am Sunday, June 8 Annual Congregational Meeting 9:00 am Ice Cream Social following the annual meeting (2nd service will be 9:30 or immediately following the meeting.) Please mark your calendar CIA YOUTH GROUP CALENDAR Sunday, May 4 -- Get-Together at LOL 5:30-7:30p pm July Augustana Leadership Lab Please mark your calendar The property committee would like to thank everybody who came and helped with the spring clean up. FIRST HOLY COMMUNION On Sunday, April 13 th, the Lord of Life family recognized and welcomed to the Lord s table, five students who completed First Holy Communion instruction. The following received communion with their families: Communicants Bellastarr Jakresky Frankiejean Jakresky Taylor Nicole LaFountain Anna Grace Scanlan Sarah Catherine Scanlan Parents Congratulations to all! Bryan and Tammyjean Jakresky Bryan and Tammyjean Jakresky James and Erin Plautz Paul and Kimberly Scanlan Paul and Kimberly Scanlan

2 As you watch the plant grow, you can also watch your faith grow. HAPPY MOTHER S DAY Bring your mother, grandmother, and surrogate mother to church on Mother s Day, May 11, and receive a living plant. As you watch the plant grow, you can also watch your faith grow. A special tribute to all who feed us, love us, clothe us and bring us to God s house. God bless you and protect you always. The Outreach Committee Hannah Circle Hannah Circle s next meeting is on May 13. This group meets the second Tuesday of each month at 9:30 a.m. at Lord of Life. Contact person is Ruth Ann Pickard. Rachel Circle Rachel Circle will be meeting at Carol Ryan s house at 1:00 p.m. on May 9. Please call the church office for address information. Library News Surely, some of you have read the book or seen the movie Heaven is for Real. The church copy of the book is now available for check-out in the adult library area. Look for it on a shelf designated Books of the Month in the last shelving section to the right. If you check the book out, please return it ASAP so that others can enjoy it. We only have one copy. Please follow check-out procedures posted on the desk. Thank you, Library Committee Page 2 WINGS 14th Annual Benefit Ride Sunday, June 1, 2014 JD Bootlegger's in Antioch Great new stops and a scavenger hunt added new this year!! Online registration is NOW OPEN!! NEEDED BY OUR QUILTERS: Any of your unneeded flat or fitted sheets, mattress pads, lightweight blankets or unlined drapes to be used as fillers for their quilts. If you can donate any of these items, please place them in the ushers table cabinet labeled Layette and Quilting Donations or by the door of the quilting room in the basement. Book Discussion News Book discussion selection for May is the following: May 12 Nurturing, Healing Love Scarlett Lewis. On December 14, 2012, Scarlett Lewis experienced something no parent should ever have to endure: she lost her son Jesse in an act of unimaginable violence. However, this isn t a story about a massacre. It s a story about love and survival. The Book Discussion group meets the second Monday of each month (Sept.-May) from 1:00-2:00 p.m. in the adult library area. New participants are always welcome. For more information, call Ruth Ann Pickard.

3 The Labyrinth Society invites you to Walk as One at 1" in the afternoon... Those Who Mourn Melissa & Tyler Lundt and family on the death of Melissa s father, Ken Lund. Lil and Don Korff, the Collins family, and the McCaskey family on the death of Lil s son-in-law, Eric G. Collins. Kim & Kelsey Kaufmann and family on the death of Mike Kaufmann. May the memory of our departed loved one always be a blessing. THANK YOU TO ALL who participated in our Lenten Buck-A-Chick project for our ELCA World Hunger Good Gifts program. The gift of a chick makes a world of difference by providing a family in need with eggs to eat and sell at the market. At Lord of Life $ was received flocks plus 3 -- helping families escape hunger! THANK YOU to those who provided food, assisted with set-up, serving, clean up, technical assistance or participated in our ELCA LSTC Guild spring program and meeting. An enjoyable morning was had by all and we thank the LSTC students, Si Khaw from Myanmar and Padma Vundi from India for their interesting presentations. I will give a "shout out" to the following for their hospitality to make all welcome that morning to our facility: Jan Stage, Barbara Dobson, Diane Gioe, Barbara Peterson, Elaine Janssen, Dee Anders, Ruth Ann Pickard, Stephanie Olson, Ken Olson, Mark Puchalski and Pastor Linda. A great outreach to share in ministry, Barb Olson. Page 3 Men s Breakfast Men s Club will meet on Saturday, May 3, at 8:00 a.m. at Davi s Pancake House (on Irving Park Rd. in Roselle, across from the train station) to share in fellowship and to solve the problems of the world. Please come and join us. If you have any questions, call Herm Scharm. Hope to see you there! CHURCH WOMEN UNITED MAY FRIENDSHIP DAY Friday, May 2, at 12:30 p.m., Potluck Salad Luncheon, Elk Grove Presbyterian Church, 600 E. Elk Grove Blvd., (corner of Tonne and Elk Grove Blvd.), World Labyrinth Day Celebrate the sixth annual World Labyrinth Day on Saturday, May 3 rd, 2014! The Labyrinth Society invites you to Walk as One at 1" in the afternoon, joining others around the globe to create a wave of peaceful energy washing across the time zones. Bring your family and invite friends on this day to walk the Lord of Life Labyrinth. Come and reflect, meditate, pray, and spend some time outdoors with God. Author/ Illustrator Kevin Luthardt (AGES 6-14) MONDAY, MAY P.M. RASMUSSEN ROOM Schaumburg Public Library Author and illustrator Kevin Luthardt will present his new picture book, When Edgar Met Cecil. Learn the process of making books from generating a story idea to the published book. Mr. Luthardt will share sketches, storyboards, final artwork and an interactive step-by-step drawing demonstration. A booksale and signing will follow the presentation. Drop in.

4 Page 4 GREEN TEAM MESSAGE Solitude, Spirituality and Wilderness In our Christian faith, solitude, spirituality and wilderness are strongly linked marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Wilderness Act. To help commemorate the event, Creation Justice Ministries put together a 50-day celebration of God s creation with nature wilderness scenes, poems, and writings to help remind us of what has been preserved, and how much this preservation is needed. In our Christian faith, solitude, spirituality and wilderness are strongly linked. We are readily reminded of how a solitary wilderness experience helped both John the Baptist and Jesus bring together a focus which fortified their resolution to do what was right during a time of severe trial. And while Christianity eventually became the official religion within the Roman Empire, there were significant persecutions in 204, 249, and 292 AD under the Emperors Caracalla, Decius and Diocletian which caused many of the most devout Christians to flee into the deserts of Egypt rather than renounce their faith. Well-wishers might journey out to check on the well-being of these initial "hermits", to bring them food, to talk with them about what they had learned, to perhaps set up a small chapel so that they might pray and worship together. These acts set in motion what eventually came to be the system of creating a monastery. But none of this would have happened had there not been a wilderness to go into. Some of the passages CJM compiled are quite inspiring. For example: As Martin Luther said, "God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars". Psalm 65: "The pastures of the wilderness overflow, the hills gird themselves with joy, The meadows clothe themselves with flocks, the valleys deck themselves with grain, They shout and sing together for joy". An excerpt from "The Peace of Wild Things", by the farmer and writer Wendell Berry - "...When despair grows in me...i go lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the Peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief..." And as John Muir observed, "...No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord Himself..." The Wilderness Act was passed in But a strong voice as to what the Wilderness Act should encompass and why came in a letter of December 1960, composed by the writer and professor Wallace Stegner. That letter came to be known as "the Wilderness Letter", and it says in part: "...What I want to speak for is not so much the wilderness uses, valuable as those are, but the wilderness idea, which is a resource in itself... Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste. And so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, brother to the other animals, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it..." To see the 50-Day Celebration for yourself, go to the website

5 CONGREGATION COUNCIL MINUTES Thursday, March 27, 2014 Page 5 Council Members Present: Barb James, Julie Mulherin, Jim Shephard, Pastor Linda Covey, Don Smith, Bob Hossa Not Present: Paul Scanlan, Jim Dobson, Linda Walser Guest: Del Neel and Mark Puchalski Meeting called to order at 7:02 Bob led us in devotions. COUNCIL MINUTES from February 27, 2014: Discussed and approved. the end of next week we will send our information to LifeTouch. ON GOING BUSINESS: Budgets: Committees are working on getting their budgets in for They need to be in by April 14, NEW BUSINESS: Annual Meeting: Will be on June 8, Cathy Thoma and Bill Lundeburg have been asked to join Council since Barb and Jim cannot run again. Julie Mulherin will run for Council again. COMMITTEE REPORTS: Worship and Music, Endowment The meeting adjourned at 8:10 with the Lord s Prayer. Annual Meeting: Will be on June 8, PROPERTY REPORT: Mark Puchalski and Del Neel Discussed building upkeep. Barb moved that we approve the Dry vit Repair Project with an estimate of $12,000 to be paid out of the Clarence Smith Fund. Jim seconded. Motion carried. FINANCIAL REPORT: Del Neel Bob moved to appoint Bill Luthart to the endowment committee. Jim seconded. Motion passed. Del shared an endowment report with Council. Moment for Mission will be on Sunday for finance, memorial, and endowment committees. We looking forward to getting more people involved in these areas. Next Meeting: April 24, 2014 Snacks: Julie Devotions: Jim Respectfully submitted, Julie Mulherin Church Council Secretary PASTOR S REPORT: Pledge Sunday: April 13, 2014 is Pledge Sunday. Attendance is good for mid-week Lenten BYOB (bring your dinner). We are waiting for a few more people to get pictures in. We are hoping that by

6 Lord of Life Lutheran Church 119 West Wise Road Schaumburg, IL DATED MATERIAL: PLEASE DELIVER PROMPTLY Know, Grow, Serve, Share Lord of Life is a community of faith that is warm and welcoming. We strive to KNOW Christ by honoring traditional forms of worship as well as being open to innovations. We continue to GROW in Christ to a closer relationship with our Lord through learning and study. We SERVE Christ in the work of ministry by volunteering our time, energy and faith to church services and social programs. We SHARE Christ in mission and outreach within our church and community by supporting those who need our assistance and relief.