Immanuel Lutheran Church and School

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1 Immanuel Lutheran Church and School First Sunday after Christmas ~ December 30, 2018 Announcements Chicken & Dumplings On Sunday, January 13 th the PTL will be selling take out meals starting at 10:30 a.m. Each meal includes chicken & dumplings, mashed potatoes, corn, roll and dessert for $10.00 each. Ushers We will have an ushers meeting on Wednesday, January 16 th at 6:30 p.m. All current ushers or anyone in high school or older interested in becoming an usher please plan on attending. Save the Date! ILS Valentine s Day Dance is scheduled for Saturday, February, 9th at 17 th Street. Tickets will go on sale Monday, January 7 th. Due to its popularity at last year s dance, 10 VIP tables will be available again this year. VIP tables may be reserved for $100 and include the following: first to be served dinner, a bottle of wine to enjoy with dinner, and advertising for your business. VIP tables are immediately available for reservation, so please call Julie in the office to secure yours today. Helping a Neighbor A member has a bedroom set that includes a double bed, chest of drawers, dresser and mirror. If you know someone in need, call Pastor. LWML Meeting Date Change Save the Date for Wednesday, January 9 th at 7:00 for the next LWML meeting. Bible Study No Bible Study! Join us next week as we continue to work through the Gospel of John. This is a great opportunity to learn more about God s Word while following the Holy Spirit s mission here at Immanuel of: Making Disciples and Making Them Stronger. Thank You to everyone in the church for all the wonderful cards, gifts, and treats this Christmas. love, Pastor Hoem and Family Envelopes Everyone should have received new offering envelopes in your church mailbox. Please note everyone has been assigned a new number. It is important that you use the new envelopes and discard any remaining envelopes you may have. If you are currently not using assigned envelopes please do so moving forward (it helps with our accounting process). Why We Use Communion Cards The synod requires us to report how many of our members communed each year. Please include full names of all family members who are communing. (do not include young children who are just receiving a blessing). Please put full family attendance information in the Friendship Book. In Case of a Pastoral-Care Emergency Call the Church office, if no one answers or if it is after hours, please call Pastor at home If he does not answer please contact your assigned Elder. Pre-Registration for the School Year Immanuel is having pre-registration for the school year for all current and new PK-8 students starting, January 27 th through February 28 th. All families who enroll and pay $100 per child during this time will reserve their child/children s spot in that class for next year. This also locks in next year s tuition at a discounted price. If you know of any new families interested in Immanuel, please pass this information on to them. Any questions, please call the church office. Immanuel Lutheran Church and School 1915 Pine St Murphysboro, Illinois

2 Announcements Church Service Videos Subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch edited versions of the Sunday Services. Open YouTube in your browser (or app) and search for Immanuel Lutheran Murphysboro. More Sunday services will be added as time permits. Not Feeling Well or Working on a Sunday Morning? Don t miss the opportunity to listen to our service live Sunday mornings at 9:00 a.m. on FM WXAN. It will also be rebroadcast Sunday evenings at 9:00 p.m. If you would like to follow along our bulletins are posted on our website under the information tab. Special Income for November Bible Class $ Disaster Relief $ Building Expansion $3, Save the Date January 7 th Evangelism January 7 th PTL Meeting January 8 th School Board January 9 th LWML Meeting January 9 th Elder s Meeting January 13 th PTL Chicken & Dumpling January 14 th Board of Directors January 16 th Usher Meeting January 22 nd New Building Fund Committee January 27 th Lutheran School Week Starts January 27 th ILS Student s Sing January 27 th Preregister for Year Offering Income December 19, 2018 Regular Envelopes $ Loose Plate $ Total Offerings $ December 23, 2018 Regular Envelopes $ 5, Loose Plate $ Total Offerings $6, December 24, 2018 Regular Envelopes $ 2, Loose Plate $ Total Offerings $2, December 25, 2018 Regular Envelopes $ Loose Plate $ Total Offerings $ Attendance December 19 th 96 Last Year - 90 December 23 rd 190 Last Year December 24 th 233 Last Year December 25 th 69 Last Year - 66 Serving Next Week January 6 th, 2019 Organist: Luella McComb Elder: Jeff Streuter Acolytes: Sam Herring & Malaki Korando Greeters: Malcolm & Brenda Todd Refreshments: Jim & Carol Zobel Ushers for January: Bryan Hollmann, Orval Rowe, Charlie Homan, Max Hoem, Jeffery Lee, and Josh Proctor Calendar for the week Tuesday, January 1 st : Office Closed Wednesday, January 2 nd : 12:30 p.m.- Quilters Saturday, January 5 th : 9:00 a.m. - Take Down Christmas in Church Sunday, January 6 th : 9:00 a.m. - Divine Service

3 A Note from Pastor Hoem "Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. (Proverbs 3:3) Dear Saints, As we start a new year I think it is always good to reflect on the past, and to look forward to the future. I think it is easy to say that during this past year the Lord has blessed Immanuel in amazing ways. We saw seven more baptized into the Christian faith, our school continues to be a wonderful mission opportunity to help grow His church, and we had several members participate in work around the church. We also helped our senior members with yard work, installation of smoke alarms; and let s not forget how some of you shared the Gospel by helping hurricane victims in Florida. As I look back at 2018, I am humbled at all the work the Lord continues to do here at Immanuel. I am also excited to see what the Lord has in store for us in One of the things you heard me talk a lot about in 2018 is faithfulness, and letting the Lord have His way in your life. The Christian life is indeed one of faith. It is faith in Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit has created our faith and sustains our faith through His Word and His Holy Sacraments. The Holy Spirit gives to us everything that Christ has won for us on the cross. Another word for faith is trust. We trust that the Lord has forgiven us. We trust that He loves us. We trust that He will make good use of us in the year to come. We also trust that the Lord is with us, that He hears our prayers, and that He will never leave us or forsake us. We trust that He works all things for our good. As I told you last week, the reason I did not take the call to Trinity, is because I believe the Lord still is calling me to shepherd you going forward. I want to remind you that I am not staying here because of the building project. I am staying here to help you be faithful to what God has called you to do, while helping you, find your spot and work your spot in relationship to what God is asking you to do. I have been sent here by the Holy Spirit to help you increase your faithfulness to the Lord and your love for your neighbor. But I can only do that if you are willing to come under my care and let the Lord have His way in your life. I strongly encourage each and every one of you to look in the mirror and ask yourself, does how I serve the Lord at Immanuel, reflect what the Lord has done for me. If your answer is no, than I encourage you to call me. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. (Proverbs 3:3) That also means we must be open to whatever the Lord has in store for us in 2019, in terms of love, missions, and helping our neighbor; especially beyond these four walls and we must be willing to invite and welcome others who are different than us. To that end, over the next year, I will write letters, send post cards, and continue to teach about faithfulness and how we can all participate in in the Holy Spirits mission here at Immanuel of making disciples and making them stronger. Keep up the good work; continue the positive momentum; and let s always walk in the light of Christ, in all that we say and do. Cheers, Pastor Hoem

4 Stewardship Newsletter Article It is no secret that God calls us to be generous with the gifts He has given us. Throughout the Bible, we read that just as God has generously given to us, so are we to give generously one to another. As Jesus said, By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another (John 13:35) and Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful (Luke 6:36). But God also calls us to give to Him. And He, who does all things well, presses it into service for the benefit of all the people of God. See for example what God spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, after he and the people were safely brought out of Egypt across the Red Sea on dry land: The Lord said to Moses, Speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me a contribution. From every man whose heart moves him you shall receive the contribution for me. And this is the contribution that you shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze, blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, goats' hair, tanned rams' skins, goatskins,[a] acacia wood, oil for the lamps, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, onyx stones, and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece. And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst. Exactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its furniture, so you shall make it. (Ex. 25: 1-9) Notice in verse two that the Lord instructs Moses to tell the Israelites to take for me a contribution and that from everyone motivated from gratitude for what God has just accomplished and given to them, Moses is to gather up the contribution for me. Pay attention, though, why the Lord wants the people of Israel to gather up these contributions for Him. God tells Moses precisely why: let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst. The purpose for the contribution of the Israelites was so that He may dwell with them, that He would live among them. Through the tabernacle and the priesthood, through their rites and ceremonies, through their feasts and festivals, as through means, the Lord God, who brought them out of the bondage of Egypt would live and dwell among them and be their God, and lead them into the promised land, which flowed with milk and honey. God dwells among us still. In the fullness of time, God s son was born of woman, born under the law to redeem those under the law. He brought us out of bondage to sin, death, the devil, and Hell, and He did this by His obedient suffering and death, his resurrection and ascension. But He is not gone. He dwells with us through the means of His Word and His sacraments, through the preaching and the teaching of our pastors, through the rites and ceremonies of our liturgy. He dwells with us in the Church through those means. And He is leading us to the true promised land, to the new heavens and the new earth in the new creation. In the meantime, as God, even now, continues to call us to give to Him, let us, who have been saved from slavery to sin and death, the devil and hell, be so moved in our hearts as to give generously to Him so that the means of grace, the means of His gracious dwelling among us, would continue now and into the future. For just as He did then so does He do now. He presses the gifts given to Him into service for the benefit of all His people. He puts it to use so that we may have Him with us always, even unto the end of the age.

5 January 2019 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 6 9:00 a.m.- Divine Service 13 9:00 a.m.- Divine Service - PTL Chicken & Dumpling 20 9:00 a.m.- Divine Service 27 9:00 a.m.- Divine Service / Student s Sing Pre-Registering Starts 7 10:00 a.m. Evangelism 6:00 p.m. PTL Meeting 14 7:00 p.m. Board of Directors 21 Martin Luther King Jr. No School 28 8:30 a.m. Muffins with Mom Acolytes January 6 Sam Herring & Malaki Korando January 13 Reece Mileur & Shakur Karg January 20 Chloe Barnett & Cash Spurgeon January 27 John Voss & Gibson Fager Elders January 6 Jeff Streuter January 13 Gary Carter January 20 Bryan Hollmann January 27 Jeff Wright Greeters January 6 Malcolm & Brenda Todd January 13 Rob & Beth Hicks January 20 Scott & Valerie Draves January 27 Rich & Marcy Weber 1 New Year s Day (Office Closed) 8 6:00 p.m.- School Board Meeting 2 9 8:30 a.m. - Chapel 6:30 p.m. - Elders 7:00 p.m. - LWML Meeting :30 a.m. - Chapel 6:30 p.m. - Usher s Meeting 22 10:00 a.m. - Truth Seekers 11:00 a.m. - Seniors 6:00 p.m. - New Building Fund Meeting 29 11:00 a.m. - Seniors 23 8:30 a.m. - Chapel 30 8:30 a.m. - Chapel with Grandparents National Lutheran School s Week January Service Participants Ushers Bryan Hollmann, Orval Rowe, Charlie Homan, Max Hoem, Jeffery Lee, & Josh Proctor Name Altar Guild Judy Baird Meals on Wheels Gary & Judy Baird Lloyd & Ruth Mueller Anniversaries Day James & Patti Proctor 1/ :00 a.m. Take down Christmas :00 p.m. School Dismissal :30 a.m. Donuts with Dad 26 January Birthdays Name Day Barbara Sumner 1/1 Patricia Conrad 1/4 Staci Middendorf 1/10 Braden Spradling 1/10 Bruce Fager 1/12 Piper Closson 1/13 Zachary James 1/13 Beth Hicks 1/14 Leonard Tweedy 1/14 Carol Zobel 1/14 Bruce Mueller 1/15 Brandy Foster 1/19 Abby Walker 1/19 Ashlynn Presutti 1/21 Faye Lee 1/23 Allison Svanda 1/24 Rick Varner 1/25 Sam Herring 1/26 Jean Winters 1/26 Steven Draves 1/27 Lawanda Fager 1/28 Gary Baird 1/29 LeAnn Fager 1/31

6 Immanuel School Families: Kipton Reiman & Family Peyton Rains & Family Paxton Pulcher & Family Birthdays: Irvine Cartwright (Dec. 30 th ) Barbara Sumer (Jan. 1 st ) Patricia Conrad (Jan 4 th ) Baptismal Anniversaries: Gary Baird (Dec. 31 st ) Susan Closson (Dec. 31 st ) Theresa Karg (Jan 1 st ) Jana Barnett (Jan 2 nd ) Abigail Vaughn (Jan 4 th ) Lori Graff (Jan 5 th ) Comfort, heath, recovery: Alyssa Reinhardt Hal Zimmerman Susan Closson Jerry Dempsy Judy Dempsy Tom Hoem (father of Pastor) David Morgan (brother of Tom Morgan) Harvey Hollmann (father of Bryan Hollmann) Alice Hollmann (mother of Bryan Hollmann) Continued Prayers: Pauline Althoff June Ashman Tom Vestal Ken Krueger Carol Zobel Donna Strothmann Tom Gibbons (uncle of Kristin Hoem) Bernadette Strate (aunt of Pastor) Lois Lewis (sister-in-law of Virginia Lewis) Connie Chruscel (mother of Debbie Dunn) Cheryl Chruscel (sister of Debbie Dunn) Bonnie Hicks (sister of Doris Williams) Malakai Fager (son of Robert Fager) *I encourage you to put this sheet on your fridge and pray for these saints throughout the week. It s just what Christians do. Pastor