February 2017 PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH of Camarillo LUKE LUKE 14:23 14:23 Then the master told his servant, Go out to the roads and country lanes and compel them to come in, so that my house may be full. Full House Sunday That my house might be FULL Save the Date! February 2/3 Faith & Fun Friday 2/12 Peace Voters Meeting 2/26 Full House Sunday March 3/1 Ash Wednesday 3/8 Soup Supper 3/15 Soup Supper 3/22 Soup Supper April 4/5 Soup Supper 4/13 Maundy Thursday 4/14 Good Friday 4/16 Easter
ATTENTION PEACE FAMILY: Mark your from the front page Calendars! February 26th is a very special Sunday - it s Full House Sunday! Help us transfigure" the place. Luke 14:23 says, " Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled. What would it be like if all 300+ members of Peace cleared the way to make it to church on the exact same Sunday, and we filled God s house? Please help us make this a reality and (1) Mark your own calendar and (2) Tell a friend and fellow member! That my house might be This same Sunday (FEB 26) is also known on the Church calendar as Transfiguration Sunday. This is the culmination of the Epiphany FULL season (before the descent into Lent ), where Jesus disciples (Peter, James & John) have a true epiphany concerning who Jesus really is! On the so-called Mount of Transfiguration they get an eye-full (and ear-full), as Jesus peels back His humanity, as it were, and turns a divine, dazzling white with such a bright radiance that they are practically blinded. They are not so blinded, though, as to keep them from catching a glimpse of none other than Moses and Elijah kneeling and testifying to the Lordship of Jesus. If that s not enough, then a cloud descends - out of which they hear a thunderous voice announcing, This is my Son, whom I love; with Him I am well pleased. Listen to Him! Needless to say, at this, these three disciples were shaken and at a loss. They did what most of us probably would have done were we in their sandals - they fell face down to the ground, terrified, until Jesus came over and touched them, saying, Get up Don t be afraid. You can read all about this wondrous account in Matthew s Gospel, chapter 17. Or, better yet, wait for February 26th when this is read aloud in church! We wouldn t want you to miss it on Full House Sunday! It is the day our church, itself, will be transformed, because every time we gather to hear God s voice from His Word we are all transformed further into the the image of God s glorious Son. That s the transformative power of God s Holy Word upon His Church: We all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. (2 Corinthians 3:18). We will need that transformative power as we then enter Lent and follow Jesus to the cross, heeding His words,..whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. (Mt. 10:39). So, therefore, having beheld our majestic Lord together may we also listen to His comforting words, Don t be afraid. - Deacon Mike
ELDERS CORNER Grace, Mercy, and Peace to you from God our Father and Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! When we think of February, we think of Valentine s Day. We often think of red roses, candy in heart-shaped boxes, mushy valentines, and winged cherubs flying about shooting starry-eyed lovers with arrows. But did you know that the origin of Valentine s Day, or Saint Valentine s Day, comes from the life and death of a Christian Martyr? According to author Martha Zimmerman, the date traditionally celebrated as St. Valentine s Day finds it origin in the Roman festival of romance called Lupercalia, when the gods Juno and Pan were honored. It was a fertility festival or a lover s holiday looking forward to the return of spring. In the fifth century, Pope Gelasius changed Lupercalia and its February 15 th date to February 14 and called it Saint Valentine s Day. Even though the names and the date were changed, the emphasis continued to be focused on love. The real Valentine was a Roman Christian martyred during the third century A.D. by Emperor Claudius II. Prior to his death, Valentine continued to minister in prison by witnessing to his prison guards. One of the guards was a good man who had adopted a blind girl. He asked Valentine if his God could help his daughter. Valentine prayed and the girl was given her sight. The guard and his whole family, 46 people, believed in Jesus and were baptized. When Emperor Claudius II heard about this he was furious that Valentine was still making converts even in prison, so he sentenced Valentine to death. Just before being led out to his execution, the young Christian wrote a note to the jailer s daughter, signing it, From your Valentine. The first valentine was really a Christian witness. Remember that the day we know as St. Valentine s Day actually commemorates the death of an early Christian martyr, Valentine, who was put to death for refusing to renounce his faith in Christ. Anniversaries February Tom & Gayle Waddell 2/14 David & Margaret Stafford 2/20 Lyle & Pat Lehman 2/24 Birthdays February Kristin Stafford 2/2 Carol Troglia 2/4 Ethan Dickson 2/5 Melissa Pettit 2/8 Sheryl O Neil 2/9 Jeanie Barilla 2/9 Melissa Poore 2/11 Glenn Benitz 2/12 Cindy Klittich 2/15 Ingrid Poehler 2/19 Janet Harter 2/20 Gertrud Stenke 2/23 Daniel Klittich 2/23 Anthony Tiongson 2/24 Marisa Denninger 2/24 Diana Wanke 2/25 Doug Morrison 2/25 Linda La Jeunesse 2/25 Bob Lacy 2/26 Logan Krause 2/28 Hayden Supple 2/28 As we celebrate with those we love this February 14 th, also remember to point your family toward the true significance of St. Valentine s Day this year. Share with those around you and friends of the perfect love, God s Love of redemption through the life, death, and resurrection of His son, Jesus Christ. May your day be shared in love and the true blessings from God. Your Elders
We ve all heard that stewardship is giving to the church of our time, talents, and treasure. This alliterative trinity helps us see that giving is not just about money, but about our whole lives. For God has given us everything we have and enjoy as we confess in the meaning to the First Article of the Apostle s Creed. And what we confess first among those is that God gives us our body and soul, our eyes, ears, and all our members, our reason and all our senses. Only then do we confess that he gives us material things. Thus the time, talents, and treasure trinity places before our eyes the fact that we are to give something of all of these things toward the mission of the church in thanksgiving for what God has provided. For everything we have and indeed everything we are comes from God s fatherly divine goodness and mercy. The problem with this alliterative trinity comes when we replace one little word with another little word when we replace the word and with the word or. It is always written with the and, but when we read it, we read it with the or. Thus this quite helpful trinity, which extolled that everything that we have and are is a gift from God and which is to be pressed into the service of God in His church, turns into a trinity that we can pick and choose which of the trinity we use into the service of God. The giving of our time, talents, and treasure turns into the giving of our time, talents, or treasure. Then the question arises: Can we give of our time and talents instead of our treasures? Or perhaps it is the other way round: Can we give our treasure and not of our time and our talents? But these are the wrong questions. The right question is, can we give of our time and our talents in addition to our treasure? Yes, indeed, we are called to give of all three. The things that God gives us are not to be pitted against one another. They are given to us and we are to press them all into God s service for benefit of His church and our neighbors in need. Thus we give all three. We give our treasure in the form of a generous, first-fruits, proportion of our income. We give of our time in generosity for the benefit of Christ s holy church. We give of our talents in the same manner. Since God gave us all these things, we are called to give generously of all these things in faith toward Him and in fervent love to our neighbors. For God has provided all these things to us. Out of His fatherly, divine goodness and mercy, He gives us each time, talents, AND treasures as a means to bless those around us. We serve our neighbors with these things, blessing them with the blessings in which God has blessed us. We give of our time, talents, and treasures to our families, our society, and to our church, our local congregations. And we do this because we know that we are not our own. Rather, we belong to God. We have been bought with a price with the holy precious blood and innocent suffering and death of our Lord Jesus Christ. He gave everything His time, His talents, and His treasure, to have us as His own and to live under Him in His kingdom and serve Him in everlasting righteousness, innocence and blessedness. We have these things as gifts and blessings from God. Let us then press them all into service for the sake of His love time, talents, and treasures together. LCMS Stewardship Ministry
Financial Peace University will begin March 5, Sundays 3:30 to 5. This isn t your typical money class. Financial peace University is practical, entertaining and fun! FPU is based on more than 800 verses of Scripture and is a proven plan that will work for you. The 9 week series by Dave Ramsey presents Biblical perspectives on financial wisdom and responsibility. (Learn more atwww.daveramsey.com.) Contact Jim DeVries at 805 312-2943 for a registration form or pick one up in the church office. Registration can be paid through church or on-line. Childcare as needed Our parents night out is turning out to be a very successful community outreach. Please sign up and help with our next Parents Night Out for the military and preschool families scheduled for Saturday, February 11th, from 3 PM to 7 PM, with orientation starting at 2:30. We currently have 83 children signed up, this means we need at least 28 volunteers just for the nursery, toddler and childcare. Please check the sign up, we have some activities that only require a volunteer to sign up for one or two hours. We are asking that you sign up ASAP, our wish is that we do not need to turn anyone away. There are three ways to sign up, there is a paper sign up on the information board in the courtyard, the Church website, click on the banner for Parent s night out and click the link on the lower left for volunteer sign up, or click on the link below. Thank you for helping support this community outreach. Parents Night Out Your Community Outreach Team THE PRESSURE IS OFF!!! Whew - We ran out of year! 2016 went way too fast for the "Gatherings for six" -- Oh dear! The events never happened for some It seems so easy to remedy To fulfill expectations of fellowship and fun. We merely extended the deadline Now, Jump, Plan, Call and invite And everyone will have a great time!
To members, friends, bible study groups, New Life Church and all scout groups. In the past three weeks of January, the facilities of Peace Lutheran Church, (Fellowship Hall, Preschool and church building and the Coffeehouse) have all been found with doors opened or unsecured and unlocked. This is, and I cannot stress it enough is a very serious problem. We are leaving ourselves open to property damage, theft, and every other kind of loss or damage. The preschool double doors to the playground were left open one Sunday. The Coffeehouse youth room was unlocked, games strewn about and a portable heater was left running for three days! The Fellowship Hall kitchen door was not properly shut. The door did not fully close, it may have appeared to be fully closed but with the recent rains and wet weather the door swelled and did not fully close. Anyone could have entered the building and do untold amounts of damage and/or theft. As a matter of fact on any given Saturday morning when I am at the property working, I have seen and talked to at least two if not three different homeless people at any given time. If they had wanted in they certainly would not have had a problem. Just this Sunday the 29 th the Coffeehouse door was left not only unlocked, but wide open, with the lights on. This is just not unacceptable it is absolutely irresponsible. We cannot go on like this and expect nothing will happen. Going on like this something is bound to happen and it will not be pleasant. This cannot be allowed to continue. The church, the other buildings and the property itself and the people of the church are skirting and flirting with potential disaster if this kind of irresponsible behavior continues. An engineering term I came across while reading about the space shuttle program, as described in the book, went like this. The author while interviewing an engineer stated they were chasing the 999 s in launching the space shuttle. That is interpreted to mean that with every successful launch the engineers were one step closer to a failure. The term 1 in 1000 also applies. Every time a door, a heater or an appliance is left on and running, unlocked, unsecured we are one step closer to facing our own disaster. It is up to the individual or group to insure, make absolute positive that the facility is safe and secure, all doors locked, lights off, heat/a.c. off, etc. It is absolutely imperative this is done routinely. I cannot and will not be responsible to make door checks at random times throughout the night as I did in the past. WE are all responsible adults let us start showing it in how well the facilities are locked up after an event. Yes, we have insurance to cover any incident, but what good would it do if, due to our own negligence, because of an unlocked door, that the insurance may not cover any damage or theft. If the place is not secured properly, we will find out one way or the other. One way would be the incident be reported to me that a door or other equipment was unlocked or unsecured and having that door locked, or another way would be to have the police, fire department inform us that property was taken, destroyed because of an unlocked door. You decide. Sincerely, David J. Miller Head Trustee
Receiving cancer treatment: Aiden Farinella, (Rawlin & Toni Radle s nephew), Nancy Johnson, Pat Lehman, and Clara Smith (Joyce Snow & Melissa Hamilton s cousin), Gary Phillips, (Gayle Waddell s brother). Prayers for healing and strength: Lily Baehr, Ada Bruns, Sharon Field, Cindy Fox, Melissa Hamilton, Ken Haugrud, Joshua Kappel, (John & Karen Johnson s friend), Mickey Kohut, Pat Lehman, Madison, (Donna Pickler s great-granddaughter), Hunter Mann, (Phil & Melissa Hamilton s friend), Cheryl Menzie, Bee Muenich, Hedy Pein, Jim Pickler, Jim Richardson, David Stafford,Bev Toro and Diana Townsend. Pray for all military men and women especially: Jeremy Bronner, Jacob Chiles, (Bill & Linda Young s son-in-law) Daniel Gross, (LaJoyce Brennan s grandson), Davis Kelly, (Melodie Kelly s son & Sonja Manzer s grandson) Brian Miller, (Dave & Sandra Miller s son), Stephen Volpei, (Connie Morris grandson) and Amy Waddell, also remember their families in your prayers. Hats and Scarves for Camarillo s Homeless A big thank you to Noreen Taylor, Luci Pommers and Luci s friend Audrey. These ladies made over 200 scarves and hats for Camarillo s homeless men, women and children. Tom and Noreen took the hats and scarves to the Camarillo Police Department for distribution by our Camarillo police officers.
February 2017 Servers DATE ELDER USHERS ALTAR READERS GREETERS ACOLYTES February 5 Communion Dave Schmidt Bob Hutchison Lyle Lehman* Jim DeVries Bob Lacy Helmut Klein Dave Schmidt* Roy Poehler Mike Hale Susan Klein & Elisabeth Pohl Dale Sieber Mike Elbert Stepp Family Tom & Noreen Taylor Chandler Supple James Miller February 12 Dave Schmidt Scott Klittich Ken Anderson* Glenn Benitz Scott Ehlers Art Schmidt Scott Klittich* Matt Schultze Peter Sandstrum Mike Elbert Susan Klein & Elisabeth Pohl Ingrid Poehler Linda Elbert Helmut & Susan Klein Kevin & Sharon Krumdieck Ryan Tsai Melissa Poore February 19 Communion Dave Schmidt Scott Klittich Blaine Wanke* Gene O Neal Keith Hedrick Todd Harter Mike McCracken Susan Klein & Elisabeth Pohl Roy Poehler Erin Schultze Millie Dunivin Irene Hutchison Ethan Dickson Esper Petersen III February 26 Dave Schmidt Scott Klittich Craig Frye* Gary Taylor Karen Taylor Bill Young Rick Poore* Dave Miller Tom Taylor Susan Klein & Elisabeth Pohl Ken Reuter Al Bosman Beulah O Neal Connie Morris William Frye Judy Nomi March 5 Communion Tom Waddell Scott Klittich Ken Anderson* Glenn Benitz Scott Ehlers Art Schmidt Scott Klittich* Matt Schultze Peter Sandstrum Mike Elbert Bill & Linda Young Sarah Harter Bob Hutchison Jim & Kerry DeVries Cindy Klittich Chandler Supple James Miller 9:30 Service Elder Readers 2/5 Dave Hutter & Greg Olewiler Peter Lee 2/12 Dave Hutter & Greg Olewiler Julie Ligman 2/19 Dave Hutter & Greg Olewiler Debi Markley 2/26 Dave Hutter & Greg Olewiler Tom Waddell 3/1 Greg Olewiler & Dave Hutter Susan Weaver ACOLYTES: If you have any conflicts, please call Mike Schultze 302-0888 or the Elder in charge. READERS: If you have any conflicts, please call Marsha Larson (805) 482-3313.