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OCTOBER ANNIVERSARIES
PRAYER LIST
Jim Tittel
Barbara Trinca
Virginia Cusmano
Irany Jung
Paul Miklas, Jr.
Rachel Dias
Ron Diaz
Priscilla Miklas
Andrea Cipala
Natalie Kril
Ken Balla
Phyllis Vozar
Karl SchifBauer
Helen Killian
Tami Triplett
Betty Wasilak
Ellen Golias
Barbara McGarry
Genevieve Weber
Walter Miklas
Ed Sheehan
John Hacik
Mildred Miklas
IN A HOSPITAL/NURSING FACILITY
Ella Wagner – Genesis (Westfield)
Al Flood – Sunrise (Westfield)
FRIENDS OF OUR CONGREGATION
Elsie Vermilyea (Mitch Bobyack’s mother-in-law)
Sean McGuirk (friend of Friedman Family)
Kaleb Schwarz (Ed & Ethel Musto”s great-grandson)
Stacy Baumgart (Margaret Baumgart daughter-in-law)
Loiva and Fernando Wolff Monteiro (Doris Dias aunt and cousin in Brazil)
Nancy Staugatis (Christopher & Karen Smith’s cousin)
Dwight Kempf (Friend of Harmons)
Ann Gryziek (Friend of Gerda Sadlers)
Logan Sossman (Roberta Frimpter son-in-law)
William Hancock (Friend of Horner Family)
Eileen Borwski ( Sister of Teddy Mihovich)
Olivia Sawyer (2 1/2 year old student of Ashley Rumzie with Lukemia)
Ray Calvo (Friend of Jim and Joan Pignataro)
Elan Alexander (Friend of the Dias Family)
Rev. Kurt Steinbrueck, Wesley Chapel, FL
Rev. Dr. Carl Krueger (shoulder surgery)
Rev. Al Vomhof (Hospice)
WEDDINGS
Oct. 08 – 21st anniversary
Randy & Susan Sadlon
Oct 16 – 44th Anniversary
Robert & Karen Tuder
Oct 17 – 24th Anniversary
Paul & Cathrin Tajkowski
Oct. 19 – 30th Anniversary
Michael & Susan Boyne
Oct 21 – 9th Anniversary
Chris & Hope Alfieri
Oct 21 – 54th Anniversary
Walter & Mildred Miklas Oct 26 – 2
nd Anniversary
Douglas & Dana Combs
Oct. 28 – 26th Anniversary
Karl & Noreen Schiffbauer
BAPTISMS Karen Balla Cathy Friedman Jamie Hovick Sophie Vakalis Mildred Kubik Stephen Boyne Lorenz Hanke Alexander Vacula Karl Schiffbauer P.J. Miklas Arlene Goodman Barbara Ann Baumgart Kevin Goodman Kenneth Rumzie Paul Bataille Jr Keith Balla Ellen Golias Helen Matviyetz Isabella Semmens
BAPTISMS Meredith Friedman Caitlyn Schaefer Marquis Freeman Aaron Bauer Vincent Spino Kathryn Dexter Jaclyn Milano Jason Current Vanessa Vickers Mitchell Bobyack David Antolick Jacqueline Kirk BIRTHDAYS 1
st Chris Alfieri
3rd
David Antolick Daniel Lyman 4
th Brian Semmens
5th Cassandra Horner
6th P.J. Miklas
7th Diana Roncaioli
9th Jennifer Perlee
Barbara Spino 10
th Helen Matviyetz
11th Bryan Felter
12th Mitchell Bobyack
Kevin Rumzie 13
th Phil Hovick
15th Leah Mallardi
16th Oda Daniels
17th Jane Condon
Kristen Tuder 21
st Joseph McKenney
22nd
Brooklyn Balla Joseph Daniel 25
th Marcelo Dias
Robert Heeren 26
th Ashley Current
Julianne Sitler 27
th Geoffrey Cleveland
28th Douglas Combs
29th Robert Vermilyer
30th Gerry Kirk
Jacob Alfieri
SUNDAY SERVICE ASSISTANTS
Date Assist As 8:00 AM Service 10:30 AM Service Oct 04
Greeter
Lector
Ethel & Ed Musto
Ed Musto
Oct 11
Greeter
Lector
RoseAnn & Rich
McKenney Rich McKenney
Oct 18
Greeter
Lector
Doyle & Diane Boese
Doyle Boese
Oct 25
Greeter
Lector
Don Williams
Altar Guild Schedule:
Carla Wolf
Donna Roncaioli and
Jackie Duffy
Communion Assistant:
Doyle Boese
The Call Committee has completed 4 of the 5
scheduled congregational meetings. One member
requested a phone meeting due to health issues,
which was completed.
Once the documents are approved by the
congregation they will be sent to Pastor Kruger as he
begins the process of matching potential Pastors to
our needs.
I want to thank the congregation for their attendance
at the meetings and offering their opinions and
changes to the Congregational C-Set and other
documents.
Rich McKenney
Call Committee Chair
Rally Day
Bar-Be-Que
Due to
weather
Has been
changed to
Sunday,
October 11th
At 12:00pm
Repta Fellowship Hall
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Name: ____________________________________________
# of Adults: ________________________________
# of Children: ___________________________
Please place in Envelope of
Luther League Bulletin
Board
Zion Lutheran
Church Luther League
Luther League Meeting to
Discuss the Events for 2015 – 2016
Sunday, October 4th 10:00am
Vicar’s Office
Open to All Youth 6th Grade and Up
“Fight the Good Fight of Faith” 1 Timothy 6:12
The SELC District Luther League seeks to encourage and enable teenagers and young adults to grow in
Christ and bring others to Him.
Zion Lutheran Church
Luther League
Fall Clothing Drive
Now – October 18th Please Drop Clothes off in
Fellowship Hall
“Fight the Good Fight of Faith” 1 Timothy 6:12
The SELC District Luther League seeks to encourage and enable
teenagers and young adults to grow in Christ and bring others to
Him.
October 2015
October 4
"Title: Fight for the One Next to You"
Lutheran Hour Speaker: Rev. Gregory Seltz
Who's fighting for you? Who are you fighting for?
(Hebrews 2:14-18) October 11
"Clearing the Clutter"
Lutheran Hour Speaker: Rev. Gregory Seltz
Is there room in your life for that which is truly meaningful, important, and precious?
(Mark 10:17-22) October 18
"Someone Up There Must Like Me"
Lutheran Hour Speaker: Rev. Gregory Seltz
Faith in Jesus means you can live knowing that Someone "up there" really, really loves you
(Mark 10:23-31) October 25
"Reformation Freedom, Reformation Faith "
Lutheran Hour Speaker: Rev. Gregory Seltz
People have risked and even sacrificed their lives so that we could come to know the joy of God's forgiving love for us in Jesus.
(Romans 1:16-17)
FREE Gift when you bring this flyer and perform
one of the following: Vocal, Musical Instrument, Poem, Short Skit, or Comedy routines– All Ages
The reason we come to Church on Sunday morning, as opposed to Sunday afternoon or Monday evening, is because it is the first day of the week. The first thing you do this week, before you do anything else, is come to Church. You begin your week with the Word of God, Prayer, and the Holy Communion. You give the first seventh, off the top, of your time to the Lord. He blesses that time. In that time, He forgives your sins, cleanses, and purifies you. He then sends you out into the world, into the week, as His in all your days and hours and life.
This is also the reason we pray before we eat. We want to establish that food is a gift from God and that He provides for us through it. Before we eat, we pray. This also blesses the food and makes it holy food because you are holy people.
Nonetheless, we have a tendency to compartmentalize our lives, to separate the spiritual and the secular, to put on different masks at work, with our friends, or at home. This is a fantasy. We are who we are wherever we are. We are the baptized and we never go anywhere alone. Everything we do is spiritual — including our use of time and food and money.
Now, you have a Christian duty to support the Church, to give of your time, money, and abilities so that the Ministry would be conducted among us and that the Gospel would be preached beyond us. How much you are to give is not dictated in the New Testament, unless it is everything. But how you are to give is clear. It is sacrificial, generous, first fruits, and proportional. You are to give a percentage offering—not an amount, but a percentage.
In the Old Testament ten percent was the norm. It’s hard to imagine that St. Paul was thinking that “being generous” would be anything less than this. But whatever it is, the point is to set your offerings in comparison to your total income. That is what makes it a sacrifice, a spiritual gift. How much of what the Lord provides do you return?
Next, it is to be first-fruits giving. It comes off the top. You write the check, or pay your offering, before you pay any of your bills. It is your first obligation and sets your priorities. You don’t pay your other bills and then give the leftovers to the Church. You make your offering first, in accordance with whatever promised percentage you made. This is not only first fruits, it is also sacrificial.
And you can always give more. Start with your commitment, with your percentage-based, first-fruits weekly offering, then as you have leftovers, give them out as it pleases you. But start with the Biblical model or percentage, first fruits.
That is how money is to be used and given by Christians. It is to be pressed into the service of the Gospel. It is not actually that hard. Start where you are and work toward greater faithfulness. Start now. Just take what you give now and figure out the percentage of your income and commit to keep that pledge for the year. Over time you can increase that commitment, that percentage. As your income fluctuates, going up or down, so will your offering amount. Set the percentage, then take that out of your check first each week. Make it a priority. It is the most important thing you do with your money. It is a spiritual exercise.
It will feel a little scary at first. Just do it. Take the risk. Set the money aside for the Lord and trust that He will provide. And over time you will find that you really can give more than 1% or even 10%, and even do so without regret. This kind of Biblical, disciplined, first fruit giving takes the unease out of it. It creates cheerful givers because when they drop the offering in the plate, they are already committed. They decided beforehand what to give. They don’t think about it. They are glad to fulfill their promise and to be in God’s house where He receives them according to grace.
Blessings on your stewardship journey!
New mission journal focuses on
Reformation
on September 23, 2015 in NEW THIS WEEK, REPORTER, RESOURCES
The new issue of the Journal of Lutheran
Mission —highlighting the 500th anniversary
of the Lutheran Reformation in 2017 — is
comprised of papers presented at the
second International Conference on
Confessional Leadership (ICCL) this past
spring in Wittenberg, Germany.
The articles mainly focus on the theme of
the ICCL: “Celebrating the Reformation
Rightly: Remembrance, Repentance,
Rejoicing.”
This September issue of the journal includes
works from church leaders from several
continents who unpack why the Reformation
still matters to the Lutheran Church in their respective regions. Other topics
range from explaining declines in American Lutheranism to discussing
whether or not there is truly a cause for celebrating in 2017.
“A goal of the conference was to help prepare world Lutheranism for the
celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017. The papers
presented in this journal are to contribute to that anniversary celebration,”
LCMS President Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison notes in the journal’s opening
letter.
“The Lord has blessed us greatly. Confessional Lutheranism is here for this
moment to be Lutheran and to take the confession of the Lutheran church into
the world.”
This issue and back issues of the Journal of Lutheran Mission are available
for download atblogs.lcms.org/category/journal-of-lutheran-mission.
Also, readers are encouraged to “like” the Journal of Lutheran
Mission on Facebook.
Posted Sept. 23, 2015
MISSION, REFORMATION 2017
Reporter Online is the Web version of Reporter, the official newspaper of
The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Content is prepared by LCMS
Communications.
Ideas Have Consequences on September 21, 2015 in LUTHERAN WITNESS, WEB-EXCLUSIVE
STORIES!0 by Jason Braaten
We’ve all heard them: those off-hand remarks from men and woman that are meant to be funny, but that really just shed the worst possible light on their spouse and marriage. “Marriage is just a fancy word for an adoption of an overgrown male child.” “The old ball and chain is calling again.” And when these statements come out of the mouths of Christians, it is even worse. Not only does it shed the worst light on marriage, but it goes against what God says about that institution. St. Paul summarizes marriage in this way: “This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the Church” (Eph. 5:32). Elsewhere our Lord describes His own ministry, death, resurrection and coming again in glory to marriage (Matt. 25:19:1–10). And in the Revelation of St. John, the multitudes in heaven proclaim: “Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His Bride has made herself ready . . . Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb” (Rev. 19:7, 9). Christian marriage should look like Christ’s loving relationship to His bride, the Church. In other words, marriage between a husband and wife is intended to give us a flesh-and-blood picture and proclamation of the marriage of Christ to His bride. The very essence of marriage bears witness to Jesus and His Church. As husbands and wives together, we are walking, talking, living witnesses of Jesus and the Church. When Christians adopt or mimic the culture’s way of speaking about marriage, they give a false impression of what marriage is and is intended by God to be. We teach and reinforce to one another that marriage is something to be avoided and dreaded instead of a great and honorable estate, which God Himself has instituted and blessed, and by which He gives us a picture of the very communion of Christ and the Church (Lutheran Service Book: Agenda, 65). Ideas have consequences. And bad ideas have bad consequences. Let our teaching and confession about marriage—how we speak to others about our spouse—reflect that of God’s Word and not of the world.
The Rev. Jason Braaten is pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church,
Tuscola, Ill.
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Mission Friends
Welcome! Mission Friends is an online program of the LCMS that promotes
our international mission work among the Synod’s children. Although written
for children in the fourth grade, the coloring sheets, country information
pages, recipes and fun facts about missions can be easily adapted for younger
or older children. This FREE program is made up of online and reproducible
activities with information about each of our five world regions.
Starting June 15, materials for the countries of Latin America will be
available. Materials for the other four regions — Africa, Eurasia, Southern Asia
and Oceania, and Asia Pacific — will become available on a quarterly basis.
What are the goals of Mission Friends?
The program seeks to create a culture of missions within the LCMS
through an exploration of the mission work in each region and country.
The program seeks to plant the seed of mission work as a future
vocation.
The program seeks to teach the faith by showing what Lutherans
around the world believe, teach and confess.
The program seeks to bring children, parents and teachers to an
understanding of who their neighbors are and how they can serve them.
The program seeks to encourage children, parents and teachers to
pray for the mission work of the LCMS and to support that work financially.
Rural & Small Town Mission Newsletter | September 2015
I’ve got the first tomatoes
ripening on my backyard tomato
plants (don't ask, I was way late
getting them planted), and we are
excited. My daughter asked if we
would have enough tomatoes to
make our own spaghetti sauce
again, like we had in the past.
Sadly, that’s not going to happen
this year for various reasons, but it
did bring to mind the vast
amounts of tomatoes we have
canned and all the folks who will
be cranking up their pressure -
cookers, as we transition into Fall.
A pressure-cooker can be a
good analogy for ministry too. As
internal and external forces bring
pressure upon our congregations
and ministries, it often seems like
it is just too much for us to handle:
depleted budgets, difficult
members, lack of support and
workers, apathy, envy, ever
increasing hostility toward the
message of Christ and His church,
not to mention all of the sad and
horrifying headlines we've been
bombarded with as of late. Too
much you might say, what good
can we possibly we be doing? How
can we make it through?
I’ve got the first tomatoes
ripening on my backyard tomato
plants (don't ask, I was way late
getting them planted), and we are
excited.
My daughter asked if we would
have enough tomatoes to make our
own spaghetti sauce again, like we
had in the past. Sadly, that’s not
going to happen this year for
various reasons, but it did bring to
mind the vast amounts of
tomatoes we have canned and all
the folks who will be cranking up
their pressure -cookers, as we
transition into Fall.
A pressure-cooker can be a
good analogy for ministry too. As
internal and external forces bring
pressure upon our congregations
and ministries, it often seems like
it is just too much for us to handle:
depleted budgets, difficult
members, lack of support and
workers, apathy, envy, ever
increasing hostility toward the
message of Christ and His church,
not to mention all of the sad and
horrifying headlines we've been
bombarded with as of late. Too
much you might say, what good
can we possibly we be doing? How
can we make it through?
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
01 02 03
**Postponed due to
Weather*****
3rd
LWML Zone Rally
Day – Galloway, NJ
04 05 06 07 08 09 10
8:00am Communion
9:00 am – 1st Luther
League Meeting
9:15am Sunday School
Adult Bible Study
8th
grade Confirmation
10:30am Worship
Pastor Away at SELC Board Meeting – Holy Cross, Alsip IL*
7:30 pm LWIM
Meeting
7:30 PM Adult Choir
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
8:00am Worship
9:15am Sunday School
Adult Bible Study
8th
grade Confirmation
10:30am Communion
12:00 noon Rally BBQ
7:30 pm Elders Meeting
6:30 pm – Hand chime
and Youth Choir
7:30 PM Adult Choir
7:30 pm Confirmation Class
7:30 pm
Bell Choir Rehearsal
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
8:00am Communion
9:15am Sunday School
Adult Bible Study
8th
grade Confirmation
10:30am Worship
11:30 Voter’s Meet.
7:00 pm
Church Council
Banner Group
6:30 pm – Hand chime
and Youth Choir
7:30 PM Adult Choir
7:30 pm Confirmation Class
7:30 PM Bell Choir Rehearsal
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
8:00am Worship
9:15am Sunday School/
Adult Bible Study
10:30am Communion/
Confirmation
7:30 PM Adult Choir
7:30 pm Confirmation
Class
REFORMATION
DAY
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