6th Sunday of Easter

May 16 & 17, 2020

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“FOLLOW” & “SHARE” ST. LUCAS We encourage you to tap

the “FOLLOW” BUTTON on our Facebook page. This will help

our circulation and will allow notification to you when we post

something new. And please share the worship videos from our

Facebook page to yours as a way to spread the word about St.

Lucas.

WELCOME BACK ST. LUCAS SCRIP GIFT CARDS We are

keeping on hand these gift cards from the scrip program: 4

Speedway, 4 Meijer, 4 Walmart, 6 Circle K, and 2 Manhattans in

$25 denominations. We are also keeping on hand 5 Kroger

cards in $50 denominations. If you would like to purchase for

your needs and to support the Sunday School Window Fund

email Pastor at pastorstlucas@gmail.com or call the office dur-

ing office hours 10-1pm M-F. We will arrange for you to pick up

your order & drop payment inside the Sunday School doors. If

you had been placing a regular order, you may call Ron Bacon

at 419-535-6765. He will place the order and get it to church for

you to pick up using same arrangement as above.

St Lucas Garden News To dine on what you’ve planted, to eat what you have grown,

To be fed by what you’ve nourished is a wondrous joy we’ve known.

Our God provides the soil, and sends the sun and rain,

And when we supply the toil, the land will bloom again!

The weatherman says Tuesday’s frost breaks the record for the lat-

est on record. Soil in the St Lucas Community Garden is struggling to

get up to 50°- the minimum soil temp for planting or transplanting. Our

Thrivent Grant plants, from the grant procured by Georgia Steele, have

arrived. We have 46 fruit trees and bushes and 6 grapevines to plant in

our food forests on Walbridge and Frank Street. We will have apples,

peaches, plums, cherries, mulberries, pawpaws, and figs when the

trees mature (2 to 3 years, typically) as well as hazelnuts, raspberries,

and red, white and blue grapes! The vegetables Toledo GROWS has

started are ready – I’ll pick them up on Thursday. Soooo – we’ll have a

lot of planting to do this weekend! I hope you’ll be able to join me – at a

Covid respectful distance – to help get this year’s garden in and grow-

ing. I’ll be in the garden, dodging raindrops as necessary, on Friday and

Saturday, plugging plants and seeds into the dirt! They're predicting

warmer weather this weekend, so please join me for some healthy,

socially-distanced outdoor exercise. It’s time to get the plants in and

growing!! I’m at 419-244-2243 or mbiscay@hotmail.com if you want

more details. Agriculturally, Mike Biscay

OFFERINGS Please send us your offering, since

in-person church is not available at this time. You

may also drop off your offering when pastor is

there during the Cindy’s Corner hours (around

10:00-1:00). Call the office to let us know you are

coming 419-243-8189. Buzz the front door and we

will buzz you in to drop your offering inside the

door, then we'll come down and get it. Thanks to

the many who have mailed, dropped off or made

electronic offerings through our PayPal button

on our website: www.stlucastoledo.org.

PENTECOST RED GLADIOLUS SALE Pentecost is Sunday

May 31. We will be placing 24 vases of red gladioli on the altar

for a dramatic red flame look for Pentecost. The vases are $12

each. If you would like to memorialize or honor someone with

your flowers please email, stlucaoffice@gmail.com, call the

office & leave a message, or include a note with your check in

the mail. Also let us know if you will be picking your flowers up

after on Monday after Pentecost or if you need them delivered.

HEALING PRAYER NIGHT is Tuesday, May 19 from 6-7pm.

Call a healing team member for prayer on the phone. Deb 419-

349-1815, Ed 517-673-3992, Jeannie 419-340-4003, Pat 419-

346-5752.

NEW FOOD PANTRY PROCEDURE Cindy’s Corner will now be

distributing food boxes Monday-Friday (once per week per

household) during the lunch at the door Noon to 1pm. There

will no longer be a separate distribution at on Thursdays from

1-2pm. Those who need a food box may ask for one at the

lunch distribution door on Frank St. This allows us to distribute

for immediate needs rather than asking folks to wait until Thurs-

day.

LIVE STREAM WORSHIP SCHEDULE

4pm Saturday

9am Sunday

10:30 am Sunday

Livestreamed at

www.facebook.com/StLucasLutheranChurch

DAILY DEVOTIONS ON FACEBOOK LIVE! Join us on the

St. Lucas Facebook page every day www.facebook.com/

StLucasLutheranChurch for live daily devotions:

9am Morning Prayer (except Sunday)

Noon Midday Prayer (except Sunday)

6pm Evening Prayer (except Saturday)

9pm Night Prayer

You do not need a Facebook account to bring up

our page online and view services. Facebook may

ask you to create an account, but you can say no.

HOLY COMMUNION PROCEDURE At each weekend

service you will be given the opportunity to receive the

Sacrament. After the prayers, peace and of-

fering we will sign off and post the first part of

the service on Facebook. Then we will sign

back on live and proceed with the Communion

liturgy. You will need to sign back on as well.

We will not post the Communion portion of the

service, so that the consecration will be live

only. You are invited to have a small amount

of bread and a small amount of wine (enough

to consume at once) prepared for the conse-

cration. Bread only suffices if you don’t wish

to receive the wine. Please do not substitute anything

for the bread and wine. Jesus promised to be present in

bread and wine, not any substitute. We take him at his

word and receive by faith.

I am in my

Father,

and you in

me, and I

in you

attendance

Sat. May 9 Sun. May 10

Please pray that God blesses our current online attendance by making us a congregation of

evangelists.

Online views* of streamed worship

per Facebook:

4:00 185 views 9:00 83 views 10:30 148 views Total 416 views

prayer list

RECOVERING AT HOME

Kelly Kane

LaVonda Rodgers

UNDER HOSPICE CARE

Carl Hischka

VISITATION LIST (RARELY OUT/UNABLE TO ATTEND CHURCH)

Ruth Fox, Bill Granger,

Cheryl Jones

ST. LUCAS THANKSGIVINGS

ESSENTIAL WORKERS WHO ARE

MEMBERS OR FRIENDS OF ST. LUCAS

memorial/honor gifts

GENERAL FUND None

organ fund gifts None

cindy’s corner gifts Pat & Karen Wilson 150.00

Anonymous 100.00 Sandra Polk 100.00 Karen Momsen Gifford 100.00

sunday school window fund gifts

George Pfaff/Steve Hudson 10.00 Anonymous 100.00 Brad & Carmen Ball 25.00

* These numbers have been corrected

to reflect the April treasurer’s report on

the window fund, which showed greater

donations than we were reporting. We

were missing some additions to the

fund from other sources.

ST. LUCAS THIS WEEK AT A GLANCE

WE GIVE THANKS to God for a great report

for April! Please continue to pray for our

stewardship. While this news is good, we

also must report a first quarter loss of

$52,120.06 to the modest amount we have

in the St. Lucas Salary Endowment Fund

due to stock market falls, lowering that fund

to $217,678.09. The fund was set up with a

bequest around the year 2000 with the idea

that it would supplement non-pastoral staff

salaries, since congregations like St. Lucas

often struggle in the area of support staff.

The principle amount is $200,000 and we

rely on any over that to cover year end defi-

cits, so your gifts to general fund creating a

surplus are a blessing. We are told that

since the end of the first quarter about

$11,000 has been recovered in the market.

God takes care of us and is good!

KROGER CARD REPORT Thank you for

using your Kroger card or keyring card when

you shop. Feb.-Apr. 53 households brought

us $181.08 for the Sunday School Window

Fund.

WRITTEN COPIES OF HOMILY AVAIL-

ABLE During the suspension of in person

worship written copies of the homilies will be

available. We already send to those not con-

nected to the internet. Just email or call the

office and we will email or mail a copy of the

homily you would like to receive. Available

from Easter Sunday on.

ALUMINUM CAN COLLECTION PROGRAM

TERMINATED Due to diminishing returns

and space concerns we will no longer be

collecting aluminum cans as a fundraiser.

Thanks to all who have supported this effort

over the years.

135th ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE 2021

will mark the 135th anniversary of the found-

ing of St. Lucas. We are putting together a

committee to plan events marking this

blessed event. So far, Sharon Stofan. Dave

Jerman. Mike Biscay and John Mensing

have volunteered to sit on the committee.

T 19 OFFICE OPEN 10- 1

Noon Cindy’s Corner Café at Door Lunch & Food Pantry 6-7pm Call the Healing Team for healing prayer

M18 OFFICE OPEN10-1

Noon Cindy’s Corner Café at Door Lunch & Food Pantry

W 20 OFFICE OPEN 10-1

Noon Cindy’s Corner Café at Door Lunch & Food Pantry

S 24 EASTER 7

Livestream Worship Times

9:00 WORSHIP 10:30 WORSHIP

TH 21 OFFICE OPEN 10-1

Noon Cindy’s Corner Café at Door Lunch & Food Pantry

F 22 OFFICE OPEN10-1

Noon Cindy’s Corner Café at Door Lunch & Food Pantry

S 17 EASTER 6

Livestream Worship Times

9:00 WORSHIP 10:30 WORSHIP

SUNDAY SCHOOL WINDOW FUND

Loan Amount $56,000.00

Donations to date 50,047.82*

Remaining Goal 5,952.18*

Sa 23

Noon Cindy’s Corner Café Barbecue at the Fence

Livestream Worship Time

4pm WORSHIP

flowers

THE FLOWER SHOP HAS BEEN

CLOSED DUE TO THE

CORONAVIRUS, SO THERE WILL BE NO

FLOWERS UNTIL BUSINESSES REOPEN

$ 3,009.22

19,726.00

(14,768.08)

7,967.14

(8,708.18)

GENERAL FUND REPORT

APR. 1 BALANCE RECEIPTS DISBURSEMENTS MAR. 31 BALANCE BAL. LAST YEAR

GOD EXPECTS US TO

PROVIDE FOR OUR

FAMILIES

And whoever does not pro-

vide for relatives, and espe-

cially for family members,

has denied the faith and is

worse than an unbeliever.

1 Timothy 5:8

For livestream go to: www.facebook.com/

StLucasLutheranChurch

For livestream go to: www.facebook.com/

StLucasLutheranChurch

We need more servants. Please let us

know by calling the church office 419-243-

8189 or emailing Pastor Billmeier to let us

know you will serve to plan for our 135th.

CINDY'S CORNER CAFE AT DOOR

LUNCH SERVICE MONDAY-SATURDAY

NOON-1PM We welcome donations to

assist with the at door lunch program:

monetary donations, plastic grocery bags,

Ziploc sandwich bags, big bags of fresh

fruit (apples, oranges, etc.), small (to fit in

a brown bag) bags of chips, pretzels, etc.,

individual drinks (water, juice, pop). If you

donate such items you may call the church

and drop them off during office hours

(10am-1pm).

SYMPATHY & PRAYERS Our prayers and

sympathy for Jill Hojnacki and her family at

the death of her brother, Bruce Huffman in

Portland, Oregon at age 98.

IN PERSON WORSHIP Church Council

has suspended in person worship through

June 7 pending the completion of our

study on resuming in person activities at

the church. Stay tuned. Stay faithful.

Soli Deo Gloria!

* A view on

Facebook means

the video was

watched for 3 seconds or more