408 Ninth Street NW

Mandan, ND 58554

FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH

Phone: 701-663-3594

Fax: 701-663-6217

E-mail: jackie@firstlutheranofmandan.org

Building Faith and

Transforming Lives

in Christ.

www.firstlutheranofmandan.org

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Attention Church School Students & Parents!

Join us on Sunday, September 13th or Wednesday, September 16th for our Church

School Rally Day!

Sunday, September 13th: At 9:30 A.M. all students are encouraged to come downstairs to find their classroom and meet their teachers.

All kids are welcome to join in on the fun!

Wednesday, September 16th: At 6:00 P.M. all students are encouraged to come downstairs to find their classroom and meet their teachers.

All kids are welcome to join in on the fun!

It is hard to believe that the summer is over. As I write this many

of our children and youth are getting ready to start school. Some for the

first time, some transitioning in to middle or high school, and still others

starting or continuing their higher education. This is a busy time of the

year.

It is hard to believe that the summer is over. From Vacation Bible

School in June with the awesome camp staff from Camp of the Cross to

camp itself, this summer has been filled with experiences.

Experiences-some fun, some not so fun, and some that deeply

shaped and formed us. Just think of those 16 youth and 3 adults that went

to Detroit! What an amazing experience, a forming experience! If you

haven’t yet, ask them how it went, ask them to tell their stories. Ask them

what it means that Jesus is Good News!

Summer is over and fall has began with it’s slow (or not so slow)

journey to winter. So this month let us bless those who are still students

both the young and the old.

Oh God, as many do the very important work of being students, bless them with:

eagerness to learn, that their world may grow large; respect for teachers and

students, that they may form healthy relationships; love for nature, that they may

become caretakers of your creation; happiness when learning is easy and stick-

to-it-iveness when it is hard; faith in Jesus as their best teacher and closest

friend. We ask that you would protect these, your own children. Watch over

them and keep them safe as they travel to and from school. As they learn, help

them also to discover the different gifts that you have given each one of them to

be used in your work in the world. As they hear the many voices that will fill

their days, help them to listen most carefully for your voice, the one that tells

them you will love them always, no matter what. We ask this in Jesus’ name. Taken from the “blessing of backpacks” , Sundays and Seasons

Thanks be to God! Amen.

Pastor Chris

September 2015

Administrative Pastor

Rev. Lee Herberg

663-3594

Associate Pastor

Rev. Christina Martin

663-3594

Administrative Assistant &

Coordinator of Lay

Ministries

Jackie Schulz

663-3594 (o)

663-3082 (h)

Custodians

Ron & Mavis Watson

Financial Administration

Jennifer Scheet

First Lutheran Is A Mission

Partner with Camp of the

Cross Ministries

First Lutheran

Staff

First Lutheran Church

September Newsletter

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Remember starting September 6th we will resume

our regular Sunday service schedule, 8:30

(Traditional) & 10:45 (Contemporary) A.M.

________________________________________________ ATTENTION ALL QUILTERS:

Quilting is starting up again!! September 21st & 22nd and

September 28th & 29th from 9:00 A.M.-4:00 P.M. You don’t need

any experience, just come and have fun. Bring a sack lunch.

Let's brake our record from last year and do 3 deliveries instead of 2!

Many children in Mandan begin school each year without supplies. During the next few months, please check the school supply aisles and consider making a purchase for those less fortunate right here in Mandan. Supplies needed are 24 box crayons, pencils, erasers, glue, glue sticks, rulers, scissors, back packs, folders and regular or college ruled tablets. Any supplies received will be equally distributed among the 6 Mandan elementary schools. The schools last year were very appreciative of all the supplies that were given to them! There will be a SPECIAL BOX for these items in the narthex; please drop your donations in there. Thank you for your kindness.

Trunk or Treat is coming to First Lutheran!

First Lutheran Church is hosting a fun and safe place in Mandan for our area youth to trick or

treat. Trunk or Treat will take place on Halloween night, Oct 31st in the church parking lot.

Please prayerfully consider all the ways you can help make our Second Annual Trunk or Treat

Night a huge success!

We need business sponsors. Please consider sponsoring your business or ask your place

of employment if they’d sponsor a “trunk”. Your business will decorate a car trunk with

your business name, along with staffing someone to hand out candy, provided by your

business, to the trick or treaters. If it’s not possible for you to participate in the event,

you can also send a monetary donation in your businesses name to use towards prizes

and candy for the children attending Trunk or Treat.

We need volunteers! This is a great evangelism outreach project for our church and its

success is dependent of volunteers. Would you like to hand out candy? Would you like to

be behind the scenes, hanging flyers up around town? Do you want to work in the

kitchen providing hot dogs and popcorn to the children? We will need a lot of helping

hands!

We need monetary donations to help defray the expense of food, candy and prizes. If

you’re not able to volunteer and would like to donate funds instead, thank you!

We need you to spread the WORD! Bring your kids to a safe place on Halloween night!

Let all your friends who have kids ages 0-12 know that we are hosting a Trunk or Treat

in the church parking lot on Halloween night from 5pm-8pm. All are welcome!

If you would like to participate, please contact the church office at 663-3594 for more

information. Watch the bulletins for more information and sign-up sheets!

“Ringing Refresher”

Starting on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 7:00 P.M. a “Ringing Refresher”! We’ll spend

Wednesdays in September refreshing our ringing and mentoring to new bell choir members.

Enjoy a fun filled atmosphere of fellowship and music making! Come join our group!

Cathy Long, Bell Choir Director

stcalong@hotmail.com

701-527-0548

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Items needed for the 2015 Lutefisk supper which will be held

on Saturday, October 17th

, 2015:

Many workers – Friday setup from 10:00 – 12:00, Saturday - kitchen (many shifts available beginning as early as 7:30 A.M. through clean up which goes until about 10:00 P.M.), dining room (shifts beginning at 3:00 and 5:30), dishwashers (shifts beginning at 3:00 and 6:00), clean up (beginning at 7:30), lefse preparers and bar & cookie

arrangers (shifts beginning at 3:00 and 6:00).

Come join the fun and enjoy the fellowship!!

If anyone is interested in co-chairing the Lutefisk supper please contact the church office-663-3594 or

Lori Meyers-471-9436.

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Cash

Cookies and Bars

Rosettes and Krumkake

Cans of Wondra Flour

Homemade Buns

Quarts of Miracle Whip

Red Washed Potatoes

Eggs

Butter

Flour

Kitchen Bouquet

Sugar

Milk

Cream

Coffee

Soda Crackers

Pam

Chopped Onions

Gallon Ziploc Bags

Quart Ziploc Bags

Powder Sugar

Waxed Paper

Vinegar

Mark Your

Calendar…

16th: 7pm - Confirmation -

Large Group

23rd: 7pm - Confirmation -

Large Group

30th: 7pm - Confirmation -

Small Group

Upcoming Events

Calling all 9th—12th Graders:

Be a part of planning the 2016 Mission

Trip!!!

Next Summer we will be working with a group called DOOR.

Through DOOR's Discover program, groups spend time serving with a

variety of local agencies and ministries and learning through evening

speakers and activities. The experience is about more than preparing

a meal at a soup kitchen or playing with children at a day camp. It is

an opportunity to work alongside local community members, to learn

from local leaders, and to listen to the stories of neighbors, clients, and

churches.

The people and stories may challenge your initial perceptions of the

city. But they reveal the ways that God is working. They will help you

to see the face of God in the city. Each day our youth will be doing

service oriented activates.

Possible sites include: Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Hollywood, Miami,

San Antonio …..

The cost would be $305 per person PLUS the cost of travel.

Help pick the sites! Our first meeting will be held on September 10th

at 7 P.M.

Western ND LYO Gathering in Dickinson

Who: 9th - 12th Graders

When: October 22, 2015 – October 24, 2015

Cost: $50

Join high school youth from all over Western ND for a weekend

filled with worship, service, great music and a ton of fun in

Dickinson, ND! Please contact Pastor Chris to register no later than

September 24th. Late registrations will cost an extra $20. No

registrations will be accepted after October 8th.

Don't

forget:

Sunday

School starts

September

13th

Wednesday

Schools starts

September

16th

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Special Thanks Thank you to all the greeters, ushers, communion servers,

readers, communion set-up, coffee hour workers, and to all

who have supplied goodies for the last month. Your help is

greatly appreciated!

Baptisms:

August 23 Michael Scott Dagman

August 30 Bridger Thomas Swank

Weddings:

August 1 Devon Schultz & Breann Finck

August 8 Matthew Engbrecht & Christina Zastawniac

August 15 Brent Opdahl & Valerie Vetter

August 22 Jordan Morman & Kayla Schmidt

August 28 Shelby Pudwill & Casie Hermanson

Funerals:

August 2 Leslie Rivland

August 4 Raymon Haugen

August 10 Glen White

August 14 Jason Sharff

August 17 Marvin Hohbein

Memorial Fund

Pastoral Acts

In memory of Bernice Achtenberg given by Jocelyn & William

Tescher.

In memory of Glen White given by John & Donna Hermanson, Walter

& Leona Keidel, Loretta Quanbeck, Chuck Bahm, Russ & Jan

Grabinger, Jim & Donna Mellmer, Ralph & Naida Feland, Arden &

Pat Hagerott & Dave & Kathy MacIver.

In memory of Rose Nei given by Marlene Ensminger.

In memory of Sandy Renken given by Hilda Renken family.

In memory of Raymon Haugen given by Mel & Barb Wegner.

Deadline for

articles for the

October Newsletter

will be September

18th.

September~ Mission of the Month Weekend Meals for Mandan Kids

Items needed are Peanut Butter, Jelly, Fruit Cups, Canned

Fruit, Granola Bars, Cereal, Pudding Cups, Applesauce, Chef

Boyardee', Mac & Cheese, Soups, Hamburger Helper, Spaghet-

ti Noodles, Spaghetti Sauce, Pop Tarts, Instant Mashed Pota-

toes, Rice A Roni, Pasta Roni, Pork and Beans, Baked Beans,

Pancake Mix-no eggs required such as Krusteaz Brand, Syrup.

NO GLASS JARS PLEASE!

You may put your items in the boxes in the Narthex. Thank

you!

Worship Schedule

Remember starting

September 6th we go back to

our regular worship times!! Sunday ~

8:30 am ~ Traditional

10:45 am ~ Contemporary

9:30 am ~ Coffee

9:30 am ~ Church School

Wednesday ~

6:00 pm ~ Transitional

6:00 pm ~ Church School

7:00 pm ~ Confirmation

Women’s Retreat at Camp of the Cross September 22nd-

23rd

"Fruits of the Spirit"

It’s a wonderful and inspirational time of bible study, fun, food

and conversation. There are registration forms in the Narthex.

Please help yourself or you may go to www.campofthecross.com

to register. Please register through the camp office by

September 10th. Please see the bulletin board for more

information.

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First Lutheran’s “Lunch at First” (LAF) program feeds about 425 of

our Mandan High School students each week during the school year!

It’s a ministry that has grown immensely over the past few years and

promises to grow into the future. It’s great to witness God working

through our volunteers as they serve and our young people as they are

served – all disciples of Jesus Christ!

As the numbers of young people served has grown, naturally so has

the budget for LAF – and we are currently running near our budget

limit for this year. It costs about $400 a week to feed these young

people – a cost of about $.95 cents per meal per student … a real

bargain!!

So, we are asking individuals, families, businesses and corporations

for some financial assistance as we move into the Fall. If you, your

family or business would like to sponsor a LAF meal – it would go a

long way toward funding LAF. Maybe a group of families would like

to sponsor a meal … and help serve it!! Whatever the case – let us

know and thank you in advance for your contribution toward bringing

Jesus’ command, “Feed my sheep …” to our high school students.

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First Lutheran Church Council Minutes

Date: May 21, 2015 Time: 7:00 P.M.

Members Present: Pastor Christina Martin, President Den Na Lee Fewson, Vice-President

Jill Miller, Secretary Jessie Hilfer, John Pake, Rynell Rusch, Jeff Bradford, Tim Faller, and Dot

Frank

Absent: Pastor Lee Herberg and Brock Schmeling

Devotions: Pastor Chris led devotions.

De Na Lee called the meeting to order.

Approval of Agenda: Moved by Jeff, seconded by Jill to approve the agenda. Motion passed.

Secretary’s Report/Review and Approval of the minutes:

Moved by Tim, seconded by John to approve the April minutes as amended. Motion passed.

Financial Report/Review:

Pastor Lee provided a typed financial review for the meeting that Pastor Chris read through.

Expenses through April 2015 are down $33,589.01 due to having only 2 pastors. Due to the on-

going boiler issues the facility supplies line item is high due to parts cost. LAF fed more and

cost less due to gifts and donations. The building fund has a positive balance. Dot questioned

where miscellaneous revenue comes from.

Unfinished Business: None

NEW BUSINESS:

Sunday evening service. Discussed format and vision for this service. We’ll use the Wednesday

format, have the service in the Fellowship Hall in the church basement, casual dress, contempo-

rary CD music with ice cream social to follow. The service will be the second Sunday of June,

July, and August at 7 P.M. Church and council members need to advertise and get the word

out. The service will be in the newsletter, on the church website, and Facebook page.

Moved by De Na Lee for the times for service, seconded by Dot. Motion passed.

REPORTS:

Pastor Lee’s report - 0 baptisms, 2 funerals, 1 wedding; still mentoring Bill Dodd with weekly

meetings. He presided at the May Communion services at the Library Square II and Sanford

Continuing Care Centers in Mandan.

Pastor Chris’s report – 5 baptisms, 2 funerals, 2 weddings; Pastor Chris has and will partici-

pate in several continuing education opportunities: a Paul Hoffman group in June, a workshop

about large congregations and continuing NYG planning.

Special Events – Sunday evening services

Stewardship – none

Worship-- none

Parish Education/Youth – Confirmation and church school ended in May.

Youth protection policy went well. Already have teacher volunteers for this fall. The schedule

is being worked on. The classrooms are being cleaned and organized. Augsburg Fortress has a

new confirmation format Pastor Chris is considering. July 12-20 is the mission trip. Online

registration for church school and VBS is great. VBS is June 8-12, 9 am to 3 pm. VBS housing

for teachers is complete, several activities and fieldtrips are planned for the week-water day,

movie PJ’s and popcorn, and Fire Station.

Evangelism and Outreach – Done with LAF, will meet this summer to plan for this fall.

Property and Management: none

CORRESPONDENCE: none

Motion to Adjourn/Lord’s Prayer:

Moved by Jeff, seconded by Jill to adjourn the council meeting. Motion passed. The meeting

closed with the Lord’s Prayer. Submitted by: Jessie Hilfer

_________________________________________________________________________________________

ATTENTION First Lutheran Church of all ages….let's go have some FUN!

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