MIDWEEKWednesdays at 7:00 p.m.

August 7th - Holy CommunionAugust 14th – Word & Prayer followed

by a Scavenger Hunt

August 21st –Holy Communion August 28th – Word & Prayer

4040 Lapeer Road Burton, MI 48509 (810) 742-3780; orl4040@att.netwww.ourrisenlordelca.comPastor Susan B. Lidums

Sunday Morning Worship 10:00 a.m. Worship – Holy Communion

celebrated 8/4, 18 & 25

August 4th

“Love What is Worth Loving”

August 11th

Living Truth II - Special Service of Music, Story and Prayer

August 18th

“Look To Jesus” August 25th- “Remember the Sabbath”

Cross August 2019 Newsletter

We call it the “dog days” of summer. As a child I always pictured that as having something to do with how the dog wanted to play in the river and then shake all the water off on us on hot and humid days. It turns out it has something to do with that but hardly just in the ways I imagined. Named for the star Sirius, the “Dog Star” …the brightest star in the constellation of Canis Major, it is indeed the hottest and most humid days of summer that fall between July 12th and August 20th.

What I remember most is how it felt to know that summer was coming to an end. Soon we would have to don shoes and dresses (yes,…we were required to wear dresses to school) and return to school even when the one-room schoolhouse was too hot to bear. Days of swimming in the spring-fed river, climbing trees, and riding atop the hay wagon were coming to an end.

When my own children were growing up, I remember it as a time of quiet anxiety. When the days of beginning a new school year drew near, it seemed anxious behaviors increased …more picking on each other, some patterns of regressing back to more childish ways, and outright resistance to what lay ahead. However much they looked forward to being with friends and entering a new grade, looking ahead also raised anxieties. – Perhaps a degree of that resides in each of us as we look to what lies ahead in the challenges of a new school year, a new season of work, a new schedule of demands, or new paths laid before us. Among adults, it seems especially acute this year, triggering “fight or flight” response in the political arena.

As a community of faith, fall invites a new season of discipleship. What challenges lie ahead? How will it be to move into new ways of listening to our community? What changes will we see as some of our friends and family are no longer as able? …even absent from us? How will we face the winds of the time? …the challenges and political decisions that need to be made on behalf of the common good? Is it greater division or a new kind of unity that lies before us?

In faith, we learn to listen to God and to trust even where danger, anxiety, or despair try to rule the day. We learn to walk in the Way that Jesus has opened for us …always a way of love for God and love for neighbor, without prejudice or fear. … Perhaps when we let the Spirit breathe life into these “Dog Days” they may becomes “God’s Days” of new hope and blessing, days of actively sharing the Good News. Pastor Sue Lidums

Women’s bible study Our summer look into the story of Esther ends in August. Join in the fellowship on Saturday,

August 17th at 9:30 a.m. or on August 19th at 7:30 p.m. at Joy Burns’. - Bring a friend.

“LISTENING TO GOD”

Opening our hearts and minds to Jesus’ last words

and prayer for us.Saturday, Sept. 14th

8:30 – 11:00 am,beginning with a continental

breakfast.Sign up in the narthex.

Council is asked to remain until 11:45 am for a time of

reflection on leadership. – Pastor Sue

Explore ways of worship and spaces of faith …

Family Scavenger HUNTFollowing the 7:00 pm service on Wednesday,

August 14th.

Thank You I would like to say Thank you to everyone for their

prayers and get well cards during my recent surgery.

They meant a lot to me. They have helped a great

deal in my speedy recovery. Sincerely,

Dave Fredrickson Plans are taking shape for

a

…an invitation to the

community to share their concerns and enjoy fun and

fellowship …Saturday, Sept. 7th

4-7 pmWatch for details and ways

in which you can help welcome our neighbors.

FALL WELCOMESunday, Sept. 8th

- Mark your calendars for a day of Welcome and

Invitation to family and community as we enter into the season of fall

harvest.WORSHIP – at 10:00 a.m.Followed by a gathering

time with children as adults set up for a

POTLUCK PICNICand games.

STEWARDSHIP THANKS

“We are caretakers not owners of

resources given to us … Stewardship is

everything we do to serve God’s will.”

THIS MONTH we THANK…

Jim Theodore …for his faithful service as a welcoming usher!

Altar Guild: -Cindy Knuuti for the bread; - Art Arsenault for the wine; - Carla Holm, coordinatorAltar guild teams: Cindy & Jon Knuuti,

Steve & Holly Hatfield,

Minnie Batoha & D Lambert, Connie &

Gary Durance,Elaine Smith & Ersel

Nichols,Carla & Steve Holm

THANKS to Jayne Britzman and Jill Thom for

care of the courtyard flowerbed and the new

hydrangea plant.

It was a great painting crew!Thanks to

Art & Jennifer Arsenault, Mark Archibald,

Maikayla Josling, Elaine Smith, Brian

England, Mary Hall & Pastor Sue.Thanks to the luncheon

team Marilyn Lewinski

& Jan Albaitis

Elaine Smith & Mary Hall.

Thank You Betsy Comstock, for

cleaning and staining the outdoor worship

space, and Thanks to Tim Callahan and Bob Christensen for

repairing the desk.

A New Way to Serve our Community ? –

ORL Council met with Chris Johns and his wife Vanessa, Burton residents who have helped to develop community dog parks in nearby cities. They are asking us to consider building a

DOG PARKnear the south end of our property. After listening to their proposal, we agreed to share it with the congregation for a show of hands vote in August after providing members with an outline of what that would involve. Here are the main points: - It would serve the community and bring them to our site. Special events would be held with media coverage. ORL would establish the rules. Funds would be raised independent of our budget and would be raised before

construction could begin. Funds include on-going maintenance costs. Included in the costs is the fence, a pathway, signage, security cameras, disposal bins and waste bags. We would be asked to see what if any insurance costs there might be. –All the fund-raising would be done by the couple who has experience in gathering “Friends of the ORL Dog Park” and in writing grants. If we agree, fund-raising will begin with the target

opening date in June of 2020. – ORL COUNCIL

2nd Annual“Junk in the

Trunk”August 24th

10 a.m. – Noon

(Look through your household items. Your junk may be valuable treasures

to another)

Mark your Calendars !

LIVING TRUTH II

Sunday, August 11th.Invite your friends!

MISSING LIBRARY BOOKSIt appears some books have been checked out from the

church library and NOT returned. Please check your

homes for the missing books so that we all can

enjoy the gift of our church library.

“We Are Church”

2019 ELCA Churchwide Assembly August 5-10

in Milwaukee.

Voting members will spend the week participating in plenaries, discussions, Bible studies and worship while deliberating the work of the church.+ Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton, elected in 2013, is seeking re-election to a six-year term.+ Addressing Act on “Faith, Sexism and Justice: A Lutheran Call to Action,” regarding gender based violence, workplace discrimination, economic inequality and more.

+ Act on “A declaration of Interreligious Commitment.”+ Consider a proposal that the entrance rite for ministers of Word and Service be ordination. Also taking place during the assembly will be a celebration for “Always Being Made New” Campaign for the ELCA; a program to honor the 50th anniversary of women’s ordination; and an observance of the church’s focus on gun violence awareness. elca.org/cwa

MBULUMBULU SUNDAY PRESENTATIONJuly 17, 2019

Our story began over 15 years ago when we committed to be a companionship relationship with the Kansay congregation for the Mbulu diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. Their story began long before that. In 2002 the Diocese celebrated its 50th anniversary. The first Lutheran church was started there by a missionary from Norway. Choirs sang and over 1500 people attended the 5 ½ hour service. The SEMI synod is not the only synod with a companion Diocese. Individual churches are

joined with one of the 32 congregations, with 20 Preaching stations in each. One pastor services each congregation for baptisms, weddings and confirmations. Lay evangelists do the preaching and teaching at the stations. Our Risen Lord has a direct relationship with the Kansay congregation, the most remote and poorest congregation in the Mbulu diocese.

Our connection became very personal when Pastor Zak came to visit with us in 2001 for a weekend of sharing the Gospel and the story of the life and ministry of the Kansay. He played the guitar and won the hearts of our children. The land he introduced us to at that time was wild and barren. They would carry very heavy buckets of water traveling 2-3 miles every day to get their supply.

Our relationship with the Kansay grew stronger and more real to us as member Beverly Holden, traveled with a group from the Southeast Michigan synod to Mbulu in 2003. She was the only one in that group to go to remote Kansay. She related she was greeted there with a hospitality beyond their means. She returned to the Kansay for another visit 2 years later. There are pictures of her visit in our history books.

We kept up a rather limited correspondence with the Kansay Congregation and Pastor Ami, due to the difficulties involved with communication from such a remote area. Since 2005, I have sent them each year, a letter and collection of pictures showing the services and activities of our congregation and wishing them well in their endeavors. They responded in 2006 and 2008, writing about their needs. We raised monies to meet some of those needs—food, education, transportation, water supply and gardens.

In March 2008 Kansay received a new pastor-Pastor Qane. He wrote “I am now a new pastor at Kansay congregation. Although I was born here I still have a lot to learn from here…We thank you for your wonderful support you granted to our congregation. Pastor Qane brought with him knowledge and experience in growing a garden and began working toward the goal of having one at Kansay, despite the aridness of the region.

September 2008 we received a letter with this news—“The news from our congregation is like this. We have a big garden by planting many fruits like bananas, potatoes, tomatoes, oranges, lemons and vegetables. We used local irrigation by using buckets. All people are working in this garden. A

sewing class has also been started.

March 2010 we received a note from Bishop Daudi of Mbulu, who visited us in 2009—“Thank you for responding to the need for a water pump for irrigation for Kansay and their gardens. I know I have recently had dinner made form banana from the garden at Kansay.”In 2016 Bishop Nicholaus Nsanganzelu…visited us prior to his presentation at a Conference in Livonia which Pastor Sue and I attended. He brought a personal letter from Pastor Qane, thanking us for all the pictures received over the years.

We have continued with our coffee hours, bringing news of our continuing relationship with Kansay.

In 2018 a plea went out to all ORL women to rev up their sewing skills to make dresses for girls and shorts for boys, to be sent to Africa, as an Action team Project through Thrivent. The response was amazing 168 items were shipped out!This past spring Pastor Sue and Kristy Neuman attended the first annual Mbulu Diocese Companion Gathering, called “Kujenga”, which means to build. They learned the latest developments in the Diocese…support ongoing for 2 Secondary Schools, 1 School for the deaf-(a new kitchen and dining hall), a Bible College for training evangelists and musicians, a Nursing School at

Haydom Hospital, which has 400 beds and recently received a container with medical supplies from SEMI Synod, 3 Health Centers, 1 Medical Dispensary, and a Hostel at the Lutheran Center. A team from the SEMI Synod just came back from a visit to the Diocese. It included a mother and daughter who have set up Pen Pal connections with youth.

This was a handout from the gathering: “ACCOMPANIMENT is at the core of ELCA Global Mission Relationships—walking together in service to God’s mission. We need to learn from one another in mutual respect, receive as well as give, communicate as well and have an intensive personal involvement.”

Thank you to Jayne Britzman for this outstanding presentation/slide show. You have given us a very clear vision of our Mbulu Diocese and the Kansay congregation.

As we approach the new school

year!!

A Prayer for Teachers

Lord, bless the teachers who give

their heart to teaching. Thank

you for the special gift that you have given them and for

giving them the spirit of grace and compassion. May

they have strength and endurance to

perform their many tasks, and may they know

and feel the deep gratitude of those whom they teach.

Amen.

A Prayer for our StudentsDear God,

Thank you for the Gift of Education in every form. As

our children prepare to start a

New Year may confidence be

their foundation, may grace be their

guide and may hope be their

compass toward a bright future.

I pray they would have eyes to see

the needs of those around them and a heart to love well.

May they face each day with

positivity knowing that no matter

what comes their way, they do not have to face it

alone.Amen.

BACK TO SCHOOL

FUN

Men’s Monthly Prayer Breakfast

Saturday, August 17th @ 8:00 am

WORSHIP SCHEDUL

ES

Summer Schedule

When coming to church, see pastor to volunteer.(Acolytes do not need to wear

robes in the summer)

ALTAR GUILDSteve & Carla

HolmNO communion on

August 11th

COFFEE CLEANUP4 Please look at the calendar 11 In the Narthex to see18 What Sunday you may be 25 Able to sign up

4 Jan Swanson1118 Jennifer Arsenault25

4 Richard & Nancy Gunnell11 Neil & Teresa Peterson18 Margo Benmark &

Maikayla Josling25 Bob & Terry Christenson

LECTORS4 Elaine Smith11 Joy Burns18 Jan Swanson

school, books, learn,

recess, science, math,

writing, reading, friends,

25 Betsy Comstock

4 Please sign up11 In the18 narthex25

ANNIVERSARIES

3 Bryan & Brandi Baker (’02) 6 David & Sharon Fredrickson

(’66) 6 Nick & Allison Olivo (’05)7 Olaf & Susan Lidums ('65)

8 Steve & Holly Hatfield (’98)10 Lynne & Michael Stokes (‘02)18 Jessica & Josh Travis (’18)19 Bill & Debra Nicolai (’89)20 Art & Jennifer Arsenault (’88)25 Joe & Elaine Smith ('63)

Neil & Teresa Peterson (’78)28 Gerard & LaRene Klink (‘81)

Matthew Nicolai2701 Trappers Cove Trail Apartment 2DLansing, MI  48910

1 Julianna (Fischer) OwenJerrie Smeby

3 Matthew Nicolai Mary Schlis 8 Jessica McDougall Ed Dymowski10 Billie Merrill12 Chris Morgan13 Lauren Baxter15 David Gibbs

Duane Hummel Marie Lukonen

20 Chris Gagnon24 Janelle Karsten

Isabella Roberts Alexis Robert25 Richard Neely26 Anthony Delling

Michael Lambourn27 Dennis Christman

Carla HolmDave Swanson

28 Judy Hibbett29 Maikayla Josling

Cassidy (Sumner) Maine

30 Ersel Nichols31 Ruby McDill

Tiffany Ferguson

Needs BoxPeanut Butter & Jelly

for Salem Pantry

2019Our Risen Lord Lutheran Church

SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT1 6:30 pm LEAD7:00 pm Property7:30 pm Worship & Music

2 3

410:00 am Service of Holy Communion

5 6

7:00 pm Social Ministry

77:00 pm Service of Holy Communion

8 9 10

1110:00 am “Living Truth II”

12 13

7:30 pm Council

147:00 pm Worship Service w/ a Scavenger Hunt following

15 16 178:00 am Men’s Prayer Breakfast9:30 am Women’s Bible Study

18 10:00 am Service of Holy Communion

19

7:30pmWomen’s Bible study at Joy Burns’

20

7:00 pmGathering & Growing Disciples

21

7:00 pm Service of Holy Communion

22

?Lead

23 2410:00-NOON

“Junk in the Trunk”

2510:00 am Service of Holy Communion

26 27 287:00 pm Worship Service

29 30 31

AUGUST COMMUNITY NEEDS:

Peanut Butter & Jelly for Salem Pantry

WEEKLY OFFERING VS. BUDGET(6-30-18)

Wkly Budget Needed $3,024.222018YTD $2,973.942019YTD $3,002.30June 2018 $2,519.75June 2019 $3,727.50YTD Giving vs Budget 2018 -$8,806.94YTD Giving vs Budget 2019 -$569.75