Office Hours Monday thru Friday 8:00am-3:30pm. May be closed 12:00-1:00pm for lunch.

Sunday Schedule for Summer Holy Communion is celebrated every Sunday at all Worship Services.

9:00am Worship 10:30am Sunday School for Adults 11:30am Worship, interpreted for the deaf

Church Staff Rev. Aaron B. Chittick pastorchittick@stpaulcoldwater.com Renee Taden, Church Secretary

churchoffice@stpaulcoldwater.com Laura Oswood, Administrative Assistant lauraoswood@stpaulcoldwater.com Donna Hobday, Treasurer

treasurer@stpaulcoldwater.com

Preschool Staff Lisa Dove, 3 year old teacher Courtney Eaton, 4 year old teacher

September 2018 The Connection a monthly newsletter

St. Paul Lutheran Church A Congregation of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod Sonshine Kids Preschoo l

95 W. State Street Coldwater , MI 49036

278-8061 www.stpau lcoldwater .com

Sonshine Kids Preschool News Wow, it's that time of year already! We have been busy getting the room around and updating a few things to keep things fresh and exciting! Thank you to Loren and Gail Green for fixing and repairing some items for our classroom and playground. As you know, our dear Miss Michele has taken a new job, we will miss her terribly but are excited to get to know and learn from our new assistant. We will help you get to know her too, soon. Miss Courtney is excited to have an updated curriculum for the four year olds this year. This is a condensed version of what will be available for the families that decide to go on to the Young 5's Program, known as Begindergarten next year. She has been teaching the Letter People Program for the four year olds and this year we were fortunate enough

to get an upgrade. A special thanks goes out to the church for providing the funds to allow this to happen. The curricu-lum provides for a five day, three hour program, however we've only been able to use a portion of that because of our program hours. So regardless of not having a Begindergar-ten class this year, Miss Courtney is super excited to still be able to teach this program with so much new information to put into their little brains! Look for the Begindergarten class coming your way next year! It was great meeting all our families at our Open House. It was a fun night of nerves, questions, excitement and confidence. We are all looking forward to a great school year. As always, we thank all of you for keeping us in your prayers and joining us on our journey! Thanks, Miss Courtney & Miss Lisa

Adults Thine is the Kingdom: Old Testament History - Fellowship Hall with Pastor Aaron

Ephesians: a study for adults in a kid-safe environment so bring your babies & toddlers with you - Movement Room (across the hall from the Preschool Room) with Lisa Dove

Kids: downstairs to the right 3yrs-K: Just Us Little Guys: Bible Stories (blue room) with Miss Amey 1-3 grade: Kids’ Sunday School: Bible Stories (purple room) with Miss Kelsey 4-5 grade: Building My Faith (tan room) with Miss Lupe

Youth: downstairs to the left 6-8 grade: Growing in Christ (classroom #2) with Chris & Lisa 9-12 grade: Teen Topics (Youth Room) with Kevin & Eileen

All classes resume September 9, beginning promptly at 10:30am.

Grab a beverage and a cookie, and join us.

Greetings in the name of Christ, August is all but spent, and the young people once again gather at their various institutions of learning. Lorelai had her interview with her preschool teacher this week, Jonathan has met some of his

classmates for preschool. Parents are driving their children off to their colleges and new outfits are being purchased for all ages in between. God is good and has much for us to learn and do. I am excited to get confirmation started this year. Our synod has re-leased an updated version of the explanation to the small catechism and I am delighted to have 3 students to try it out on this fall. I am also loving the Sun-day School curriculum for the Old Testament History course I am teaching on Sundays. I hope that you consider checking out one of the offerings on the 9th. Our new church council will be in full effect on the first of September. I want to encourage you to open your hearts to the wonderful things God has planned through them. Be patient as they learn, but don’t be afraid to reach out to them with ideas and concerns. We are all in this together. Blessings on your September, Pastor Aaron

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Ingathering Station

This is our spot in the Nar-thex to collect all of our non-monetary donations for vari-ous fundraisers or missions. Each blue basket will collect a different item and will be

labeled with the appropriate title. Larger items will be

collected behind the

doors at the bottom.

When in doubt, take

it to the Station.

Clip these labels. Our preschool gets

money for them.

Family Fare Receipts raise

money for preschool.

How to participate:

1) enroll in the store’s YES program,

2) provide that number with each purchase,

3) bring the entire receipt used ink & toner cartridges

our church office exchanges them for $ at Staples

Please bring your empty, clean pop cans and bottles with MI deposits to the

bin in the entry.

This helps fund Youth activities.

St. Paul Memorial Garden

Buy-a-Brick Fundraiser • 4”x8” bricks - $100 donation

• 8”x8” bricks - $200 donation

• Gray, or Red, or Tan

• Custom engraving

Pick up an order form in the meeting room and return it with your donation.

All proceeds will go to the Roof Fund.

Please see Bill & Barb Tunison with orders.

SCRIP

Buy popular gift cards, at

no extra charge, from Mindy between worship services and we get a % back from the company.

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September 2 Mites Collected 3 Labor Day - Office Closed 5 Wednesday Youth Hangouts resume 8 Book Club Youth Cookout

9 Sunday School for All Ages resumes Green Volunteer Sheets due 11 LWML Lunch & Meeting 12 Confirmation Class begins 23 Youth Swimming & Games

The deadline for the October issue of The Connection is September 24. Please have all items submitted by

8:30am. Thank you. ~ Laura Submissions may be made:

In writing or email: lauraoswood@stpaulcoldwater.com

Birthdays 1 Insa Raymond 5 Ken McDonald 7 Bea Richardson 8 Andy AcMoody 9 Alissa Smith 9 Marnie Wood 11 Dan Johnson 13 Makenzie Powell 14 Carla Raymond 14 Kim Zimmerman 15 Craig Wood 18 Eileen Luckert 19 Bonnie Polzin 22 Shelby Burlew 22 Gary Malcolm 24 Ed James 28 Steve Oswood 29 Ed Lake 30 Heath Taner

Anniversaries 1 Jim & Amey Scherer 9 Chris & Dusti Donbrock 10 Kevin & Eileen Luckert 13 Don & Sally Albain 13 Vic & Kay Guenther 14 Ed & Lois James 20 Aaron & Mindy Garn 23 Lester & Pam Burger 23 Rick & Renee Taden 23 Ryan & Jessica Akers 30 John & Pat Worden

Baptism Birthdays Sharon Chinery

Gary Holbrook 10 Jan Dimmick 11 Marilyn Pascoe 20 Ruth Patch 23 Brooklyn Dalchow 29 Benjamin Downs 30 Melissa Chittick

Cut postage stamps from letters with a ¼ inch border. LWML

sends them to fund transportation of theology books,

Bibles, and work-books to Africa.

Old eye glasses and cases are used by MOST Ministries

(Mission Opportunities, Short Term), who often provides the

only pair of eyeglasses a person will ever own.

This year 4 million pairs of

glasses will be thrown away in the

U.S. while 158 million people world wide suffer from uncorrected vision.

Provide the gift of sight!

Flat sheets are needed, preferably

queen size. Our quilters use them on

the backs of the quilts. Also, batting or blankets to use as batting are welcome.

Bandage Brigade

Knit or crochet

bandages for people with leprosy in

Vietnam. Instructions available at Ingathering Station.

Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes

Bring items from the list on the bulletin board. We will pack them up and ship them for Christmas.

LWML Mite Boxes Bring your Mites the first Sunday of every month during offering.

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Have your orders on the bulletin board by September 17 and we’ll order it for you.

Check out cph.org/biblesale for more info

LWML Monthly Meetings Resume September 11 @ noon

Bring your lunch, chat with friends, eat dessert, enjoy a Bible study, and participate in a short business meeting. Learn what the LWML is and

what our chapter does at St. Paul. Dessert and coffee are provided.

Meetings are the 2nd Tuesday of the month at noon, September - May. All women are invited!

Book Club

Happy Retirement, Dr. Ed Lake! Ed Lake is retiring after 35 years of service at Community Health Center of Branch County and Pro-Medica Coldwater Regional Hospi-tal. He has delivered over 3,000 babies as an obstetrician-gynecologist in and around Branch County. Dr. Lake says he will miss his patients, some of whom he’s known for 30 years, and he will miss the excellent staff he’s worked with who have been a joy. Ed has been a member here at St. Paul since 1986 and lately attends the 11:30 worship, although you may have heard him read the les-

sons for the day at 9:00. The School Board will still enjoy his input as a member, for at least another year or two. Dr. Lake looks forward to reinvig-orating his golf game. It’s been about 5 years since he’s played, but should have some time now. He also is excited to visit his kids who all live on the west coast and go on a safari with them next year in South Africa. They have been on some wonderful trips together and he is sure there will be many more. Ed has a half share in a home at Glen Lake, near Traverse city and the Sleeping Bear Dunes. There’s already a week in September dedi-cated to relaxing on the lake.

Read the book and join us for discussion

September 8 @ 10:00am

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Sherrerly

The phenomenal true story of the

black female mathematicians at

NASA whose calculations helped

fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in

space.

Mark & Toni Dalchow will only be using the phone number 517-677-7158.

New address for Carol Heffelfinger c/o Grand Vista 99 Vista Dr. Coldwater, MI 49036

Every Wednesday, beginning September 8

6:30-8:00pm.

For all 6-12 graders.

Relax. Share how your week is going.

This has been very fun in the past so bring your friends.

* Pizza * Fun * Games * Free *

Poinsettia Fundraiser The Youth Group will be taking orders for poinsettias very soon.

They will offer all of the usual options plus one brand new this

year: Amaryllis bulb in a 6.5” pot.

Please keep a look out for more info in the weekly bulletin.

BCFL Banquet Beginnings Care For Life is planning their annual fundraising banquet on October 11 at the Dearth Center. BCFL provides crisis pregnancy counseling and support for young families in our community. St. Paul sponsors a table for 8 people but

more are very welcome.

The event includes dinner and a speaker. This years theme is

Hidden Heroes. Participants are encouraged to prayerfully

consider a donation of any size.

See the sign up sheet in the Narthex on the bulletin board,