St. Paul Lutheran Church
Monthly Member Newsletter for April, 2013
- Pastor's Comments:
Rev. Dr. Harold Senkbeil
wrote a powerful book about a decade ago entitled, “Dying to Live: The Power of
Forgiveness.” I encourage everyone to read it. It is a fantastic
book. One section in the book was very moving and helpful to me, and I
want to share some thoughts with you. In the section, Dr. Senkbeil quoted
Isaiah 30.30 – “The Lord will cause His glorious voice to be heard.” He
makes the point that I hope is helpful for you in your daily trust in the Lord
that God is always taking the lead in our relationship. In a waltz,
someone has to lead and someone has to be lead, or it just doesn’t work.
That is the way it is in our relationship with the Lord. He has to
lead. He has to set the course. We follow. The fundamental
way the Lord takes the lead is through His Word. Our routine liturgy is
drawn from God’s Word. Its content and rhythm reflect the biblical truth
about God’s relationship with us. We begin the liturgy calling upon the
Lord and confessing our on-going need of His mercy. That is something
that is true of each day we live. He is our Father; of course we call
upon Him and He is merciful. We need to always confess how much we need
His loving pardon and always trust in His forgiveness. We have specific
on-going needs for which we pray reflected in the Kyrie. In every
petition, we ask God to respond to us out of His mercy – not our merit.
Each day of our lives there is something unique about that day for which we can
pray – just like in the Prayer of the Day in the liturgy. And we read His
Word. It is a tremendous help to our faith to read God’s Word every
day. These are some things to think about this month. I’ll cover
more next month. But for now, think about how our Sunday liturgy really
is about our real day-in and day-out relationship with God. In the
liturgy we are being taught from God’s Word the way to live so that God is
always leading us and we are always being lead.
Grace
and peace, Pastor White
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Announcements
from your Pastor:
I would like to start Bible Study as soon as our group is ready to
begin meeting again. Just let me know what
you would like to study and when you would like to begin. Call, email
me, or just tell me at church.
- Sermon Recordings: Sunday
sermons are being digitally recorded in audio format. They are available to members or anyone
interested. Requests should be made
by specifying the Sunday sermon
date you want. Please send your requests to: Leo Magiera at Lmagiera@earthlink.net.
- Easter Lillies: Thank
you so much to everyone who donated lillies for the beautification of our
sanctuary for Easter. Flowers were
donated as follows:
In
Honor Of In
Memory Of
Jim and
Sandy Manninen Our
parents
Carole
and Charlie Faas Loved
Ones
Albert
Seidel, III Grandparents
Roger
and Ruth Fromm Our
parents Jean
and Terry Davis Our
parents
Michele Dusch Husband
Tom
Michele Dusch My
parents and in-laws
-2-
In
Honor Of In
Memory Of
Pam and George Venet Children
and Grandchildren
Pam and George
Venet Our
parents
Carol and John
Schneider Our
family
Carol and John
Schneider Loved
ones
Arleene Perry Loved
ones
Jean and Denton
White Ellery
Jane & Abel William
White
John and Shirley
Wake Loved
ones
John and Shirley
Wake Loved
ones passed
Roger and Louise
Jensen Our family
Roger and Louise
Jensen Our
son and parents
Elsie Jasinski Husband
Ron
Elsie Jasinski Mary
Killeen
Nora Sinclair Alex
Sinclair
Nora Sinclair Mary
Killeen
Pat and Dick
Bock Our
family
Glenn and Ellen
MacNaught James
Solomon
Glenn and Ellen
MacNaught Donald
MacNaught
Glenn and Ellen
MacNaught Isabel
MacNaught
Mary Chapman Bob
Chapman
Anne and Henry
Fuhrmann Our
parents
Patrick and Dana
Corcoran Mother
Priscilla
Dr. Joe and
Priscilla Loomis Family
Don and Carol
Pierce Pierce
family
Don and Carol
Pierce Schneisle
family
Karen and Chris
Dickens Our
parents
- Volunteer Reminder for Sunday SNACKS: We do enjoy having snacks available after the
services. Please remember to sign
up to bring some goodies from time to time to enjoy with coffee.
- Reminder
for Other Signup Sheets:
There are signup sheets for Sunday flowers, opening and preparing the sanctuary,
reading liturgy, setting up communion/altar, communion assistant, and
“greeters”. Please check over some
of these sheets to see if you can help out. The signups for some items have been
limited.
- Potluck for April: Monday,
April 8th, is our next potluck. No special theme, bring any dish you
wish to share with others. Start
time is 6:30 PM. Please come and
enjoy the social time !
- Notes from
the desk of your Church Council President : None at this printing
- Council Meeting Minutes: I have
put a loose leaf binder containing the Minutes of St. Paul Lutheran Church
Council Meetings in the bottom drawer of the cabinet in the church
office. Please feel free to
read/and/or make a copy of the Minutes.
Our Church Constitution states that the Minutes of these meetings
must be made available to all members.
Thank
you, Henry Fuhrmann, Secretary
- Prayers Requests: If you
have a prayer request, put it in the Pastor's mailbox at church or email
it to him or call him on his phone.
Help your pastor care for you. Nothing is as powerful as prayer. Please pray for Lloydene Meilbrecht, St.
James. Prayers are requested for Marie Hagemeister, Rich Mancuso's aunt.
Prayers of healing are requested for Wayne Davis, Joh and Lyra, Pam Venet
(knee surgery), Rick Bock (knee surgery/infection), Jackie Rosenblum
(cancer) and Len DiNaploi (low blood cell count).
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Please continue to pray for Helen Klein (Shirley Wake's mom) who now has
pneumonia, and for the continued
improvement of Barbara and Frank Nelson.
- Pastoral
Office Hours: Please call or email Pastor
(pastorwhitelcms2.10@gmail.com)
for an appointment Monday through Friday if in need of pastoral
assistance/guidance. You may
request to be met at St. Paul Church or at your home.
- Ladies Bible Study / “Eve Circle”: Our
group has begun to meet on Thursdays,
at 5:45 PM at the church. We
invite any ladies that are interested to please join us. We have Bible study from 5:45 PM until
6:45 PM. Then we go out to dinner
somewhere. Our Bible study is on
the first Thursday of each month and a “good will” project is done on the
third Thursday of each month. Our
upcoming project is yet to be determined.
We would welcome any newcomers
and ideas ! (Shirley
Wake/Louise Jensen)
·
****“Friends
of St. Paul Name and Address List”****: There is a copy of our present members and
friends list on the desk in the back of church.
Please review this list and mark any changes or corrections on it.
From time to time, John Wake
will make the changes/corrections and put new copies on the desk in
church. (John Wake)
- Birthdays in April: April 3 Ron Behrens April 9 Alan Mimms
April
6
Grace Behrens April
12 Ethel Ahrendt
- Anniversaries in April: April 8, 1972 Kay
and Jeff Beran
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Please
Note: If we have missed anyone's birthday or anniversary
during the last year, please let Karen
Dickens know. These dates were initially
obtained from the “Membership Profile Sheets” pastor asked all the church members
to fill out in July of 2011. If
you came to us after that date and need to get a profile
form, please
let Karen know so we can add your
information and birthday/anniversary dates to our spreadsheets. Thank you.
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- St. James – LWML Meetings: In
2013, they will meet on the 3rd Saturday of each month. Some of the ladies bring lunch,
because they have the prayer meeting before the LWML get-together. They have had 10-12 women at their
previous meetings and would definitely welcome more. Any questions, call Phyllis Marion at
673-2215. She still has a few mite
boxes available if you are interested.
- St. James Weekday Bible Study: St.
James Church, Wednesdays from 6 to 7 pm.
- Prayer Ministry: St. James invites you to gather for
prayer on Saturdays, 10:00 am.
- Choral Recruits: In line with providing beautiful music
to our Lord's glory, our little “choir” is looking for new recruits. If you feel that you can hold a tune and
would like to try us out, please join us Sundays at 8:30 a.m. when
we begin rehearsing before service.
We really need additional voices in all areas. (Contact Sondra Nelson or Karen Dickens)
- Food for Coalition: St. Paul
donates cans of stew, vegetables and fruits to the Coalition
in Southern Pines. Please place these items in the basket in the back of
the church. This is a very
important donation, as there are those right in our immediate area that
are homeless and hungry.
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- Thrivent Financial News: The Pines Chapter of Thrivent for Lutherans will again be having a
“Socks for Souls” event. Please
bring socks of any size for any person (child/male/female) to church during
April. In early May, we will meet
at Our Savior Lutheran Church to assemble the socks according to sizes to
be distributed to the needy.
More
information will follow as to the date and time in May.
Thank
you for your support, Louise Jensen
- Our Giving of Time and Money: March,
2013
Average Sunday Attendance: 40
(Total attendance for the four Lenten services was 157.)
Three month budget to date: $ 18,570
Three month budgeted expenses: 18,980
Three month income to budget: 21,246
Offerings were a little over budget due to the Lenten
services and 5 Sundays in March. Thank
you for your continued giving so
far this year.
Dick
Bock
- Mystery Bio Program: We are now out of bio information sheets from
congregational members. If you haven't already filled out a bio
form, don't forget to pick up your
“Mystery BIO” form on the desk in the back of the church. Then you can either slip it in my mailbox
at church, or email me the information
or call me at home (910) 295-6063, and I will include your BIO in one of
the next monthly newsletters.
Thanks, Karen Dickens. Email
is: wolfandwife@embarqmail.com (that's a Q not a G in my email address).
- Newsletter Items: If you have any news/articles you want included
in next month's newsletter, please advise me ASAP, or right after the last
Sunday of the month. Karen
Dickens (910) 295-6063 or wolfandwife@embarqmail.com.
CONTACTS
Mailing address: 808 Barneswyck Drive, Fuquay Varina,
NC 27526
Music Director:
Ms. Sondra Nelson (910) 692-6979
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