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February

Anniversaries and Birthdays

In Our Prayers

February Worship Assistants

Valentine Dinner, Sunday, February

11th, 2018

Lenten Suppers begin Wednesday,

February 14th, 2018

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Ephesians 1:4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.

Have you ever felt like you were coming home? That feeling you get after a long trip among strangers of being back where you belong, and back where everything makes sense? I grew up in a small town. Everyone there knew everyone else and there was a certain aspect to that town that was unchanging. However in the years and decades that I have been gone from that town things have changed drastically. A town of 5,000 has become a town of 50,000. There are new stores and streets and neighborhoods. Still, there is a certain feeling that you get when you return to that hometown. You get that same feeling in returning home from a trip where you stayed in a hotel. Sure, the hotel can be really nice, but when you get home you are in your place. Some find this confining, but I find it comforting. I am at home, and there is no place like home.

Pastor’s Corner

February


Pastor’s Corner Cont.

As we begin life’s journey as children, we know that we are fearfully, and wonderfully, made by God. Yet even from birth we are burdened with the sin of Adam and Eve. The sin that we are born into as the children of transgressors of God’s Laws itself condemns us. We also add to that burden daily in thought, word, and deed. The Bible has sharp words for those who deny this in 1 John 1:8 we hear, “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” That is a lot of luggage to carry on this journey we call life.

We are creatures made by God, yet we cannot be with Him because He is Holy, and we are not. We are travelers looking for our home. That is where Epiphany comes in. The magi knew the Messiah and worshiped Him. We come to God by the work of the Holy Spirit. In John 16:13-14 we hear, “When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.”

Through that declaration we know that Jesus is the Messiah who came to free us from the slavery of sin. We come together as God’s church, a community of saints who are at the same time sinners, to hear the Word through which the Spirit works. We are given Jesus righteousness. We are returned to the righteousness that Adam and Eve enjoyed in the perfect garden by this. We come home to our place in God’s grace and in His family. And home is a wonderful place.

Lord in Heaven, we thank you for the blessings of home. We thank you for the people we know and love. As we go through life remind us constantly of our true home in Your Church and in Heaven. Allow us to share our home with others. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

The theme has been set for the 2019 LCMS National Youth Gathering in Minneapolis, MN.

Real.Present.God. is based on passages from Psalm 46. We are looking forward to supporting our youth as they prepare for this adventure!


Learn how to naturally and genuinely share the Gospel with your friends and neighbors who have not heard the Good News. Our first class here at Faith Lutheran Church in E1HW, Every 1 His Witness, meets Sunday morning, January 28th, at 8:30 AM. After this program, you will be more effective witnesses of Jesus in your everyday life! Join us!


Those Serving Us This Month

Altar Flowers

February 4 - Dar Godat

February 11 - Myrna Cunningham

February 18 - Lent

February 25 - Lent

Greeter

Claudette Hysjulien

Ushers

Evan and Hali Hysjulien

Communion Setup

February - Cindy Dunekacke

Elders

Tim Pleger

Jim Bornemann Alan Hysjulien

Reader

February 4 - Connie Wright

February 11 – Tiffany Lampert

February 18 - Jody Werner

February 25 - Milo Johnson

Cleaning the Sanctuary

and the Basement

Cindy Dunekacke

Refreshments

February 4 – Jeryl Peterson February 11 - Sue Pleger

February 18 – Myrna Cunningham February 25 - Sandy Campbell

Support our Buena Vista Schools by clipping BOX TOPS EDUCATION coupons.

BOX TOPS are found on hundreds of products. A laminated list is in our Narthex next to the 3 drawer con-tainer to place clipped coupon donations. The coupons go to participating Buena Vista Schools. Each BOX TOP coupon earns $.10 for the school. Earnings are then applied to a collection drive for Field Trips; Class room supplies; Creative Arts; Sports equipment; Playground equipment; School events; and Book and Learn-ing tools, just to name a few.

This is a great community outreach project. Do you know of any other ways we can do Outreach here local-ly? Share your ideas with Pastor Becker or Barb. Thanks for your ideas and Blessings.

Barb Evangelism/Missions


LifeLight

We invite you to join us for an exciting year as we start by studying "Romans" in 2 parts. Romans, one of the New Testament books written by the Apostle Paul, defends the essential teachings of Christianity and its mission to show that we are declared righteous through our faith in Christ and by God's gift of Grace. There is no way we can earn this by our works. Paul in Romans proves from scripture references that God declares us righteous through Christ alone who is the fulfillment of God's Old Testament promise of redemp-tion. He shows us that God has made us alive through Holy Baptism and has provided us with access to His Spirit.

LifeLight is a Bible study designed to enable students to experience God more fully through the study of the Bible in a small group setting. We meet Tuesday mornings 9:30 at Barb's for 9 weeks. Car pooling is available from Buena Vista. We are a satellite group with Bethle-hem Lutheran Church in Lakewood. We watch a pre-recorded video by Pastor Langewisch then verbally go through the worksheet for each session.

Questions, talk with Barb

Women’s Bible Study

Wednesday morning women’s Bible study continues in February 2018. May blessings abound! Please call Peg 395-4502 for more details.

PULL TABS FOR RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE By collecting the aluminum tabs from your soda and other cans and turning them

in to our House, you help care for families while their children receive much-needed medical treatment. We typically earn more than $15,000 per year to help

support our families.

What is a pop tab?

Pop tabs are the little aluminum tabs from all kinds of cans: soda, some pet food, canned fruits, vegetables and more.

How do pop tabs help the Ronald McDonald House?

Once the pop tabs are collected, they are taken to be recycled in exchange for dollars, which support the children and families we serve at our Houses. Since 1996, the RMHCCF Pop Tabs program has collected over 197 tons of pop tabs and raised over $210,000 to benefit the children and families staying at the three Ronald McDonald House. Place tabs in the "house box" for the Ronald McDonald House in the Narthex and thanks for your Blessings.



Thrivent Action Team

All Thrivent members are eligible to lead a Thrivent Action Team. However, the number of teams each member can lead per year depends on his or her membership type. Benefit members are eligible to lead two Thrivent Action Teams per calendar year, and associate members are eligible to lead one per calendar year (maximum of three).

A $250 Community Impact Card you can use as seed money to get your project off the ground and make a bigger impact.

Lent starts February 14th Ash Wednesday. We invite every one to join us for 6:00 PM Church Supper followed by Lenten service at 7:00pM.

A sign up sheet for meals is in the Narthex, bring your favorite dish to share with members. LWML will be serving February 14, Soup & Salad and March 21. Council has taken March 7th entrée to be determined. If your group would like to volunteer to serve one of the remaining Lent dates feel free to write your group name and En-trée on the sign up sheet. A few menu ideas: Potato Bar; Taco Bar; Pizza; Chicken; Spaghetti; Chili and Root beer floats for dessert. Lutherans are great cooks and members even better at making the meals disappear.

There is always something for which to be thankful. Charles Dickens

Thank you for your service

When: Sunday evening, February 11

Time: 5:30 PM

Where: Church

Who: Everyone, including nonmembers. Invite your friends to come.

Cost: $15.00 per person, $4.00 / wine

Menu: Choice of Stuffed Pork Loin or Smoked Beef Brisket

Twice Baked Potato

Spinach Salad with a Vinaigrette Dressing

Glazed Carrots

Dinner Rolls and Butter

Chocolate Mousse Pie

Valentine Dinner

https://www.thrivent.com/about-us/membership-and-benefits/#benefit

https://www.thrivent.com/about-us/membership-and-benefits/#associate


Have you read any good Christian books lately? Here are two recommended, one by Gordon Gross and the other

myself.

"Mission at Nuremberg" The description reads:

Mission at Nuremberg is Tim Townsend’s gripping story of the American Army chaplain sent to save the souls of the Nazis incarcerated at Nuremberg, a compelling and thought-provoking tale that raises questions of faith, guilt, moral-ity, vengeance, forgiveness, salvation, and the essence of humanity.

Lutheran minister Henry Gerecke was fifty years old when he enlisted as an Army chaplain during World War II. As two of his three sons faced danger and death on the battlefield, Gerecke tended to the battered bodies and souls of wounded and dying GIs outside London. At the war’s end, when other soldiers were coming home, Gerecke was re-cruited for the most difficult engagement of his life: ministering to the twenty-one Nazis leaders awaiting trial at Nu-remburg.

Based on scrupulous research and first-hand accounts, including interviews with still-living participants and featuring sixteen pages of black-and-white photos, Mission at Nuremberg takes us inside the Nuremburg Palace of Justice, into the cells of the accused and the courtroom where they faced their crimes. As the drama leading to the court’s final judgments unfolds, Tim Townsend brings to life the developing relationship between Gerecke and Hermann Georing, Albert Speer, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and other imprisoned Nazis as they awaited trial.

Powerful and harrowing, Mission at Nuremberg offers a fresh look at one of the most horrifying times in human his-tory, probing difficult spiritual and ethical issues that continue to hold meaning, forcing us to confront the ultimate moral question: Are some men so evil they are beyond redemption?

I am currently reading this most interesting book. It is available from Amazon for $10.24 Kindle.

"Joyfully Aging" by Richard Bimler The description reads:

If there is one thing we are all doing together in this life, it’s aging! We are all aging! More of us are growing older. And more of us are growing older, longer. So, what are you and I going to do about it? Answering this question is what Joyfully Aging is all about. It is about celebrating God’s gift of aging instead of moaning and complaining about old age. Even famous people may be called by a different name as they age. Remember Billy the Kid? He is aging well and living somewhere in southwest Florida, but now his friends call him “Willie the Geezer”! Celebrate the blessing of aging and the gift of life. In Joyfully Aging readers will gain insight on the limitless opportunity to witness their faith to others and live vibrant, grace-filled lives.

This is an uplifting and truly a joy to read. It is also available on Amazon for $2.99 Kindle.

If you have read a great Christian book and would like to share it with others feel free to send an article to Joanie for future Newsletters. Share the Blessings.

Barb

LABELS FOR EDUCATION

Did you know we save Labels For Education for our local schools? The Labels can be redeemed for Merchandise in the Arts, Ath-letics and Academic areas. Just clip the Labels from the following products; Campbell, Pace, Pepperidge Farm, Spagettio's, Swan-son, V8, V8 Splash and V8 Fusion.

The Labels for Education® program is coming to a close. Only UPC submissions with the Labels for Education logo will be ac-cepted and redeemed for points. May 31, 2018 is the deadline, so gather up the Labels and help our local schools benefit for one last time.

In the Narthex is a three drawer container to place your donated Labels.


Approximate operating expenses for December 2017 are $9,400.00.

Date Church Communion Offering

December 3 47 47 $3,140.00

December 6 32 N/A $292.00

December 10 50 44 $2,035.00

December 13 25 N/A $192.00

December 17 50 46 $1,848.00

December 20 22 N/A $655.00

December 24am 45 N/A total for

both:

December 24pm 56 N/A $609.00

December 25 34 28 $158.00

December 31 38 N/A $1,383.00

December Attendance and Offering Report

Approximate operating expenses for January 2018 are $9,400.00.

Date Church Communion Offering

January 7 43 40 $2,649.00

January 14 45 N/A $3,009.00

January 21 41 41 $1,183.00

January 28 N/A N/A N/A

January Attendance and Offering Report


In Our Prayers Prayer requests, please, for Jim and Jeannie Farlow, who are struggling with cancer.

Becky, Rhonda Funston’s sister, has an enlarged lymph node on her lung. A needle biopsy is planned.

Steve Harmon, Amy Becker's brother, is in the National Guard and is presently serving in Kuwait. Please pray for his safe return. He is scheduled to be home in March.

Sue, Betty and Dan Muecke’s daughter. She is asking for God's guidance and direction for her life going forward. Her career plans have self-destructed and she desires God's comfort and discernment as to His will for her life.

Carle Linke (a friend of Becky Daughety), as she recovers at home.

James, Evelyn Behrmann's son: is undergoing some extensive, potentially serious, health issues and treatment.

Kathy McFarland, the Bishops neighbor, is fighting a recurrence of cancer and would welcome prayers for her recovery.

Sherry’s brother-in-law's mother, Sher Walsh, who has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and who fell and broke her hip. Please pray for strength and courage for her.

Linda Baldwin, a friend of Mary Haarberg. The cancer is now affecting her lymph nodes. Please continue to pray for her.

Rande Clark, please keep Rande in your prayers for God’s guidance and healing, as well as for strength and God’s wisdom for the family.

Jody Werner, please pray for healing after her extensive foot surgery.

Melinda Jensen, is Marcia's son's mother-in-law. She has heart and other health problems. Please pray for her and her family.

Bonnie Kallweit, as she recovers from a broken hip at home.

Carl and Margie, please pray for them as they are going through difficulties.

Mary Beth Moser, diagnosed with cancer and undergoing chemotherapy.

Judy Fecht: Kegler’s neighbor . . . Pastor Cate called to share Judy’s passing January 21, 2018. Prayers for the Fecht Family and Dudley’s safe return home.

Email prayer requests to: [email protected]


February Birthdays

8th - Rande Clark

25th - Catherine (Catie) Becker

- Kathy Behrmann

27th - Edwin Winkelmeyer

February Anniversaries

7th - Randy and Lisa

Wagner

27th - Jeffrey & Cindy Dunekacke

Faith Lutheran LWML

Upcoming LWML Events

Feed My Sheep Sunday February 11th — Happy Feet

Next LWML Monthly Meeting February 1st, 10:00 am

Secret Prayer Sisters Please contact Cindy Dunekacke if you have any questions.

First Fruits The First Fruits for February is (are?) peanut butter and jelly. When you are at the grocery store, throw one or two cans in your basket. You will not notice a big difference in your budget but it will make a big difference to the family that gets to eat because of you. All of the food that is collected is donated to the Arkansas Valley Christian Mission.

LWML Ladies Retreat

LWML Ladies Retreat will be Saturday March 10 at Liar's Lodge.

Gathering starting at 8:30 - Program starts at 9 AM.

Light continental breakfast and lunch is included.

Betty will be hosting with a John Ortberg study.

No Cost.

Sign up sheet is in the Narthex.

Any questions, ask Cindy or Betty


February 2018

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

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Women’s Bible Study, 9:30am

Lent Dinner, 5:30am

Men’s Breakfast 8am LifeLight, 9:30am

Bell Choir 5:30pm

Sunday School 9am; Sunday Service 10am; Feed My Sheep: Happy Feet.

Valentine Din-ner 5:30pm

Bible Class 8:30am; Sunday School 9am; Sunday Service 10am

Council Meeting 9:30am




Bell Choir 5:30pm


Bell Choir 5:30pm


Bell Choir 5:30pm

LWML Meeting 1pm

Stampin’ Up 9:30am

DEADLINE for March Newsletter


Lent Dinner, 5:30am


Lent Dinner, 5:30am

Bible Class 8:30am;

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