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FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH
120 Faith Drive, Columbus, WI n53925
1-920-623-3610
Email: [email protected]
Pastor Bob’s “open” email:
Pastor Bob’s “private” email:
Pastor Lisa’s “open” email:
Website: www.faithcolumbuswi.org
Robert V. Moberg, Pastor
920-623-4390
Lisa L. Nelson, Assistant Pastor
608-834-8412
Sandra Schieble, CRPM
920-623-4397
Ruth Nordal, Administrative Assistant
920-210-3234
Wendy Corlett, Treasurer
920-210-2940
CHURCH COUNCIL
Scott Mathwich 920-623-5151
President, Social Ministry
Dennis Langfeldt 920-296-9388
V. President, Stewardship
Betsy Woodward 920-992-3485
Secretary, Finance
Derek Berget 920-623-9523
Education
Tisha Briones 920-763-2800
Worship/Multimedia
Anne Herzberg 920-484-3849
Youth
Jeanne Miller 920-326-3111
Evangelism
Bev O’Brion 920-484-3473
Pastoral/Staff Support
Brian Patrick 920-623-5868
Property
MESSAGE FROM PASTOR BOB
Dear Friends in Faith,
When we think of the word “call” we usually think of pastors. Pastor Lisa and I each have a “Letter of Call” on file in the church office. The notion of “call” is meant to distinguish between a normal “employee” relationship and the relationship a pastor has with a congregation.
We believe that in the “call process” it is not that a congregation has found a pastor to employ, but that God has moved to connect a minister of Word and Sacrament with a congregation of Jesus’ disciples. The goal is to accom-plish together the mission God has for the congregation.
The only trouble with using “call” language for pastors is if we forget that “call” applies to all the baptized people of God. The church believes that the process that lead to your current employment is not any less a call process that the one that brought your pastors to this congregation. The church be-lieves that God has a plan and purpose for you in your daily work.
The only difference is that in secular employment your boss may not realize that you have this vocation from God. (Hopefully the church does not forget that about its pastors.) Your boss may think he/she is paying you so much an hour for digging so many feet of ditch or entering so many lines of computer code a day.
Of course, those things are the substance of your employment, and doing them excellently is service to humanity just in the very doing of it. HOWEV-ER, God has also put you where you are for a deeper purpose. You are an agent of the kingdom of God right where you work every day!
Take Bob Cratchit from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol as an example: Ebeneezer Scrooge thinks he employs Bob as his clerk just to keep the books for his “counting house”. All unbeknownst to Scrooge, Cratchit is really there to be a channel for Scrooge’s own transformation and redemption!
How does Bob Cratchit manage to redeem Scrooge? Does he do it by lectur-ing Scrooge on Christian morality, or humility and grace? NO! He does it just by living in Christian humility and grace himself while carefully keeping Scrooge’s books. In living out his values in his daily work Cratchit becomes a channel for God’s transforming work.
Month by month we are going to begin celebrating the “calls” of the people of Faith Lutheran Church and blessing/commissioning those vocations.
In June we blessed construction workers, builders, carpenters, etc. In July it will be people who work in the medical field and in August manufacturing. Pr. Lisa and I have an entire year of various vocations lined up.
On the first Sunday of each month we will announce which category of work-ers we will bless and on the second Sunday of the month we will do that brief blessing during the service. We look forward to acknowledging your “calling” and what a difference it makes in the world.
FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH 120 Faith Drive Columbus WI 53925
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America – ELCA
South-Central Synod of Wisconsin
FROM BISHOP BRUCE BURNSIDE
(from The South–Central Synod’s June Newsletter)
The particular year I am remembering was a year when, the florist had particularly big red-blossomed geraniums for us—they were scarlet red blooms on steroids! Two hundred and more of them robed in foil of gold set the chancel of our church building ablaze with floral fire. Plenty of orange and red and yellow and gold ribbon added to the infernal mirage.
When it was time for the assembly to hear the holy story told once again...the story of tongues of fire, of locked doors, of a cacophony of sound and the chaos that swept over a confused flock of would-be, want-to-be, unsure how-to-be disciples, well-prepared Lutheran readers rose to their feet. They were positioned all over the sanctu-ary. When they stood, sizzling and whirling sound effects entered into the space just as their voices began to let loose with names—far away places, strange sounding places. It was the Pentecost story from the book of Acts. All speaking in different languages at once...at once in that Jerusalem room and all at once in our Sunday gathering tens of hundreds of years later.
It was not a novel idea to read the scripture this was on Pentecost Sunday. Chances are good that you have done it in your congregation; rounded up folks who could speak German, Norwegian, Spanish, maybe French or Swedish and a few other exotic languages, and made them global lectors for a moment.
On Monday she came to my office. She was, I will say, not a happy parishioner! “What was that all about?” she wanted to know. Well she really didn’t want to know what it was about, what she wanted was to let me know she did not like it at all! “It was a disgrace hearing all that noise. I couldn’t understand a thing. I was so disoriented and confused that I thought I was in a Holy Roller church with crazy Pentecostal speaking-in-tongues people! I hope you will never do such a thing again!” She was madder that Monday than she had been in the Sunday when an usher wore shorts to church.
There was no use in my trying to explain the reason for reading the text in so many languages all at once. It was not going to matter to her.
Don’t you think that what happened in Jerusalem that Pentecost day was, if anything, a moment in time that was turned upside down inside out, an encounter that was totally confusing, destabilizing, unsettling and disorienting for those disciples? There was nothing orderly, ordinary or tame about that Holy Spirit event.
But she was mad. Real mad. Don’t you dare pull something like that again kind of mad!
How true is it that we tell ourselves we believe in the Holy Spirit and then we get nervous and upset when the Holy Spirit shows up? Pentecost was a jolt. Pentecost picks up the Incarnation, grabs hold of the resurrection and toss-es it right into the assembly of disciples and demands that they deal with it! And it was darn disorienting! Star-tling. Now what do we do?
Pentecost means that God is more than a good and gentle man somewhere upstairs watching over things, once in awhile is getting mad. It means that Jesus is about being more than a good luck rabbit’s foot in our pockets to be stroked when we want a bit of magical charm to get us out of a jam. Pentecost is evidence that the Holy Spirit is more than a friendly ghost tossing gifts our way to perk up our personal resumes. Pentecost means that his incon-ceivable Trinity is determined to disturb our liaise faire ho hum approach to discipleship.
So I hope and pray that this Pentecost you will be knocked off your pins, that the divine magnate will befuddle your tired and true steady compass and set the needles spinning. I hope and pray that the Pentecost word will set you in a direction that leads to places you never imagined or maybe even hoped for, that Pentecost will make you dizzy and send you somewhere with a hint that God, in Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit is stirring the pot, fanning the flames, mixing the metaphors and inspiring the Church.
For Christ’s Sake,
† Bruce Burnside
Your Bishop
2 July 2012
COUNCIL HI-LIGHTS
June 12, 2012 The Evangelism committee will sponsor a float in the 4th of July parade. The Youth Group will also participate to advertise the upcoming rummage sale.
The Council reviewed two quotes to replace the front doors of the church. The existing doors can be repaired temporarily until the final purchase decision is ap-proved.
The Finance committee received quotes for a review of Faith’s financial records and financial procedures from two outside CPA firms. The committee will identify the services needed and submit a budget request to be considered as part of the 2013 spending plan.
The Congregational Task Force formed to review pastoral coverage of Pastor Lisa and Pastor Joan held their first meeting with Pastor Lisa and Pastor Bob in attend-ance. The committee is led by the Council executives and includes 9 members of the congregation.
Council approved the recommendation by the Finance committee to allocate $500 for Maintenance with a Mission. $250 was approved to be held in an account for specific maintenance projects identified in the ballot and approved at the May 20, 2012 congregational meeting. $250 was approved to be sent to the ELCA Mission of Good Gifts to purchase farm animals.
The office printer was replaced at a cost of $199.97.
Fur, Fin, and Feathers received approval to hold a food stand fund raiser during the 4th of July parade. 10% of the profits will be donated to the Columbus Fall River food pantry; 45% for Faith’s General Operating Fund; and 45% for Fur, Fin, and Feathers.
The Scrip program reported on the success of the program and included a check for $1000 for Faith ministries with their report.
Betsy Woodward, Council Secretary
Michael Anthon, Trevor Baeseman, Debbie Barth, Linda Brumm, Nick Bus-sian, Kelsey Donner, Georgia Eisen-reich, Brandy Foulkes, Abigail Fox, Jes-sica Gaska, Larry Haseman, Mitchell Hasey, Jenny Herzberg, Nan Hoene, Hunter Hurckman, Jordyn Jansen, Em-ma Kelly, Maddox Klossner, Dennis Kohl, Harlow Kuck, Lindsey Lasche, Karen Lessmiller, Terri Messer, Jeanne Miller, Melissa Miller, Micaela Miller, Ted Miller, Eugene O’Brion, Bob Pen-zotti, Martin Powers, Russell Rahn, Sarah Rowe, Kristie Rozinski, Jim Schie-ble, Judy Schultz, Brianna Sweney, Da-vid Utz, Ben Van Horn, Scott Vick, Stacy Walz, Alex Watrud, Wendy Watrud, Marjorie Westphal, Roger Westphal, Bailey Wilson, Danielle Wolf, Del Yerges.
MAY TREASURER’S REPORT
GENERAL FUND
Beginning balance $ 4,579.53
Deposit in transit (4/29 late) $ 2,283.00
Transfer from savings 0.00
Transfer to Faith Projects 0.00
Current months receipts $14,800.27
Disbursements $17,577.89
Checkbook balance $ 4,084.91
UNPAID BILLS-NONE
Beginning with Me-morial Day Weekend, Sunday, May 27 thru Labor Day Weekend, Sunday, September 2 we will see a switch with our worship service times for the summer. Wor-ship times will be at 8:00am and 10:00am.
July 2012 3
address change Amber Bussian
674 N Main Street
Fall River, WI 53932
Jan Zahn
906 Waterloo Street #3
Columbus 53925
Kylie Severson
221 N 9th Street #9
LaCrosse WI 54601
Donna Hankes
W8840 Chapel Road
Beaver Dam 53916
920-210-6520
Rowdy Seibt
PO Box 406, Columbus 53925
920-210-9609
telephone number change Ruth Nordal 1-920-210-3234
Terry Nordal 1-920-210-3990
April Campos 484-3606
The voting results from the May 20 Congregational meeting were: Shared Ministry, on the first ballot, selection A=30, B=16, C=39 and on the second ballot, A=35 and C=45 to continue fel-lowship, but end the funding. The new program "Maintenance with Mission Match" passed 49 in favor and 34 not in favor.
On the Lighter Side. . .
God’s Accuracy
God’s accuracy may be observed in the hatching of eggs. For example: the eggs of the potato bug hatch in 7 days; those of the canary in 14 days; the eggs of ducks and geese hatch in 28 days; those of the mallard in 35 days; the eggs of the parrot and the ostrich hatch in 42 days. (Notice, they are all divisible by seven, the number of days in a week!)
God’s wisdom is revealed in His ar-rangement of sections and segments, as well as in the number of grains. Each watermelon has an even num-ber of stripes on the rind. Each or-ange has an even number of seg-ments. Each ear of corn has an even number of rows. Each stalk of wheat has an even number of grains. Every bunch of bananas has on its lowest row an even number of bananas, and each row decreases by one, so that one row has an even number and the next row an odd number. All grains are found in even numbers on the stalks, and the Lord specified thirty fold, sixty fold, and a hundred fold—all even numbers.
The waves of the sea roll in on shore twenty-six to the minute in all kinds of weather.
God has caused the flowers to blos-som at certain specified times during the day, so that Linnaeus, the great Botanist, once said that if he had a conservatory containing the right kind of soil, moisture and tempera-ture, he could tell the time of day and night by the flowers that were open and those that were closed!
The lives of each of you may be or-dered by the Lord in a beautiful way for His glory, if you will only entrust Him with your life. Only the One who made the brain and the heart can successfully guide them to a profita-ble end.
4 July 2012
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL GRAD RECOGNITION SUNDAY JUNE 3, 2012
Each grad received a corsage from the Faith Lutheran Church Women (FLCW) and a quilt from the congregation on behalf of our quilting ladies.
SENIOR GRADS: Anna Avogaro (AFS student from Italy), Laura Morris, Kayla Hasey, John Faulhaber, Ted Miller, Anne Herzberg. Missing are Mitchell Freeman, Chris Mickelson and Michael Frey.
BACK ROW: Anna Avogaro, John Faulhaber, Ted Miller
FRONT ROW: Kayla Hasey, Laura Morris, Anne Herzberg
The Evangelism Committee, along with help from the Men in Mission Bible Group and the Youth Group going to New Orleans, is entering a float in the Columbus Fourth of July Parade. The parade theme this year is Three Cheers for the Red, White & Blue, so we are going to expand on that for our float. Please be sure to cheer for our float as
it passes by! Thanks to all that helped to make this possible.
July 2012 5
PENTECOST SUNDAY—May 27, 2012
We are currently trying to raise an addi-tional $2500 to replace the front doors of the church. The council received two separate quotes and the total cost will be approximately $5000. We have the other $2500 already set aside from pre-vious donations and fundraiser mon-ies. There will be a sign-up “door” set up in the narthex by June 24th. Please pick a square, or maybe two or three, to help pay for this needed expendi-ture. Each square will be the value of $25.
PASTORAL ACTS
June 10, 2012
Rashon Ryan Shidell Fisher
Parent:
Laura Shidell, Cedrick Fisher
Thanks to . . .
-Mark McNamee for installing the two lights in the narthex hallway.
-Sally Price, Melody and Rett Tadych, Maizie Anthon, Sue Frish, Sue Mathwich, Cheryl Hoffman and Dianne Patrick for helping assemble the June NEWSLETTER.
-Eugene O’Brion, John Baseman, Paul Bergum, David Kikkert and Daryl Severson for spreading the mulch.
JULY
1 Cheryl Hoffman
Jeanne Jones
Pr. Bob Moberg
Ruth Nordal
5 Susie Krakow
6 Lisa Hasey
Mia Powers
Julie Rieck
8 Millie Kindschi
Kylie Severson
9 Tyler Brozek
10 Dana Gillett
11 Savanna Miller
Elijah Wiersma
Dianne Tiedt
David Utz
12 Chris Penzotti
Evelyn Rupp
13 Emma Elling
Kasimir Tadych
14 Amanda Hole
15 Kevin Fritz
Margaret Schey
17 Kayla Hasey
18 Alyse Anthon
Courtney Severson
Eric Yuds
Rick Eisenreich
19 Tristan Watrud
Lisa Emler
Rose Tiedt
Eva Van Horn
20 Kenzie Severson
21 Ed Schellin
22 Sam Herzberg
24 Leslie Rice
25 Lauren Hansen
27 Lindsey Yuds
Shelly Salzman
28 Tina Miller
29 Roxanne Ayer
Jordan Dauman
30 Ruby Larson
31 Dennis Kohl
Phyllis Foulkes
Bob and Roxanne Ayer, Travis and Carman Bruss, DeAnn Gaska, Brooke Goering, Jeramy and Nikki Grossman, Yvonne Haakenson, Ashley Hegge,
Ron and Linda Huebner, Paul and Pam Larson, Tom and Liz Mitchell, Brian and Nancy Patrick, John and Shelly Salzman, Dennis and Claire Sampolinski, Gina Staskel, Yvonne Tjugum, David and Daria Utz, Bruce and Suzanne Zahn, Jan Zahn.
Congratulations!
Televised Service Times
Digital channel 980 Cable channel 98
Faith’s worship services are aired on the following days and times:
Monday @ 10:30am
Tuesday @ 9:00am
Wednesday @ 7:00pm
Thursday @ 1:30pm
THE RED TENTERS’
BOOKCLUB
For our July selection we are reading Moth-ers and Daughters by Rae Meadows and will meet on Thursday, July 26, 7pm at Faith’s Labyrinth. New members are always welcome to join us. Please call the church at 623-3610 for more information.
AS YOU TRAVEL THIS SUM-MER PLEASE REMEMBER TWO IMPORTANT FACTS:
JESUS NEVER TOOK A VACATION FROM HIS WOR-SHIP OR PRAYER LIFE.
OUR BILLS DO NOT TAKE VACATIONS.
6 July 2012
Music Music Music One of the many gifts that God has given to us is the gift of music. On the first Sun-day of each month we’d like to invite stu-dents and young people to share their talents by providing music for the services during the prelude and offering times. Piano, band instruments and vocals are welcomed; beginners are encouraged as well as those who are accomplished musi-cians. If you or your child are interested in participating in providing service music at Faith, please sign up in the narthex for either the 8am or 10am service on July 1, August 5 or September 2. Any questions? Talk with Lisa Weisensel! Start practicing!
With the adoption of the “Maintenance with Mission Match” program in June, the Finance com-mittee recommended $500. The Council agreed in their June meeting. As a result, $250 will be designated for maintenance and $250 will be sent to the ELCA Good Gifts mission for two sheep that will pro-vide wool and milk.
Summer Preaching Series
2012
ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A
CONFIRMAND?
As we worship together this summer we will use some wonderful resources that we have available to make the summer preaching especially engaging; and perhaps we may even learn something!!
Faith’s Confirmation program uses a PowerPoint based curriculum called “Here We Stand”. We use it for our study of the Bible and Luther’s Small Catechism, but there is much more great material in supplemental areas than we could ever hope to utilize. Those materials will provide us with the subject for sermons this summer.
Of course the name comes from the television series “Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader”. On that show adults are asked to answer questions from standard ele-mentary school textbooks. The idea, of course, is that we’ve all forget some things since we were 10!
The idea at Faith this summer isn’t to quiz people on what they remember from confirmation – or to award prizes for those with good memories either. The idea is to have some fun with basics of the Christian faith as Lutherans understand it, to get some insight into what confirmation is like these days, and to wake up some of our sleeping memories of what Confirmands know and we might have forgotten.
Are You Smarter than a Confirmand? We’ll have fun finding out this summer. Worship is at 8:00 and 10:00 every Sunday from May 27th until September 2nd.
July 2012 7
ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A CONFIRMAND? July 1—The Anatomy of a Baptism
July 8—How to Pass the Plate
July 15—How to Share the Peace in Church
July 22—How to Pray
July 29—How to Tithe
August 5—How to Repent
August 12—The Five Biggest Misconceptions About the Bible
August 19—Seven Important Bible Teachings Every Lutheran Should Know
August 26—History’s Six Most Important Heretics
September 2—How To Avoid Getting Burned At the
Stake
FF and F
The Fur, Fin and Feathers committee is planning the July 4 food stand fundraiser during the parade. The profits from this event will be distributed as 10% for the Col-FR Food Pantry, 45% for the Faith general fund and 45% for the committee’s Fall event. Scott Mathwich is the contact for this event. Thank you.
The First Communion picture in the June Newsletter was the 2011 class. The 2012 First Communion class picture was in the May NEWSLETTER. Sorry for this mistake.
Congratulations to
Brandon and Jamine Kurth on the birth of their twin sons Cade Jefferson Kurth and Blake Luther Kurth on Tuesday, June 19 at St. Mary’s Hospital in
Madison. Cade weighed 5# 1oz. and was 18” long. Blake weighed 4# 11oz. and was 17” long. Proud grandparents are Roger and Jan Kurth.
8 July 2012
Notes from the Finance Committee: Shown below is the financial information for 2012 as compared to 2011. We did not need to use money from sav-ings during the month of May to make payroll and pay bills. Thank you for your response in your giving.
1. Can you calculate: a. $10,000 + $4,000 = ? b. $10,000 - $4,000 = ? c. $10,000 + (3% of $10,000) + 1% of the sum of $10,000 and (3% of $10,000) =? 2. Are you interested in helping our congregation be good stewards of our finances? 3. Can you meet on the second Monday of each month at 6:30? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of the questions, the Finance Committee would like you to join our group. If you can-not answer question #1, we don’t care. Our group is paid very well: the pay is heavenly. All kidding aside, we are looking for more volunteers to join the finance committee. Please consider learning more about the financial de-tails of our congregation and how we are involved in spreading the Word of God. You can contact any of the Fi-nance Committee for more details. Wendy Corlett, Treasurer Paul Bergum Sue Frish Larry Haseman Dwayne Talg Betsy Woodward (Answers to #1: a. $14,000; b. $6,000; c. $10,403)
2012 2011
Needed Monthly
Giving Needed Monthly Giving
January $18,900.00 $17,097.80 $18,770.90 $17,141.27
February $18,900.00 $13,529.03 $18,770.90 $17,195.22
March $18,900.00 $13,854.79 $18,770.90 $18,574.37
April $18,900.00 $22,633.05 $18,770.90 $23,299.70
May $18,900.00 $14,800.27 $18,770.90 $16,628.88
Average Monthly Giving
$16,778.67 $19,052.64
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THE JULY
NEWSLETTER Faith...Serving God...Serving People
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:1
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Columbus, WI 53925
Permit No. 70
Faith Lutheran Church
120 Faith Drive
Columbus WI 53925-1602
AS MEMBERS OF FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH WE PROMISE:
To attend services regularly.
To support the congregation financially.
To live responsibly as a Christian witness.
To become as involved as possible in the total life and work of the congregation.
And this we promise to do by the help of God.
MISSION STATEMENT
Joyfully recognizing God’s commitment and faithfulness to us, FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH exists to serve God through serving God’s people. We eagerly work towards the realization of God’s Kingdom by:
Offering praise-filled worship to God.
Nurturing individual spiritual growth.
Fostering an environment of caring and acceptance.
Reaching out to serve the needs of our community.
God’s love stirs us to touch others with the same love we have received—and invites them to share our life of praise and service.
Faith Lutheran Church (ELCA) Columbus, Wisconsin
FAITH’S TOP PRIORITY VISIONING GOALS:
Equip all our members for lifelong spiritual growth and ministry.
Continue and build upon our tradition of being an
accepting congregation that welcomes and serves all.
Adopted March 2010
