OUR REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCHNEWSLETTER

JUNE, 2016

Pastor’s Letter June, 2016PENTECOSTDear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Church is open on Sundays (andSaturday afternoons) this summer - thePentecost Season!!! It’s open forbusiness, but most importantly it’s openfor worship!!!

God takes no vacation. We may take awell needed vacation, but the Pentecostfaith goes on! During Pentecost, thelessons focus on the teaching of Jesus. The color is green - the color of growth. So, it is the church’s intention that we allcontinue to grow in our faith andfellowship. If you travel places, go toworship at another one of our Lutheranparishes and bring us back a bulletin. We would like to see how otherchurches worship.

Don’t forget to be good stewards of yourtime, talents and possessions! Yourfinancial support during the summermonths is very important! The bills stillneed to be paid and the Lord’s work stillcontinues. And guess what?! Areminder!! We do have air conditioningin church. We have for some time nowand it is very comfortable. The church isa cool place to be!

I will be looking for you and happy toserve you at the Lord’s table.

God Bless you all and a have a blessedsummer!

Peace,

Pastor Klose

Pastor Klose recently visitedhis first church in Maine,Grace Lutheran, for their 100th

Anniversary. Pictured arePastor Klose, Pastor MarianMarks and the Bishop of theNew England Synod, The Rev.James Hazelwood.

Upcoming.....

MARK YOURCALENDARS!!!!

June 12, 2016 10:45 AM

AnnualCongregational

meeting. Allmembers are

urged to attend. Please mark your

calendars.

July 10, 2016Outdoor Service/

Brunch

REMEMBER YOUR CHURCH WHILE YOU ARE ON VACATION!!

Vacation holidays are great!! We all need to get away to relax, rest, and renew our energies andcreativity. Please enjoy your vacation and do all you can to make it safe and refreshing.

Also, remember that the work of the church does not stop because we go on vacation. Your prayersand offerings make our ministry possible. Before you go, please bring your pledge up to date.

And.... then enjoy your time away with the knowledge that the work of the Lord through ourcongregation continues undiminished. You'll be glad you did!!!

KITCHEN FUNDMEMORIAL FUND

I/m/o EDWARD SWANSONGiven by: Margaret Hennessy

I/m/o HELEN DONALDGiven by: The Monday Night Crafters

FUNERALS

MAY 24, 2016Joan Petrouskie

MAY 27, 2016Edward Swanson

JUNE ANNUAL CONGREGATIONAL

&SCHOOL BOARD

MEETINGSUNDAY, JUNE 12 th

10:45 amAfter our 9:30 am

School Board members willbe voted for. You can make a

difference!! All votingmembers 18 years and older are encouraged to

attend and exercise your right to vote!

JUNE

June 4 - 5:00 PMJune 5 - 9:30 AM Holy Communion

June 11 - 5:00 PM June 12 -9:30 AM

Holy Communion -10:45 AM

Congregational & School Board Annual

Meeting

June 18 - 5:00 PM

June 19- 9:30 AM Holy Communion

Happy Father's Day!

June 25 - 5:00 PM June 26 - 9:30 AM Holy Communion

SUMMER RETREAT

Please join us for ourFamily Summer Retreatat Koinonia July 15–17,2016. Have fun in thesun rafting and enjoyingfellowship. Sign Up!

COMMUNION ASSISTANTS andASSISTING MINISTERS

AND USHERS

for the 9:30 am service. If you are interested,please speak to Pastor Klose or call the churchoffice. Please seriously consider this service tothe church— you’ll be glad you did!

DAY CARE NEWS JUNE 2016I

Family time is so special. I am takinga vacation with my family soon and Iwill be spending time with mynephews Connor and Breccan. Boutsof homesickness can make memiserable, but I am lucky that I alsohave a day care family. Some of mypast Pre-K students even work here. They have come full circle and are anaddition to my family, they, as all mypast students, are “my kids!” Pastorspoke of home and family in hissermon for our Go to Church Sunday. Our school is a home away from homefor our children. We know their historyand where they started. We arefamily!

Our current family of children enjoyedmaking Mother's Day gifts for theirmommies. Homemade gifts from littlepeople are just the best! TheToddlers and Pre-K enjoyed their last

Music Class of the year with Dr. Pinto. At Chapel Pastor taught us aboutPentecost, the Birthday of the Church. During Yoga Miss Chris lead usthrough poses associated with thebooks she read us.

We celebrated Teacher AppreciationDay with lunch. I would like to thankour teachers for all of their work. These early years are the foundationof a child's socialization andeducation. Our parents are able to goto work knowing that their happychildren are in a safe setting playingand learning with other children.

Our Infants are growing in leaps andbounds. They have a group of littlemovers that entertain the tiny ones.Pre-K and Toddlers are finishing thenumbers up to ten and are preparingfor our Graduation Program. It is a bigproject, but so worth the work! Thechildren have started to practice thesongs and make the decorations. Thetheme this year is a Luau. We aregoing to hula “our” way on June 24 !th

Fondly,

Melissa Bires-McGee

NURSERY SCHOOL NEWS JUNE 2016

Congratulations are in order for staff members,Cathy Clark, Christine Jaeggli, Gayle Kislow, KarenSterling and Debbie Kennedy. Mrs. Clark, Mrs.Jaeggli, Mrs. Kislow and Mrs. Sterling wererecognized for ten years of service and Mrs.Kennedy for five years of service and dedication toLutheran Education during the Lutheran School’sAssociation’s (LSA) annual board meeting andrecognition dinner. The festivities took place onMay 11 at LuHi.

On May 16, the Nursery School held a fund raisingsocial event at Zona Restaurant in MassapequaPark. Sip, Dine and Paint was lots of fun and agreat success! Present and past staff members,church members, parents, and their familiesattended this creative evening. We enjoyed goodfood, raffle prizes, and painted a beach scenecanvas. Thank you to all who attended. I willcertainly plan another paint night in the future.

At Our Redeemer Nursery School the end of theyear is upon us. Students are busy practicing theirsongs to present at the end of year ceremonies. The graduation gowns are being pressed for our 4year olds and decorations are being made. OurRedeemer’s own, Jackie Edwards, is also busyworking on a DVD photo montage of ourgraduating four year olds. This wonderful keepsakeDVD has photos, graphics and touching musicshowcasing our children and the events of theyear. Jackie’s dedication to this project is greatlyappreciated!

Along with this preparation, students will enjoy theirlast month of school playing on the playground,making crafts for Father’s Day, learning about FlagDay, and planning summer time fun.

It is always bittersweet to see our 4's move on toKindergarten and leave Our Redeemer behind. We will look forward to seeing our Learn & PlayGroup students and 3 year old students return inSeptember. Both groups will surely be a little moregrown-up and a lot more confident. However,before September arrives, many of our studentswill return for Summer Fun in July and August. Summer Fun is a fun-filled Five Week program forlittle ones ages 3 by December 1, 2016 - age 6. Ilook forward to the return of my special team ofSummer Fun teachers! Thank you to the Our Redeemer congregation foryour continued support of our faith-based nurseryschool. How rewarding it is for me to be a part ofthis special school! I hope to see many of you atthe Congregation Meeting on June 12. Wishing allof the members of Our Redeemer Church anenjoyable and relaxing summer!

Regards,Caitlin DiLemme, Director

Nursery School Painting Fundraiser

It was a huge success! Thank you to allwho planned, shopped for & participated inour fun event!!!

Thank you also to Thrivent Financial fortheir contribution of funds to help ourfundraiser get started.

SUNDAY SCHOOL NEWS

A MINION Reasons to Love God!!

I hope everyone had good time duringSunday school. We were very busyduring the year with the Blessing of theAnimals, celebrated ReformationSunday, collected food for theThanksgiving Baskets, we visited churchfor Advent, had our Christmas Parties. Unfortunately, we did not have ourChristmas Pageant but guarantee therewill be one next year. Those four monthsjust flew by!! We are now in the NewYear - 2016 - we visited church forEpiphany and we had a special mission -Buck A Chick - for the ELCA which thechildren colored beautiful chicks andwere hanging in the hall by Room 4. Hope you all saw the wonderful work theydid. Thank you all for your fabulousgenerosity. We visited church for Lentand had our pretzel sales. On March13th our 4th grade students celebratedtheir 1st Holy Communion, and thefollowing Sunday we celebrated PalmSunday. On March 25th we had ourGood Friday children's service, a verysuccessful Easter Egg Hunt and then wecelebrated Easter Sunday. In May thingssettled down again. On May 15th wecelebrated our Sunday SchoolRecognition and had our year end classparties!! This year Eric and Joe askedthe children to write one line what Godmeant to them. Then, Eric and Joecomposed it into a song which they sangon May 15th. I hope you were able tohear it as it truly was magnificent.

THANK YOU Eric and Joe!!

I would like to thank our Class Parentsfor all their help.

A Special THANK YOU to Carol Aarsethfor running another successful Pretzelsales this year, and all the parents whograciously gave their time and helpedCarol in the kitchen. As always, this wasa huge success. The money we raisefrom our pretzel sales and the moneythat you send in your child's missionenvelopes goes to our mission project,Heifer International.

Our THANKS to Pastor, Cindy, Marcoand all the parents who have helpedbehind the scenes.

Special THANK YOU to Eric Groeplerand Joe Imbro for the fabulous job theydo with our music program. THANK YOUERIC AND JOE!!

If you are interested in helping with ourprogram or ideas on how we canenhance it, please contact me. Anysuggestions you may have, please let meknow. You can email me atrhsdfamily@aol.com.

We are looking forward to welcomingyour children back next year.Have a safe and wonderful summer. Look forward to seeing you inSeptember.

Yours in Christ,Susan Smith

It is with great pleasure that we are able to award the following students with their Sunday SchoolAttendance Pin. These children have met the criteria of only having three absences or less for the Sundayschool year - September through May.

MAY 16, 2016EXCELLENCE IN SUNDAY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE

AWARD RECIPIENTSCONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS

1st Year Pin 2nd Year Pin 3rd Year PinAlexis Cuthbert Jacob Cuthbert Joey CuthbertElianna Dispenza Maya Reeves Addison Dispenza

Ryan Reeves Isabella MeduriKylie Reeves

5th Year Pin 8th Year Pin 9th Year Pin 10th Year PinEmily Bowles Louis Meduri Matthew Meduri Jillian DavisMegan BowlesNatalie DispenzaNicholas Meduri

ERIKA TEGELMAN MEMORIAL AWARDThis award is presented to a Third Grade student who demonstrated the following qualities: 1. ChristianAttitude, 2. Class Participation, 3. Christian Kindness, 4. Sunday School Attendance. This year the awardwent to:

MEGAN BOWLES

The following are the dedicated and hard working volunteers that teach your children ourSunday school program. Without these individuals we would not have the

fantastic program we are able to provide your children.MANY THANKS FOR YOUR DEDICATION

MUSIC DIRECTOR - ERIC GROEPLER & JOE IMBRO

SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS AND HELPERS(*)

PRE K (3 & 4 YEAR OLDS) KINDERGARTENDenise Groepler Barbara BarbutoAllie Conlon Nick Barbuto*Cathy Clark Nancy PetrakChris Jaeggli Kyra Gonsor*Nicole Jaeggli

1ST GRADE 2ND GRADE 3RD GRADEBrianna Spalletta Susan Lopez Charles DavisSam Schanstra* Melissa Garneau* Christopher Lopez*Vicki Cuthbert Lauren KloseSam Schanstra* Kaelin King*

4th GRADE 5th & 6th GRADE Congratulations to the 6 grade Students who th

Ellie Meduri LeeAnn Diedrick Completed their Sunday School studies and Will enter their Confirmation Studies in Sept.

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

2016

Att:CommunionAssistants andAssistingMinisters -Please do not

wear robesduring thesummermonths.

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8:30 AMWork Crew

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