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August 2017

Welcome to Holly Grove Lutheran Church!

Don’t Forget: Davidson County Schools will resume on August 28th and

Holly Grove Lutheran Church is hoping everyone has an awesome school

year!

Mission Statement of Holly Grove Lutheran Church

“As united people of God under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, our purpose is to provide wor-ship and Christian education, and respond in a

loving action to a needy world.”

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 2

Ice Cream Sand-

wich Day

1st Lincoln Pen-

ny Issued 1909

3

Friendship Day

National

Watermelon

Day

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6

7

CHICKS @

7:00

8

9 10

Smithsonian

Institution

founded 1846

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Thomas

Edison

invented

Phonograph

1877

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International

Left-Hander’s

Day

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Council @ 7:00

US Social

Security Act

approved 1935

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Lemon Meringue

Pie Day

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Seniors @ Mt.

Tabor 10:30

am

17 18 19

Aviation Day

20 21

AGAPE @ 6:30

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Tooth Fairy Day

23 24 25 26

Women’s

Equality Day

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LMiM @ 7:00

29 30

National

Toasted

Marshmallow

Day

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August 2017

Altar Guild- Lynn & Lateffa Dennis Mother’s Rose Garden- Micky & Carol Conrad in honor of Minnie Conrad & Louise Moore

6th Holy Communion Basket Offering: Family Services

Assisting Minister: Norris Feeney Communion Assistant: Scott Black Children’s Church: Jane DiBonaventura Ushers: Michael Willson, Andy Ferguson, Keith Cecil, Eddie Heitman Altar Flowers: Chapmans in honor of Ashton’s 2nd birthday

13th Assisting Minister: Chip Blower Children’s Church: Tina Heitman Ushers: Ty Heitman, Gary Hedrick, Greg Kepley, Robin Beck Altar Flowers: Micky and Carol, Kim and Bob, Todd and Lori- in honor of Minnie Conrad

20th Holy Communion

Assisting Minister: Neil Clark Children’s Church: Open Communion Assistant: Michael Willson Ushers: Max Carrick, Bob Troutman, Johnny Fritts, Frank Hamilton Altar Flowers: Stephanie Hearn in honor of Abigail’s 16th birthday & Sandra Vaughn’s birthday

27th Assisting Minister: Debbie Frank Children’s Church: Jordan Chapman Ushers: Herbert Frank, Scott Black, Michael Willson, Andy Ferguson Altar Flowers: Andy and Kristal Ferguson in honor of Gracie Rose Ferguson’s 8th birthday

Nursery Attendant: Jordan Chapman Children’s Chat: Tina Heitman

Nursery Attendant: Kara Feeney Children’s Chat: Pastor

Nursery Attendant: Jane DiBonaventura Children’s Chat: Pastor

Nursery Attendant: Kristal Ferguson Children’s Chat: Pastor

Christmas in July!

Children’s Christmas Program – December 22nd at 7:00pm ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` From the Parish Education Committee Save the Dates: September 17th - More information to follow January 7th – More information to follow

Traveling this summer? Find an ELCA congregation along your summer vacation route and ex-perience worship in a different church. Lutherans are ready to welcome you all over the U.S. and Caribbean. Search by location at ELCA.org/

FindACongregation.

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Summer vacation is just about over and it is almost time to get back

into the swing of School! School starts August 28th. Wow….summer

sure went by fast! If you had a “fun” vacation and would like to share it,

have Mom/Dad email a picture of the fun times and let’s see how many

places everyone went! They will be included in the next Holly Leaf!

Ready, Set, Go…………..

Mark your calendar!

Our Annual John Conrad Memorial Chicken B-B-Q

will be held on August 26th . It will be held from

11:00 am until 6:00pm. Please see one of the LMiM to

buy your tickets.

The Office Complex hours are 8:00 am 1:00 pm Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday. If you have anything that needs to be in the bulletin for the upcoming Sunday, please get it to me by Wednesday. The bulletins are

printed on Thursday each week.

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Just for giggles………………. A Sunday School teacher decided to have her 2 nd grade class memorize Psalm 23, one of the most quoted passages in the Bible. She gave the children a month to learn the chapter. One little boy was excited about the task, but he just couldn't memorize the Psalm. Although he practiced and prac-ticed, he could hardly get past the first line. The day came for the children to recite Psalm 23 before the congregation. The little boy was nervous. When his turn came, he stepped up to the microphone and proudly said, "The Lord is my Shepherd and that's all I need to know!" ********************************************************************************************** A mother was teaching her three year old daughter The Lord's Prayer. For several evenings at bedtime, she repeated it after her mother. One night she said she was ready to solo. The mother listened with pride, as she carefully enunciated each word right up to the end..."And lead us not into temptation", she prayed, "but deliver us some e-mail, Amen." ********************************************************************************************** One afternoon a little boy was playing outdoors. He used his mother's broom as a horse and had a wonderful time until it was getting dark. He left the broom on the back porch. His mother was cleaning up the kitchen when she realized that her broom was missing. She asked the little boy about the broom and he told her where it was. She then asked him to please go get it. The little boy informed his mom that he was afraid of the dark and didn't want to go out to get the broom.

Holly Leaf June 2017 Council Meeting Minutes Call to Order – Chip Blower Devotions – Karen- “love is a powerful weapon”, next month Kristal. Guest- Mitzi Schafer from Prosperity, SC. She works for the ELCA as a regional gift planner; she will be meeting with the women’s group, men’s group and Sunday school class. Help set up gift policies, who is going to receive those funds, how they will be used. Help congrega-tions grow their endowments- meet with individuals in the congregation (does not work on commission) to talk to them about how to set up gift giving at the end of life. Approval of Reports:

Minutes –Moved to approve the minutes. Seconded. Motion Passed. Financial Secretary – Need to combine the lines “Lauren Cecil Endowment” and “Endowment”, need to put in the bulletin or announce

that people can give to the endowment if they would like. - Moved to approve. Seconded. Motion Passed. Treasurer – Moved to approve. Seconded. Motion Passed. Building Fund – Will look at next month. Pastor’s Report – Senate assembly happened, no resolutions, no major elections, no discussion from the floor. Only thing to note is the

recommended compensation guidelines- voted to keep it the same except that they recommended the parental leave be increased by two weeks. Have transitioned to the secretary putting in the financials into the computer, but the financial secretary is still doing deposits and tallies, etc. We also switched from Time Warner to Windstream. Motioned to accept Pastor’s report. Seconded. Mo-tion Passed.

Correspondence: None this month

Committee Reports: Cemetery – Had a meeting, accepted the treasurer’s resignation and found new treasurer. Everything will continue as is- running

smoothly Evangelism – Nothing to report Fellowship – Going to honor Fathers on Sunday; still working on July 4th cookout that will be July 2nd Finance – Nothing to report Parish Ed – have met twice, once in May, then yesterday; since Sunday school is on a break, we will focus on Children’s church; would

like to bring back rally day in September during the Sunday school hour, looking at September 10th; will try to send out reminders to the Sunday school aged children; need to advertise Mt Tabor’s August 9-12th or AGAPE’s July 4th day camp; for near future, they want to get started on the Christmas program, goal is to get a game plan for the Christmas program by September, maybe meet with Judy and music and worship; long term goal would be to bring VBS back in house 5:30-8pm for June 2018, want to have an agenda in place by January; talked about doing a camp AGAPE here; plan to meet with Pastor Matt on the 25th

Property – Deck behind the complex needs to be repaired, we do not use it often but it would not cost a lot to fix it- new decking boards needed; do we want to go to property or just do away with it- we will let property committee decide

Recreation – Trying to set up a whiffle ball tournament for this weekend with vendors Scholarship – met on May 28th, checks will go out in July, but they would like to meet again on June 28th for anyone interested; would like

to look at finding a new chair for that committee, so Joe can step down, but still be very involved Scouts – all scouts are eagles now, taking a break for the summer and will start back up in the Fall as an adventure scout troop, for ages

14 and up, female and male; should put that out in the Holly Leaf Social Ministry – Nothing to report Stewardship – Nothing to report Worship & Music- Next meeting is the 28th at 6pm; tentative date for homecoming as Sept 24th Youth – try to go tubing on June 30th; will have first interest meeting for next year’s youth gathering on the 25th at 2pm; for youth who will

have completed the 8th grade in the Summer of 2018 through to those who have completed high school

Unfinished Business: Kitchen- stove, refrigerator- not now; counter tops- installed; paint cupboards- No, just refinish & new hardware Video system- plan to install this Wednesday 6/14 7:30am Main bank account did not get charged the $17 for the next month, but they did not take off the one from last month; some groups are

not receiving statementsNew Business:

None

Luke 6:35 - But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthank-

ful and [to] the evil.

Always love one another…..you will make God smile!

The “Holly Dome” is open………

Come and enjoy fun under the lights at one of our games. Games are

played on Monday & Tuesday nights. Rain-outs are played on Thurs-

days. Come and get one of the best hot Dogs in the county and just

kick back and enjoy!

(If you can help out in the Concession Stand for August & September, please see Monica Parsons for details)

Father, We thank you for the opportunity to begin this new school year, and we ask that you bless the students, faculty, and student families that make our school a great place. We pray that you will guide us in your ways, so that we will seek your will in everything that we do, and love others as you love us. We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Scouts – all scouts are Eagles Scouts now and are taking a break for the summer and will start back up in the Fall as an Adventure Scout Troop, for ages 14 and up, female and male are welcome to participate.

Comfortable with numbers? Care about your church and want to help? Consider if

God might be calling you to serve a term as the Holly Grove Lutheran Church Treas-

urer. Amy Kepley is two years into a 3-year term and we would like to have a re-

placement in place in advance for a smooth transition. Please speak to Pastor Matt

for more information.

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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

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Jack Conrad

Jim Conrad

4 5

6

Scott/Judy

Black

7

Ted Proctor

8 9

Sue Anderson

10

Robert Fritts

Julie Littleton

Andrew/Robin

Queen

11 12

Blake

Hedrick

Johnny/

Tammy

Turner

13

Ashton

Chapman

Minnie Conrad

Sandra Vaughn

14 15

Andrew Curry

16

Kristopher

Burkhart

17

Carey/Bobbie

Fritts

18

Toni Chapman

Abigail Hearn

Chodd Hedrick

19

20

Ariel Everhart

Kyle Murphy

21 22

Travis Rose

Lydia York

23 24 25

Challon Burkhart

Joe Hedrick

Olivia Turner

26

27

Erin Burkhart

Gary McLain

28 29

Gracie

Ferguson

30

Marshall Brown

31

Birthday & Anniversaries

Holly Grove Lutheran Church 212 Holly Grove Lutheran Church Rd Lexington, NC 27292 336-249-2807 www.hollygrovelutheranchurch.org email: pastor@hollygrovelutheranchurch.org office: hglc@hollygrovelutheranchurch.org Sundays 915AM Sunday School 1030AM Worship

We will return in August……...