Green Sheet - March 29, 2009

NEWS AND NOTES FROM PEACE WITH CHRIST 1412 W. Swallow Road Fort Collins, CO 80526 970-226-4721 Pastor Ralph Patrick Deaconess Claire Rueffer www.pwchrist-fc.org

March 29, 2009 Fifth Sunday in Lent

WELCOME TO PEACE WITH CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH! We give thanks to God that you are joining us today! Many of our guests are seeking a home church where they can be part of the Fellowship of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Peace with Christ is a congregation that is a family not an “organization”. We are small enough to allow people to know each other by name, and yet large enough to offer opportunities for growth and service. What we “specialize” in is not programs or productions, but simply The Gospel of Our Lord Jesus. Christ, His Word, and the Cross are what provide the foundation for faith and ministry. If you are interested in learning more about Peace With Christ Lutheran Church, please call the church office at 226-4721. Pastor Patrick would welcome the opportunity to visit with you personally.

THE TIME before the service may be used for prayer and preparation. Read through the worship bulletin and familiarize yourself with the service. A few moments spent this way will help make the service more meaningful.

NEXT WEEK’S LUTHERAN HOUR MESSAGE: “God’s Friday” Speaker: Rev. Dr. Ken Klaus. Many call it Good Friday - but is it, really? (John 19:30) Listen to The Lutheran Hour Message on KOA, Denver (AM850) at 6:00 a.m. and KFKA, Greeley (AM1310) at 9:30 a.m. Peace With Christ Radio Broadcast: KCOL (600AM), at 9:00 AM Sundays. ******************************************************* OUR MID-WEEK SERVICES ON THE TOPIC OF PRAYER CONTINUE ON WEDNESDAYS AT 4:30 AND 7:15pm. WE WOULD LIKE TO ENCOURAGE ALL OF YOU TO MAKE THIS A PRIORITY IN YOUR LENTEN JOURNEY.

During the Lenten Season--come and prayer at 7am on Wednesday mornings. Formal prayer will begin at 7:00am with Pastor and then you can stay for individual prayer as long as you like.

Jesus Wept A Two Night Lenten Seminar on Grief and Loss from a Christian Perspective at PWC, tomorrow and Tuesday from 7:00 to 8:30pm. Evening Worship Service & Reception Speaker: Rev. Ken Klaus, Speaker of ‘The Lutheran Hour’ Today at 4:00pm at Our Savior Lutheran, 5101 Dell Range Blvd., Cheyenne, WY. Information: 307-632-2580

• LWML’s Annual Bazaar netted close to $6k last year. Who decides where that money goes? You do! If you know someone pursuing a vocation in mission or church work, please get their name (and some background info) to Bev Russman (mailbox #151) before April 15th . The grant recipient(s) will be determined by a vote at LWML’s May 11th meeting. • You still have a week to get your Easter cards in the mail! Stop by the Sunshine room after service and check out our beautiful selection. • “The next regular LWML Executive Board meeting is TOMORROW, March 30th beginning at 6pm in the home of Jodi Allison. Call Jodi #223-5284 for directions. • THANK YOU to everyone who participated in the March 11th Soup Supper! Your outpouring of support for Kevin Rodenbeck, combined with Thrivent’s generous supplemental funding, raised a grand total of $1,560 to be applied toward Kevin’s medical bills!! TAGTAG-APRIL 7th AT NOON The meal this month will be a potluck with everyone bringing a favorite dish. The Bible study follows at 1:00 p.m. led by Pastor. All older adults are welcome to attend this Older Adult Ministry group.

Joy Circle will meet at 1:00pm on Thursday, April 2nd in the Fellowship Hall classroom. Gary Myers of the Poudre Valley REA will present a very interesting & timely program on “Conserving Energy”. Marcie Walter will have devotions. Pat Stegner & Dolores Lebeda will be hostesses. All ladies are welcome to join us! April 1st Soup Supper is to raise funds for the aunt & uncle of Matthew Armstrong (one of our college students). His uncle, Douglas Reed had a brain aneurism which left him unable to work. The funds from Wednesday’s Soup Supper will be to help the family with their expenses.

Easter Lilies will be available to beautify the chancel on Easter Morning. Lilies will cost $12 per plant. Please sign-up, and place a check made out to PWC in Marilyn’s box #131. Orders need to be placed TODAY Thank you!

EASTER BREAKFAST The Youth will be serving Easter Breakfast, Sunday April 12th from 7:00am - 8:30am only. Please plan to join us during that time to enjoy a meal of pancakes, sausage, fruit and muffins! Please sign-up! CONGREGATIONAL MEETING A Congregational Meeting will be held on Sunday, April 5, immediately following second service, and will be brief. Filling the Deaconess Intern position for our church will be on the agenda. Please plan to attend.

ADOPT A SEMINARIAN REPORT Lenten offerings have been designated to support Stephen Heimer who is enrolled at Concordia University. Stephen is the son of Dr. Karl Heimer of Ysleta, El Paso. Please use offering envelopes for Lent or mark a plain envelope for your contributions. Musicians and vocalist who would like to help enhance the service and to glorify the Lord with your gift, please sign up. Please sign up ASAP

YOUTH ACTIVITIES Easter Breakfast: Sign-up to help with the prep on April 11th, and sign-up to help Easter morning, April 12th. Check bulletin board by Youth Room to sign-up for items needed. Youth Scrip Fundraiser: We have cards available all year long. Stop by the Youth Table or call me for cards, Marilyn 226-4721 or 391-4946. Thanks for supporting the Youth! Do you have a child in PWC Sunday School classes? Would you like to better prepare yourself to discuss and reinforce these lessons at home? If so, plan to join us on April 5th as we preview the lessons & themes for the upcoming month of Sunday School classes. We look for the sacraments, uncover Law & Gospel, and talk about how we teach and lead within our own families. Contact Dan Prevedel with questions. ******************************************************** Second Wedding Coordinator Position: PWC would like to have at least two wedding coordinators to assure that all wedding parties receive the full attention they need. One of the two positions has been filled by Emily Fox. There will be training by knowledgeable women in the congregation in addition to the booklet to guide the coordinator and there is an honorarium appointed for the wedding coordinator. If you are interested in the second position, call the church office.

Our dear brothers and sisters in Christ: Thank you for all you have done and are doing for our family. Your prayers, cards, visits, calls, hugs, help, donations to mom’s memorials, and last, but not least, food, especially the pies. Mom loved her church family and we love you! God Bless you all! Dave, CJ and family

“Thank You” to all who attended the Open House for Gene Boortz….your presence was greatly appreciated and very much enjoyed.

• Please check in the kitchen and take home any dishes that are yours. We will be donating any items not picked up. • When you leave the Church please check and make sure all the lights are turned off and the doors are locked. Some of our door do not close completely, once you are outside please double check that they are actually closed tight and locked. • There are several coats hanging at the end of the coat rack that seem to have no home. Please check to see if any of them need to go home with you. If not they will be donated. ****************************************************

In Our Prayers: We remember The Anderson/Muth Family and all who grieve. The President and Nation Those who are ill, hospitalized, or recovering from surgery: Bill Smith, Marcie Walter, Ann Ireland (mother of Lisa Bernhardt), Doug Reed (brother of Diane Kettleson), Zoe Jones (Infant daughter of Josh and Jamie Jones), Brian Schick, Kevin Rodenbeck, Barb Holder, Marilynn Hudson, Marilyn Craig, James Jeppeson, Danica Flesner (infant daughter of Jeff and Heather Flesner) and Matt Armstrong. Those who are not able to attend church: Margaret Ziehm, Carolyn Brown, Viola Monahan, Arline Young, June Schwarck, Marie Rubel Strength during Lent Christians in Haiti - The Kurt Marquart Fund U.S. Soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan & throughout the world.

A READING FROM THE BOOK OF CONCORD FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT LARGE CATECHISM PART III, THE LORD'S PRAYER Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. So far we have prayed that God's name be honored by us and that His kingdom triumph among us. These two points deal with God's honor and our salvation. We receive God as our own and all His riches. But now we must firmly keep God's honor and our salvation, and not allow ourselves to be torn from them. In God's kingdom, although we have prayed for the greatest need we must also pray that God's will be done if we are to abide in God's will. We shall have to suffer many blows from everything that seeks to oppose the fulfillment of the first two petitions. No one can believe how the devil opposes these prayers. He cannot allow anyone to teach or to believe rightly. It hurts him to have his lies and abominations exposed, which have been honored under the sham use of the divine name. It hurts him when he himself is disgraced, is driven out of the heart, and has to let a breach be made in his kingdom. Therefore, he rages as a fierce enemy with all his power and might. He marshals all his subjects and, in addition, enlists the world and our own flesh as his allies. For our flesh is in itself lazy and inclined to evil [Rom. 7:18], even though we have believed God's Word. The world is wicked. So he provokes the world against us, fans and stirs the fire, so that he may drive us back, cause us to fall, and again bring us under his power [2 Cor. 2:11; 1 Tim. 3:6-7]. (paragraphs 59-63)

Condensed from CONCORDIA: THE LUTHERAN CONFESSIONS, copyright 2005,2006 by Concordia Publishing House. Used by permission. All rights reserved. To purchase a copy of CONCORDIA, call 800-325-3040.

ACTIVITIES THIS WEEK

Today March 29

Worship Services (Communion) Education Hour

8:00 am & 10:45 am 9:30 am

Monday March 30

Sunday School Teachers LWML Executive Board

6:00 pm 6:00 pm

Bible Study Lent Services

8:45 am 4:30 pm & 7:15 pm 5:15 pm 6:00 pm 6:30 pm

Tuesday March 31 Wednesday April 1

Soup Supper FED Classes Adult Choir Thursday April 2

RMHS Joy Circle

11:10 am 1:00 pm

Friday April 3 Saturday April 4 Sunday April 5

PALM SUNDAY Worship Services (Communion) Education Hour New Members Installation Congregational Meeting

8:00 am & 10:45 am 9:30 am

12:00 pm

THOSE SERVING TODAY March 29 Materials: Greeters: Guest Book: Reader: Ushers:

8:00 am Hoy Family Fox Family Betty Keeney Tom Lasich Gale Russman Vern Carlson Ken Keeney Allen Hendrix Marilyn Lasich Marina Rohlfs

Nursery: Acolytes: Crucifer: Audio Support: Judy Dahlgren Organist: Pianist: Ann Caspersen Youth Choir Director: MacKenzie Stine FED Choir Director: Deaconess Claire Elder of the Month: Ray Kaiser April 1 4:30 pm Greeters/Guest Book: Hazel Maiorka Reader: Ushers: Brian Lacey Marv Grueber Acolyte: Audio Support: Organist: Sarah Buchleiter

10:45 am Anne Yeldell Pat Juchartz Scott Yeldell Bob Cribbs Yeldell Yeldell Michael Stabnow Stacie Yeldell Olivia Sampson David Nierman

7:15 pm Joanne Kohler Ron Thaemert Dan Krueckeberg

THOSE SERVING NEST SUNDAY April 5 Materials: Greeters: Guest Book: Reader: Ushers:

Nursery: Acolytes: Crucifer: Audio Support: Organist: Elder of the Month:

8:00 am Elenore Lund Evelyn Scheiwe Richard Lund Brian Lacey Marv Grueber Jodi & Addi Lacey

Ann Caspersen Dan Prevedel

10:45 am Hazel Maiorka Ann Rodenbeck Ted Rodenbeck Chris Maiorka Chris Derby Larry Siegfried Chuck Black Jana Black

Prayer and Study Date: March 29 – April 4 Luther Quote: “I cannot imagine what must be going on in the mind of a man who, even though he sees the sun rise, does not firmly hold that there is a God.” Bible readings for the week: Sunday: Psalm 112; Luke 20-21 Monday: Psalm 113; Luke 22 Isaiah 64:1-9; Luke 23-24 Tuesday: Wednesday: Isaiah 25:1-9; Romans 1-3 Thursday: Psalm 114; Romans 4-6 Psalm 115; Romans 7-9 Friday: Saturday: Psalm 116; Romans 10-13 Ablaze! Praise – Mar. 16-31 The Holy Spirit is moving Lutherans to speak the Good News to unreached and uncommitted people. Read more Ablaze! faith-sharing experiences at www.lcms.org/ablaze.

Daily Prayers: Sunday: For the vacuum salesman with whom Anne Gonzalez, of Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church in Onalaska, Wis., shared her Christ-centered Lutheran faith. Anne wrote, He couldn't believe that we did not have to do any good works to get to heaven.” Pray for the Holy Spirit to use this conversation to create faith in this salesman’s heart. Monday: With thanks for the loving witness of Max, a fifth-grader from St. Paul Lutheran Church in Peachtree, Ga., who shared his faith through a witnessing bracelet with the driver and passenger of a truck that had struck his mother’s car in an auto accident.

Tuesday: That the Lord would bless the faithful witness of James Davis, of Faith Lutheran Church in Eldersburg, Md., who stepped out of his comfort zone to share the true Gospel with a co-worker in need of comfort.

Uganda – Apr. 1-15 LCMS World Mission began work in Uganda in 1995 as part of a regional East Africa strategy. In partnership with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ghana, LCMS World Mission supports leadership training to equip evangelists and pastors throughout East Africa, where the Lutheran church has seen explosive growth.

Wednesday: For missionaries Jacob and Michelle Gillard, and their daughters, Amelia and Evangeline. The Gillards help train, disciple, and walk alongside the leaders in the Lutheran Church Mission Uganda, the growing Lutheran church body in Uganda.

Thursday: For missionaries Shauen and Krista Trump, who arrived in Kampala, Uganda in January 2009. Shauen is completing his twoyear vicarage. Shauen works with fellow missionary Jacob Gillard in training, discipling, and walking alongside the leaders in this church body. Krista is a labor and delivery nurse and hopes to reach out to the people of Uganda through health care ministry.

Friday: For Ablaze! Alliance Missionary Solomon Ayagri, sent by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ghana, and his family, as they serve in Uganda. Since their arrival in 2002, Solomon has planted more than 20 new churches. As the Ayagris prepare to return to Ghana, thank the Lord for his faithful service!

Saturday: For the Lutheran Church Mission Uganda (LCMU). The LCMU has one ordained pastor, six evangelists, many dedicated lay leaders, and six regional Mission Training Centers (MTCs) where laymen are trained. Pray for God’s continued blessing and care to this young church body—that it may continue to grow and glorify Him as its members proclaim His truths.

www.lcmsworldmission

March 22 ATTENDANCE Worship Attendance: 128(8:00 am) 111(10:45 am)

Total 239

Education Hour Attendance: Adult Bible Study: 62 Sunday School: 28 Financial Update As of February 28, 2009 Budget - 2009

Income

Expenses

Net Income

$359,000.00

$58,457.18

$61,353.59

$-2,896.41

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION HOUR: 9:30-10:30 a.m. ADULT BIBLE CLASS. .. Sanctuary and Fellowship Hall NURSERY & KINDERGARTEN . . . . Preschool Rooms GRADES 1- 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter GRADES 3-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abraham GRADE 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Isaac JR. HIGH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jacob SR. HIGH . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . Youth Room

NEXT WEEK'S SCRIPTURE READINGS (ESV)

First Lesson: Zechariah 9:9-12 Second Lesson: Philippians 2:5-11 Gospel: Mark 15:1-47

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