Green Sheet - November 22, 2009

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

November 22, 2009 Last Sunday of Church Calendar

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.

2 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: “Behold, the Days Are Coming!” Guest Speaker: Rev. Peter Cage of St. Paul’s Ev. Lutheran Church, Ft. Wayne IN. On this First Sunday in Advent and the beginning of a new church year, our Lord Jesus Who came once to redeem the world, comes to us in His Word and prepares us for when He will come again on the Last Day. (Luke 21:25-36) (Mark 13:13) 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. **Please note that the radio broadcast will not be aired on the following dates due to Bronco football: November 1 & 15 and December 6, 13 & 27. CONGREGATIONAL MEETING A congregational meeting will be held TODAY at 1:00pm. There will be a full agenda; a few of the major items of Church business are the 2010 Budget, Election of Officers, and By-Law changes. Please plan to attend.

Thanksgiving Eve Service at 7:00pm NO CONFIRMATION CLASSES

Thanksgiving Day Service at 9:00am Men: We live in a culture that seeks to enslave us in many ways, even to seemingly 'good' pastimes. The Kings Men study group will consider how to be a man of moderation as we discuss Chapter 9 of 'The Measure of a Man'. We consider God's word and share our own insights and experience, and we'd love to benefit from yours as well, whether you have studied with us before or not. 6pm Wednesday in Pastor's office.

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LWML December Christmas Party

LWML will meet Sunday, December 13th at 2pm at the home of Norma Thaemert for our annual Christmas Party. We’ll carpool from the church at 1:30 pm. Remember to bring your Christmas “Dime Stocking” money, your mites, and a plate of cookies. Dime stocking money will support Crossroads Safehouse. Extra cookies will be used to make up holiday plates for shut-ins. All ladies of the congregation are invited to share this special afternoon. Plan on attending! ♦ NOON TODAY is the deadline for delivering a frozen turkey to church! Your donations will be delivered to the hungry folks at Open Door Mission for Thanksgiving. What a great opportunity to share your blessings with others during the holidays! ♦ We pack up Craft Fair items in the Sunshine Room TODAY, so stop by before heading home to check out the beautiful crafts handmade by members of PWC. So far, we’ve netted over $5,600. Including Thrivent’s supplement of $1,250, we’ll send Stephen Heimer of Ysleta Mission a check in excess of $6,850! THANK YOU! ♦ LWML will be hosting the December 2nd Advent soup supper. Proceeds will benefit the Heiliger’s work in Turkey. The sign-up sheet for food and kitchen help is posted on our bulletin board. ♦ The next regular LWML’s Executive Board meeting is Monday, November 30th beginning at 6pm in the home of Bev Russman. All ladies are welcome!

TAG (Tuesday Afternoon Group) December 1st at Noon: The meal will be catered so there isn't a need for anyone to do any cooking during this busy time of the year. Please sign-up for the meal so there will be enough for everyone. Bible study will follow at 1:00pm led by Pastor Caspersen. All older adults are welcome to attend.

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To the servants of Christ who helped with Adelaide’s memorial service and the lunch following, we want to express our deepest thanks and God’s blessings to all of you. The Moellenhoff Family JOY CIRCLE - Our annual Christmas meeting will be Thursday, December 3 at 1pm at Cheryl Harsen’s home. We will have a short business meeting and program. Cheryl will provide treats and Marge Westhoff will have devotions. All women are welcome to join us!

YOUTH ACTIVITIES Thank you to all for your support of the Youth Candy Sales! We appreciate it! Senior High Christmas Party - December 6 at 4:00 PM, at The Kaiser Home, 2643 Antelope Rd. Plan to bring a gift ($5 limit). Please sign up to let us know how many will attend and what you would like to bring. Confirmation Age Christmas Party - Saturday, December 12 after Children’s Christmas Service Rehearsal. Please sign-up and plan to bring a snack to share and a gift ($5 limit). Friends are welcome! Children’s Christmas Service - Plan to sign up to help, sing, read, or play your instrument at the Children’s Christmas Service December 16th. Rehearsal is Saturday, Dec. 12 at 10 am.

2009 Season’s Opener will be held on Saturday, December 5th from 4 - 5:30pm. Please plan to help welcome in the Advent Season by attending PWC traditional Season’s Opener. This gathering is meant for young & old alike and all those inbetweeners. More information coming.

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Youth and Children’s Christmas Service: A sign-up sheet for volunteers is posted on the bulletin board. Feel free to look it over and sign-up where you would like to serve. Our next meeting to discuss the service will be November 30 at 6:30pm. ALSO, we sent out student sign-up forms to all the Sunday School classes. If your young person is planning to be in the program, please fill one of these out and return it to Reena ASAP and no later then November 29. Extra forms will be located at the bulletin board in the Narthex or from Reena. Thank You!

Orders for the 2010 LWML calendar will be accepted through December 1st. The final printing will begin December 2nd. Please see Cheryl Harsen for an order form to be returned to her. Prepaid orders only will be accepted through December 1st.

Missions & Ministry Our annual Christmas Party for the Good Shepherd Home residents will be at the church on December 6th at 6:00pm. Everyone is invited to come join the fun and see the happy faces!

Parents & Twos - A Sunday School class for two - three year old children and their parents will begin next Sunday, November 29th. Plan to attend the Sunday School Opening at 9:30 am in the sanctuary, class will be held in the Nursery. If you have any questions, see Chad Hamilton, Robin Hamilton, Reena Linke or Marilyn Lasich.

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CHRISTMAS CHOIR

As our choir director, Kelley, will be out of town for Christmas, we will have a “pick-up” choir. If you would like to join in singing with choir for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, please sign-up on the bulletin board in the Narthex. Youth are welcome too. The more the merrier! We have several services between the two days with choral pieces at each service: ♦ December 24 - 4pm and 7pm. Lessons and carols, 10pm Divine Service ♦ December 25 - 9am Divine Service. Contact Reena if you have any questions or if you would like to have the music early - [email protected] Rehearsals: Wednesday, December 2 - after the Advent service. Wednesday, December 9 - after the Advent Service. Sunday, December 20 - Noon Wednesday, December 23 - 6:00pm

Our Prayers: We rememberThose who are ill, hospitalized, or recovering from surgery: Bernice Nansel, Gene Frank, Ted Anderson, Mac & Iris Bergen, Helen Leben, Arv Witt, Art Pforr, Louise Tuchenhagen, Emily Irvine (greatniece of Angela Myers), Linda Groeling, , Zoe Jones (Infant daughter of Josh and Jamie Jones), Kevin Rodenbeck, Marilyn Craig, Marilyn Hudson, Evelyn Marweg, Jason Shedd and family Those who are not able to attend church: Margaret Ziehm, Carolyn Brown, Arline Young, June Schwarck, Marie Rubel, Jean Upham. The families of Peace With Christ U.S. Soldiers throughout the world

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF CONCORD FORMULA OF CONCORD, EPITOME ARTICLE IV: GOOD WORKS LAST SUNDAY OF THE CHURCH YEAR

Whether good works are necessary for preserving faith, righteousness, and salvation is another issue in dispute. This again is of high and great importance, for "the one who endures to the end will be saved". Faith [does not] lay hold of righteousness and salvation only in the beginning and then resigns its office to works as though they had to sustain faith, the righteousness received, and salvation. It means that the promise, not only of receiving, but also of retaining righteousness and salvation, is firm and sure to us. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. (Romans 11:20) [He will] present you holy and blameless and above reproach before Him, if indeed you continue in the faith.(Colossians 1:22-23) By God's power [you] are being guarded through faith for a salvation. (1 Peter 1:5) Obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls. [1 Peter 1:9] It is clear from God's Word that faith is the proper and only means through which righteousness and salvation are not only received, but also preserved by God. Therefore, it right to reject [those who] say our good works preserve salvation, or the righteousness of faith that has been received, or even faith itself. (paragraphs 30, 34-35)

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.

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ACTIVITIES THIS WEEK Today November 22

Worship Services (Communion) Education Hour Congregational Meeting

8:00 am & 10:45 am 9:30 am 1:00 pm

Monday November 23

M ‘n M’s

7:00 pm

Wednesday November 25

Bible Study Thanksgiving Eve Service

8:45 am 7:00 pm

Thursday November 26

Thanksgiving Service

9:00 am

Friday November 27

Office Closed

Tuesday November 24

Saturday November 28 Sunday November 29

Worship Services (Communion) Education Hour

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

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THOSE SERVING TODAY

November 22 Materials: Greeters: Guest Book: Reader: Ushers:

8:00 am Niermans Buchholtz Eunice Nierman Dan Krueckeberg Daniel Cerman Wes Nierman Ray Kaiser

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

Robin Hamilton Libby Hoy Krissy Petago Judy Dahlgren Jennifer Musgrave Kelley Pichel Dan Prevedel

10:45 am CJ Muth Pat Stegner Dan Prevedel Dave Muth Ted Anderson Ned Daugherty Larry Siegfried Colleen Rohlfs Tiffany Wiginton Taylor Wiginton David Nierman

Flowers on the Altar in Loving Memory of Doris Wolf November 26 - 7:00pm Greeters: Moores Ushers: Michael Rohlfs Nursery: Colleen Rohlfs Acolyte: Myah Boehnke Organist: Reena Linke Audio: Chris Dunker

November 27 - 9:00am Greeters: Eunice Nierman Ushers: Wes Nierman Michael Rohlfs Nursery: Colleen Rohlfs Acolyte: Zachary Prevedel Organist: Shawna Prevedel Audio: Ron Pichel

THOSE SERVING NEXT SUNDAY November 29 Materials: Greeters: Guest Book: Reader: Ushers:

8:00 am Niermans Nansel Anne Foster Ray Kaiser Daniel Cerman Tracy Foster Ray Kaiser

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

Anne Foster Julie Roth Keller Foster David Nierman Reena Linke Dan Prevedel

10:45 am Nansel Colleen Rohlfs Wes Nierman Michael Rohlfs Ned Daugherty Ted Anderson Larry Siegfried Colleen Rohlfs Mackenzie Cheuvront Marina Rohlfs David Nierman

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Prayer and Study Date: November 22 - November 28 Luther Quote: “When a Christian begins to know Christ as his Lord and Savior, who has redeemed him from death, and is brought into His dominion and heritage, his heart is thououghly permeated by God; then he would like to help everybody attain this blessedness. For he has no greater joy than the treasured knowledge of Christ. So he begins to teach and exhort others, confesses and commends his blessedness before everybody, and sighs and prays that they, too, may come to this grace.” Bible readings for the week: Sunday: Monday: Tuesday: Wednesday: Thursday: Friday: Saturday:

Psalm 142; Matthew 11-12 Psalm 143; Matthew 13-14 Psalm 144; Matthew 15-16 Psalm 145; Matthew 17-18 Psalm 146; Matthew 19-20 Psalm 147; Matthew 21-22 Psalm 148; Matthew 23-24

Urban mission work in the United States - Nov. 18-30 With the third-largest population in the world, and the world coming to its cities, the United States is indeed a vast mission field. These missionaries work in some of the urban centers of the United States to coordinate mission work and train future leaders.

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Daily Prayers: Sunday: For Rev. Richard Schlak, who is the director of the Lutheran Hispanic Missionary Institute in El Paso, Texas. Pray for the institute, which provides training for Spanish-speaking church planters in the United States and other countries.

Monday: For Rev. Tesfai Tesema, who serves in San Jose, Calif., through South Bay Mosaic Minstries. As a mission developer, he is planting a multi-ethnic congregation among first- and secondgeneration immigrants in the area—one that crosses ethnic, racial, and cultural boundaries.

Tuesday: For Rev. Stephen Wiggins, who serves in as an urban mission strategist in the Atlanta, Ga., metro area. Stephen asks, “Pray for a unified outreach effort of all the Lutheran congregations in the metropolitan Atlanta area.”

Wednesday: For Rev. Dr. Yohannes Mengsteab, director of new mission fields for LCMS World Mission’s National Mission Team. Ask the Lord to guide and bless Yohannes as he supervises missionaries serving in urban areas across the country. Thursday: For a network of supporting LCMS individuals and congregations to continue to build up around these urban mission workers—so that many would be actively contributing time, talents, and treasures to their ministries.

Friday: For the revitalization of many urban LCMS congregations— many are already undergoing the revitalization process, so that they may adapt to carrying out ministry in their changing communities. Saturday: For Lutheran schools in urban congregations, which can draw students and their families into a community of faith, as they hear and see the Gospel in these Lutheran schools. www.lcmsworldmission

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November 15 ATTENDANCE Worship Attendance: 108(8:00) 99(10:45 am)

Total 207

Education Hour Attendance: Adult Bible Study: 47 Sunday School: 36 Financial Update As of October 31, 2009 Budget - 2009

Income

Expenses

Net Income

$359,000.00

$274,469.17

$282,691.23

-$8,222.06

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: Jeremiah 33:14-16 Second Lesson: 1 Thessalonians 3:91-13 Gospel: Luke 19:28-40

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