Green Sheet - November 29, 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 29, 2009 First Sunday in Advent

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: “Nobody Tells Me What To Do!” Guest Speaker: Rev. Dr. Ken Klaus. Half-hearted repentance is not really repentance at all. Jesus didn’t come into this world to live, suffer, die, and rise for those who think they are doing just fine on their own. (Luke 3:1-14) (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: December 6, 13 & 27.

ADOPT A SEMINARIAN REPORT: Advent offerings have been designated to support Stephen Heimer who is enrolled at Concordia University. Please use offering envelopes for Advent or mark a plain envelope for your contributions. Thank you for supporting this ministry with your prayers and generous gifts.

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 in-betweeners.

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!

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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! ♦ 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 tomorrow night beginning at 6pm in the home of Bev Russman. All ladies are welcome!

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!

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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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.

Poinsettia Orders A sign-up sheet is in the Narthex, $9.00 each, make check payable to PWC write poinsettia on memo line and give to Lu Buchholz by Dec. 13th. Please indicate which color you would like, Red or White. You may pick up your plant after Christmas Day service. If you’d like your plant to go to a shut-in or nursing home resident, please let me know. Thanks, Lu Buchholz 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.

Peace with Christ Library Book of the Week- NEW BOOK! The Lutheran Study Bible Engage in devotional, Christ-centered Bible reading and study with the distinctive, comprehensive notes and practical application of The Lutheran Study Bible. This new Bible is the first in English to be developed from the ground-up with notes that are distinctively Lutheran, prepared by Lutheran contributors from over twenty confessional Lutheran church bodies. Current Lutheran scholarship, insights from the Church Fathers, and rich devotional commentary provide meaningful perspective for both young and mature Christians.

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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 Tomorrow 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 Today. Extra forms are located at the bulletin board in the Narthex or from Reena. Thank You! Parents & Twos - A Sunday School class for two - three year old children and their parents will begin TODAY. 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.

The freewill offering for the Nov. 18th FED meal was $217. Thrivent has graciously given a supplement of $220. And recent freewill offerings by Rocky students have added an additional $79.55 for a grand total of $516.55. Thank you all for your continued support. The Rocky lunch bunch.

Thank you everyone who has donated to the St. John’s Food & Clothing Bank! Items to be collected: Coats, sweater, sweatshirts,

shirts, pants, skirts, jeans, socks, underwear, mittens, hats, shoes, cereal (hot & cold), canned fruit and vegetables, breads, chili, holiday foods. Place your items in the plastic boxes in the Sunshine Hall. You may take donations to St. John’s on Elizabeth St. anytime when someone is there. They are most appreciated of our donations & have had a good year! Thank You! Coordinators: Gary & Angela Myers 282-7557 and Cleve & Nancy Moore 224-1312. Collection dates: December 6 & 13

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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, Art Pforr, Louise Tuchenhagen, Emily Irvine (great-niece 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 Heartfelt devotion and prayerful preparation for Advent

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF CONCORD FORMULA OF CONCORD, SOLID DECLARATION ARTICLE VII: THE HOLY SUPPER FIRST SUNDAY IN ADVENT

[Dr. Luther] foresaw in the Spirit that after his death some would try to make it seem that he had backed away from the doctrine [of the true presence of Christ's body and blood in the Holy Supper] and other Christian articles. Therefore, he has added the following protest to his Confession concerning Christ's Supper: I desire with this treatise to confess my faith before God and all the world, point by point. I am determined to abide by it until my death and (so help me God!) in this faith to depart from this world and to appear before the judgment seat of our Lord Jesus Christ. Hence if any one shall say after my death, "If Luther were living now, he would teach and hold this or that article differently, let me say once and for all that by the grace of God I have most diligently traced all these articles through the Scriptures, have examined them again and again in the light thereof, and have wanted to defend all of them as certainly as I have now defended the sacrament of the altar. I am not drunk or irresponsible. I know what I am saying, and I well realize what this will mean for me before the Last Judgment at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am in dead earnest, since by the grace of God I have learned to know a great deal about Satan. If he can twist and pervert the Word of God and the Scriptures, what will he not be able to do with my or someone else's words? (paragraphs 28-31)

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 29

Worship Services (Communion) Education Hour

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

Monday November 30

LWML Executive Board Elder’s Meeting

Tuesday December 1

TAG Christ on Campus

Wednesday December 2

Bible Study Advent Services Soup Supper Confirmation Class

Thursday December 3

RMHS Joy Circle Elder’s Meeting

10:50 am 1:00 pm 6:30 pm

Saturday December 5

Season’s Opener

4:00 pm

Sunday December 6

Worship Services (Communion) Education Hour Senior High Youth Christmas Party Good Shepherd Christmas Party

6:00 pm 7:00 pm 12:00 pm 5:00 pm

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

Friday December 4

8:00 am & 10:45 am 9:30 am 4:00 pm 6:00 pm

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THOSE SERVING TODAY

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

December 2 - 4:30pm Greeters: Wiesners Guest Book: Martha Scheiwe Ushers: Chris Dunker Ken Keeney Reader: Acolytes:

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

7:15pm Kettlesons Kettlesons Dan Prevedel Adele Ahnstedt Dan Prevedel Libby Hoy

THOSE SERVING NEXT SUNDAY December 6 Materials: Greeters: Guest Book: Reader: Ushers:

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

8:00 am Millie Miller Bill & Fran Watson Connie Jurischk Ray Kaiser Ed Jurischk Randy Fiscus Sandy Fiscus Chris Dunker Jenna Withee Krissy Petago

Reena Linke Art Pforr

10:45 am Millie Miller Julie Ward Michael Rohlfs Dan Prevedel Chris Prevedel Chris Dunker Paul Carlson Angela Neuhaus Zachary Prevedel

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Prayer and Study Date: November 29 - December 5 Luther Quote: “It is true, we should believe when we are baptized; but we should not let ourselves be baptized in reliance on this faith. To have faith and to rely on this faith and thus to be baptized in dependence on it are matters that are very different indeed.” Bible readings for the week: Sunday: Monday: Tuesday: Wednesday: Thursday: Friday: Saturday:

Psalm 149–150; Matthew 25-26 Exodus 15:1-18; Matthew 27-28 Luke 1:46-55; Revelation 1-2 Psalm 1; Revelation 3-5 Psalm 2; Revelation 6-8 Psalm 3; Revelation 9-11 Psalm 4; Revelation 12-14

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. Daily Prayers: Sunday: For the work of Lutheran Intercity Network Coalition (LINC), a ministry that operates in Houston, Texas, Dallas, Texas, New Orleans, La., and Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn. Congregations that are members of LINC networks have joined together in a common mission to impact these cities with the love of Christ.

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Monday: For Lutheran City Ministries, Inc., which reaches out specifically to “hearts and souls” living in urban areas. Lift up Rev. Steven Essenburg as he directs this ministry, which is based out of Detroit, Mich. That the LCMS as a whole would become known as a beacon of Gospel witness in the abandoned and neglected areas of U.S. cities— and that the Lord would call more LCMS members and congregations into urban ministry.

Taiwan – Dec. 1-15 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod began work in Taiwan in 1951. The China Evangelical Lutheran Church Taiwan (CELC) became an LCMS partner church in 1966. Tuesday: For GEO missionaries Ray and Emilie Dubert, Matthew Fick, Kevin Foley, and Heidi Greimann, who serve in Taiwan. Ask the Lord to bless their service and the relationships they build with their students and students’ families.

Wednesday: For GEO missionaries Rebekah House, Anna Meyer, Ben and Amy Riley, and Stephanie Roegner, who also serve God in Taiwan. Ask the Lord to sustain them in their service and that the Holy Spirit would give them joy in all they do.

Thursday: For GEO missionaries Andrew and Noel Schaff, Petrea Schwahn, Michael Vogel, and Mark Wolfram, as they serve in Taiwan. Ask God to use them as His instruments in their classrooms, Bible studies, and other activities.

Friday: For LCMS missionaries Matt and Dee Wasmund, and their daughters, Lily and Olivia, as they guide and disciple GEO missionaries that serve in Taiwan and Japan and explore ways to expand the work of LCMS World Mission in these countries.

Saturday: For the ministry at Concordia Middle School (CMS) in Chiayi, Taiwan. LCMS GEO missionaries teach English and religion classes there, which provide many opportunities to reach middle and high school students with the Gospel.

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)

PRESS DEADLINES

Green sheet articles are due by 3:00 p.m. Wednesday First Lesson: Malachi 3:1-7b afternoon. Second Lesson: Philippians 1:2 Broadcast articles are due -11 December 20 Gospel: Luke 3:1-14