May 2014 News from Advent Lutheran Church STAFF COUNCIL

News from Advent Lutheran Church
May 2014
STAFF
Rev. Jason Peterson
Rev. Andrea Windsor-Peterson
Co-Pastors
Ginny Sweeton
Director of Music /
Admin. Assistant
COUNCIL
Larry Bentle
President
Mary Filpus-Luyckx
Vice President
Karen Smith
Secretary
Debbie Merzlak
Treasurer
Jared Fischer
Heather Herrmann
A Word from the bishop
Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni!” (which means
Teacher). John 20:16
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
My favorite story in Scripture is the account in John’s Gospel of Mary Magdalene going to the tomb.
It was the first Easter but Mary didn’t know that. She expected death. In her profound grief she
couldn’t recognize Jesus. It was only when Jesus called her by name that she was able to see the
risen Lord.
Jesus saw Mary. Jesus knew Mary. Jesus spoke “Mary.” It was being completely seen, utterly known
and lovingly called that opened Mary Magdalene to the hope of the resurrection and into a deeper
relationship with Christ. Because she was seen she could see.
This is Easter vision. We have been seen, known and called by God through the crucified and risen
Savior and, having received the Spirit through baptism, we all can now see. We can see Christ and
we can see Christ in our neighbor. No one is invisible to God and no one is invisible to us. What
wondrous love is this!
So beloved, with newly opened eyes let us be bold to say, “Christ is risen. Christ is risen indeed.
Hallelujah!”
Blessed Easter,
The Rev. Elizabeth A. Eaton
Presiding Bishop
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
May Worship Schedule
Sunday, May 4
3rd Sunday of Easter
Worship & Holy Communion 9:15 a.m.
Sunday School for All Ages 10:30 a.m.
Confirmation Class 10:30 a.m.
Sunday, May 18
5th Sunday of Easter
Worship & Holy Communion 9:15 a.m.
Sunday School for All Ages 10:30 a.m.
Confirmation Class 10:30 a.m.
Sunday, May 11
4th Sunday of Easter
Sunday, May 25
6th Sunday of Easter
Worship & Holy Communion 9:15 a.m.
Sunday School for All Ages 10:30 a.m.
Confirmation Class 10:30 a.m.
Mother’s Day
Worship & Holy Communion 9:15 a.m.
Sunday School for All Ages 10:30 a.m.
Confirmation Class 10:30 a.m.
Prayer Requests
Pray for Healing & Provision: Dee Alderson, Faye Hoops, Marge Rahn, Edgar & Christa
Bollinger, Johnny Jones, Ruth Neumann, Ericka Blanchard, Trey Tonsing, Twila Alwine, Ray
Schneider, Jeannie Curtis, Tyler Tonsing, Michelle Daley, Chet White, Patsy Puczkowski, Kenneth
Sampson, Ann Furlong, Michael Tokarska, Art Suprek, Tania Hayes, Gail Miller, Lorrie Sanders,
Rudy Lichti, Carly Amoriell, Hilda Sullivan, Susie Parks, Carol Smith, Nikol Berns, Samantha
Arledge, Scott & Kathy Frank, Lynne Fiegen, nikki Fiegen, Shirley Chipman, Ellen Harbeson, Matt
Fiegen
Pray for Our Deployed Military: Peggy Martin, Aaron Hanes-Dodd, Kristen Ullman,
Clay Etterle
Notes from the Music Room
Summer Music Calling all musicians! The Chancel Choir and Handbell Choir will be on a
well-deserved vacation during this summer. Thanks for all of their hard work! But I would
still like to have special music each Sunday during the summer. If you would be interested in
singing a solo, a duet, or playing an instrument, please let me know. I would like to work out
a schedule so that we have some kind of anthem/solo/instrumental piece each Sunday this
summer. This is the time to use your talents for God's glory! Please contact me at the church
office.
~Ginny
Fellowship & Events
Fellowship Coffee Hour
Please sign up for coffee hour on the bulletin board in the Narthex.
If no one signs up, all we will have will be coffee.
Congregational Meeting
Sunday, May 18th. The annual congregational meeting with be held
in the sanctuary immediately following worship. This is a very
important event for our church, so please plan to attend! Men’s
Pancake Breakfast will be served following the meeting.
Book Club
Monday, May 12th at 7:30pm. This month’s book is “Uncommon Reader” by Alan
Bennett. Our discussion leader will be Jan Lamke & our hostess will be Mary Suprek.
Women’s Tea
Join with our Advent Women for a Tea Party on Saturday, May 17th from 1:00 to
3:00pm. Please bring finger foods, cookies, or cake to share. Also bring 2 of your
favorite scarves (one rectangle and one square). Gayle Ricklefs will be demonstrating
different ways to tie scarves.
Summer Sunday school is happening again
this year! If you would like to help or would like more
information, please contact Jamie Sadenwasser at
(706) 736-4926 or jamiesadenwasser@gmail.com.
Vacation Bible School Update
June 23—27
9am—12noon
Planning is underway for Vacation Bible School. We
need All Hands on Deck! Please contact Sarah Logemann if you would like to help out.
May 17, 2014 is Thrivent Night at the Augusta Greenjackets.
All-You-Can-Eat picnic for the first 90 minutes; free fountain drinks all night. Tickets are $10. Contact Scott Verenwald at Thrivent to sign up: 706-836-4018 of
scott.verenwald@thrivent.com.
And look for the sign-up table in the Narthex on Sunday, May 4 and May 11. Deadline to sign up is May 11th.
Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia!
Pastor Andrea and I want to take a moment and give thanks to everyone for all their
hard work through the Lenten and Easter season.
Thank you to all 6 of our midweek Lenten
monologue participants: Patty Williams,
Heather Herrmann, Jared Fischer, Holly Sadenwasser, Pastor Jim Glander, and Jeff Fiegen. You all did an amazing job bringing biblical characters to life!
Thank you to all who served on the Seder Committee and worked tirelessly on
the details of the night. Your hard work made the event so beautiful, memorable, and
worshipful.
Thank you to all our wonderfully dedicated musicians! Thank you to those who
led rehearsals and practiced so diligently: thank you to the young bell ringers, adult
bell ringers, Advent Choir, and our contemporary band members.
Thank you to Ginny Sweeton! Thank you for helping to make the Lenten and
Easter season so worshipful! From the anthems to all the special music, your hard
work and dedication did not go unnoticed! You truly helped to lift our worship and
give God glory! Thank you also for all your hard work in the office. From all the bulletins of Holy Week to all the planning through Lent and Easter. Thank you for all you
do administratively at Advent.
Thank you to all those who worked behind the scene to make everything flow so
beautifully. Thank you altar guild, ushers, greeters, acolytes, crucifers, assisting ministers, those who provide transportation, and the counters.
Thank you to the youth group for all your work done at the community egg hunt
and for all the setup for the Easter Feaster. Thank you also for your work at the Easter
Feaster! It was such a joy to see our youth at work and thank you for those who have
helped to support them in return.
Thank you to the men’s group who were up early at the church cooking and preparing food for the Easter Feaster.
And last, but not least, thank you to the people of God at Advent Lutheran
Church!
When we gather together as the body of Christ there is nothing we can’t do with
the help of God. It is such a joy and a pleasure to serve God here in this place. We are
truly blessed to call you our family and Advent Lutheran Church our home.
Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia!
Pastor Jason and Pastor Andrea
Worship & Holy Communion
Sundays at 9:15am
Sunday School 10:30am
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Property
Meeting
9:00am
AA 8-9am
AA 8-9am
VBS Meeting
9:30am
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6
Bible Study
Confirmation
Meeting—
Students &
Parents 10:30
11
AA 8-9am
12
7
8
9
10:00am
Bible Study
Council Meet-
6:30pm
ing 6:30pm
AA 8-9am
13
AA 8-9am
14
AA 8-9am
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10
Women’s
Small Group
10:00am
AA 8-9am
16
17
Ministry
Night
6:00pm
AA 8-9am
18
19
20
Women’s
AA 8-9am
21
AA 8-9am
22
AA 8-9am
23
ing 10:30am
AA 8-9am
AA 8-9am
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27
Memorial
Day
AA 8-9am
VBS Meeting
9:30am
6:30pm
Bible Study
10:00am
AA 8-9am
28
AA 8-9am
29
Tea 1-3pm
24
Bible Study
Congregational Meet-
25
AA 8-9am
VBS Meeting
9:30am
AA 8-9am
30
31
SYNOD ASSEMBLY
AA 8-9am
AA 8-9am
AA 8-9am
Assistant Ministers
Eternal Candles
Visitor of Visitors
5/4 Bobby Bisbee
*Sign up in the Narthex*
*Ron Ricklefs 706-738-2166*
5/11 Karen Smith
5/4 Di Hamilton
5/18 Mary Filpus-Luyckx
Ushers
5/11 Linda Lawrence
5/25 Heather Herrmann
*Joe Pravato 706-447-4308*
5/18 Donna Meisner, Patty Williams
*Steve Merzlak 706-855-8006*
5/25 Ken & Francesca Furlong
Lectors/Lay Readers
5/4 Scott Fiegen, Eric Jablonski
5/4 Pam Tipler
5/11 Noah Smith, Bryce Boeke
Fellowship Coffee Hour
5/11 Paris Fiegen
5/18 Bill Fincher, Sam Jimenez
*Sign up in the Narthex*
5/18 Shaelee Bowers
5/25 Maria Pravato, Linda Lawrence 5/4 Advent Women
5/25 Dee Glander
5/11
Greeters
5/18 Advent Men
Communion Assistants
*Ron Ricklefs 706-738-2166*
5/25
5/4 Candy Jablonski
5/4 Angie Hubble, Linda Lawrence
5/11 Maggie Heaney
5/11 Robin Keller, Donna Meisner
Missionary Support
5/18 Patty Williams
5/18 Patty Williams, Jim Williams
*Sign up in the Narthex*
5/25 Dee Glander
5/25 Maggie Heaney, Jane Burnette
5/4
5/11
Acolytes
Altar Flowers
5/18
5/4 Stormi Hubble
*Sign up in the Narthex*
5/25
5/11 Kate Peterson
5/4
5/18 Jeff Fiegen
5/11
Altar Guild
5/25 Hayden Morrison
5/18
*Maria Pravato 706-447-4308*
5/25
(Saturday) Barbara Plumley
Crucifers
(Late) Heather Herrmann
5/4 Zachary Hubble
Hospital/Shut-In Visitor
5/11 Holly Sadenwasser
*Martha Ostendorff 706-736-8673*
5/18 Nicole Fiegen
5/4 Judy McQueen
5/25 Shaelee Bowers
5/11 Martha Ostendorff
5/18 Ron Ricklefs
5/25 Hilda Sullivan
Britainy Hubble
Updated Church Directory!
5/28
Jenny Holland
Don Smith
An updated photo directory will be available
later this month in the Narthex. (As this is a
“living” project, please contact the church office
if there are any changes, corrections, etc., that
need to be made.)
Kristina Fischer
5/7
Stormi Hubble
5/29
Joe Tokarska
5/11
Nick Pravato
5/31
Alli Prescott
5/12
Paris Fiegen
5/14
Addison Logemann
5/16
Timmy Kitts
5/17
Christine Keller
5/21
Ulrike Beck
5/22
Clayton Lamb
5/25
Shirley Chipman
5/9
5/26
Zach Teffeteller
Scott & Paris
Fiegen
5/20
Larry & Terrie
Bentle
Amber Jimenez
Have a birthday or anniversary in June?
Let Ginny in the office know, so it can
be included in the next newsletter!
3232 Washington Road
Augusta, GA 30907
Phone: 706-860-0439
Web: adventaugusta.org
Email: advluch@adventaugusta.org
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