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May - Jacksonville - Our Redeemer Lutheran Church
Don’t miss these items: • Pentecost: Devoted to God’s Teachings • VBS • Bing Bong Food! • Bible Class - Why Come? • Stuffed French Toast • Thanks—LWML! ORLC Newsleer—May 2013 OUR REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH, JACKSONVILLE, IL—LCMS • Tell It On The Mountain Alleluia, Christ is risen! He is risen indeed, Alleluia! Page 2 ORLC NEWSLETTER—MAY 2013 Pentecost: Devoted to God’s Teachings Pastor David Knuth Ten days aer Jesus ascended into heaven, God poured out His Holy Spirit upon His disciples empowering them to boldly proclaim the Good News of salvaon through Christ. This happened on the Day of Pentecost. (We celebrate Pentecost on May 19th.) Sacraments while renouncing all things opposed to Him. • Do you this day in the presence of God and of this congregaon acknowledge the gis that God gave you in your Bapsm? As more people were brought into the church • through the preaching of the Gospel we are told that these believers “devoted themselves to the apostles' • teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.” (Acts 2:42) This accurately describes • the true life of the church even to this day. Do you renounce the devil? Do you renounce all his works? Do you renounce all his ways? The “apostles’ teaching” is God’s Word. The apos- • tles only spoke what God had told them including the • prophec words of the Old Testament. Sll today the Bible remains the sole source for Chrisan doctrine • and so we remain devoted to it. Do you believe in the Holy Spirit? “The fellowship” is the mutual love and care we share toward each other as fellow Chrisans. Just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so we also are called to love one another and show compassion to each other in every need. During the church service on May 5th, eight confirmands will make a promise to devote themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the life of the church. Our prayer for them and all confirmed members of our church is that we would remain faithful to God as we promised in our confirmaon vows. The quesons asked of our confirmands are the same ones we promise to uphold as members in the church. Take a few minutes to examine these quesons and noce how they focus upon the basic elements of Chrisanity: devoon to God’s Word and Do you believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son our Lord? Do you hold all the prophec and apostolic Scriptures to be the inspired Word of God? Do you confess the doctrine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, drawn from the Scriptures, as you have learned them from the Small Catechism, to be faithful and true? • Do you intend to hear the Word of God and receive the Lord’s Supper faithfully? • Do you intend to live according to the Word of God, and in faith, word, and deed to remain true to God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, even to death? • Do you intend to connue steadfast in this confession and Church and to suffer all, even death, rather than fall away from it? The “Breaking of Bread” is the holy meal of the Lord’s Supper. He feeds us and nurtures us with His very body and blood for the forgiveness of sins. These gis combined with the privilege to come before God in prayer remain the essenal components of Chrisan worship and life. We are Bapzed into Christ and connue to abide in Him by means of His Word and sacrament: "If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." (John 8:31-32) Do you believe in God the Father Almighty? I hope you are sll able to sincerely and boldly answer “yes” to all of these quesons. Pray for our young men and women who will make their public profession of faithfulness to the Lord. Pray also that God may help all of us to remain devoted to the Lord’s teachings, the fellowship, the Lord’s Supper and prayer. Pastor Knuth The Knuth Family will no longer be using the home phone of 479-8239. They can be reached at the following cell phone numbers, Pastor: 217-320-2048; Tomi: 217-320-2046. Please record these changes for future reference. Thank you. Page 3 ORLC NEWSLETTER—MAY 2013 Human Resource Commiee Informaon provided by Bey Hillig Please bring paper towels on May 19th. God bless you all for your connued generous donaons for these agencies that reach out to the less fortunate in our community. Report to the churches from The Boy Scout Drive held the Jacksonville Area Com- in March brought in 2,474 munity Food Center: lbs. of food. During the month of March we served 160 famiThe Human Resource lies for food orders for a toCommiee is asking all tal of 321 people at a cost of members, including all of $20,349.13. We served 429 our Sunday School children, families for extra bakery, a to bring paper towels to total of 1,107 people at a church on Sunday May 19th. cost of $6,458.69. The These donaons will be giv- churches contributed en to the Women’s Crisis $4,703.14 in money and Center. $1,264.00 in food. Thank you and God bless you for *************** your connued support. The Postal Worker’s Food Drive will be held Saturday, May 11th. The Jacksonville Fireman will hold a food drive on June 7th. They will set up a tent in their parking lot from 8AM-4PM for the donaons. We are very thankful for the generosity of our community. Sunday School Notebook By Sara Dawson We are working hard to prepare for our Summer VBS program, Tell It on the Mountain. We sll need volunteers. If you are available aer church any Sunday from June 9 through August 11, please let Brian Dawson or Tomi Knuth know. We would love to have you join us to teach a lesson, lead a game, make a cra, or prepare a snack. See Page 6 for details. VBS Volunteers are needed. Please see Page 6. ther invites us to pray and promises to hear our prayer for the sake of His Son, Jesus. May 12 - Jesus, our risen Savior, ascended into heaven to prepare a place for us there with Him (Acts 1:1–11). May 19 - At Pentecost, God sent the Holy Spirit to His Church (Acts 2:1–21). Now, through Word and Sacrament, God gives us His Holy Spirit to create and sustain saving Students are asked to bring paper towels faith in Jesus. to donate for the month of May. Thank you May 26 - The Beatudes from Jesus’ Serfor all of the many donaons throughout mon on the Mount (Mahew 5:1–12). Here the year. Jesus explains in His Word that He was The lessons for May include the follow- poor, hungry, sorrowful, hated, and rejecting subjects: ed for our sake so that God would grant us May 5 - The Lord’s Prayer (Luke 11:1–13). His gis and blessings. The children learned that our heavenly Fa- June 2 - NO SUNDAY SCHOOL Page 4 ORLC NEWSLETTER—MAY 2013 BING – BONG – FOOD By Joy Komnick If we were in the habit of speaking in code, those words would stand for, "door – bell – dinners". Yes, it is that me of year when Our Redeemer members hit the pavement with some really yummy-smelling food and deliver those yummy entrees to local residents in need. The food smells so good when we first put it in our cars. I've always been tempted to look inside the hot containers and the brown paper sacks to see just exactly what the folks do get, but I figured it would be my luck that any gravy would go flying across the car upholstery before I could get the lid back on the hot dish – not to menon the fact that since I don't normally carry around a stapler. I wouldn't be able to put the paper sack back together and seal it up so nobody would know what I'd done. (Actually, I would never do anything like that so if I get any more curious, I'll just have to ask the Passavant cooks what they've prepared.) as sweet as she was before but sll in her wheel chair (now she has a helper in her home) and the fourth is as chipper and acve as she was last fall. Truthfully, I never expected their health to change like this from one season to the next. It saddens me that this change has to happen. This aernoon I learned that one of the ladies we used to deliver to last fall has died. I was looking forward to seeing her again because her smile was so contagious. Now she's in my memory. There are five of Our Redeemers cars going out into the community to deliver these meals – two people per car….one drives, one hoofs the food to the recipients. Tomorrow marks the fih and final day we deliver this week. Our group will deliver again in September and we think you, the reader, would enjoy this volunteer work. We assemble at the hospital about 11 a.m. and normally arrive back at the hospiThis Spring Bob and I had almost the same route tal to drop off our empty totes and hot bags by 12:20 we had last fall only instead of delivering to the 12 to or so. Our group is really glad to be part of this pro14 people we had before we only delivered to 10 this gram. These wonderful shut-ins are so grateful to me. Of those 10 people, four women are the same have these meals brought to them. It does my heart as before. One lady (sll) takes forever to meet us at good to help them in this way - - aer all, it is what her door in her jammies (at 12:10 in the aernoon), the Lord instructs us to do…… and anything we do for one woman has suffered a stroke now and we can the least of these, we do for Him. Please join us. I barely understand what she says, the third lady is just guarantee you will be glad you did. Speaking of yummy food. This recipe from Easter Spray 9x13 pan with Pam. Put half the bread in and morning has been requested several mes from Joey top with the pieces of cream cheese. Then put in the Bentley. So… here it is!!! other half of bread pieces on top. In another bowl, mix the eggs, milk, melted buer & syrup. Pour mixture over bread, making sure all the bread is wet. STUFFED FRENCH TOAST Cover & refrigerate overnight. Before baking sprinkle • 1 large loaf of white bread torn into small pieces with the sugar & cinnamon. Bake 325 for 1 hour. • 1 dozen eggs Enjoy and try not to think about the calories! • 4 c. milk • 1 - 8oz. cream cheese cut into 1/2 inch cubes • 1 c. maple syrup • 1/4 c. melted buer • 1/4 c. sugar mixed with 1/2 tsp. cinnamon Page 5 ORLC NEWSLETTER—MAY 2013 Shopping Lists For Our Supported Agencies By Bey Hillig The Human Resource Commiee supports five local agencies. These agencies are listed along with some needed items for each of them. There are five baskets in the Narthex for donaons. The baskets are marked for each of the different agencies. There is also a wooden box on the table by the baskets for monetary donaons. Any monetary donaons will be divided among the five agencies. Jacksonville Area Community Food Center • Dry Milk • Canned Meat • Canned Vegetables • Potatoes • Macaroni and Cheese • Hamburger Helper • Crackers • Soups • Canned Tuna • Cereal • Canned Ravioli • Canned Spagheos with meat • Juice • Peanut Buer • Jelly • Any non-perishable food item Salvaon Army • Flour • Oil • Sugar • Dry milk • Non refrigerated cheese (Velveeta, parmesan) • Unopened toiletries from Hotel/Motel • New toothbrush and toothpaste • New comb or brush • New disposable razor and shaving cream • New baby starter kit (pacifier, diapers, formula) • Baby starter kit (diapers, rale, infant food) • • • • New or gently used linens (towels, sheets, blankets) New comb or brush New toothbrush and toothpaste Unopened toiletries (loon, shampoo, etc.) Pregnancy Resource Center • Baby wipes • Baby receiving blankets • Infant, boys, girls fied towels • Infant socks • Bibs • Burp clothes • Baby wash • Baby loon • Baby shampoo • Basket (This can be found at Wal-Mart for about $5$6 in the laundry basket department. It is plasc, flexible, oval, white and has handles. It will be used to create gi baskets containing newborn items.) • Wal-Mart gi card (These will either be given by the Pregnancy Center to clients to buy needed items or used by the Pregnancy Center Baby for needed supplies.) New Beginnings (Homeless Shelter) • Paper products • Paper plates, napkins, plasc forks, spoons, knives • Large black garbage bags • Laundry soap • Dish soap • Hotel Women’s Crisis Center shampoo • Paper products (toilet paper, Kleenex, paper towels) • Soap • Canned goods • Diapers • Unopened toiletries from Hotel/Motel Page 6 ORLC NEWSLETTER—MAY 2013 VBS NEWS!!! This year we will be incorporang the VBS curriculum, Tell It on the Mountain, into our Summer Sunday School hour. All students compleng Pre-K through 5th grade are welcome to join us each Sunday beginning June 9th and running through August 11th. All the VBS highlights will remain: bible lessons, snacks, cras, games and fun music. Those in 6th grade and older are invited to aend the young adult/adult version of VBS which will be taught by Pastor Knuth in the Adult Bible Class. To make this a success, WE NEED VOLUNTEERS to teach, help with snacks and cras, and lead the games. Please contact Tomi Knuth or Brian Dawson if you would like to help, even if only for a Sunday or two. We are looking forward to a fun filled summer and we hope you can join in the fun with us! The following families and individu- In memory of Stephanie McCorals generously provided the flowers mick and Tommy Hillig. that adorned the sanctuary on Easter morning (pictures on front Merle, Sharon and Nathan Dufelpage). meier Celebrang the Resurrecon of Wayne Boston, Bob and Mary Lee Christ Jesus, our Lord Williams, Ron and Connie Boston, Ken and Deb Boston, Ryan and Kae Boston, Mark and James Wil- Larry & Connie Evans liams In memory of Evelyn Boston, Lov- Todd and Laurie Evans ing wife, mother and grandmother. In honor of our children, Emily & Abbie Reg and Nancy Carls In memory of Howard & Sarah Har- Gary and Sharon Grams rell And Ed and Minnie Carls In honor of our Risen Lord Rick and Beth Davidsmeyer, Chad and Heather Davidsmeyer, Carlos and Chrisna Antemate David and Shirley Hicks Bey Hillig In memory of Tommy Hillig & Stephanie McCormick Lorraine Quigg In memory of Baird Quigg. Randy and Karel Schone Celebrang the birth of their grandson Clayton Henry Karraker. Bob and Sharon Shumaker Ron and Kathy Tribble Gary and Rosemary Vortman Celebrang Christ’s resurrecon. In memory of Michelle and Bonnie Bob and Mary Lee Williams Hicks In honor of Our Savior, Jesus Christ In honor of Wilma Williams, Celebrang her 89th Birthday. Page 7 ORLC NEWSLETTER—MAY 2013 For The Record By Staff Writers Bapsm Radio Broadcast Congratulaons on the following bapsm: The broadcast was provided to the Glory of God by: 3/23 - Clayton Henry Karraker son of David and Sarah Karraker and grandson of Randy and Karel Schone None… Deaths The Radio chart is now up in the narthex. Please sign up if you would like to sponsor a service at a cost of $85. We extend sympathies to the families of the following individuals at the Thank You death of their loved one: • Thanks to the many musicians who were involved in the Lenten and Easter music. The choir and bell members as well as Karma and Peggy. You all truly help us to praise the Lord! • We are so very grateful for all of the prayers for our mom. We set up a CaringBridge site for people to follow her story. We invite people to follow along with mom’s progress and even leave messages for Dad and the family. Members Altar Flowers 3/24 - David and Sarah Karraker on the Bapsm of their son Clayton 3/31 - See list on Page 6. Rent-A-Youth Fundraiser: Do you need someone to rake your yard? Babysit your children? Dust your shelves? Then, hire one or more of our Salem Junior High students to help you with those tasks! Each of the students is willing and able to help you out. Donaons made for their services will go towards their spring day-long field trip to Chicago. The Rent-A-Youth fundraiser will be available to you through May 16. Please call Rita Tendick (473-5017) if you have quesons or you may sign up through the school office at 243-3419. We can help you out, and you can help us out, too. You may keep abreast of Maxine’s progress at www.caringbridge.org/visit/teamm axine • • Judith Knight (3/26) husband of Leo Savage The flowers were provided to the Glory of God by: are also welcome to pass the link to other prayer warriors if they’d like. Thank you so much for all of your prayers and support. Krohe Family Thanks for helping with Doorbell Dinners: Thelma Fargo; Bev Fricke; David Hicks,; Abbie, Connie and Larry Evans; Darlene Elsome; Marian McDonald; Joy and Bob Komnick; Dennis and Darlene Groth; Roger Lovekamp and Shirley Hicks - Coordinator. These are doctor prescribed dinners delivered to the homebound. Dairy Queen Coupons: Would you like to be able to use over $32 of coupons at any Dairy Queen in our area for only a cost of $3.00? The Junior High students are selling coupon books from Dairy Queen. The coupons are good for the next year and will save you lots of money. Please see Elizabeth Knuth or Cameron Paon to buy yours soon. This fundraiser is to help with costs for Salem Lutheran School’s Junior High students’ May field trip to Chicago. If you have a story idea OR if you want to write an arcle, please contact Brian or Sara Dawson (sara@dawsonland.net) or Joy Komnick (bjkodiak@irtc.net). Reports from any ORLC Commiee are welcomed and encouraged. If your material is ready for submission, please send it to NEWSLETTER@ORLCWEB.ORG. We are also looking for pictures of ORLC acvies or of our members in general. Page 8 Kid’s Corner Spend a few minutes with the kids to solve this puzzle. ORLC NEWSLETTER—MAY 2013 Page 9 ORLC NEWSLETTER—MAY 2013 Bible Class-Why Come? Gerald Raymond We all know from past stewardship acvies the three T’s of stewardship – TIME-TALENT-TREASURE. I think that somemes we tend to think of stewardship solely in terms of financial stewardship. However, the treasure part of stewardship is only one part, no more or less important than the others. In this arcle I would like to talk about me. Time refers, of course, to the mes give to aendance at Divine Services including Holy Communion and the me we give to Bible class. Bible class can be called several different things such as Adult Sunday School, Catechism or simple Adult Bible Class as we do. But, they all refer to the same thing - the me we spend studying God’s word and learning what it means to be a Chrisan and a member of the LCMS. There seems to be a prevailing atude among many people that religious denominaon does not really maer, as along as an individual goes to church somewhere somemes and is a nice person, then, they will be fine. This atude seems to me to be the Devil’s trap and I hope NONE of us falls into it, There have been studies done that show an appalling lack of knowledge among people who profess themselves to be Chrisans about what their parcular denominaon stands for or believes. I would like to ask six quesons somewhat in the manner of a devil’s advocate. With that in mind, I would suggest to you that if you don’t know the answers to these quesons, you should. Some of these quesons involve our Lutheran pracces and some are about Lutheran doctrine. Both are important since our pracces flow from doctrine. 1. The Lutheran Church in general and the LCMS in parcular is known as a liturgical church. Our liturgy is full of meaning, history and symbolism. Have you ever noced in the Divine Service that the pastor somemes faces the congregaon and somemes turns and faces the altar and the cross? Do you know why? Also, have you noced that the pastor stays on the lower level of the chancel unl aer the confession and absoluon and then goes up the steps to the altar? Do you know why? 2. I’m sure you know that the LCMS pracces closed communion. If you had a member of another church ask you why they could not take communion at our church could you explain to them why? 3. We all know the Ten Commandments. We have heard them since we were kids. Could you sit down at home and write them down? Not in order or word-for-word, just write the main theme of each? My guess is most of us could not. 4. The Book of Concord - What do you know about this book? Do you know any of its parts? The Book of Concord is referred to in the oath our pastors take when they are ordained and when they are installed. It is the second most important book in our Lutheran faith, aer the Bible. You should know something about The Book of Concord. I urge you to make some effort to learn about it. 5. Marn Luther - What do you know about him? He is not just some guy who nailed a piece of paper to a church door way back when. He was one of the most intellectually gied and influenal men who ever lived. What he did, changed the world – he is the namesake of our faith. If someone asked you when he nailed that piece of paper to the church door or what century he lived in would you know? We should all know at least the basics of his life and work. 6. Our pastors hold what is called the “office of the keys”. This involves two important funcons, one of which happens during every divine service. Do you know what they are? If you did not know the answers to these very basic quesons I hope this will give you the incenve to come to Bible Class. Thank you. Gerry Raymond Our Redeemer Lutheran Church 405 Massey Lane Jacksonville, IL 62650 Stamp Required Phone: 217.243.3939 Fax: 217.479.8959 E-mail: newsleer@orlcweb.org ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED May 12th A big thanks to the LWML for the wonderful Easter Morning Breakfast! The ladies to the right all posed for a deserving photo for posterity: Bey Hillig, Gayla Hornbeek, Beth Davidsmeyer, Sharon Grams, Chrisna Antemate, Isabella Antemate and Joey Bentley. A wonderful selecon of savory breakfast items, baked treats and fresh fruit were served. LWML is open to all ladies and they would love to have you join them. The group exists to raise money for missions and to have fellowship with each other. They generally meet once a month. Please consider joining this group and sharing in great Chrisan fellowship.
