The Evangel - Our Saviour Lutheran Church

The Evangel
Vol. 31, Edition 1
January 2014
Our Saviour
Lutheran Church
is a congregation of the
Indiana-Kentucky Synod of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church
in America.
We welcome all
to share in life with Christ
as a community
of faith in mission.
OSLC
Mission Statement
God calls us to make Christ’s love
real in our daily lives by:
Many kids are hungry, all around the world:
10.9 million children under five die in developing countries each year-60% of
the deaths are from malnutrition.1
More than 26% of households with children in Indiana reported suffering food
hardship in 2009-2010.2
In Guatemala, chronic malnutrition is the single biggest contributor to the deaths
of children under five. 3
Protein and vegetable consumption is virtually non-existent among Mayan
families in Guatemala.3
The State of the World's Children, UNICEF, 2007)
2
Food Research and Action Center, August 2011 Report
3
Globalpost.com ghi-targets-chronic-malnutrition-guatemala
How can you make a difference?
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Growing in faith
and discipleship
Our Saviour Lutheran Church, together with our partners, will be packing meals
on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 20th. Join us! Make your reservation to
help pack by visiting

Loving and serving God
and neighbor
www.kah-greenwood.org/how-to-help/join-a-packing-event

Proclaiming the Good News
of Jesus Christ
Sunday Worship
Three shifts are now open: 9:30am, 12:30pm and 3:00pm.
We have also received a $4, 000 donation from Meijer in
the form of gift cards. Talk with Pastor Will to purchase
gift cards.
Jan 5: 9:30 A.M.
Jan 12, 19, 26: 8:30 and 11:00 A.M.
Attended nursery available
on Sunday mornings
Fellowship
10:30 A.M. JAN 5
9:30—9:45 A.M. JAN 12, 19, 26
Sunday School
for all ages
9:45—10:45 A.M.
Will Peugeot, Pastor
Steven Rye, Campus Pastor
OSLC Annual Meeting
Sunday, January 26th
There will be a pot luck lunch following the 11A.M.
service. Please bring food to share. Plates, utensils, and
drinks will be provided. The meeting will begin at about
1:15 P.M.
Council Highlights
December 12, 2013
Jan.
2014
“Listening for the Word of God is
the beginning of obedience (to the will
of God.)”
With these words in the sermon on
December 22nd, I invited the
congregation to join me in reading
through the Bible in one year. I am
informed that this can be done with ten
minutes of reading each day. Is it
possible? Ten minutes doesn’t seem
that difficult to find each day, does it?
There are several ways to do this.
One can begin at the beginning book,
Genesis, and read from beginning to
end. Or, one could make a plan to read
an Old Testament book in its entirety
and then a New Testament book.
In my searching, I have found the
NRSV Daily Bible. This follows the
beginning to end format. In addition
this has a daily verse to meditate upon,
some wisdom from a Christian
spiritual classic to contemplate, and a
brief prayer. I will be using this Bible
for my devotions this year.
If you would like to use the Daily
NRSV Bible, I am ordering some from
the publisher at a cost of $13 plus
shipping. Let me know if I should
include one for you in the order by
January 2nd by emailing me at
[email protected] or by phoning me at
743-2931. Most important is our
listening for the Word each day. God
wants to give us good things.
Pastor Will Peugeot’s Office Hours:
Monday - Thursday, 9am - Noon
Office: 743-2931; Home: 463-5057
Friday is Pastor Will’s day off.
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There was a review of the
Stewardship Campaign; all agreed
that the Temple Talks were
excellent.
The Evangelism Team is looking
at updating OSLC’s signage and
photo board.
The Finance Ministry is finalizing
the budget for 2014.
The Operations Ministry
continues to work on the OSLC
Bylaws.
The Council retreat will take place
on Saturday, Jan. 18th from 8am to
noon.
The Nominations Ministry is hard
at work, filling the eight open
spots.
There is a Habitat for Humanity
Family in need of assistance.
Pastor Will shared information
about the upcoming Mission
Guatemala trips.
January
Jim Ahlrichs
1
Jo Amstutz
1
Sue Axtell
1
Jim BeMiller
1
Pari BeMiller
1
Ruth Ewbank
1
Wes Gearhart
1
Sherri Guido
1
Allen Hammer
1
Jo Johannsen
1
JoAnne Johnson
1
Sonya Margerum
1
Charlotte Ohland
1
Judy Ohm
1
Brian Wagner
1
Vera Weiser
1
Gentry Byers
13
Suzanne Rye
16
Bill Baumgardt
17
January Book Discussion:
The Cellist of Sarajevo
by Steven Galloway
You are welcome to attend the book
discussion whether you’ve read the
book or not.
We meet in the room at the back of
the nave during the Sunday School
Hour.
The Evangel
The Evangel is the monthly newsletter
published twelve times annually by Our
Saviour Lutheran Church, 300 W. Fowler,
West Lafayette, IN 47906. Members receive
a copy of The Evangel with additional copies
placed in the church narthex. Please send
address changes to the attention of “Sandra”
at the above mailing address or via e-mail to:
[email protected].
The Evangel, January 2014
OSLC Bulletin Board-News & Notes
Coffee Hour
Hosts Needed
It’s a new year, full of lots of opportunities.
One of them is the chance to serve as host or
hostess for the Sunday morning Coffee Hour.
The new schedule is posted by the kitchen
door. Sign up alone or with a buddy. If you
have questions, talk to Charlotte Erdmann
(743-8656) or shoot her an email
([email protected]). Thanks for
considering it!
Tippecanoe Taizé
7:00 P.M., January 28th
@ First Christian Church
(329 N 6th St, Lafayette)
2nd Wednesday Concert Series
St. John’s Episcopal Church
600 Ferry St Lafayette
January 8, 12:10 P.M.
Mary Heller & Margo Marlatt, piano & cello
Jubilee Christmas Day
A Snowy Success
Despite the blizzard-like conditions, families and
volunteers from all over the area gathered at Jubilee
host churches for the LUM Jubilee Christmas 2013.
Jubilee Christmas is such a joyous day.
Our Jubilee Christmas families are wonderful, loving
parents -- and our loving volunteers are excited to assist and to make these parents the "heroes" on Christmas morning.
LUM Jubilee Christmas is truly a community effort.
Over 600 Jubilee families and 1800 Jubilee children
will be affected by this program. Each Jubilee family
also received a ham and homemade Christmas cookies
to make Christmas dinner special too.
Thank you to all the church coordinators who organized the best Jubilee Christmas day ever! Most people
will never appreciate how much work and love you put
into making Jubilee work well for everyone. Thanks
also to Ron Smith, Linda Hicks and Sylvia Mohler for
so marvelously holding up the LUM end of Jubilee.
One-thousand volunteers along with donations of
$250,000 worth of toys, food and gift certificates all
combined to guarantee that Christmas morning will be
a special time for more than 1,800 low-income children in our community. We even had Christmas snow
on Jubilee Saturday this year! God bless each of you
for your wonderful work!
- Joe Micon, LUM Executive Director
Purdue Lutheran Ministry
“A Lutheran Ministry on the Campus of Purdue
Not Just a Ministry to Lutherans.”
On a related note, many thanks to all who helped
out here at OSLC to make Jubilee Christmas happen.
Thanks for the many donations of toys, money, and
time. It takes many hands to make this program a success, so thanks for participating!
- Nancy Peters
Contact Info:
330 W Fowler Ave, West Lafayette (across
from Knoy Hall)
765-743-2398 [email protected]
Free Ride to the 11:00 A.M. Worship Service
at Our Saviour
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Two mission trips to Guatemala are
planned for 2014, May 11-19 and June 28July 6. The cost will be around $1400. Youth
(14 years and older) can go with a parent or
guardian. High School juniors or seniors can go with a pastor’s permission.
Each team is limited to 12-14 people.
To register, one must complete an application form along with a $100 deposit returned to the Our Saviour office or to Pastor Steve. See Pastor Steve,
Pastor Will, or Sandra for the forms. The registration deadline for the May trip
is January 31st. The deadline for the June/July trip is March 14th.
Pastor Steve will be the pastoral leader for the May trip. Pastor Scott Mann,
Christ United Methodist Church will lead the July trip.
College students and youth are eligible for a subsidy that reduces the cost.
For those who might find a mid-winter trip to a warm climate inviting, a
January 2015 trip is in the works. This will replace the September trip of the
last two years.
We go to serve. This is the most important qualification. We go to meet Jesus, to experience God working in a different culture, and to give and receive
blessing with the people of Guatemala.
Epiphany Experiment
We continue our experimenting with
our nave arrangement in Epiphany.
The season begins with Jesus going
down to the Jordan for baptism. It
ends with Jesus going up the mountain with Peter, James, and John, and
then coming down the mountain in
the Transfiguration. The Sermon on
the Mount is a primary text for many
of the Gospel readings this season.
The nave arrangement will help us
experience the movement of ascent
and descent. The epiphanies of God
occur in high and low places. Come
experience the mystery and wonder
of God’s appearing.
“Glory to God in the Highest!”
Thanks to all who attended the Sunday School Christmas Program on December 15th! We took a brief respite from our hectic schedules so that we
could indeed “Listen to Christmas”, and try to exHolly Black is willing to
perience the simplicity of that first Christmas in just
make and distribute copa little bit different manner. Many youth and adults ies of the Christmas prohelped to make this happen, and I would like to be
gram. Please supply her
certain each person knows that their contribution
with a blank DVD-R
was deeply appreciated. Parents of Sunday School
with your name on it,
students – a special thank you for helping your
and she will see to it that
youth to be present so that we could prepare this
you receive a copy.
special program. Thanks to all!
As we move into the new year, please mark your calendars that Sunday
School classes will resume on January 12th. We will continue our emphasis
on the fight against hunger, as the youth bring their offering money each Sunday. Please keep those conversations going at home about why they can help
with their offerings.
Look for more details about one exciting project that the Tweens class will
be bringing to us at OSLC. The Tweens class is planning a Bake Sale! You’ll
be able to take a break from your baking or getting your baked goods at a grocery store. You’ll have the opportunity to shop right here at Our Saviour! The
tentative date for the “Fight Against Hunger” Bake Sale is Sunday, February 9th, beginning after the first service and continuing through the end of second service. Perhaps you’ll even need some baked goodies for Valentine’s Day
later in the week as well!
The Tweens class will announce soon how the profits from the bake sale will
be used to fight hunger right here in our community. More details soon to
come.
Ardeth Ohm-Moser
Director of Christian Education and Outreach
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Adult Forum in January
What would it be like to be a
Christian in Egypt? On January 12th,
Adult Forum will watch a recent
segment by 60 Minutes on just that
topic. On a Sunday following, Adult
Forum will host Egyptian Christian
Nancy Shalaby, hearing what life in
Egypt is like for Christians currently,
as well as her personal experience
raised in a Christian home. The
Shalaby Family make their home in
California, but Nancy is here in West
Lafayette while her daughter is
attending Purdue. We look forward
to hearing from her!
Pastor Will also plans to lead two
sessions on Bible Study:
Biblical resources to help busy
people study the Bible without being
overwhelmed, and
Creative ways to engage in Bible
Study.
The Evangel, January 2014
Family Promise Update
With the help of our
Unitarian Universalist partners,
OSLC hosted Family Promise
guests from December 15-22.
There were two families with us
during this time, Yolanda with her 4
children, Ashton (13), Antone (12),
Aden (9), and daughter Ryanne (14
months) and Anne with her daughters
Serenity (7), Skylar (16 months).
Anne’s 3rd daughter Acelynn (9) was
with us over the weekend. By the time
you are reading this, Anne hopes to
have been placed into transitional
housing as a step toward her own
apartment. During the evening hours
of that week the fellowship hall was
alive with sounds of children building
with Legos, playing with the Wii, and
involved with the volunteers with
other games and conversation. A
couple of evenings it was difficult to
get the children away from the
activities to eat the delicious food
prepared by our wonderful volunteer
cooks!
A big thank you to the many
OSLC and UU volunteers who
made this week possible:
Trailer pick-up, set-up, and teardown: Wes and Krista Gearhart,
Wayne and Ruth Ewbank,
Suzanne and Eric Nielsen, Jean
Tyner.
Dinners: Julie Huetteman, Josh
Prokopy, Jo Johannsen, Ruth
Ewbank, John and Laurel
Branstrator, Laura Helms, Mike
Tripodi, Jo Amstutz
Evening hosts: Ruth Anne
Hammer, Jean Tyner, Marcia
Daehler, Sonya Margerum, Jo
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Johannsen, Bob and Barb Kenley,
Ruth and Wayne Ewbank, Tom
McConville, Reuben Peterson,
Cindy Modlin Adams, Sherri
Guido, Vera Weiser
Overnight hosts: Vicki Mills,
Dick Rahdert, Mike Myers,
Reverend Charlie, Pastor Will,
Chris Johannsen, Suzan
Windnagle, Matt Ohland, Tom
McConville, Vera Weiser
Saturday breakfast: Vera Weiser
Sunday Day Center: Jason
Rubsam
Logistic and Communications
support: Sandra Vana and Ardeth
Ohm-Moser
After serving as coordinators
for 5 years, Sherri Guido and
Vera Weiser are stepping down
from these roles (but still intend
to be volunteers) and Ruth
Ewbank and Phil Cardella will
take over as co-coordinators for
OSLC’s Family Promise
participation. They will be helped
by two new co-coordinators from the
UU congregation, Gabriela Weaver
and Mike Tripodi, as Josh Prokopy is
stepping down as the UU Coordinator
and will become the President of the
Family Promise Board in January.
Family Promise thanks outgoing
President Dave Ertmer for all his work
over the past two years. Sherri and
Vera want to thank the congregation
and the UU congregation for all their
support as OSLC and UU, along with
the rest of the churches involved,
navigated the ins and outs of this new
community ministry as it started up
five years ago. It was a new
experience for all, but as is always the
case, God’s Spirit and hand have been,
and will continue to be, a good guide
to us all. Sherri and Vera also want to
thank Ruth and Phil for being willing
to take over the responsibilities of
organizing each of the four weeks that
we host families.
Please mark your calendars for
OSLC’s 2014 hosting weeks:
February 2-9
April 6-13
September 7-14
November 30- December 7
Other Family Promise News
Recently the organization has been
the recipient of several major gifts:
Family promise was the recipient
of $1000 from First Source Bank’s
Anniversary celebration. Thanks to
all of the OSLC people who took the
time to fill out a nomination form in
support of Family Promise.
Family Promise received a large
donation from Kids Konnected (a
local non-profit). Their organization
closed and they distributed remaining
funds to other non-profits in the area
Family Promise was quite surprised to
be a recipient of some of their funds.
Thank you to Chuck and Lucia
Anderson for applying on our behalf!
A$1000+ grant from the Subaru
Foundation. The grant was given to
fund bedding purchases for the next
year as guests arrive. Every guest will
be given a pillow and comforter to use
here and take with them as they leave.
PetSmart established a partnership
with the Family Promise national
organizations last summer and began
providing services to local affiliates.
Our FPGL was awarded a free fish
tank and stand for the guests to
enjoy at the Day Center. The tank
was set up in mid-December.
Supplies needed currently:
Copy paper for the office
bottled water
Family Promise
of Greater Lafayette
765.838.3651
Day Center
2203 N. 19th St.
Lafayette, IN 47904
Laurie Mann, Executive Director
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Advent Celebration:
Good Food
& Good Fun!
Thanks to all who contributed to the success of the Advent Celebration (especially Julie Huetteman & Sara Behnke)
and the Sunday School Christmas Program (especially the Sunday School kids, parents, teachers, and Ardeth OhmMoser). Everything was super!
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The Evangel, January 2014
“Listen to Christmas” Sunday School Christmas Program
Participants: Barb Kenley, Stacia Cardella, Jacqueline Gloy, Abigail Black, Isabel Cardella, Meredith
Gloy, Ben Henderson, Anders Ohland, Carson Ohland, Kristofer Rye, Philip Cardella, Cindy Modlin
Adams, Ken Musselman, Krista Gearhart, Wes
Gearhart, Clara Gearhart, Cam Avery, Anna Henderson, Emma Henderson, Evan Smith, Hayden
Smith, Nicholas Huetteman, Molly McKneight, and
the OSLC Congregation
Behind the scenes: Ardeth Ohm-Moser, Suzanne
Rye, Julie Huetteman, Bob Moser, Sue Axtell, Holly
Black, Emily Ohland, Charlotte Ohland, Bob Nielsen, and Carl Behnke
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News items for the February Evangel are due to Sandra Vana ([email protected])
by 1/21/2014. Please type “Evangel” in the subject line.
(765) 743-2931
www.osluth.org
Will Peugeot, Pastor
Ardeth Ohm-Moser, Director of
Christian Education & Outreach
Beth Dana, Music Director
Sandra Vana, Secretary
Congregational Officers
President: Matt Ohland
Vice President: Ruth Ewbank
Treasurer: Sue Hermodson
Financial Secretary: Ossama Rasmy
Congregational Council
PLM
Purdue Lutheran Ministry
(765) 743-2398
www.plm.org
Steven Rye, Pastor
330 West Fowler Ave
West Lafayette, IN 47906
Carl Behnke
Ruth Ewbank
Allen Grady
Julie Huetteman
Evaro Krause
Davis Kuykendall
Bea Lamb
Bob Moser
Matt Ohland
Committee Contacts
Altar: Renee Rasmy
Arts:
Christian Ed.: Sandra Vana
Congregational Life: Julie Huetteman
& Sara Behnke
Evangelism: Sonya Margerum
Family Promise: Vera Weiser
& Sherri Guido
Finance: Steve Belter
Foundation: Vince Guido
LUM Liaison: Allen Grady
Mutual Ministry: Bob Moser
Operations: Chris Johannsen
PLM Liaison: Davis Kuykendall
Property: Matt Ohland
Social Ministry: Carol Grady
& Scott Vana
Worship & Music: Mark Hermodson
The Evangel
Our Saviour Lutheran Church
300 West Fowler Avenue
West Lafayette, IN 47906
OSLC Church Staff