Faith Walk Newsletter - Faith Lutheran Church

FAITH WALK October 22 & 23, 2016
“The Family of Faith...Faithfully Living Every Relationship in God’s Way”
Welcome! Thank you for worshipping with us. We pray that your time with us is spiritually enriching to you. Please use the Welcome Card to
share your interests, prayer requests & contact information. Drop the card in the offering plate or hand it to an usher. Guests, be sure to visit
our Welcome Center located to the left as you leave the Sanctuary.
WELCOME TO FAITH LUTHERAN
Phone:
810-694-9351
Fax:
810-694-3949
Email:
[email protected]
Office hours:
Mon - Fri. 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Lunch 11:30 - 12:30
Web site:
www.faithgb.org
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/faithgb
Worship Times:
Saturday 6:00 pm (contemporary)
Sunday 8:00, 9:30 and 11:00 am
SUNDAY - October 23rd
Mite Box Collection - Heins Hall
8:00 am Worship
Reader: Thomas Fockler
9:30 am Intergenerational Bible Study-Music Rm.
9:30 am Worship
Reader: Carol Arends
11:00 am Worship
Reader: Kim Murphy
MONDAY – October 24th
6:00 pm AHG Meetings-Heins Hall
6:30 pm Faithful Ringers - Sanctuary
TUESDAY - October 25th
10:00 am Women’s Bible Study-Library
6:00 pm Stephen Ministry Training - Library
6:30 pm Line Dancing - Downstairs
6:30 pm K.O.O.L. Ministry-KOOL/WARM Room
7:00 pm LWG Fall 2016-Adult Ed. Room
7:00pm
Euchre-Preschool cafe
WEDNESDAY - October 26th
6:15 am Men’s Bible Study - Living Room
9:30 am Tiny Tots-Downstairs North Hall
12:00 pm Prayer at Noon-Sanctuary
4:30 pm Children’s Handchimes - Sanctuary
5:00 pm Kids’ Joyful Ringers - Sanctuary
5:15 pm Pizza dinner
6:00 pm Wednesday Night Alive
 Under 3 yrs. old-Nursery
 3 yrs.old-3rd grade-northwest corner downstairs/
end in Sunday School assigned rooms
 Preteens(4th-5th-6th) start in gym-end in Adult Ed.
 Catechism Class-Music Room
 High School - Youth Room
 Adult Bible Study-Sanctuary
7:00 pm Sr. High Youth - Youth Rm.
THURSDAY - October 27th
9:00 am TOPS-Adult Ed. Room
6:25 pm Male Chorus - Sanctuary
7:00 pm Chancel Choir - Sanctuary
8:08 pm Women’s Choir - Sanctuary
FRIDAY - October 28th
8:30 am MOPS
SATURDAY - October 29th
6:00pm
Worship/Communion
SUNDAY - October 30th
8:00 am Worship
9:30 am Worship
9:30 am Faith Legacy-Adult Ed. Rm.
9:30 am Intergenerational Bible Study-Music Room
11:00 am Worship
FREE YARD WORK!
The Youth group wants to help our
members with their fall yard clean up! If
you need help or know someone who
could use a hand please call Lindsey
Lehr @810-931-6331 to sign up. This is
a free service!
We still need volunteers for coffee hour
for November and December. The 2017
sign up will be coming in December.
Please consider offering your time to this
ministry. If there isn’t a volunteer for coffee
hour any given Sunday, we will not be able to have the
coffee hour that week. Thank you to all who have
provided us with coffee hour this year.
PASTOR’S PONDERINGS Your Faith pastors were chatting about
how awkward it can be to see the announcement about giving us cards
and notes for “Pastor Appreciation Month.” Don’t get us wrong, we do
thank God for your appreciation in this way. However, we also really
liked the words written by Pastor Matyas in our LCMS District
newsletter, “Michigan in Touch.” They sum up our thoughts toward all of you in our
Faith family quite well. He writes, “Seeing you listen to the Word of God and gladly
keeping it, hearing your sigh of relief after receiving the Sacrament for your
forgiveness, praying with you for the needs of all people, that makes my joy
complete. That makes me feel appreciated. The job itself, when it’s working right, is
its own reward. After all, you don’t go to church because of me, you go to church
because of Jesus. And if I can serve Him by serving you, that’s all the thanks I
need.” THANK YOU for so faithfully showing your appreciation as Pastor Matyas
describes.
Pastors Biermann, Moyer & Scott
THE GENEROUS GIVING OF MONEY AT FAITH IS SUPPORTING…
the faithful proclamation of the Word and delivery of the Sacraments by
the pastors of Faith. Galatians 6:6, “Let the one who is taught the word
share all good things with the one who teaches.”
Nancy Jackson
Emily Cowen
Dolores Huber
Janis Richards
Marti Borka
Lydia Clor
Oka Miller
Sharon Bond
Vic Lanyi
PLEASE PRAY FOR THESE MEMBERS AT FAITH
Terri McKnight
Kim Klaus
Becca Wagner
Susanna Gray
Kendall Groves
Bill Rumminger
Barb Kaiser
Doug LaFontaine
Christine Ackerman
Scott Dunavent
Dick Grovom
Jessica Ackerman
Keith Stone
Stephanie Bilbey
Mary Lou Hardenburg
Perry Lane
LeRoy Duthorn
Marilyn Butterfield
Alice Slater
Marilyn Duthorn
Phyllis Powers
Bob Longroy
Ginny Beck
Whitney Kononchuk
Rachel Carolan
Jeri Steward
Nadine Lanstra
PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY
Gary Schlicht
Dorothy Prince
Bill Jackson
Thelma Peterson
Pat Bright
Sue Petrimoulax
Brooke Katynski
Chuck Kimber
Douglas Ross
Randy Scharrer
Brody Harris
Glenda Badgley
Shelley Jahn
Mel Reid
Stephanie Whitmore
Ryan Whitmore
Bryan Groulx
Tony Kong
Josie Kong
Brian Baird
Roger Rakowski
Linda Shultz
JoAnn Halprin
Robert Freiburger
Jamie Simpson
Gordin Ervin
Jamie Bernstein
Veronica Bogne
Darrell Daenzer
Robin Pfundt
Joan Reed
Vicky Van Gober
Jon Beck
James Cull Sr.
Katie VanPatten
Jeff Hayes
Jane Hodges
Jan Cornelison
Breanna Scholl
Steven Holmes
Allison Carr
Vanessa Jones
Janet Boyles
Robert Nicol
Karen O’Brien
Susan Cook
McKenna Schummer
Peggy Voskamp
Melanie Meyer
Karen Wellas
Brandy Chatfield
Beverly Bercaw
Bill Rumminger, Sr.
Duane Hibbs
Dale Ricketts
Marie Elliot
Chris Donbrosky
Sandra Hines
Kimberly Bolen
Mel Johnson
Pat Bright
Candy Vorwerk
To request a prayer or become a prayer partner,
contact Ruth Marie Wagner at [email protected] or 953-2535.
OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD
MOPS is sponsoring a drive to support Operation Christmas Child.
Please stop by our table in Heins Hall and pick-up a box to fill. Thank
you for all your support, Faith family!
Still time to Join us for the Young at Heart’s outing to
the Past Tense Cider Mill on Monday, October 24th. We’re
eating lunch at the orchard. Plus the orchard going to
provide us with a harvest tour which includes a hayride, a
bag of apples, a donut and apple cider…all for $5. We’re
meeting at the back of the church at 11:30. Let us know if you’re coming - RSVP
by calling: Pastor Joe Cottam at 810-624-4227 or Nancy Cottam at 810-624-0022.
MITTENS, HATS, SCARVES & GLOVES are being collected by
the Board of Social Ministry. A drop box will be by the coat room in
the narthex. We’ll becollecting until October 30th. All items will be
donated to Franklin Avenue Mission this year. Any questions call
Deanna Cook at 694-7831.
FRANKLIN AVENUE MISSION
2210 N. Franklin Avenue Flint, MI 48506
www.franklinavemission.org
The next dates scheduled for Faith are October 25th & 27th.
Sign up sheets for FAM participation are posted on the bulletin
board by the gym kitchen or contact Marcy Montez at
[email protected] or 810-869-4479.
Thank you for your generous donations for the FAM
clothes closet. We are now collecting clothing for the fall
and winter months. We are still in need of winter coats,
blankets, towels, socks, underwear and personal care
items. We are no longer accepting dress clothes. Contact
Laura Mulligan @ 810-869-1115 or email [email protected]
A Mission group is coming to our area to serve at
Franklin Avenue Mission to do service work
from November 11th – 13th. Faith families are being
asked to assist in housing some of the adults. If you
can assist with housing, please contact Marcy Montez
@ 810-869-4479 or [email protected].
A Children’s Ministry leader is needed for
the Franklin Ave Mission to work with
children’s ministry leaders from other
churches. There is a monthly meeting that
the leaders attend, as well as helping with
the children when Faith is scheduled. Please contact Sue Hooper for
more information. 810.694.9351 or [email protected]
A special thank you to all who submitted their Here We
Stand commitment forms last weekend. Your support of
the Campaign is greatly appreciated and a great benefit
to the Church. Your monthly contribution envelopes
have been placed in your mailboxes. For those who still
intend to submit their commitment forms, please deliver them to the
Church Office or deposit them in the box that is in Heins Hall.
Commitment forms are at both locations. We will announce the total
value of the commitments during the weekend of 10/28-29. If you
have any questions, please contact Greg Baehr
THANKSGIVING FOOD BASKETS
Social Ministry is preparing food baskets for those
in need. In order to receive a Thanksgiving
basket, one must be a current member of our
church or be sponsored by a current member.
Call Sally Tartoni at 694-9098 or email
[email protected] by Wed., Nov. 16 with
name, telephone number, the number of family
members and ages of children. Pickup will be in the Family Life
Center on Tuesday, November 22 from 10:00 am to 11:00 am.
FAITH FAMILY: Let’s show our
Pastors how much we appreciate
them! Place your cards and notes of
prayer and support in the white &
blue basket in Heins Hall.
Saturday, October 29th
Elders: 6:00 pm Kris Murphy, Chad Fleming
Sunday, October 30th
Elders:
8:00 Mike Rose, Chuck Boyd
9:30 Troy Helmick, Chet Dub
11:00 Matt McDonald, John Koke
Ushers:
Readers: (Check in with Elder)
8:00 Team 1
8:00 Nigel Tate
9:30 Team 13
9:30 Joanne Ranville
11:00 Team 8
11:00
Tellers:
Team 6
Welcome Center:
8:00 Caroline Hamilton
9:30 Sandy Sedrick
11:00 The Trevithick Family
Coffee: Set-Up: Lehr
Clean-Up: Millerd
Flowers: Jerry Peters
(When ordering your flowers) please order the side flower
stands. If altar flowers are ordered, please request that the
arrangement be kept under 12 inches in height. If more than one
family is signed up, please consider splitting the order and cost.
Order flowers from Grand Blanc Florist, at 810-694-0008.
Calling all crafters!!! We are looking for crafts
for the Cookie Walk/ Bazaar. If you wish to make
items or donate something to be sold at the Cookie
Walk/Bazaar it would be greatly appreciated. The
Cookie Walk is December 2nd-4th. We need your
items by Thursday, Dec. 1st. If you can get them to
me or if you need baskets to put things in please call Monique Stiefel
at 810-208-5376 or 248-404-7032. Thank you in advance.
This year for the "Advent by Candlelight" and the
“Cookie Walk” events we are extending a
baby-sitting service for moms who would like to
attend and do not have child care for their children
that night or day. If you are interested in using this
service, please contact Monique Stiefel at 810-208-5376 or
248-404-7032.
GERMANY & SWITZERLAND TRIP If you are
already registered or interested in this May 1020, 2017 trip, please join Pastor Biermann for a
meeting in the Music Room on Sunday, October
30th from 12:15-1:00pm. We welcome new
registrants. $3799/each from Detroit. Those already registered who
cannot attend this meeting, please contact Pastor Biermann.
COLLEGE OUTREACH - Christmas greetings from
Faith! The Women of Faith are collecting names
and addresses of our Faith family who are young
adults attending college locally or away from home.
A Christmas greeting will be sent as a reminder of
the love and support from their Faith family. Contact Roxanne Steffe
at [email protected] by Tuesday, November 13th. (Funding for
this initiative is provided through the Cookie Walk. Thank you for
your support.)
FITNESS Are you a woman of God? Do you like
to praise Him with fitness? Do you love to dance to
current Christian music? If so, please join the women
of Devoted Fitness in Heins Hall from 7-8 pm the
following Tuesday nights: October 18, November 15
& 29, December 6TH. Consider it a praise date... for
your pulse rate!
GREETERS NEEDED! On Saturday, Nov. 5,
Faith will be hosting a state-wide Stephen
Ministry Conference from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm.
Let’s really make them feel welcome! If you
are interested in serving as a greeter for that
event (especially during the first two hours)
contact Pastor Scott at [email protected] or call the church office.
LINE DANCING Are you ready to have some fun?
Line dance classes for beginners resume Tuesday,
October 11th from 6:30pm-8:00pm in the lower level. If
you didn’t dance last Spring it’s not too late. Call or text
Judy Chapman at 906-370-2286.
BIBLE STUDY All men and mature boys
are invited to join in an ongoing study of the
Bible book of Mark in the Living Room off of
Heins Hall each Wednesday morning from
6:20 to 7:10 a.m. Contact Pastor Biermann with questions.
FLOWERS
Clarence and Jean Heindenberger
in honor of their
66th Wedding Anniversary
Saturday 10/15/16 Attendance: [36] Communion: [30]
Sunday 10/16/16
Attendance:
8:00 [110]
9:30 [140]
11:00 [126]
Communion:
[95]
[120]
[118]
Sunday Offering 10/16/16
$12,905.00
Electronic Giving for week ending 10/10/16
$ 218.00
Endowment Fund as of 9/30/16:
$116,309.42
CEF Consolidated Loan Balance as of 9/30/16: $638,499.16
CEF Boiler Loan Balance as of 9/30/16:
$17,682.51
“The Family of Faith...Faithfully Living Every Relationship in God’s Way”