June 2014 - Grace Lutheran Church

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Angel House Remodel
Construction is nearly complete at Angel House, at the back of the parking lot. The house
is being remodeled in order to accommodate Grace Lutheran Child Development Center.
On June 13 the Pre-school and Day Care will move into the new facility. They will also offer day care to young children who are still in diapers. This will be in Luther Hall. Luther
Hall is the modular by the church office. This will mean that Grace Lutheran Child Development Center can grow and expand without impacting the day to day activities of the
church’s mission. At the same time, the church’s mission expansion will not hamper the
Child Development Center. The Church Library has been a traveling library for almost two
years. It will now be housed in Trinity Hall in one of the former classrooms.
Construction has included: Re-wiring the entire building. Putting in all new gas lines. Putting in a new water system and handicap bathrooms. All new dry wall. In other words it is
a brand new building. We will have an open house during the summer.
June 8th
Pentecost Service
On this weekend at all 3 services, we
will have a more contemplative worship. We will begin with a prayer and
meditation, with the sermon to follow.
We will have 3 stations where we have a
time of personal prayer--a communion station--baptismal renewal
station. Then we will have the remainder of the service for personal
spiritual renewal.
We hope you will come and be filled with God ’ s spirit.
The cost of our kitchen and office
addition was: $460,000.
So far in the first year we have
received: $231,648
Pledged amount is: $406,672
E-mail: [email protected]
Fax: 928-753-9353
Phone: 928-753-3068
Kingman, AZ 86401
2101 Harrison Street
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8:00am & 9:45am Worship Service, SS/NO Grapple
11:15am New Member Class
9:30am Mary Martha Bible Study
6:30pm Men’s Bible Study
7:10pm Softball Game Field 7
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10:0am Tuesday Morning Bible Study
6:30pm Men’s Bible Study
6:00pm Softball Game Field 7
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9:00am TOPS AZ #0533
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11:30am Family Outreach
6:00pm Cub/Boy Scouts
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9:00am TOPS AZ #0533
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11:30am Family Outreach
6:00pm Cub/Boy Scouts
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10:00am Grace’s Play Group
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10:00am Grace’s Play Group
7:00pm Chris Commisso Concert
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5:30pm Worship Service
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5:30pm Worship Service
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MS Beach Camp 6/22-6/28
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8:00am & 9:45am Pentecost Worship Service,
SS/NO Grapple
HS Beach Camp 6/8-6/13
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9:30am Sewing Circle
6:30pm Men’s Bible Study
8:20pm Softball Game Field 6
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9:00am TOPS AZ #0533
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6:00pm Cub/Boy Scouts
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10:00am Grace’s Play Group
Sat
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5:30pm Worship Service
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8:00am & 9:45am Worship Service, SS/NO Grapple
Mon
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6:15pm Praise Team Practice
Mon
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6:15pm Praise Team Practice
Tue
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10:0am Tuesday Morning Bible Study
6:30pm Men’s Bible Study
7:10pm Softball Game Field 6
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10:00am Grace’s Play Group
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Assistants
Greeters
Ushers
8:00 am
8:00 am
Fern Campbell, Debbie Whalen
Dennis Shaeffer, Robert Anderson, Gordon Hansen
9:45 am
9:45 am
Dorian Trahan, Chris Alston, John Britton, Walt
Zimmerman
Worship Assistants
01 Dan Pape
Summer Vacation!!!
Readers
Judy Johnson, Paul Lewis
Communion Set-up
5:30pm
Terry Lengel
8:00am
Brenda Menk, Karen Thomas
9:45am
Judy Johnson
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Communion Assistants
Karen Thompson
Susan Chan
John Seward
Claire Crum
Art Swanson
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Connie Potter, Debbie Whalen, Dan Pape
Connie Potter, Gordon & Diane Hansen
Jan Dushane, Coylynn Colbaugh,
High School Youth
I wonder if God doesn’t feel lousy some days, the victim of our indifference. Just think of
the numerous ways God reaches out to us, constantly extending grace in our direction. Everything we enjoy depends on God ad God’s grace. Yet we live out so many of our days as if
God does not exist and as if grace does not matter. God puts crocuses in front of our wintry
eyes. Needy people next to our bountiful lives, and soft-skinned babies in our arthritic
hands. Yet too often we don’t even notice God. We walk away from a potentially powerful
conversation with the One who is brimming with a tender word of love. Other things distract us. We discourteously close our eyelids to what God is offering.
Hannah Martin, Shea Bowen
Cassidy Bracken, TJ Cobanovich
Lia Lucero, Paige Lucero
Calista Matthews, Erika Kemp
Ian Crawford, Kaie Crawford
So before you neglect God for something that seems more urgen to you, try hard to keep
your eyelids open. Look for things you’ve never noticed before. Watch for beautiful possibilities to ignite some new sensitivity in your life. And most of all, remember how lousy it
feels to be spurned by someone who is supposed to love you.
Peace,
Pastor Ray
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Pastor Ray
Allison Menk
Jennifer Menk
Allison Menk
Jennifer Menk
Allison Menk
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One doesn’t have to have deaf parents to relate. You know the disgust that
comes when someone you care about walks away from you just as you’re
trying to establish a loving conversation or make a suggestion or, at the very
least update the kitchen calendar. It doesn’t feel good at all. To be spurned
is to be treated as irrelevant, to become the victim of indifference. It may be true, as
Eli Wiesel has often said, that even something as ghastly as hatred is better than indifference. At least hatred as bad as it is, treats the other person as a person. Indifference turns that other one into an abstraction. Maybe you can remember a time when
someone else’s disdainful behavior made you feel like nothing. It’s a lousy feeling.
John Donne, the one –time dean of ST. Paul Cathedral in London, once confessed from the
pulpit, “I neglect God for the noise of a fly, the rattling of a coach, the creaking of a door.”
We could update his 400 year old language, but you get the idea: things get in the way.
God becomes irrelevant to the organization of our day. We shutter our eyes to the very
One who would love to partner with us in so many interesting ways. Remember Gethsemane? Jesus wanted to go off to pray, and in his troubled and sorrowful state, he asked
the disciples to stay awake and keep watch. So hat did they do? They fell asleep as soon as
he rounded the bend and found a quiet place to pray. They closed their eyelids to the very
One who cared so deeply for them.
Media
5:30 pm
Lengel Family
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Cindy Levesque , Tim Kieffer
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Denny Shaeffer, Tim Kieffer
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Logan Menk , Tim Kieffer
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Logan Menk, Tim Kieffer
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Curtis Cutshaw
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Tanner Kemp
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Blake Curran
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Bill Barnes
In one of his books, Philip Yancey tells the story of a young girl who used
the power of her eyelids to shut her parents out of her life. Any time she
wanted to make them mad, ignore their presence, or show repulsion, she
simply jammed her eyelids shut. This meant that all the hand motions in the
world from her deaf mother and father went nowhere but into thin air.
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June 2014 - Cornerstone Mission Project and Diana’s Faith House
By Cindy Levesque, Board Member and volunteer bookkeeper
Beach Camp
Why go to beach camp? The purpose
of beach camp is to help youth learn
about community building while we do
service projects. Our service
projects directly affect the neighborhood
we stay during the week. The
kids have directly seen the difference
they make while serving. We also
do bible studies during our time at
beach camp. We create a safe and
comfortable atmosphere, less rush to meet parents and go somewhere and the
kids are able to dig deeper into their faith. Another purpose for beach
camp is to help enrich our students culturally. Kingman is limited so we
will be experiencing The Getty Museum and new this year the California
Science Center where the space shuttle Endeavor is on display. We thank
everyone for their Team 316 support and for your prayers for safe travels.
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All of us who work at the shelters believe that the Holy Spirit walks the halls with us every day. There is no
other explanation as to how everything gets done each day, every hour, every minute. A person in need may
walk in and say that they need something we don’t have. The need is spoken out, God hears it and works
through other people, our donors, to deliver the need. Sometimes the need is met within a few days, often it is
met in the same hour and many times even that moment.
All Middle and High School students invited!
Cost is free!
Food is a whole other story? All good of course, and the need is ALWAYS met. Praise the Lord!
Let Leanna know if you are interested in going.
These are just a small sample of the daily happenings at our shelters. Jesus is definitely authoring and
perfecting our faith. It is such an honor to work for the best boss you could ever have, Jesus Christ. The only
way to truly describe the experience of our work is joy unspeakable.
POOL Party!
July 11 from 7:00pm -10:00pm
Downtown Pool on Grandview
If you are receiving this newsletter, either by mail or email, you are one of our treasured supporters. Thank
you for giving us your time, talent or treasure and/or any combination of those gifts. You are all in His service
with us! We look forward to the days, hours and minutes of ministry ahead with you. Thank you Jesus!
Vacation Bible School,
Reserve your table/tickets now! Saturday, July 19, 2014, is our Divas’ Night Out fundraiser. Our theme
for 2014 is "Once Upon a Time....A Fairytale Ball." This is our biggest fundraiser to benefit Cornerstone
and Diana's Faith House... An evening just for Ladies! The event will be held at Beale Celebrations and table
sponsorships and tables for 8 are available by calling Lisa at 757-1535 or 715-3344. Give Lisa a call to reserve your table today….
July 20-24
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Ministry by Minute! When people enter Cornerstone Mission for the first time, they are always surprised at how it “looks.” I think
they expect to see a more negative picture than what they do see when they walk in. After we give a tour, the comment is usually
something like, “I had no idea you did all of these things.”
Last Fall, when it started to get pretty cool in the evenings, we were gathering up afghans to take over to
Diana’s Faith House for the women and children. We were a couple short, but decided to use lap blankets for
the kids with characters on them. As we were carrying the piles out to the car; our desk man was coming
down the hallway towards us with an armload of afghans! He said, “these were just delivered.” A few weeks
ago, we had to utilize our property insurance. Our deductible is $1,000.00. The same week we found out
about the need to utilize our insurance company a man came to our front desk at the shelter, did not give his
name and said, “I want to donate this coin to the Mission and I do not want a receipt.” The desk man brought
the coin into our office and we determined that it was a Canadian fifty dollar piece. Wow! A coin worth
$50.00 is pretty good. Then the desk man brought to our attention that this was a gold coin, an ounce of pure
gold. We looked us the value of an ounce of gold…$1,300.00! That paid our deductible and then some. We
believe the coin donor was an angel.
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Here’s an article from Cornerstone’s May 2014 Newsletter, written by Lisa Beauchamp, Executive Director:
ENJOY!
5:30-8:00pm
Bible Buddies!
Games!
KidVid Cinema
Bible Stories!
SNACKS!
CORNERSTONE CHALLENGE: We just received a “challenge” from a very generous donator. This person knows of the Mission’s need for a new commercial range (and upright freezers), and has pledged up to
$5,000.00 in matching funds for this HUGE need. If you would like to be part of this challenge and get us to
the $5,000.00 matching pledge, you can give directly to our church and make sure to write “Cornerstone
Challenge” in the memo section, or just send your donation to Cornerstone Mission, 3049 Sycamore Avenue,
86409 (with “Cornerstone Challenge” in the memo section).
SUMMER NEEDS: Men’s and women’s deodorant, men’s shoes and socks, men’s underwear (small, medium, large), shampoo, body wash and razors.
Till next month…God Bless you…..Cindy
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congregation. We will have
a new member class at
11:00 am on June 1st , after
the 9:45 service. The class
last a little over an hour.
The Thursday Family Outreach dinners will become lunches in June.
June 5 & 19, we will be serving lunch
from 11:30-12:30 pm.
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knowing more about the
Car Show Meeting
June 22 at 11:15am
10am
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They are held in the Fellowship Hall.
Chris Commisso in Concert!
Grace Lutheran Church
2101 Harrison St
June 6th at 7:00pm
Free Admission!
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Are We There Yet? This age-old refrain of young travelers is followed by a second question: “How much longer?” How similar those queries are to the psalmist’s oft-repeated cry, “How long, O LORD, how long?” (Psalm 6:3b, NIV).
Patience is an uncommon virtue these days. We’re anxious to get where we’re
going or to get what we want. But think how much we miss while wishing we
were elsewhere! In our rush to reach a destination, we fail to grasp lessons that
can be learned only along the way. What blessings might you be overlooking in the here-and-now and the right
-where-you-are? For all our travelers this summer, please take time to smell the roses and enjoy what God has
given to us. Be Safe!
Adult VBS
Results from Financial Planning
Beginning of Class - Class total of non-mortgage debt $384,981
How much "liquid" cash did we have available? $50,986
How many open credit card accounts do we have as a class: 57
total.
August 11-15 at 10:00am
In the Narthex
Topic “World Religions”
Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, Japanese Religions
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Now at the end of nine weeks our class snapshot looks like
this:
How much non-mortgage debt have you paid off as a class
$20,959
How much money have we saved together $ 10,746 (Saved for
Emergencies & means Cash, not out of equity.)
How many credit cards have you closed or cut up? 39
And what is so rare as a day in June?
Then, if ever, come perfect days;
Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune,
And over it softly her warm ear lays;
Whether we look, or whether we listen,
We hear life murmur, or see it glisten;
…Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it,
We are happy now because God wills it;
No matter how barren the past may have been,
’Tis enough for us now that the leaves are green;
We sit in the warm shade and feel right well
How the sap creeps up and the blossoms swell;
We may shut our eyes but we cannot help knowing
That skies are clear and grass is growing ….
—James Russell Lowell