November 9, 2014 As the Body of Christ,

As the Body of Christ,
we are called and sent
to love and serve the world.
November 9, 2014
WORSHIP
WELCOME NEW MEMBERS
Christ the King Lutheran Church offers the following opportunities to worship:
Please Welcome New Members:
Sunday: 8:15, 9:30, and 11:00 am
Third Sunday of each month: 1:30 pm at Michiana Rehab. Center on Douglas, with Pr. Terri
Monday: 6:30 pm
Wednesday: 11:30 am Mid day prayer
Second Friday of each month: 3:00 pm at the
Hearth at Juday Creek, with Pr. Terri
TODAY
The Story Adult Forum: On November 9, at
9:30 am in room 504, we will discuss chapters 15
and 16 of The Story. What is discussed on Sundays will be discussed on the following Wednesday mornings at 10 (room 504) and Wednesday
evenings at 6 and 7 (room 303). You may join
or drop in on any discussion group at any time.
Baptism:
Graham Michael D’haenens will be
welcomed into the Church through Holy Baptism on November 9 at the 11 am service.
Graham is the son of Whitney & Joseph D’haenens and the grandson of John & Gayle D’haenens.
FAQ
Q How will the items discussed be prioritized
for completion?
A The Church Council and INTO Leadership
committee have established a campaign goal of
$ 1.35 M. Attaining this objective will result in a
fully funded Mission Fund and various facility
enhancements and upgrades. These include furnace, sanctuary lighting and carpet replacement,
resurfacing of the parking lot and repurposing
of the Narthex and Choir/Youth/Office spaces.
If the stretch goal of $ 1.8 M is attained we can
include outdoor upgrades (canopy and new
sign) as well as expansion of Van Oort Hall and
the kitchen.
Andy & Hailey Barrus - Andy moved to the
area from Sturgis, MI and Hailey from Sterling
Heights, MI. They enjoy cooking, eating, reading, and bicycling. They became interested in
CtK through a good website, welcoming atmosphere, and an active, mission-minded congregation. They were married this summer, in June.
Carmen Burlingame - Carmen grew up in an
ELCA congregation in Hastings, MI and attended college at Central Michigan University,
Mount Pleasant, MI. She moved to the area to
attend grad school at ND and found CtK
through a Google search. “I moved to South
Bend on a Friday, was in church the following
Sunday, and I haven’t stopped coming.”
Minor L. Fretz - Minor is a native of the South
Bend/Plymouth area. He enjoys horses, photography, woodworking, as well as Country &
Western, Social and Contra Dancing. He moved
here from Plymouth and from Immanuel Lutheran Church in Donaldson, IN.
Jeff McKean & Angie West, Blake and Paige
McKean - They are former members of CtK
and live in Niles, MI. Jeff enjoys fishing and
skiing, Angie likes gardening and calligraphy,
Blake enjoys sports (soccer, wrestling, and golf),
and Paige likes piano and showing her dog in
4H. Blake is a senior at Niles New Tech High
School and Paige is in 7th Grade at Eastside
Connections School.
Janice A. Straw - Jan recently moved to the area
from Charlotte, NC to be closer to her daughter,
Kathy Olson. Jan enjoys music, reading, puzzles, and card games.
Wayne & Mary Lee Wessels - Wayne is an
avid golf fan, although he no longer plays, and a
fan of Iowa football and basketball games. Mary
Lee enjoys books, music, and volunteer work.
They both enjoy time spent with grandchildren.
New Director of Faith Formation:
Join us
in welcoming Craig Swendsen as our new Director of Faith Formation on Sunday, November 9.
TODAY CONTINUED
NEXT WEEK
Join your CtK friends for breakfast after church
(all-day) Sunday, November 9
INTO CONFIRMATION – Wednesday, November 12, 7 pm, during Confirmation:
At Old Country Buffet
Pastor Terri would like to invite parents to stay
with the Confirmation students for an evening
of INTO. Please contact Pastor Terri, 272-4306,
with questions. Register in the narthex or online
at www.ctkluth.com.
5540 Grape Rd, Mishawaka, IN
Just tell the cashier you are with CtK
and they will attach a flyer to your receipt
Proceeds will fund the
CtK Liberia Ebola clean scrubs mission
BOUNCE HOUSE FUN – Sunday, November
9, 4:30 pm: Families with children Pre-K and
younger — get ready to have a bouncy time
jumping around the bounce house and learn a
little about INTO while you are there. Join us at
the Markiewicz home. Dinner will be served. Inside activities for the little ones will be available if
the weather does not cooperate. Please contact
Julie Markiewicz, 514-0571, with questions.
THROWBACK GAME NIGHT – Sunday, November 9, 4:30 pm: We are putting away the
video games and getting out all the classics that
some of the kids may have never heard of! Join us
for a great night of fellowship food, games, and
s’mores for families with children in high school/
middle school. Join us at the home of Matt and
Amy Dowd. Please contact Amy Dowd, 3609313, with questions.
FELLOWSHIP
YAH November 21:
“Singin’ & Dancin’
into the Holidays” Friday, November 21, at
Battell Center, Mishawaka. Tickets are still
available at $12/person; contact Bob or Lin
Irish. Car pool leaves from CtK at 7 pm.
Invite your neighbors and
family to...
Sights & Sounds
of the Season
Sunday, December 7, at 4 pm
Light hors d'oeuvres reception
to follow in the narthex.
MUFFIN MANIA! – Sunday, November 16,
9:15 am–11 am: Join us for coffee and all
kinds of muffins between worship services to
learn more about INTO. Enjoy the fellowship
with your friends and enjoy the deliciousness of
muffins. No RSVP/sign up is needed for this
event.
SEMINARY FUND UPDATE
Seminary Fund:
It has been quite some time
since the Seminary Fund Team updated the congregation. Back in early spring 2014, we believed
that Todd would finish his schooling during the
current fall semester. Todd’s internship experiences, however, have led to changes in his timeline for finishing his schoolwork. Also, the additional funding Todd was seeking did not materialize. Thus Todd has two courses to finish, and
he will be taking them in the spring of 2015. He
will then graduate on May 17, 2015, with his
Master of Divinity degree. We currently have
almost $2000 in the Seminary Fund, but Todd’s
tuition for these final courses will be $3000. Recent giving to the fund has been about $100 per
month, and so at the end of 2014 we will be
about $700 short of covering Todd’s tuition
completely. Our thanks to those who have continued to give to the fund. If you wish to continue supporting Todd’s seminary education,
please consider making an additional gift before
the end of 2014.
UNDERSTANDING MEDICARE
Understanding Medicare Health Plans:
Tom Walsh, CtK member and United Healthcare representative, will be presenting a workshop on November 10 & 17 from 1 pm—2:30
pm in room 405.
FROM THE OFFICE
Luke 21:1-4 The Message (MSG)
Just then Jesus looked up and saw the rich people dropping offerings in the collection plate.
Then he saw a poor widow put in two pennies.
He said, “The plain truth is that this widow has
given by far the largest offering today. All these
others made offerings that they’ll never miss;
she gave extravagantly what she couldn’t afford—she gave her all!”
NEW WOMEN’S GROUP
Stay At Home Moms Or Working Women:
Are you a woman needing to connect with
other women? Are you a woman seeking to
strengthen your faith? “Women’s Journey” is
the name of the new women’s group. Our next
meeting will be on Wednesday, November 12 at
10:00 am in room 303. We will be studying the
book, “When The Heart Waits,” by Sue Monk
Kidd. Please join us for a time of fellowship,
study, and coffee. The group will end with
Wednesday mid-day prayer which starts at
11:30 am and ends by noon. Contact Jessica
Lala, Jill Harms, or Kara Clark with questions.
PRAY/ENCOURAGE
Please keep these members and friends
in your prayers: David, Doris, Damien, Char-
lie, Collin, Brianna, Wendy, Sean, Brian, Ann,
Sandy, Sue, Sarah, Ron, Jan, Megan, David,
Jacob, Bryan, Conner, Kathy, Eric, Jeff, Katie,
Earl, Chris, Marianne, Landon, Tom, Susanne,
Chris, Bruce, Bernice, Mark, Tina, Susan, Paul,
Bob, Brenden, Mark, Lori, Chloe, Susan, Bonner, Dick, Connie, Christine, Angie, Courtney,
Gayle, Audrey, Lorrie, Betty, Dean, Julie, Sarah,
Jenna, Kylee, Ally, Barbara, Karl, Betty, Harry,
Dale, Jackie, Catherine, Lilla, Louann, Cynthia,
Don, Pat, Don, Kenneth, Karen, Louis, Jon,
Avery, Mike, Peg, Don, Samson, Sandy, Jim,
Gene, Paul, Al, Anne, Dan, Jennie, Marvin,
Colton, Julie, Ralph, Ruth, Michelle, Rebecca,
Miriam, Dale, Jack, Marge, Moles family, Dylan,
Connie, Pitcher family, Katie, Joe, Gary, Don,
Bob, Shari, Greda, Mike, Connie, Susan, Annie,
Ryan, Katie, Ryan, Gaynetta, Ned, Luise, Andy,
Allison, Geraldine, Kathy, Pat, Natalie, & Susan.
Poinsettias for Christmas:
This Christmas
we would like to offer an opportunity for people to purchase poinsettias or choose to have
their donation go towards the purchase of livestock through the ELCA Good Gifts program.
We would still like to decorate the altar at
Christmas with poinsettias but since we seem to
have an abundance of flowers left, we would
also like to include the option of allowing your
donation to go towards another worthwhile
cause. We would still list donor names and that
the gift was in honor or in memory of a loved
one. We will include a box for you to check if
you plan to take any poinsettias home after a
service. We understand that people like to give
these flowers as gifts or use them to decorate
their homes and we appreciate the generosity of
this congregation. We just wish to be good
stewards of the gifts that you bless us with.
Cost of the flowers is $6.00/each for 6” pots
and $12.00/each for 8” pots with three plants.
Poinsettias are available in white, red, or pink.
Order forms will be available as bulletin inserts
by next week and are due by December 1.
Telephone & Address Changes:
Please
notify the office when you have a change of
address or phone number by calling (574) 2724306 or by email at [email protected].
PRAYERS FOR MILITARY
Please pray for those in the military:
Senior Master Sergeant Jeremy Yates (Langley
AFB/stateside); US Navy Lt. Cmdr. Bill Krueper, son of Elly; Joshua Thompson (Royal Air
Force, Scotland), son of Jon & Marilyn Thompson;
Captain Jacob Della Pia (Stateside),
nephew of Sue Koski; Scott Esler (Air Force),
son-in-law of Mike & Sandy Hollowell; Daniel
Rudisel (Army), nephew of Donna Gradeless;
Staff Sergeant Brian Beal (Army/Stateside), son
of Chris & Katie Schlotfeldt and grandson of
Dee Schlotfeldt; Stefon Allen (Army/
Afghanistan), brother-in-law of Bryant Vande
Kolk; Doug Smith (USAF/Afghanistan), son of
Diane Guerrant; and Nathan Granlund, nephew
of Andy Trundle, serving in Saudi Arabia with
the Coast Guard.
SERVING TODAY
Preaching/Presiding: Pastor Steve Schwier and Pastor Terri Peterson
8:15
Ushers
9:30
Pat & Craig Rogers
Acolytes
11:00
Faith & Tom Jordan
Carol Bealor
Bill Lightcap
Meagan Tadevich
Gabe Haberling
Ryan Doenges
Assisting Minister
Kathy Olson
LeAnne Marsh
Kathy Olson
Readers
Robert Clausen
Tewah Fenner
Susan Lightcap
Communion Servers
Lois Poynter
Carol Fishburn
Jane Darnell
Gene Case
Deb Frecka
Jeff Eleff
Greeters: Freda & Larry Scheibelhut
PowerPoint Projector (9:30 service): Ned Oldenburg
Communion Bread was baked by: Jeanine Larson
Communion Setup: Dee Schlotfeldt, Barbara Myers, Faith & Tom Jordan, Susan Koski and Sandra Moehling
Altar flowers donated by Chris, Steve & Audrey Villaire in celebration of Chris & Steve’s anniversary
Women on Wednesdays:
WOW will meet in room 103 on November 12, at 7 pm.
Communion Servers & Communion Bread Bakers:
Communion servers and bread bakers
are needed for November and December. Please sign up on the kiosk.
**THIS WEEK**
Monday, November 10
12:00 pm
1:00
6:00
6:15
6:30
7:00
Honker’s
Understanding Medicare
Health Plans
Alleluia Quintet Rehearsal
Fit & Faithful
Worship
Alleluia Ringers Rehearsal
Storytelling with Ron Poisel
Tuesday, November 11 –VETERANS DAY
6:30 pm
7:00
Boy Scouts
Worship Committee Meeting
Wednesday, November 12
10:00 am
11:30
11:45
1:30 pm
5:00
6:00
7:00
Adult Study Group
Women’s Journey
Mid day Prayer
Staff Meeting
ADF Meeting
Evening Meal
“The Story” Adult Forum
K - 6th Grade Choir
Confirmation “Tell The Story”
“The Story” Adult Forum
Adult Choir Rehearsal
Women on Wednesday
*AA
Thursday, November 13
7:00 pm
Xalt Rehearsal
Friday, November 14
7:00 pm
*AA
Saturday, November 15
8:00 am
*AA Meeting
Sunday, November 16
8:15 am
9:30
11:00
1:30 pm
5:00
7:00
Traditional Worship
Contemporary Worship
Sunday School – all ages
Adult Forum - “Generosity”
Traditional Worship
Worship offsite
National Youth Gathering
Meeting in Elkhart
* AA Meeting
* indicates a community activity held at CtK
Christ the King Lutheran Church
17195 Cleveland Road, South Bend, IN 46635
574-272-4306
www.ctkluth.com
It is hoped that everyone will become informed about the goals and vision of the
INTO campaign. Below are the times and dates for some opportunities to become
better informed about the campaign by seeing the INTO campaign video and participating in discussions about the campaign. The small group discussions will all take
place at CtK. There also are four more Tell the Story events at which you can learn
about the INTO campaign. Times and dates are listed below.
Small group discussions about the INTO campaign hosted by Pastor Steve:
Tue, Nov 11 at 1 pm
Tue, Nov 11 at 7 pm
Wed, Nov 12 at 7 pm
Sun, Nov 16 at 9:30 am
Sun, Nov 16 at 12:15 pm
Thu, Nov 20 at 7 pm
All these discussions will take place at CtK.
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Tell the Story events:
TODAY at 4:30 pm -- Families with children Pre-K and younger – Bounce house –
Markiewicz home – dinner – RSVP to Julie Markiewicz (514 0571) or church office
TODAY at 4:30 -- Families with high school / middle school youth – Throwback game
night -- Dowd home – food, games, s’mores, and more – RSVP to Amy Dowd (360 9313)
or church office
Wed at 7 pm -- INTO confirmation – parents and students during confirmation
Next Sunday from 9:15 to 11 am -- Muffin Mania – fellowship hall at CtK – coffee,
muffins, fellowship (No RSVP needed for this event)
Information about INTO will be shared at each of these events.
Leadership Team members:
Co-chairs: John Huchko, JoAnne Westerhausen, Paul Gifford
Amy Dowd, Deb Frecka, Wayne Bell, Lin Burns, Tom Frecka, Howard Hanson, Sean
Kassen, Bill Montgomery, Pastor Terri Peterson, Pastor Steve Schwier
Mission Africa Update: November 5, 2014
In connection with our CtK mission emphasis, we have been working on a proposal to
provide aid to Liberia. While ebola is clearly a present threat, our goal is to provide longer
term, sustainable support. Our group has settled on Pheobe Hospital as an entity to support.
Tewah Fenner was a nurse at Pheobe Hospital and EJ also worked there when he visited Liberia. Pheobe Hospital also has a school and Lutheran church associated with it. At this point,
our plan is to gather and ship hospital supplies to Phoebe Hospital and provide scholarships
and books for children to attend school. We would also like to build a relationship with the
church. There is also an orphanage associated with the complex which provides another opportunity for assistance.
We are in the early stages of the process of developing a proposal for providing aid.
Many bases have to be covered including coordination with ELCA headquarters, coordination
with Global Health Ministries, finding sources of and gathering hospital supplies, and making
various networking connections. One connection is with the Pentecostal International Worship
Center on Edison Road, in Mishawaka, and we have met several Liberian nationals from that
congregation who are interested in working with us.
Yassah Levalah is a young Liberian woman who visited Notre Dame this summer in
connection with the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders Program.
She is a friend of Tewah Fenner and was able to attend CtK a couple times. What follows is an
email we received from Yassah in October.
Ebola: The reality check
Giving up is not an option and running away is unrealistic just as staying in the United States
would have been the equivalent of torture for me. As a Mandela Washington Fellow studying
at the University of Notre Dame this summer, I began to worry when my mom called from Liberia and said she was feeling ill but afraid to go to the hospital. My first reaction was something was along these lines, “Mom! You must go to the hospital right away, don’t overlook
your health!” She said she couldn’t because they might conclude that she has ebola without
properly ruling out other forms of illnesses. My body went cold immediately because she was
already isolating herself as a precaution. If my mother who is an experienced health worker
could be this frightened and totally out of options, I could only imagine the devastation among
ordinary Liberians. At this point, the US State Department offered to extend my stay in the
United States while they monitored the situation. As grateful as I was and as crazy as it may
sound, I had to refuse the offer. How could I have remained in Washington DC and watch my
mother, brothers, sisters and the people that I love be sentenced to death by ebola with the permission of the world by virtue of the snail pace response? I made a decision to go back to Liberia on July 31 and help while the ebola crisis was heating up because Liberia is all I have.
Like many other Liberians, I love the United States, but Liberia is my responsibility.
The ebola crisis started in spring this year mostly in the rural areas of Guinea first, and then
crossed into Liberia by March. At that point, it was only the matter of time before it hit the major city centers. I was among the lucky few working on the front lines to receive training and
education on ebola and how to contain it. This was possible because the ELWA hospital
where I work was among the few that had a limited supply of personal protective equipment
and procedures to deal with such a crisis. The support of Samaritan Purse from the United
States and other Christian Missions were key. In fact the hospital was established by a missionary movement from the United States called Eternal Love Winning Africa (ELWA) decades before the war erupted in Liberia. As a result of my training, I was able to train staff at
my clinic, which focuses on maternal and infant health as well as community members
about the ebola virus and prevention methods. Unfortunately, we did not even have gloves,
protective clothing, hand sanitizers or chlorine solutions to do anything in case someone got
infected. In Liberia, items like hand sanitizers are usually for the wealthy if you are lucky
enough to fine it on the market.
And so we waited, we were hopeful that somebody somewhere was going to come to our
aid. We were hopeful that supplies were going to come, we were convinced that the world
couldn’t sit by and watch us die and do nothing. Sadly, I am beginning to feel that way. This
crisis was preventable, but no one seemed to care when we had the window of opportunity.
The blood of our children, women, doctors and nurses was not enough to awaken the conscience of the world. Not until two white American doctors got infected in July, not until the
world realized that ebola could show up on their shores. Do not get me wrong, I worked directly with Dr. Kent Bentley and Nancy Writebol at the ELWA hospital everyday when they
were in Liberia. In fact, they facilitated my training indicated earlier. They are not just wonderful professionals; they are wonderful human beings who serve the people of Liberia
while risking their lives. But, when the world stays silent while thousands of black West Africans die, but goes crazy when two American doctors get infected, the silence becomes
deafening and the inaction becomes murderous.
Some people blame us for the spread of the virus as a result of cultural practices (hugging,
hand shaking, etc.). While some of that may be true, what do you do when your sick relative
is turned away from the hospital? Do you walk away or stand by and watch them die? In
fact, some people make the conscious decision to care for and preserve the dignity of their
dying relatives, rather than to save themselves, and live with their conscience for the rest of
their lives. Before being too critical, ask yourself a simple question, what would you do if it
were your son, daughter, mother or father in the same situation?
The cultural challenge was always going to be an issue; it is a difficult thing to ask people to
stop traditions and way of live that they’ve known for thousands of years. Imagine if you
were asked to not use running water or electricity in the United States for six months as a
result of a health crisis… What would be the outcry? At this point, we are going door-todoor and educating people in Liberia as local health workers who understand the importance
of the culture. But we need to be empowered to do such outreach, our international colleagues arrive with all their gear and equipment while we often watch in dismay because we
cannot even get gloves or masks in most cases. But we refuse to abandon our people. If it
means we die, then so be it. Even if people listen to us and stop cultural practices, what do
you do when no one can handle a dead body infected with ebola? What happens when an infected patient is turned away from the hospital? What happens when doctors turn a pregnant
mother away?
It is not too late, we need help, and we continue to wait because we refuse to lose hope.
The world has started to respond. We will get through this and history will judge all of us.
As I conclude, I want to give special thanks to my friends at Christ the King as they work
to connect us with the Lutheran church and I believe this connection will help support us
local health workers in Liberia. I will go to work tomorrow with renewed hope that people
are starting to listen. I will look at another ebola patient tomorrow and try to smile even if
he or she dies, because I know of the efforts of my family at Christ-the-King Lutheran
Church in South Bend to help!
Yassah Lavelah has over seven years of experience as a social entrepreneur with a specific
focus on the role of maternal health in community development. She currently serves as the
Nursing Supervisor at the Grace D. Wallace Memorial Clinic and a Registered Nurse at
the ELWA Hospital. She has a longstanding passion for maternal health and its role in
community development and partnered with her mother to create the Ma V. Maternity
Clinic in 2008 as a social enterprise. Yassah volunteers with Youth Crime Watch of Liberia
providing training to young women as it relates to personal hygiene, maternal health and
responsible sexual lives. She holds a bachelor’s of science degree in Nursing from Cuttington University. Upon completion of the Washington Fellowship program, Yassah plans to
work on the development of the first community based midwifery center in Liberia. The
center will provide a platform for traditional and formally trained midwives to engage the
community in direct response to the alarming rate of infant mortality in Liberia. She can
be contacted at: [email protected]
How you can help
Our Mission Africa group is a small group and we could use a number of additional
people to work with us-- to assist us in developing additional networking connections, in helping us to develop a mission proposal to present to the congregation, and
assisting with managing and sustaining the program once it is developed. Contact
any member of the team listed below.
Social Ministry is sponsoring a Dining Day at Old Country Buffet on November 9 th and
a portion of the proceeds will be donated to support our Liberia project. We look
forward to a good turnout.
Pray for the people of West Africa, for an end to the ebola crisis, and for ongoing assistance to alleviate poverty and improve the lives of those who struggle and suffer
throughout the world.
Mission Africa Team
Lorrie Bjornstad, EJ and Tewah Fenner, Tom and Deb Frecka, Ruth Munneke, Catherine
Shilue