408 Ninth Street NW Mandan, ND 58554 FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH Phone: 701-663-3594 Fax: 701-663-6217 E-mail: [email protected]Building Faith and Transforming Lives in Christ. ADDRESS LABEL Vacation Bible School June 6 th - 10 th 8:00 A.M.– 4:00 P.M. Monday-Thursday 8:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M. Friday www.firstlutheranofmandan.org We’re on the web! Sponsor for June: Tammy-Lapp Harris 701-220-4908 – C 701-751-6377 – W Curtis Peterson 701-720-3279 – C 701-221-8548 – W Sponsor for July: Ecclesiastes 3:1 “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.” NRSV As a child, I can remember singing ‘kiddie’ songs along with other kids at the playground at Webster Elementary School in Williston. We sang songs like “London Bridge Is Falling Down” and “Baa Baa Black Sheep”. I don’t know if little kids sing songs like that at school playgrounds anymore. One ‘kiddie song’ came back into my head last Tuesday when we had our first Task Force meeting with Randy Askvig, P.E., who is President of Prairie Engineering. The song that came to mind was “The Old Gray Mare”. The old gray mare, she ain’t what she used to be, Ain’t what she used to be, ain’t what she used to be; The old gray mare, she ain’t what she used to be, many long years ago. The old gray mare that came to mind is the gray Kewanee Boiler that has resided in the east corner of the basement off the Fellowship Hall since being installed in late 1955. Randy met with the Task Force on Tuesday, May 17th, to provide an assessment of our heating plant and to provide us with estimates for the replacement of our heating system. The assessment of our existing boiler is not encouraging...it has surpassed it’s service life and will again require costly maintenance this summer to be ready for our next fall and winter usage. The ‘band aid’ fixes of the past few years at a cost of approximately $20,000.00 have only enabled the boiler to continue to operate but have not addressed the age and fatigue of the primary system. This summer we need to replace leaking pipework and address ongoing corrosion of primary components. We should have some preliminary estimates by the end of May and so I will keep the congregation updated as the Task Force continues to do its work. Members of the Task Force are: Jeff Bradford and DJ Campbell who are the Property and Management Team Representatives on the church council, Tim Faller and Darrell Nitschke, ad hoc representatives from church council, Ralph Feland, Norman Roth and Gary Tomanek as congregational representatives. You are also welcome to visit with them with any questions you may have. The grade school in Williston where I sang those ‘kiddie songs’ was torn down over 30 years ago; Kewanee Boiler in Kewanee, Illinois declared bankruptcy in 2002 and no longer exists; I turned 64 on May 10th of this year and am becoming an ‘old gray mare’ myself. As the writer of Ecclesiastes states, “for everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven”. Thank you to the Task Force for all of their work in addressing this matter. Until next time, Pastor Lee June/July 2016 Administrative Pastor Rev. Lee Herberg 663-3594 Associate Pastor Rev. Christina Martin 663-3594 Administrative Assistant & Coordinator of Lay Ministries Jackie Schulz 663-3594 (o) 663-3082 (h) Custodians Ron & Mavis Watson Financial Administration Jennifer Scheet First Lutheran Is A Mission Partner with Camp of the Cross Ministries First Lutheran Staff First Lutheran Church June/July Newsletter
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Ecclesiastes 3:1 “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.” NRSV
As a child, I can remember singing ‘kiddie’ songs along with other kids at the playground at Webster Elementary School in Williston. We sang songs like “London Bridge Is Falling Down” and “Baa Baa Black Sheep”. I don’t know if little kids sing songs like that at school playgrounds anymore. One ‘kiddie song’ came back into my head last Tuesday when we had our first Task Force meeting with Randy Askvig, P.E., who is President of Prairie Engineering. The song that came to mind was “The Old Gray Mare”.
The old gray mare, she ain’t what she used to be,
Ain’t what she used to be, ain’t what she used to be;
The old gray mare, she ain’t what she used to be, many long years ago.
The old gray mare that came to mind is the gray Kewanee Boiler that has resided in the east corner of the basement off the Fellowship Hall since being installed in late 1955. Randy met with the Task Force on Tuesday, May 17th, to provide an assessment of our heating plant and to provide us with estimates for the replacement of our heating system. The assessment of our existing boiler is not encouraging...it has surpassed it’s service life and will again require costly maintenance this summer to be ready for our next fall and winter usage. The ‘band aid’ fixes of the past few years at a cost of approximately $20,000.00 have only enabled the boiler to continue to operate but have not addressed the age and fatigue of the primary system. This summer we need to replace leaking pipework and address ongoing corrosion of primary components.
We should have some preliminary estimates by the end of May and so I will keep the congregation updated as the Task Force continues to do its work. Members of the Task Force are: Jeff Bradford and DJ Campbell who are the Property and Management Team Representatives on the church council, Tim Faller and Darrell Nitschke, ad hoc representatives from church council, Ralph Feland, Norman Roth and Gary Tomanek as congregational representatives. You are also welcome to visit with them with any questions you may have.
The grade school in Williston where I sang those ‘kiddie songs’ was torn down over 30 years ago; Kewanee Boiler in Kewanee, Illinois declared bankruptcy in 2002 and no longer exists; I turned 64 on May 10th of this year and am becoming an ‘old gray mare’ myself. As the writer of Ecclesiastes states, “for everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven”. Thank you to the Task Force for all of their work in addressing this matter.
Until next time,
Pastor Lee
June/July 2016
Administrative Pastor
Rev. Lee Herberg
663-3594
Associate Pastor
Rev. Christina Martin
663-3594
Administrative Assistant &
Coordinator of Lay
Ministries
Jackie Schulz
663-3594 (o)
663-3082 (h)
Custodians
Ron & Mavis Watson
Financial Administration
Jennifer Scheet
First Lutheran Is A Mission
Partner with Camp of the
Cross Ministries
First Lutheran
Staff
First Lutheran Church
June/July Newsletter
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Thank you to this months sponsors - (June) Tammy Lapp-Harris
of Integra Realty Group & (July) Curtis Peterson of Bremer
Bank for sponsoring this months newsletter.
Summer Worship Times:
For June, July & August our worship times
will be Sunday’s at 9:30 A.M. & Wednesday’s
at 6:00 P.M. We will not have coffee hour
during the summer months on Sundays.
Leona Keidel would like to thank everyone who helped with the packing and delivery of Quilts and Health Kits for Lutheran World Relief. 48 Health Kits and 174 quilts.
God Bless Everyone!
Those who helped:
Leona Keidel
Ralph & Naida Feland
Les & Darlene Sayler
Olivia Ganser
Vi Johnson
Harold Bentz
Roy Poppe
Rod Skytland
Something NEW this summer:
This summer our office will close on Friday’s ONLY at
3:00 P.M.
Office hours for June, July & August will be:
Monday-Thursday: 8:00-5:00
Friday: 8:30-3:00
Saturday, June 18th at the Garrison High School Gymnasium.