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HAPPENINGS OSL LIBRARY

NEW MEMBERS

BAPTISMS

April 24, 2018 Henry Dean Beebe

Son of Jarrod & Candace (Schiltz) Beebe

April 28, 2018 Abby Jaylene Pingel

Daughter of Jason Pingel & Ashlie Schooling

WEDDINGS

April 21, 2018

Clay Burmester & Jenna Beebe

April 28, 2018 Ethan Sande & Mariah Smith

FUNERALS

John Westphal July 6, 1935—April 23, 2018

PASTORAL ACTS

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WORSHIP April 5

Effective the end of April, Pastoral coverage for Rutland and Ottosen was terminated.

Teacher Recognition: May 6th? Graduate Recognition: May 20 Pentecost: May 20 Broughton’s piano will be

purchased for between $400-$650.

PROPERTY & MANAGEMENT March 13

Projector was paid for by insurance.

Money left over from projector will be put towards a new computer.

LHTC approved Narthex tile. Obtaining quotes for fixing

walkways and parking lot.

April 10

MEMORIAL March 14

Discussed funds and accounts. Did not meet in April

EDUCATION April 4

EVANGELISM April 10

Discussed ‘Adopt-A-Highway’ Beacon Of Hope meals: Senior

Choir (had April), Youth (July), & Evangelism (October).

“Relay For Life” is June 29. Discussed creek/river clean-up.

STEWARDSHIP April 4

YOUTH April 18

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OSL GROUPS DATA

Wanted Prayer Warriors!!

As you know, prayer is so important in our faith journey. OSL has a Prayer Calling Chain.

Here is how it works: Sandy Loney will get the first call, she will then call the next person on the list, and that person will call the next one,

and so on. Everyone in the calling chain will get a list of participants and their phone number and the order to call.

Call Sandy's cell phone at 515-332-5677 or email [email protected] to become a prayer warrior.

Also, if you, or someone you know needs prayers, please call or email

Catch The Spirit! The Spirits Of Kindness would love to have you join their group!

This informal gathering ‘usually’ meets: every other month on the first Monday morning of the month at

9:30am in the church library. Coffee and fellowship are ‘usually’ part of the agenda!

Our mission is simple: to spread caring among those in our church family

and in our community through simple acts of kindness. To have another think about you, acknowledge you,

and share with you is so vital and heartwarming to every one of us!

Got the Spirit? Share the Spirit!

Join the Spirits Of Kindness!

Check Dates/Availability During The Summer Season & Holiday Seasons !!!

Support ‘Mission Action’ They complete:

Quilts, School Bags, Baby Kits, Sewing Kits, & Health Kits.

Consider joining us -- (You do not have to know how to sew or quilt)

Thrivent Choice Dol lars

If you are a Thrivent member you are encouraged to

designate your “Thrivent Choice Dollars” to Our Saviour’s

Lutheran Church. The process is easy. Simply go on line

and make your designation to OSL. Should you have any

questions or want help, please contact our Thrivent

Advocate, or contact our Financial Office.

Thank you for your support!

Purchase ‘Scrip’ Cards to help fund our activities !!

Suppor t Our Youth! !

We keep HyVee & FareWay on hand

DATA OSL GROUPS

Saturday, March 31 21 $4,881.00 Sunday, April 1 181

Saturday, April 7 22 $4,291.00 Sunday, April 8 116

Saturday, April 14 Youth Musical $NA Sunday, April 15

Saturday, April 21 24 $5,187.00 Sunday, April 22 141

Simply Giving Total $7,125.00 Strength Renewed Special Offering (Sign) $1,453.00 Designated Giving $ 420.00 Rutland / Ottosen $1,600.00 Chapel Rent $ 100.00 Sunday School $ 30.84 SAFE $ 40.00 AutumnFest $ 25.00 Fellowship Hall Rental $ 25.00 Good Friday $ 461.00 Maundy Thursday $ 390.00 Easter $1,800.00 Coffee Money $ 49.20 Designated Savings Interest $ 91.51 Youth Musical $2,096.00

UNPAID BILLS

Northwest Loan Balance $12,000.00

Operational Reserve Fund, Balance Due July 2018 $3000.00 Operational Reserve Fund, Balance Due September 2018 $6500.00 Operational Reserve Fund, Balance Due November 2018 $2000.00 Operational Reserve Fund, Balance Due December 2018 $2000.00 Operational Reserve Fund, Balance Due January 2019 $2000.00 Operational Reserve Fund, Balance Due on February 2019 $2000.00 Operational Reserve Fund, Balance Due on March 2019 $2000.00 Operational Reserve Fund, Balance Due on April 2019 $2000.00

MEMORIALS RECEIVED

ATTENDANCE & OFFERING Womens Bible Study

CIRCLE OF FRIENDSHIP

Join us each 3rd Thursday @ 9:00am

A very informal group which meets the third Thursday morning of the month at 9am in the OSL Fellowship Hall. We have coffee and usually a ‘goodie’, if somebody remembers! The get-together includes a discussion centered on lessons/topics/Bible Study chosen by the group attendees. Remember the Women’s Circles of years gone by? Circle Of Friendship is a bit like that –women who enjoy getting together –laughing, sharing, learning, caring–supporting each other!

WELCOMES YOU ! ! !

We meet on the 2nd, 4th & 5th Thursdays

of each month @ 8:30am.

OSL WOMEN

Coffee at

the Caribbean

Join us each 2nd Tuesday @ 9:00am

OSL MENS GROUP Join us each Wednesday morning @ 6:30am

Bible Study and Fellowship!

Breakfast on the 3rd Wednesday of each month!

NEWS

INGHAM & OKOBOJI LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMPS EVENTS

Jun. 3: Ice-Cream Social Jun. 4-5: Elderversity Aug. 3: Scandinavian Feast Aug. 4: 5K Fun Run & Quilt Auction Aug. 18: Golf Classic Aug. 26: Hog Roast

Please See Posters For More Information & Camp Dates

Humboldt Genealogical Society

Contact to buy HHS Alumni albums.

MUSIC BOOSTERS: 500 RAMA CARD CLUB

To join, call #515/332-4102.

Art Classes @ Witz End –Several Monthly!!

Check the Store & Facebook Page for more info !!!

LETTER

Kindergarten-2nd grade Cost per camper: $34 Deposit of $15 due at registration Camp-in-a-Day #1 -June 20 Camp-in-a-Day #2 -June 21 Camp-in-a-Day #3 -July 11 Camp-in-a-Day #4 -July 12 2nd – 5th grade Cost per camper: $179 Deposit of $50 due at registration Pathfinders #1 -June 17-19 Pathfinders #2 -June 24-26 Pathfinders #3 -July 8-10 Pathfinders #4 -July 15-17 4-6th grade Cost per camper: $379 Deposit of $100 due at registration Trailblazers #1-June 17-22 Trailblazers #2 -June 24-29 Trailblazers #3 -July 8-13 Trailblazers #4 -July 15-20

INGHAM-OKOBOJI CAMP $100 Camperships are available,

one per youth per year. Simply mark that you are a member

of Our Saviour’s at registration. www.Okoboji.org

Parade Of Choirs

May 14 @ 7pm, HHS

HHS Graduation

May 20

‘Cruisin For A Cure’ Car Show

May 5 @ 10am, HyVee parking lot

Mobile Pantry Program

May 9 @ 4:30-6:30, Fairgrounds

Humboldt Sip & Stroll

May 30 @ 5pm-8pm, Main Street

forgive you for the times I experienced these from you, as well. It is part and parcel of being in community; may we never forget that we are all beloved of God. God bring healing for us all. God will provide for you – I pray that you will let him gather you under his wing and lead you more deeply into a life of faith and community. May you find ways to continue to care for each other, no matter how differently each of us sees and experiences life and even, Christ himself. God’s grace and peace to you, Pastor Lissa Kahl

LETTER POSTERS

April 15, 2018 Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church 1212 Sumner Avenue SW Humboldt, Iowa 50548 Dear Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church Council and Congregation, I regret to inform you that I am resigning from my position as Associate Pastor at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church. My last day will be Monday, April 23, 2018. I have truly enjoyed my time talking, teaching, laughing, worshipping and praying with you and your children, as did my own children, Isaiah and Jordan. We were family for and to each other for a moment in time that I am grateful for, and, that will no longer be again. I am thankful for those who tried new things, went new places, engaged new ideas and met new people. The trust you placed in my leadership and the work of God within me is an honor. The vulnerability you showed as I ministered among you was a privilege I never took lightly. Your openness to the movement of the Holy Spirit and courage is a gift to the church that will bless you many times over. Celebrating the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation with you trying out Cross-Generational Sunday School was deeply meaningful to me. Being able to share the skits and discussion questions that Dan and I wrote for the mid-week services as we strove to process this moment of history and make it meaningful once again in new and profound ways was as much a gift to us, as well. I, too, learned some new skills from you – particularly, managing the booth for polka fest, designing the new church website and leading a group of fledgling young band students in a brass choir. I ask forgiveness for the things I didn’t do well, for the times I unknowingly let you down, said something hurtful, did not meet your expectations, or failed to express gratitude or welcome. I

POSTERS LETTER

find it easier to accept. For instance, if a pastor does a funeral for Jane because she was so special, why won’t the pastor perform a baptism for Joe’s family? It’s easy to see how hurt feelings would not only affect Joe’s feelings toward the former pastor but perhaps also feelings within the body of Christ between Jane’s family and Joe’s family. It is important for us to understand that as of May 1, 2018 Pastor Broughton is no longer our pastor but he will pray for our continued and future mission and ministry and for a strong and fruitful partnership with our future pastoral leader. Therefore Pastor Broughton cannot:

Come back to perform weddings, funerals, or baptisms; Visit the sick and the homebound; Continue in any counseling relationship with a parishioner; Be involved in any way in the call process (helping with the

profile, recommending candidates, commenting on a particular candidate);

Support or give advice to anyone involved in a congregational disagreement ;

Return to lead worship services (unless down the road he is invited back as a “former pastor” to participate in a special event, such as a church anniversary).

We give thanks to God for the time Pastor Broughton was with us and we pray for him as he now goes forth to serve God and the church in new ways. We are working with the synod office to find an interim pastor and eventually enter in the call process for a new pastor. We trust that God will send us a new leader who will be called to serve God and the ministry of this congregation for the next stage of our ministry. In Christ,

Mark Zylstra

Twin Rivers Habitat For Humanity is excited to announce we

are building a home at 211 1st Avenue South, Humboldt, IA.

We would like to invite individuals and group volunteers to

assist in its building. We plan to begin May 1st, weather

dependent. We plan to provide lunch for groups, however at

this point that remains tentative.

Contact me with the date(s) you would like to help at

#515/890-0611 or at [email protected] .

We look forward to working with you.

Daniel Holste, Building Volunteer Coordinator & ReStore Manager

Twin Rivers Habitat For Humanity

118 North 12th Street

Fort Dodge, IA 50501

LETTER POSTERS

The OSL Quilting Group is finishing another year. They sent

48 quilts and 29 school kits to Lutheran World Relief on April

21. These should provide comfort and ability to attend

school to families in need. The group can use washable

fabric and used blankets and sheets for more quilts. Three

yard pieces of fabric can be used in sewing kits.

The group appreciates Evelyn Pedersen who sews many quilt

tops and school bags for them at home. Also the group

appreciates all the work Marilyn Lindemann and Phyllis

Fevold have done. The group would like others to join them

when they start work in the fall. No particular sewing ability

is needed, just willingness. They meet the second, fourth,

and fifth Thursdays at 8:30am.

From the President: Dear OSL family, This is just a note to share information and offer some guidance regarding the next couple of months for OSL. The bishop's office is working to secure an intentional interim pastor. We think that may be as soon as June. In the mean time Ron Rasmussen will lead us in worship. We are fortunate God has prepared him to help in this way. Please lift Ron up in your prayers and support him. We have made arrangements in the event emergency pastoral care is needed. Please call the church office in those cases. You may also call me if you are not able to reach the church. Please also contact the church office if you become aware of the need to include someone in the prayers of the church. We will confirm that is desired. Please hold one another, our leaders, and our church in your prayers as we move to a new start. Your brother in Christ, Mark 515.570.0125

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Pastor Gene Broughton and the Congregation Council have signed a covenant, which helps us understand our relationship with one another as we move forward without him. When a pastor leaves a congregation or retires, it is not appropriate for him to continue to function in the pastoral role. This is difficult and sometimes painful for us to understand. However, if we remember that part of our calling as the people of God is to care for the body of Christ and not injure different members of it, we might

THANK YOU

STAFF INFO

O S L S T A F F

• Pastor:

• President:

Mark Zylstra

• Secretary/Information Editor:

Kristi Pedersen Wilson

• Secretary:

Jodi Hjelmeland

• Treasurer:

Shirley-Jean Woodward

• Custodian:

Steve Paulson

• Weekend Custodians:

Nick Davis

Jim Fevold

M a n y T h a n k s t o :

• Berniece Knight, Dorothy Dale, Tom & Virginia Nelson, and Virginia Hart, who offered their assistance for assembling the April Echoes & sorting them for mailing...

• Richard and Jeanette Christianson for folding Echoes covers, putting the address labels on, and sorting them by zip codes…

• Kevin Tellier and helpers for all of the outdoor work…

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Phone: (515) 332-3438

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Office Hours

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T Th 8:00am-3:00pm

Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church

1212 Sumner Avenue SW

Humboldt, IA 50548

Sundays, 9:00 a.m.— Worship w/Communion

10:00 a.m.— Coffee, Fellowship Hall

10:20 a.m.— Sunday School

Saturdays, 5:30 p.m.— Worship w/Communion

Kristi Pedersen Wilson, Editor