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Newsletter of
PRINCE OF PEACE
LUTHERAN CHURCH
APPLETON, WI
8
Welcome John Hughes John Hughes was installed as Canticle Choir Director on
Sunday, August 10. He is pictured here with
his wife, Mandy and daughter, Ellie.
FRONT PAGE NEWS
Prin s of Peace
Nette & Megan Kimball fill bags for
Christmas in August which were blessed on
Sunday, August 17.
Also, on Sunday, August 17th, Cheryl Davis was installed
as Prince of Peace’s first intern.
VBS Pictures Some extra pictures from VBS in July. Therron Tracanna
is Moses and is telling the kids all about escaping to
the wilderness.
ELCA Malaria Campaign A child dies from malaria every 60 seconds.
We are in a special moment to help turn this around. Since the start of the ELCA Malaria
Campaign, ELCA members and our companions overseas have already seen a reduction in the
number of deaths from this preventable, treatable disease. We are a church that believes God
is calling us into the world together. Working through Lutheran partners in Africa, the ELCA
Malaria Campaign is uniquely positioned to help provide mosquito nets, education, testing,
medication and more to help eliminate deaths from this disease—for good. Learn more at
www.elca.org/malaria#sthash.4PbjB9HD.dpuf.
Prince of Peace members have participated in the Malaria Campaign in past years and the campaign is close to its
$15 million ELCA goal ($12 million so far) and our synod goal of $300,000 ($260,000 so far). We will do one more
Door Offering for Malaria Campaign on September 21. (Maybe we each can give a few coins each time we get a
mosquito bite this next month!) We can be happy we are now safe from malaria in USA. We can also pray for brothers
and sisters who can die from a mosquito bite. A few pennies... and a prayer... can help! Let's end this campaign strong!
Let's make malaria history! PoP Global Mission team
Lutheran World Relief is in Urgent Need of School Kits and Personal Care Kits Currently they have more requests from around the world than they have kits to fill them. Lutheran World Relief (LWR)
is asking us to please make a few more kits than we normally do. Prince of Peace members are encouraged to
contribute to this worthy cause by donating the items needed for the kits. The need is great.
School Kits
70-sheet notebooks (no loose-leaf paper) Blunt scissors
30 centimeter rulers (may have inches on reverse side) Pencil sharpeners
2.5" erasers Boxes of 16 or 24 crayons
Black or blue ballpoint pens (no gel ink)
Personal Care Kits
Light-weight bath-size towel (maximum 52”X27”), dark color recommended, new or gently used.
Two bath-size bars (4 to 5 oz.) of soap, in original wrapping
Metal nail clipper (attached file optional)
Sturdy comb (no picks or fine toothed combs)
Items may be dropped off at anytime in the storage room behind the library. If you would prefer to give a monetary
donation, please make your check payable to WELCA, noting LWR Kits, and send it to Jeannine Bultman at W6072
Cornflower Drive, Appleton, WI 54915. Questions? Call Lorraine Krenz at 993-1880. Thank you for your support.
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The theme for this year’s VBS was
Escaping to the Wilderness.
Transitions
One thing I always appreciate about the Bible is its unvarnished
and accurate portrayal of people as they respond to God. Sometimes,
their portraits are flattering and other times they aren’t. Yet one
characteristic of virtually all of them is that they are in constant
movement, always changing, always being affected by their interactions
with God. Rarely, do we see people, who are unmoved by their
interactions with God, and those that are, are usually the tragic ones,
who have become stuck in their views of self and God. For example,
contrast Peter’s growth and development from when he first met Jesus
on the shore of the Sea of Galilee to the Pharisees. Jesus had an effect
on both, but the one who had the most positive growth was Peter. Why
did that happen? I believe it happened because he was willing to be
touched and changed by our Lord.
This is true for us too. We are always in transition and the most positive change for us will occur when we are
willing to be touched and transformed by Jesus. As we look ahead to the coming month and prepare to say goodbye to
Pastor Gary and his family, we realize that our lives have not been standing still. Though, we may recall so many times
of our ministry together, as if they happened only yesterday, we have perpetually been in motion and transition. In fact,
we are always transitioning from one thing to the next. The challenge for us is whether we acknowledge those changes
and adapt and embrace them or become unrealistically stubborn and demand that things stay as they always have
been, which is ironic, because there never was a time in any of our lives when things were ever static.
Yet through this all the one who helps us is our Lord, who is unchangeable in His love, but always open to His
changing children. As the writer of Hebrews says in 13:8 “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”
He is the one, whom we can cling to and He is the one, who gives shape and order to our ever changing lives.
Over the next month, I hope you will enter anew into the ministry opportunities that are before you. Consider
volunteering for something you have never done before. You aren’t the same as you were yesterday. Be open to God’s
Call. Also, I hope you will joyfully enter into the affirmations and celebrations of Pastor Gary’s long ministry in our
midst. I know this will be an emotional month for many. I know it will be for me. We may find ourselves with moments
of happiness, sadness, grief, joy, nostalgia for years ago and a desire for things to not change. That is understandable,
healthy and normal. But as we go through it all, may we allow the one who knows our hearts and minds better than we
know ourselves guide us. As we do, we will find the Lord is already where we are going!
Joy,
Fall Schedule
Prince of Peace’s fall worship schedule begins on Sunday, September 7 as follows:
8:00, 9:20 & 10:45 a.m. Worship with Holy Communion
9:40 a.m. Sunday School
Monday Evening Worship at 6:30 p.m. will take place the second Monday of every
month after the second Sunday. In September that will be September 15th.
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CROP Walk 2014
A Walk to Help End Hunger
Sunday, October 12
Make plans to join fellow Prince of Peace members as we walk together as a congregation
to help end hunger. CROP Hunger Walks are community-wide events sponsored by Church
World Services and organized by local volunteers to raise funds to end hunger. Join us
either by walking or sponsoring a walker on October 12.
Beginning September 21, members of Social Concerns Ministry will have forms available in the narthex between the
services that you can either sign up to walk or sponsor one of PoP CROP Walk walkers. You can also visit the PoP CROP Walk
website to sign up or donate! The link will be available around September 1 on PoP's home page www.popappleton.org.
2014 FOX CITIES CROP Hunger Walk (1, 3, or 6 mile walk)
• Sunday, October 12
• 12:30 pm Registration with Walk beginning at 1:00 pm
• Memorial Presbyterian Church, 803 E. College Avenue, Appleton
Questions? Contact Ron Jones of the Social Concerns Ministry (phone: 731-9250 or email: [email protected]).
They live among us, but we do not really know them. They have come, as our
ancestors did, to make a better life for themselves and, above all, for their children.
But their efforts are complicated by a restrictive and politicized immigration system.
Walk in our Shoes: Understanding the Latino Experience, is a Simulation experience,
developed and produced by ESTHER, that will give participants a chance to deepen
their understanding of the problems that the Fox Valley’s 20,000 Latinos face: finding
jobs and transportation, obtaining health care, keeping their documentation up-to-
date or living without it, and trying to
understand a strange language and culture.
During the 2½ to 3-hour event, each
participant will assume the role of a Latino character. The individual will face
specific challenges that must be solved during the simulation, which will cover four
days in the life of the character.
Prince of Peace will be co-hosting this Latino Simulation with our neighbor from
across Calumet Street, Fox Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Congregation.
The Simulation will be held at Prince of Peace on Saturday, October 25th from 9:30
to noon. There is a sign-up sheet on the Social Concerns bulletin board in the
narthex. For more information or to volunteer to help organize this event, contact
Fox Valley Warming Shelter Grateful Plateful Please join the Fox Valley Warming Shelter for our Third Annual Grateful Plateful fundraiser on October 9th. The
event will be held at the Grand Meridian, 2621 N. Oneida St. in Appleton from 5-8 p.m. Guests will enjoy a heavy
hors d’oeuvres buffet, program, silent auction and entertainment by Druids Table, a local Celtic band. Tickets for
$50 available online at www.foxvalleywarmingshelter.org, at Festival Foods in Darboy, Appleton and Neenah, or
call Connie at 419-0928 to purchase. The Shelter staff and board thank your church for all its support over the
years and we hope you will celebrate our signature event with us!
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PARISH EDUCATION SUNDAY SCHOOL September Events 9/7 9:40 am First day of Sunday School/Hands 2
Grow Puppeteers in Fellowship Hall
9/14 9:20 am 4K crowned Princes & Princesses of
Peace
9/21 9:20 am 3rd Grade Bible Presentations
9/28 9:40 am 3rd-6th grades will have alternate
locations for Sunday School
Changes to Sunday School 2014-2015 1. The kids will still be excused from service @ 9:40 each
Sunday.
2. Sunday School will be dismissed @ 10:30 am this year.
3. PreK and Kindergarten will be combined.
Sunday School 2014-2015 Mark your calendars! The first day of
Sunday School in the fall will be
September 7. We will all meet at 9:40
am in the Fellowship Hall for a
performance by the Puppeteers from
Hands 2 Grow. Sunday School will run from 9:40 am –
10:30 am for the remainder of the school year.
Volunteers Needed Sunday School is about to start and I am looking for a few
more volunteers to help. Consider spending time with the
children of PoP or helping behind the scenes. Volunteers
are not expected to be here every week. A rotation schedule
will be set up to allow flexibility for our volunteers. Sign up
to help on the clipboard on the door of Katie’s office or at