St. Paul Lutheran Church is called to be an Inviting, Christ Centered Spiritually Grow- ing and Community Serving Church where we are led by love to implement Jesus’ teachings. Staff: Pastor: Rev. Lucy Wynard Secretary: Carol MacKechnie Custodian: Chet Organ Music/Choir Director: David Frank Sunday Worship Schedule: 8:00 a.m. Worship Service with Holy Communion 9:00 a.m. Coffee & Fellowship 9:30 a.m. Believer’s Club Sunday School (Sept. – May) 10:30 a.m. Worship Service with Holy Communion 12:00 p.m. San Jose Worship Service The CornerStone News St. Paul Lutheran Church ELCA 617 St. Lawrence Avenue Beloit, WI 53511 Church Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs.: 9 am to 3 pm Friday: 9 am to 12 Noon Church Office Phone: 608-365-7064 Website: www.stpaulbeloit.org Office Email: [email protected]A congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
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St. Paul Lutheran Church is called to be an Inviting, Christ Centered Spiritually Grow-
ing and Community Serving Church where we are led by love
to implement Jesus’ teachings.
Staff:
Pastor: Rev. Lucy Wynard
Secretary: Carol MacKechnie
Custodian: Chet Organ
Music/Choir Director: David Frank
Sunday Worship Schedule:
8:00 a.m. Worship Service with Holy Communion
9:00 a.m. Coffee & Fellowship
9:30 a.m. Believer’s Club Sunday School (Sept. – May)
Organ Fund-Beg.Bal 714.80 Sound Sys.-Beg. Bal. 1100.00 -Deposit 0.00 -Deposit: Member 0.00 -Ending Bal. 714.80 -Deposit: Dinner 0.00
-Ending Balance 1100.00
Designated Monthly Benevolence Out-
reach The Mission Outreach for the month of September is
BELOIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER
12:00 September 26
MEETING & POTLUCK The program will be presented by Pastors
Lucy and Dan Wynard. They will be speaking about the
Foster Care System, including their personal experiences
as foster parents.
Please bring a dish to pass.
Come for good food and fellowship. All are welcome.
Memorial Committee St. Paul has once, again, been blessed by generous friends
and families. The Carpet Fund has received memorials in
memory of the following people: Karen Farney, Vivian
Fillbach, Darlene Ingrassia, Ron Josh, Lynn Oswald, Lou
Paschke, Bill Rodermel, Geri Schultz, and Ron Upward.
THANK YOU TO ALL.
WHAT MATTERS - Stay Connected To Synod Happenings,
News, & Events! Grow in your faith and leadership! Stay connect-
ed to exciting events and stories of our faith in
action in our synod! To sign up for synod news,
please email Assistant to the Bishop for Synodical
Life, Deacon Vicki Hanrahan at vickih@scsw-
elca.org to be added to “What Matters.”
Jewell Furman Reception
Jewell Furman will be celebrating her 95th birthday on September 17th.
There will be a reception in her honor on Sunday, September 22nd be-
tween the first and second services. There will be refreshments and Jewell
would like to see her St. Paul friends, especially since she will be moving
down to Southern Illinois to live with her daughter and son-in-law. Please
attend to wish her Happy Birthday and say good bye.
Help Wanted! We are in need of volunteers to use their gifts & skills in the following areas: * PowerPoint operators (especially at the 8am service) * Care Team members (visit the sick or homebound & take commun-ion to them) * Altar Guild members (set up/clean up communion & change the paraments as needed) * Children's Sermon team (lead Kidz Time during worship periodical-ly) If you're interested in hearing more details about these or any other volunteer roles, please speak with Pastor Lucy! You can email her at [email protected].
* If you’re interested in cantoring the liturgy or offering special music during the service, please let David Frank know.
* Choir rehearsals resume Thursday, September 5th at 6 pm. New-comers welcomed enthusiastically.
Adult & Student Confirmation Information Meeting Sunday, September 22nd, 9:30am in Michael Chapel Come and learn about our program plans for the year and help us determine the best time to meet. This year we'll be focusing on learn-ing about the New Testament. If you cannot make the meeting but
have a young adult in their early-mid teens who might be interested in participating, please let Pr. Lucy know so that we can try to ac-commodate schedules as much as possible. Thrivent Grants - there's $$$ on the table! Calling all Thrivent (Lutheran Brotherhood) members: we've created a list of the regular annual activities here at St. Paul which would qualify for a $250 Thrivent Action Team grant. Please look over the list (on the table outside the sanctuary) and sign your name next to those activities most spark your interest in supporting. Then we know who to contact in advance of events about applying for grants! There are folks here at church or in the Beloit Thrivent of-fice who are available to help in the application process - it should only take a few minutes each time. Adult Faith Formation Opportunities We're looking to do several short-term groups over the course of this year focused on adult faith formation. These will be 4-8 week bible studies, book groups, video + discussion groups... there are a multi-tude of possibilities! If you're confirmed member of the congregation looking for opportunities to grow in your faith & connect with others in our community, look for the interest sheet on the sign-up table outside the sanctuary and let us know what your interests are & what works in your schedule.
F o r Y o u r I n f o r m a t i o n
God's Work, Our Hands - Rally Sunday! September 15th
8:00 am - Traditional ELW Worship in English 9:15 am - Believers' Club Kick-Off: God +Us
AND God's Work, Our Hands - Serving Together
10:30 am - Joint, Bilingual Worship
Join us September 15th as we celebrate serving and worshiping alongside our siblings from Parroquia San José. Believers' Club this year will be focused on the theme of God + Us - focusing on the ways in which God gives every one of us gifts to share God's love in the world. God + Us is another way of saying God's Work is done through each of us - every one, togeth-er spreading the Good News. So, come kick off a new program year, serve, worship, fellowship and celebrate together!
1. Who was the smallest person in the Bible? Knee high miah!
2. What car did the wise men drive to see Jesus?
Honda Accord. The Bible says the wise men all came in one accord.
3. Why couldn’t Jonah trust the ocean?
Because he knew there was something fishy about it.
4. Who was the most business-savvy woman in the Bible?
Pharaoh’s daughter, who went down to the bank of the Nile and pulled
out a little prophet.
5. What kind of person was Boaz before he got married?
Ruthless!
6. Where is the first tennis match mentioned in the Bible?
When Joseph served in Pharaoh’s court.
7. Who was the greatest comedian in the Bible?
Samson. He brought the house down.
8. Which servant of God was the worst lawbreaker in the Bible?
Moses. He broke all 10 commandments at once.
9. How does Moses start his morning?
Hebrews a pot of coffee!
10. At what time of day was Adam created?
A little before Eve.
11. Who is the greatest babysitter mentioned in the Bible?
David. He rocked Goliath to sleep.
12. Did Eve ever have a date with Adam?
No, just an apple.
13. What’s the difference between Jesus and pizza?
Jesus can’t be topped.
14. Why did Samson try to avoid arguing with Delilah?
He didn’t want to split hairs.
15. Need an ark?
I noah guy.
EVER WONDER Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?
Why is ‘abbreviated’ such a long word?
Why is it that Doctors call what they do ‘practice’?
Why is it that lemon juice is made with artificial flavor, and dish-
washing liquid made with real lemons.
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
Why is the time of the slowest traffic called rush hour?
Why didn’t Noah swat those two mosquitos?
You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes?
Why don’t they make the whole plane out of that stuff?!
Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?
If flying is so safe why do they call the airport the terminal?
MESSAGE FROM PASTOR LUCY — Last month, at our triennial Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lu-theran Church in America, the ELCA declared itself a “sanctuary church body”… what does that mean?!
At its most basic, becoming a sanctuary denom-ination means the ELCA is publicly declaring that walking alongside immigrants and refu-gees is a vital expression of our faith. And in our particular context, in 2019, in the United States, it means an acknowledgment that our country’s systems regarding immigration, asy-lum and refugees are broken – and we seek to provide concrete help to those who are most vulnerable and experiencing the sharp edges of these broken systems.
But there are some things it does NOT mean, and I want to be clear about those:
• It does NOT mean that St. Paul Lutheran Church, Beloit, or even the South-Central Synod of Wisconsin is bound to any specific actions. The structure of our church is such that the Churchwide expression cannot compel or commit any individual congregation, synod, agency or institu-tion to particular beliefs or actions.
• It does NOT call for civil disobedience or illegal action. It does acknowledge that being a sanctuary church will look different in differ-ent contexts and must be discerned within those local contexts.
So what DOES it mean? Why make a such a public, and provocative, state-ment, if there’s not really any particular binding action behind it?!
• It DOES obligate the ELCA’s Church Council to study the question of
what being a sanctuary church means and to present a report at the next Churchwide Assembly in 2022. We should also expect from the Churchwide organization more resources, information and suggestions to guide us as a congregation in discerning our own answers to the question.
• It DOES invite us as St. Paul to our own study and practice of what coming along-side immigrants and refugees means for us. Rather than brush the Churchwide deci-sion aside as non-binding or too political, we have an opportunity to deepen our own conversation, understanding and practices of hospitality as a congregation.
I invite you to join me in thinking deeply and faithfully about what Jesus invites US to – now, in this place, as our particular congregation –in regards to our migrant neighbors. People of faith will differ on what living out the call to love our neighbor looks like – but we also know that, however we hammer out that conversation, we are called to the express the radical love & welcome of Jesus, and together we can continue to do that here at St. Paul.
Thank you for being a congregation that engages so faithfully and com-passionately in the work of the gospel!
P.S. want to learn more? I would LOVE to have coffee, listen to your ques-tions & concerns, and share some of the resources I’ve come across
Please remember our family and friends in prayer… Todd Hunter (friend of Chet Organ), Marilyn Folts, Jewell Furman, Roger Baker, Nicole Ra-vim & Katherine Connell (daughters of Mary & Larry Mortimer), Jeanette Rochester, Bishop Viviane Thomas-Breitfeld, Xander Meade (Pastor Lucy’s nephew), Kathy Schneider (Melanie Schneider’s mother), Judy Engle & Karen Moe, Maxine Rasmussen, Robert Heck, Ray & Judelle Murphy, Cyndi Martalock, Ralph & Edith Carlson, John Wellington Ford (great grandson of Jewell Furman), Lori Sciame, Michelle Crane (daughter of Ray & Judelle Murphy), Vi Guetschow, Lucille Stowers (Denise Organ’s mother), Kelly Mikkelsen (Friend of Gloria Wackershauser), Duane & Bonnie Hirschfield (friends of Karl & Anne Schilling),
Cyndi Mulholland (niece of Marge Kline), Thomas Ueland (son of Jackie Ueland),Reece Gat-liff (grandson of Jackie Ueland), John Vasgird (grandson of Beth Rodermel), Marge Kline, Merlin Kenitzer, Anthony & Thomas MacKechnie (nephews of Carol MacKechnie), Robert Schuler (friend of Judelle Murphy), Amber Valdez (daughter of Ray and Judelle Murphy),
Leroy Cruse, Joyce Buske, and those affected by the violence in our nation.
Friends and Family in the Military: Nolan Shepherd, Anaka Scoville, Wesley Felton (grandson of Jeanette Rochester), Kyle Resch (grandson of Marge Kline) & Fiancée Kim Schoenfeld, Marc Hulburt (son of Tom Hulbert), David and Adam Flowers (grandsons of
Bob & Addie Flowers), and Matthew Kolden (grandson of Pat & Roger Baker).
The immigrant who re-sides with you shall be as a citizen among you; you shall love the immi-grant as yourself, for you were immigrants in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. – Leviticus 19:34