OCTOBER 2016 THE GATHER, GROW, & GO NEWSLETTER “ Connecting people to Jesus as we gather, grow, and go.” Issue 10 IN THIS ISSUE From the Desk of Pastor Schultz .......... 1 News & Notes ..... 2 – 4 Missions ................ 5 – 7 Women’s Ministry.................. 7, 8 Christian Education ................... 7 Worship Assistants ................ 9 Sunday Funnies ...... 10 Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church & Preschool 13145 S. Blackbob Rd. Olathe, KS 66062 Church Office (913) 780-6023 [email protected]Preschool Office (913) 780-6889 [email protected]Website www.bslcks.org FROM THE DESK OF PASTOR SCHULTZ THE REAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE REFORMATION FORMATION – “The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground” (Genesis 3:7). That’s where it all began. What a beautiful formation that was! Holy! In the Image of God! CONFORMATION – “She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it” (Genesis 3:6‑7). What a tragic distortion of the original formation! Sinful! Conformed now to the image of the evil one! “In this way death came to all men, because all sinned” (Romans 5:12). RE-FORMATION – “Christ Jesus…made himself nothing taking the form of a servant, he humbled himself and became obedient to death – even death on a cross!” (Philippians 2:5‑8). That’s where our hope is founded. What a wonderful step in God’s goal of re-forming sinful crea- tion. His Son was given to the world as the suffering servant who gave his life and rose again from the dead so that our sins would be forgiven. TRANSFORMATION – “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:2). This is the will of God for all people – A transformation from sin- ner to saint, from enemy to friend, from lost one to found one. “This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth” (I Timothy 2:3- 4). Let God make every day a reformation day through repentance and a remembrance of your baptism! DON’T miss this… Reformation Bible Study “Martin Luther: The Moment” Four weeks beginning Sunday, October 30 Sunday mornings
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OCTOBER 2016
THE GATHER, GROW, & GO
NEWSLETTER “Connect ing people to Jesus as we gather, grow, and go. ”
Jeff Richards, cousin of Carisa McMullen (metastatic melanoma)
Steve Harnish, son of Dale & Gerry Harnish (stroke)
For Military Service Men and Women:
Serving stateside: SRA Zach Hughes, SGT Brandon Seutter, MAJOR Paul Kassebaum, WO Daniel
Kassebaum, CAPT Andrew Barrier, STAFF SGT Austin Nichols, First LT Brandon Boxler, SrA
Brady Cox, Danny Myers, SSGT Philip Berube & Elizabeth, AN Christian Burdett, PV2 Jaleel
Counts, 2nd Lt. Stephen Kerns, and PV1 Dakota Pierson
Serving overseas: Geoff & Emma (Brockschmidt) Moores - Italy and CPT Michele Kerns - South Ko-
rea
For Our Expectant Mothers: Moriah Obermueller, Rebecca McDonald, Chelsie Holste and all other
expectant mothers.
For the Sake of the Gospel:
Vicar Michael Hofmann and his wife Stacy, as they serve among us for the next year.
*New additions to the continued prayer list are in red.
Please contact the Church office when a prayer can be removed.
NEWS & NOTES
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NEWS & NOTES Rev. and Vickie Wingfield announce a new addition to their family.
Rev. Windfield served at BSLC as Vicar in 2012-2013.
BSLC's brand new MOPS group is off to a
great start! Over 20 moms have joined this
group with more than 25 children. We've had
our first two meetings and the theme for the
year is We are the Starry-Eyed. Beautiful Sav-
ior is blessed with a dynamite leadership team that is working hard to
make the meetings fun, Christ-centered, en-
couraging, and a place for moms to connect
with other women. The women in the group have joined us from our
church, our preschool, friends of our preschool families, and even just
community moms who found us online through the MOPS website. It
is such a blessing to finally have the space for this ministry and the
amazing volunteers from our church who are caring for the children
during these meetings!
New Address:
Nick & Katherine Aberle
27381 W. 108th St.
Olathe, KS 66061
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Dear Members of Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church,
I want to start out by saying thank you all so much for all your continued thoughts and prayers throughout Kayla’s pregnancy. It was an extremely difficult four months for us, but knowing we had so many family, friends, and many church members sending prayers our way it gave us a feeling of comfort that everything would work out how it was supposed to.
Kayla was diagnosed at her week 19 appointment with a complication that results in premature delivery and put on bed rest. At 21 weeks she was admitted to the hospital and at 24 weeks all the doctors and nurses thought delivery was happening that weekend. Throughout the whole process we never lost faith, Pastor Schultz was very good at reassuring us that God already had a plan for these three little ones and we just continued to pray that whenever they were born that they would be as healthy as possible.
After that weekend, we had about three and a half weeks of lying there, just waiting for these kids to make their appearance. They didn’t want to do any testing or anything to disrupt anything, but at around week 27 and a half they checked Kayla again, and miraculously the complication hadn’t wors-ened at all. We were then given the option to go home and remain on bed rest or stay in the hospital, as they warned, this could still be happening at any minute. After six and half weeks in the hospital, we chose to go home and come in a couple times a week for appointments.
At almost every appointment we would usually hear from the doctors and nurses how big of a miracle theses babies were. One of the nurse practitioners explained that this complica-tion happens in about 1% of all pregnancies, and that once the complication reached where it was at week 24, that ba-bies would be here very shortly. She went on to explain that our story will be one she shares with other women who have this same issue to give them hope and hopefully show them that faith can literally do miraculous things.
After almost four months on bed rest, and six and a half weeks in a hospital, at 33 weeks and six days Kayla gave birth to two beautiful girls and one handsome little boy. Kylie weighed 4 lb 14 oz, Kacey was 5 lb 3 oz, and Turner was 4 lb 12 oz. They all spent 22 days in the NICU, and were able to come home on September 17.
I want to sincerely thank you all once again for your thoughts and prayers, and for all those who have already brought food to us, and for those who are planning to bring more food to us.
I heard that the Sunday after we had the babies Pastor announced their birth and also that we plan to move back to our hometowns about 40 minutes north of Manhattan. We have wanted to get back around our hometowns and around family for a long time, but never really had an opportunity to get back to our small towns. However, when you have triplets, it’s pretty tough to keep them away from grandmas and grandpas, so we decided to use this opportunity to get back home to family, as we have heard from so many people we’ll need all the help we can get. What is really neat though is that even though we will be moving towards the end of the year, that this congregation is still willing to lend out a helping hand if ever in need. So from the bottom of our hearts, Kayla and I really want to thank eve-ryone so much for everything the congregation and Pastors have done throughout these last four months, you have all been so much appreciated.
Sincerely, James and Kayla Hagedorn
Left to Right: Kylie, Turner, and Kacey
NEWS & NOTES
MISSIONS
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Jesus made the blind see (both liter-
ally and spiritually) and the lame
able to walk. We, of course, cannot
do such miracles, but He did bless us
with the amazing gift of dogs to serve
as companions, protectors, work part-
ners, and yes, even eyes, legs,
arms/hands, or simply a calming
presence.
We will continue collecting donations for KSDS, Inc (formerly Kansas Specialty Dog Ser-
vice), an organization in Washington, Kansas that breeds and trains Golden and Labrador Re-
trievers to be assistance dogs for people through October 9, to be delivered at their fall gradua-
tion ceremony on October 15.
KSDS has been operating as a non-profit organization with financial support from the state of
Kansas for over 25 years. They are fully accredited members of Assistance Dogs International,
training three distinct types of assistance dogs: Guide dogs, which help people with visual im-
pairments; Service dogs, which help people with mobility/balance impairments; and Facili-
ty dogs which are trained to work alongside a professional to assist in education, rehabilitation
and more (the Facility dogs would be most similar to the LCC Comfort K-9's as they are fully
trained service dogs that assist more than one person in a variety of stressful situations). They
maximize the benefit of every dollar donated by operating with the help of many volunteers,
who help with special work projects and as puppy raisers.
KSDS breeds their own dogs for mental and physical soundness for their future careers, and
they have a very high success rate (over 70%) in placing the dogs as workers. At 8 weeks, the
puppies are placed in the care of puppy raisers who raise, train, and socialize the puppies until
they are between 18 and 24 months of age when they are called back to KSDS for health and
temperament testing; when these tests are passed, the dogs are placed in their specific career
training program for an additional 6 to 12 months of formal training including custom training,
based on personality matching, for their future partners. Young dogs that do not pass the as-
sessments are offered for career change adoption as pets; generally, the puppy raiser family is
given first choice to adopt "their" puppy, but if they cannot, there is a waiting list for adopting
young, healthy, well-trained and socialized Labradors and Golden Retrievers.
The dogs, each valued at $25,000, are placed with their partners at no charge other than the in-
itial $25 application fee. The persons receiving the dogs stay in housing provided by KSDS for
1 to 3 weeks, depending on the type of dog they are receiving. During this time they learn to
use the dog's skills and how to care for their new partner. At the end of this time, KSDS holds a
MISSIONS
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The MLM Christmas Store started with only three families and has grown
to make Christmas possible for 3,000 needy Kansas City families. This is
MLM’s largest volunteer event and there are many ways you can volun-
teer!
Christmas Store Application Taking - Monday, October 10 – Satur-
day, October 15 at St. Mark Hope and Peace – Kansas City, Mis-
souri
Each family must have their application taken to determine if they meet
criteria for assistance. This is best for adult volunteers and requires training in MAAC-Link
(provided). Sign up online at: http://www.mlmkc.org/christmas-store-1.html or contact Brooke