Immanuel Lutheran Church
W61 N498 Washington Avenue
Cedarburg, WI 53012
2015
Come & join us on Saturday, July 4th, to
watch Cedarburg’s 4th of July parade,
that will include our own Alternative
Fuel Praise Band. Great viewing areas
in front of church.
SUNDAY, JULY 19TH
JOINT WORSHIP & PICNIC
WITH OUR FRIENDS FROM
INCARNATION
(Additional details inside Reminder)
Immanuel Lutheran Church
W61 N498 Washington Avenue, Cedarburg, WI 53012
Phone: (262) 377-4484
Office Hours: M-F 9:00 am—1:00 pm
www.immanuelcedarburg.org
Church Council:
Executive Committee:
President: Eric Hackert (2017) – 262-707-6732
Vice Pres.: Ray Spatt (2016) – 262-377-3005
Secretary: Sandy Arndt (2016) – 262-377-6259
Treasurer: Jeff Zahn (2017) – 224-558-3783
Members at Large:
Tom Anderson (2018) – 262-375-0447
Bryan Balde (2016) – 920-207-1410
Shirley Burmeister (2017) - 262-377-3491
Joel Hoerchner (2018) - 262-483-0556
Wendy Lopez (2018) - 414-331-5560
Jim Muck (2016) – 262-377-8074
Steve Proefrock (2017) — 262-377-8651
Lisa Quick (2018) - 262-377-5535
Council email addresses:
(their first name).(their last name)
@immanuelcedarburg.org
To email the whole council:
[email protected]
Church Staff: 262-377-4484
Pastor: Vicki Simon (920) 716-0661
[email protected]
Church Secretary: Sandy Arndt (262) 377-6259
[email protected]
Special Events Coordinator: Sandy Arndt (262) 377-6259
[email protected]
Financial Secretary: Shirl Burmeister (262) 377-3491
[email protected]
Custodian: Terry Gall-Proefrock
Organists: Joann Wolff
Pianists: Gretel Pitre, Lisa Quick
Praise Band Director: Jim Reith
Chancel Choir Director: Jim Reith
[email protected]
Handbell Choir Director: Debbie Donovan
[email protected]
BUILDING USAGE REMINDERS
all events should be put on the
MASTER CALENDAR on the wall in the
secretary’s office, or by leaving
an email message at
[email protected]
as soon as you schedule them.
_________________________________
PLEASE make certain all doors
are locked as you leave.
If you are one of the last ones out of the building, at any time, please make sure the door
locks behind you by pulling on it.
Thank You!
Our Newsletter Deadline
is the 22nd
of every month.
PLEASE make certain that all
schedules, articles, items of interest for our newsletter and Calendar Dates for events and meetings
are turned into the Church Office (in the Reminder
Bin) or emailed, on or before the 22nd for them to
be included!
Your timely cooperation in making our newsletter
complete helps us keep our members informed
and involved!!
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Please check our website for
updates to the calendar.
Since our calendar is continuously updated you can
check it out at any time for new event times, etc.
Immanuel’s website is:
www.immanuelcedarburg.org
If you would like to
receive the newsletters
by email, please call or
email the office.
PEOPLE OF GOD’S GRACE. BUILDING ON THE PAST. GROWING IN THE PRESENT.
PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE — IN JESUS CHRIST
Dear Friends,
One of the things I truly cherish about the summer months is an opportunity to live a life of ministry in a
different way! Because the program portion of our church year takes a bit of a hiatus during these months,
there are new and unique ways to serve! The cool thing is, many of them just take a little time and have a
very short term commitment of an hour, a couple hours or a day! These opportunities call upon us to use
different gifts and may even call forth different people to become involved! At Immanuel this summer we
will have SO MANY opportunities to serve!
Do you have talents working with young children? We are in need of help for our VBS program co-hosted
with Faith and Advent! We also need help with children’s games at our church picnic with Incarnation this
summer!
Can you build a fire? Make hotdogs, s’mores or pudgy pies or share fellowship around a campfire? Join us
for one of our Summer Sounds fires in our park and share hospitality with friends from the other churches!
Do you have a kind heart? Do you like to eat and listen to music during Strawberry Fest? Sign up to be available to greet people at our Loving Kindness Strawberry Fest event! Bring your kids to color on the paper on
our picnic tables and greet people with a smile! Is that too much sitting for you? Great – sign up to help park
cars as a fundraiser for church projects with a tithe going to help support our outreach missions!
Have you always yearned to walk in a parade? Do you like passing out candy and flyers? Join us and members of Trinity, St. John’s and Faith churches in walking in our Fourth of July parade and teaching our community about Trek H20 packs that bring an easier access to water to up to 6,000 families globally!
Are you a wizard on the grill? We’ll need some grill masters to prepare food for our picnic with Incarnation!
Do you have a delectable dish you can make or bake? Share it with us at the potluck portion of the picnic!
Are you good at set up or clean up? We’ll need your hands and help!
Do you like to knit? Our knitters welcome you to join them on Wednesdays from 10-noon – if you don’t
know how, they will teach you!
Are you feeling called to learn and serve the Lakota people of Pine Ridge? Pray for our youth and their
chaperones who embark on their journey beginning June 27-July 4 and prayerfully consider going on the
adult mission trip October 3-10! Save the dates!
Can you cheer on a baseball team? Check out Immanuel team’s schedule! We invite you to a pizza night
with the team! Also, let us know if you would like to play! You’re invited also to sign up for the Chinooks
game and join your faith family in a fun outing!
(continued)
We at Immanuel ALWAYS invite you to consider the ways you may share your spiritual gifts! We invite you
to try something new – you never know what hidden talents may emerge! Please know you are so welcome to get involved in whatever captures your attention and imagination and to suggest new ideas for
ministries we may venture in together! Don’t forget to take Flat Jesus along for the trip!
Thank you for all the ways you serve all year – and please take a chance, and serve in a new way this summer!
May you be safe, healthy, happy and at ease, aware of the peace that passes understanding in Christ
Jesus that surrounds you always!
Happy Summer!!
Pastor Vicki
TAKE JESUS WITH YOU AND SHARE A LOVING KINDNESS
BLESSING ON YOUR TRAVELS THIS SUMMER.
HAPPY
SAFE
HEALTHY
May you be safe.
May you be happy.
May you be healthy.
May you live with ease in your
heart.
May you ever be aware of the
peace that passes understanding that surrounds you and is
always available to you, that is
Christ Jesus.
FINANCIAL SECRETARY’S REPORT
MAY 2015
MONTHLY BUDGET: $18,849.80
May 2015 Contributions:
Current Fund
Susan Endres
$ 10 Candelabra Fund
Roger Brandt
$ 40 New Library Chairs
Allen Haas
$ 25
$ 20
$ 10
$935
$990
$ 15,810.28
Misc. Funds
$
72.00
Plate
$
164.00
TOTA L
$
16,046.28
Kitchen Fund
Baseball Team
Altar Guild
New Library Chairs
TOTAL
Our giving in May of 2015 was as follows:
CURRENT
BENEVOLENCE
2013 (4)
$ 9,446.08
966.67
$ 10,412.75
2014 (4)
$ 11,233.23
1,076.77
$ 12,310.00
2015 (4)
$ 15,810.28
1,578.72
$ 17,389.00
Note: Number in brackets behind year indicates the number of Sundays or deposits
in that month. These figures include only contributions to the General & Benevolence Funds.
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
New chairs for the library (style and price to be determined)
Candelabras for the pews for use during special services
Two flat-screen TV’s to replace our current old sets.
Dish cloths and towels for the kitchen.
Two 60-cup coffee pots.
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
At Faith Lutheran Church
JULY 13—17
9—11:30 A.M.
Our theme for this year’s shared VBS for preschool through 5th grade with Advent and Faith is “Everest:
Conquering Challenges with God’s Mighty Power”. Cost is $5 per child. If you are interested in having
your child attend you can register online at www.faithimmanuelcedarburg.com
For additional information please contact Alisa Norquist from Faith at 262-376-0929 or
[email protected]
SUNDAY, JULY 19TH
9:00 A.M. — JOINT WORSHIP
FOLLOWED BY A PICNIC LUNCH
WITH OUR FRIENDS FROM INCARNATION
Please join us on Sunday, July 19th, when our
friends from Incarnation will be with us for worship with communion at a Traditional service and
our annual picnic.
We are hoping to have a presentation by their
youth dance group immediately following the service before lunch.
After the service we will have our picnic meal
with brats, hotdogs and burgers.
Everyone attending is asked to please bring a dish
to pass that would feed your family and a couple
extra people. This could include appetizers, salads, beans, fruit, veggies, or desserts.
And following the meal the kids will move outside to play games and the adults will get ready
for our rousing BINGO party.
If you have items that can be used for bingo
prizes, please bring them to church and leave
them in the office.
We are also looking for a family with middle school or high school-aged kids who would like to help with
the kids’ games. If you have ideas for games and would like to help please contact the office and we will
put you in touch with the coordinator from Incarnation.
IMMANUEL’S
For summer reading we have selected the book “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand.
We will resume Book Club on Thursday, September 3rd, at which time we
will discuss “Unbroken”. So enjoy your summer and happy reading!!
We tend to forget that HAPPINESS doesn’t come as a
result of getting something we DON’T HAVE, but rather
of recognizing & appreciating what we DO HAVE.
ILC MEN’S BREAKFAST CLUB
Come join us at 8:15 a.m. on Monday, July 6th, for the ILC Men’s
Breakfast Club when we will again meet at PJ Pipers right down
the block from the church.
All men are welcome to join us whenever they can!!
BIBLE STUDY HIATUS
Since summer is a busy travel season for a lot of people we will be
taking off the months of June, July and August from our regular Bible
study. Instead we will offer TUESDAY MORNING SOCIAL
GATHERING time, an informal coffee and socializing time from
9:30 to 10:30 a.m. on Tuesdays. Join us for that hour of unplanned
activities that could include board games, cards, dice, puzzles, etc. Bible texts will be
made available for previewing. It’ll be a “kick-back” summer with time allotted for socializing. See you there!!
Sat, July 4
Cedarburg’s Holiday Parade
Sun, July 19
Joint picnic with our friends from Incarnation here
at Immanuel
Thurs, July 23
PIZZA Party prior to 7:30 softball game
Sun, July 26
Chinook Baseball at Concordia University
Fri, July 31
Summer Sounds Bonfire in the Park
Fri, Aug. 21
Summer Sounds Bonfire in the Park
Sun, Sept. 13
Rally Sunday AND
Sat & Sun
Harvest Fest Parking Fund Raiser
Packer Party vs “DA” Bears
9:00 A.M. SUNDAYS
JULY 5TH
JULY 12TH
JULY 19TH
JULY 26TH
AUGUST 2ND
AUGUST 9TH
AUGUST 16TH
AUGUST 23RD
AUGUST 30TH
SEPTEMBER 6TH
TRADITIONAL
PRAISE
TRADITIONAL (Picnic with Incarnation)
PRAISE
TRADITIONAL
PRAISE
TRADITIONAL
PRAISE
TRADITIONAL
PRAISE
PLEASE POST FOR FUTURE REFERENCE DURING THE SUMMER.
PIZZA & SOFTBALL — THURSDAY, JULY 23RD
Please come and join us for our annual Softball Pizza Party on Thursday, July 23rd
starting at 6:00 p.m. This year we will start with pizza and then go watch our softball
team take on Crossroads at 7:30 p.m.
CHINOOK BASEBALL FAMILY EVENT
The Lakeshore Chinooks are a baseball team based in Mequon and the current defending champions of the Northwoods League, a collegiate summer
baseball league. Their games are played at Kapco Park at Concordia University.
Seats have been reserved for us for the 5:00 P.M. Sunday, July 26th game
when they play the Madison Mallards. A promotion for that day is a Ruffy Racing Minnow Mini Bobblehead for the first 1000 fans. A sign-up board is available in Memorial Hall.
SUMMER SOUNDS CONCERT BONFIRE
Our 2nd bonfire of the summer concert series will be held on Friday, July
31st featuring “GREEN RIVER ORDINANCE” with special guest Brett
Newski. Bring your lawn chairs or blankets, food for cooking over the fire
(s’mores makings will be provided), and refreshments of your choice.
Join us in our park behind the church for fellowship, fire, and music provided by the Summer Sounds Concerts.
Needed: Bread Bringers for
Praise Services
We need volunteers to bring an unsliced loaf of bread for our alternating Sunday Praise communion services. Please bring it to church anytime, date it and put it in the freezer in the
kitchen. A loaf can then be taken from the freezer each Friday for use on any given Sunday.
Thank you in advance.
If you would like to bring flowers for the altar or
have them delivered, please sign up on the bulletin board in memorial hall.
If you provide flowers and wish to have something noted in the bulletin please notify the office
by the Thursday before your Sunday.
Thanks for your help in this weekly mission.
Collection boxes are in Memorial Hall for
the following missions:
Milwaukee Homeless Veterans
Initiative
SHOEBOX RECYCLING
Family Sharing Food Pantry
Don’t Throw It Away
We are collecting, soup labels, can tabs, box
tops and milk tops. There are plastic buckets
located on the shelves in our library for these
items. There is also a red bin for collecting
greeting card pictures.
Thank you for your continued support of all
these worthwhile projects. The can tabs go to
The Ronald McDonald House, the box tops, labels, and milk tops go to our local schools and
the greeting card pictures to our local veterans.
RECYCLE YOUR CANS
AND
SUPPORT OUR YOUTH
PLEASE CONTINUE TO BRING ALUMINUM CANS
to our church garage for our recycling fundraiser.
We continue this project year-round.
THANK YOU!
to the following members celebrating
JULY birthdays:
7/01 Michael Dickmann 7/02 Lukas Hensel
7/02 Emma Larson
7/02 Tracy Johnson
7/03 Dennis Thusius
7/05 Art Filter
7/05 Bob Fischer
7/07 Emily Carpenter
7/07 Rick Kasten
7/07 Glenn Moegenburg
7/13 Rachel Balde
7/13 Erich Natzke
7/13 Jennifer Tucholka
7/13 Lyman Weber
7/13 Brady Rohde
7/14 Mackenzie Neumann
7/14 Delores Kasten
7/15 Fern Kannenberg
7/16 Ruth Theys
7/18 Marge Grasse
7/19 Sue Flanders
7/19 Coleen Steffen
7/20 Tyler Gallun
7/21 Ardell Guetzke
7/22 Ray Spatt
7/23 Darlene Schoessow
7/25 Gretel Pitre
7/25 Kayla Pitre
7/25 Owen Scibby
7/26 Nathan Bardwell
7/26 Jason Thusius
7/28 Franklin Krueger
7/31 Everett Bonk
7/31 Shirl Burmeister
(If your birthday or anniversary is omitted or
listed in the wrong month, please notify the
church office so we can correct our computer
records. Thank you.)
Greeting Card Rack in Library
We have 50¢ greeting cards
available to purchase.
We have also added a new
variety of cards to the rack
so stop in and take a look!
What a great way to brighten someone’s day, send
them a card. A thank you,
congratulations, or just
thinking of you. It’s so much
warmer than email.
to the following members celebrating
JULY anniversaries:
Steve & Terry Proefrock
Robert & Lorraine Schmitz
Frank & Nancy Hauck
Amilcar & Gretel Pitre
Ronald & Marian Brandt
July 1, 2006
July 4, 1959
July 10, 1976
July 14, 1990
July 20, 1968
David & Darla Valentine
July 20, 1968
Jason & Lauren Hoerchner
Bill & Gloria Bruce
Lynn & Marilyn Carpenter
Walter & Judy Hohner
July 20, 2013
July 23, 1966
July 23, 1983
July 25, 1959
And Happy 15th Anniversary to Pastor Vicki.
July 9th she will celebrate 15 years as an ordained pastor! Congratulations!!
Please remember these brothers and
sisters in Christ in your prayers, along
with others that we name in our hearts.
Jonathan Quick, Nancy Tucholka, Kathy Portz,
Bill Brandt, Art Filter, Ray Brandt, Vi Wittig,
Wally Grube, Dorothy Karrels, Sylvia Krueger,
Cindy Gill, Vera Anderw, Tonika Williams; Bishop Jeff Barrow and the Greater Milwaukee Synod, our partner churches - Incarnation, Faith,
Trinity, St. John/Lakefield & Advent.
Please notify our church office of names
for prayers.
JULY 2015
COMMUNION ASSISTANT SCHEDULE
LECTOR SCHEDULE
July 5th
9:00 am Ray Spatt
July 12th
9:00 am Emily Carpenter
July 19th
9:00 am
Sandy Stoffel
July 26th
9:00 am
Jen Wendorf
Please contact Gail Harvancik (262-377-5920)
If you would like to volunteer!
July 5th
9:00 am Ray & Linda Spatt
July 12th
9:00 am
Sheri Hoerchner &
Karen Anderson
July 19th
9:00 am
Coleen Steffen & Sandy Arndt
July 26th
9:00 am
Christa Hackert & Sylvia Fischer
Please contact Gail Harvancik at (262) 377-5920,
if you would like to volunteer!
HOSPITALITY MINISTERS
ALTAR SERVICE SCHEDULE
July 5th
9:00 am Karen Anderson
July 12th
9:00 am
July 19th
July 26th
9:00 am
9:00 am
NO COMMUNION
Diane Brandt
Christa Hackert
Please contact Linda Spatt at (262) 377-3005,
if you would like to volunteer!
July 5th
Anne Kitzerow
July 12th
Bob & Sylvia Fischer
July 19th
Roger & Jane Miller
July 26th
Miguel & Wendy Lopez
Please contact Bob Fischer at (262) 377-3556,
if you would like to volunteer!
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
1
10:00 AM Knitting
Group Meets
Thursday
2015
Friday
2
3
8:30 PM Softball vs
Unitarian No.
Sat.
4
HAPPY
FOURTH
OF JULY
5
6
9:00 AM Tradition- 5:30 PM TOPS
al Worship Service Meeting (Library)
w/Communion
7
8
9:30 AM Tues- 10:00 AM Knitting
day Morning
Group Meets
Social Gathering
9
10
11
7:30 PM Softball vs 1:00 PM
St. Francis
Chair Yoga
12
9:00 AM Alternative Fuel Praise
Band Service w/
Communion
13
9:00 AM VBS @
Faith thru July 17th
5:30 PM TOPS
Meeting (Library)
14
15
9:30 AM Tues- 10:00 AM Knitting
day Morning
Group Meets
Social Gathering
16
10:30 PM Softball
vs Trinity
17
18
19
20
5:30 PM TOPS
Meeting (Library)
21
22
9:30 AM Tues- 10:00 AM Knitting
day Morning
Group Meets
Social Gathering
23
24
6:00 PM Pizza in
the Park
7:30 PM Softball vs
Crossroads
25
26
27
9:00 AM Alterna- 5:30 PM TOPS
tive Fuel Praise
Meeting (Library)
Band Service w/
Communion
5:00 PM Chinook
Baseball @ Concordia University
28
29
9:30 AM Tues- 10:00 AM Knitting
day Morning
Group Meets
Social Gathering
30
31
6:30 PM Softball vs
1st Imm. Srs.
1
9:00 AM JOINT
Traditional Worship
Service w/
Communion w/
INCARNATION
Summer
Sounds
Bonfire in
the Park