Sunday Morning Adult Educa on 9:50‐10‐35 in the Fellowship Hall TODAY: Sharing Our Stories As part of our ongoing efforts to hear from one another about the ways that we experience and know God two Gethsemane members will be with us to share their faith stories. Kirsten Eickenberg will share how her faith recently led to a personal transformation and Tim Bates will share how his recent work in the Philippines has shaped his faith and life. November 2: Don’t miss this special All Saints Day Adult Forum! Paul Mckenzie, Director of Music and Fine Arts will present Music for the End Times: Catholic Requiem/ Protestant Cantata. We will examine the musical traditions of the Requiem Mass and the Protestant Chorale based Cantata. Featured music will be the Faure Requiem and the Telemann Jesu, Joyous Treasure. Men’s Ministry Breakfast: How to Read the Bible Tuesday, Nov 4, 7:00 AM in Fellowship Hall The next Men’s Ministry Breakfast is Tuesday, November 4 at 7:00 am in the Fellowship Hall. The speaker is Karoline Lewis, a scholar, teacher and writer. Karoline thinks the future of homiletics is biblical preaching and being able to interpret biblical texts into the lives of congregations so that the text becomes the shaping, forming, living word of God that it’s meant to be. The sermon needs to be the very living presence of Jesus and God for us. A hot breakfast is served with an $8.00 contribution requested. Sign up on the blue sheet in your bulletin if you plan to attend. ALL are welcome! View the current Calendar of Events at glconline.org Sunday, 26 October 8:45 AM Contemporary Worship 9:45 AM Adult Education Sunday School 10:45 AM Traditional Worship and Rite of Confirmation 12:00 PM New Member Class Art Committee Monday, 27 October 9:00 AM Fitness Group 5:30 PM Stewardship Team 6:30 PM Hymnus rehearsal Cub Scouts 7:00 PM 33 The Series 7:30 PM Gamblers Anonymous Tuesday, 28 October 11:00 AM CIP Cooking Class 1:00 PM Staff Meeting 6:30 PM Men's Bible Study Social Ministry Team 7:00 PM Mainstreet School of Performing Arts Concert Technology Team Wednesday, 29 October 9:00 AM Quilting 5:30 PM Congregation Meal YOUth Choir Youth Bells 6:00 PM Contemporary Band 6:15 PM Children's Choir 6:20 PM Voices of Praise 6:30 PM Confirmation 7:45 PM Sr. Choir Thursday, 30 October 10:00 AM "Behold!" Bible Study 4:00 PM After School Kids (ASK) 5:00 PM Children's Bells Telecare 6:00 PM Jubilation Ringers Friday, 31 October 9:30 AM La Amistad Sunday, 02 November Daylight Savings time ends 8:45 AM Contemporary Worship 9:45 AM 3-year-olds Stepping Stones event Adult Education Sunday School 10:45 AM Traditional Worship 12:00 PM Early Communion Class El Salvador Trip informational meeting Week of October 26, 2014 It’s Last Sunday Sign‐up for 4th Saturday and PSP Each month we need 25 volunteers to feed the hungry and food insecure in our area. That’s 15 opportunities to volunteer for the 4th Saturday Café breakfast in Fellowship Hall AND 10 opportunities to volunteer for serving supper on the 2nd or 3rd Sunday at People Serving People shelter for homeless families in Minneapolis. On the last Sunday of each month there will be a table in the Gathering Space for information and signing-up. Please stop by after worship today to check it out and sign-up to serve. Warm Wear Collec on Ending A congregational meal is served on Wednesdays from 5:30-6:30 pm. All are welcome. A $3/person donation is requested. Wreath Sale Today The tradition continues. Wreaths are again being sold at church this year to support the 9th grade trip to Montana, backpacking with Flathead Lutheran Bible Camp. Christmas season is just around the corner, so remember to get your order in. Wreath orders will be taken today and next Sunday. Look for the official order display and youth in the Gathering Space. Garland, swags, spruce tops and 4 sizes of wreaths will be sold, and will be available for pick-up beginning Sunday, November 23. Thanks for your support! Hopkins, MN Violin needed A student who is a part of Gethsemane’s music lesson program, Band Together, needs a violin to continue lessons with Gayle Thomas this school year. If you have a violin sitting in a closet and not being used, and you would let a 12-year-old use it for this school year, call Director of Music, Paul McKenzie at 952 935-1753 x113 or e-mail [email protected]. Our October collection of new or gently used winter jackets, snow pants, boots and NEW hats and mittens/gloves for the Winter Warm Wear Drive at ResourceWest will end on Friday. If you’ve forgotten to bring your donations, please do so by then. Throughout the winter, schools will refer children who lack warm clothing to ResourceWest. Today you can also make a monetary donation by using the pew envelope and marking it for Need of the Month, with checks made to Gethsemane and “Warm Wear” on the memo line. Discovering God’s Blessings: A Year of Deep Listening What are you most grateful for? Write a short note about what you are most grateful for - email it to us, post it on our Facebook page or upload a picture, Tweet it on the youth Twitter account, or yes, you can write it on your blue worship sign-in sheet. We want to hear from you and hear how God has blessed you! Look What I Can Do! Welcome to Gethsemane Our 10th More-or-less annual Gethsemane Talent Show Youth Fundraiser will be hosted on the big stage at Eisenhower, and we need your talent! If you are visiting today and looking for a new church home we invite you to pick up a Visitor Packet in the gathering space. Elevators are located by the north and south entrances. Large Print Bulletins & Hearing Enhancement Units for use during worship are available from the ushers. The Nursery is available during worship. Changing stations are in the nursery and downstairs restrooms. We invite you to sign in and include your Prayer Concerns on the blue sheet in your bulletin and place them in the offering plate. Concerns are kept confidential if requested. All ages are invited to sign up their act and offer it for our show on Sunday, November 9, which runs from 4:30 – 6:00 pm, to help us raise money for next summer’s youth trips. If you’re not sure whether your abilities can be appreciated on stage, ask the Youth Guy. (He knows how to put on a show, and how to put you in it!) A number of briefly-entertaining skills will be videotaped ahead of time to be screened that night (for those of you who get stage fright or have an act involving dangerous animals, skateboards or speeds in excess of 100 mph...) There is a sign-up sheet on the bulletin board by the kitchen. Sign up soon so you can arrange an audition (or filming) by November 1! Questions? Contact Bob at 935-1753 x114 or [email protected] Volunteers, dona ons needed for Scandinavian Fair Social Ministry Team Mee ng on Tuesday The Social Ministry Team will have one of its four yearly meetings on Tuesday, October 28 from 6:30-8:00 pm in the Gallery. New participants and new ideas are always welcomed. You’re invited to come and check out what’s going on. This year’s Scandinavian Fair is Friday, Nov 14 from 4:30-8 pm and Saturday, Nov 15 from 10 am to 2 pm. Lots of volunteers are needed to help in a variety of ways. Sign up on the blue sheet in your bulletin or contact Brenda Eckes at 612-345-5725 or [email protected]. We also need your donations: Informa onal Mee ng for El Salvador Mission Trip Join us at noon on Sunday, November 2 in the Fireside Gallery for an informational meeting about this summer’s trip to El Salvador. The trip is July 8-18, 2015 and will be approximately $1,500. For more information and a preliminary itinerary please make plans to attend the meeting. Initial deposit is due November 16. This is an intergenerational mission trip that is available for anyone who has completed their junior year of high school. Gently-used items for our Nearly New Shop (see below) Brown paper bags Hand-crafted items for the Boutique Baked goods and sweets for the Bakery and Sweet Shoppe Early Communion Class Sunday, Nov 2 at 12:00 pm We are offering communion instruction for all children who wish to begin receiving the sacrament. We will begin with a meal and proceed through a series of active learning exercises to teach the basic concepts of communion. Each family will be sent home with a parent and child workbook to review on their own. If your child has further questions we invite you to visit with one of the pastors again; otherwise your child will be invited to then begin receiving communion at any time. Sign up on the blue sheet in your bulletin or contact Pastor John at [email protected] or 952-935-1753. Thanksgiving Dinner Sign‐up Begins Next Sunday Our 18th Annual Community Dinner is on Thanksgiving Day at 1 p.m. in Fellowship Hall. It takes the support of many, many people to make this happen. Beginning next Sunday, look for sign-up areas to volunteer for providing food, roasting turkeys and/or helping at the dinner. And it’s not too early to register to attend. Just call the church office during business hours. Author comes to Gethsemane On November 18 at 7 pm everyone is invited to “A Visit with William Kent Krueger.” The best-selling local author will focus on his novel Ordinary Grace. While reading the book is suggested, it’s not required in order to attend. This special event is open to men, women, neighbors and friends. Invite others to join you for what is sure to be a very interesting hour. Book signing and sale will follow. Dona ons accepted for Ebola crisis Nearly New Shop accep ng dona ons We are taking donations of your gently-used household items, knick-knacks, items you bought and never used, books, linens, etc. Donations may be left downstairs by the kitchen or you may deliver them as we set up the fair. We cannot take appliances, large furniture items, or clothing, but your other items are more than welcome. Proceeds go with the rest of the fair profits to fund mission work. Lutheran World Relief is working with local partners in West Africa to address the Ebola crisis. If you would like to contribute toward this effort, you can make a donation using the pew envelopes. Write your check to Gethsemane, and indicate “Lutheran World Relief” on the memo line. Remember Gethsemane Memorial Foundation in your will or estate planning.
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