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The
Open
WorshipService
9:30 a.m.
Interim Pastor
Roger Giese
Phone
(419) 396-7360
Secretary
Nikki O'Dell
Church E-Mail [email protected]
Church Phone
(419) 894-6330
Office Hours
8:00 -1:00
(Monday-Friday)
Church Website
www.arcadialutheran.com
Church Facebook Page
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WHAT DOES "CHURCH" MEAN?
The word "church" comes from a Greek word ecclesia which means "to be gathered." In
the Roman Empire, citizens would be called out of the community to gather at town meeting and
to make laws regulating community life. Those who did not gather were not part of the ecclesia
and were not fulfilling their duties as a citizen. The early Church adopted this word to describe
what they did as people, gather each day around Word and Sacrament. So, in like manner, on
Sunday we are the Church because we are called out of our communities and gather together.
The Church also uses a Latin word to describe itself. It is a word made of two parts: con,
which means ''together'' and gregare, which means ''to collect as a flock" or ''to gather." So,
whether we are using the Latin or the Greek, the essential part of being the church is to gather
together.
Times have changed since then, and although we are still the church when we are in our
individual homes, we are most visibly and authentically the church when we gather together
around Word and Sacrament. It is there and only there that we meet our Lord Jesus, hear His
words, and receive him in, with, and under the bread and wine of Holy Communion.
For health reasons, I know that many cannot make it to church every Sunday in spite of
their desire to be here. So I'm hoping that having the worship service available on our website
will make it possible for these people to gather with us if only in their imagination, and our
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Eucharistic Ministers bring the Sacrament to them from the altar as another way of having them
"gather" with us, in reality through the bread and wine and in their imaginations.
Perhaps the Holy Spirit has led the church in this direction because God knows that, as a
people, we need the fellowship, the encouragement, and the community that is provided in our
being together, in our gathering together.
There is another reason why it is important to gather as a community, and that is to be a
witness to those around us. We give witness to the importance of our Lord Jesus in our lives by
getting up out of bed, driving or walking to our gathering every Sunday morning in His worship.
Be the church! Go to church! See you there!
Helen Brown
300 W. Peters St.
Arcadia, OH 44804
419-894-6186
Ken Fox
20699 TR218
Fostoria, OH 44830
419-894-6508
KateOgg
Countryside Continuing Care
1865 Countryside Dr.
Fremont, OH 43420'
567-208-5360
Carol Reddick
The Grand Court
600 Fox Run Rd.
Apt. CC12
Findlay,OH 45840
419-422-1256
Helen Snyder
461 W. Lytle St., Lot #7
Fostoria, OH 44830
419-435-0985
Carolyn Etzinger
354 W. Center St.
Fostoria, OH 44830
419-435-5628
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If you have a few minutes during the month, please consider
these special people and drop them a card so
they know that we are thinking of them!
If you plan to visit any of these folks, please give those
living in their homes a phone call before
your visit to let them know to expect you.
Margaret Taylor
The Heritage
2820 Greenacre Dr.
Findlay, OH 45840
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August is" Council
Meeting Minutes
Present: Trent Beamer, Ray Beck, Audra Deuble, Barb
Ebersole, Jon Fleegle, Kendra Holman, Carol
McDonald, Eric Metcalfe, Bruce Myers and Pastor
Giese; also in attendance: Marla Roller and Nikki
O'Dell
Devotions: Given by Trent.
Minutes:
The June Minutes were reviewed and
approved with no changes.
TreaSurer's Report: The Treasurer's Reports for June
and July were reviewed and approved with no
corrections.
Pastor's Report: Pastor Giese's report included his
activities for July. He reported: 2 Sermons/Worship
Services; I Homebound Call; 2 Hospital Calls; 2
Member Visits; 2 Conference/Synod Meetings; 1 Visit
to Day Care.
Committee Reports:
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Youtb: Audra reported that the Youth are looking
for service project suggestions.
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Christian Education/Leaming: Highlights of their
July 16 and August 11 meetings are:
It was decided to continue to have the little ones
leave for class after the children's sermon as we
get the most attendance this way. Melinda will
continue to do this class with Patti and
Katyann/Ann.
- Only one class will be offered for the lower
grades after church services. Sue and Kendra
will teach this class.
Carolyn will be teaching the Conftrmation Class
again this year.
- Jacinda will teach the high schoolers.
- It was decided to have intergenerational Sundays
once a month. Each committee member will
take a turn being "in charge."
The following dates/activities were set: Sept. 7m
Rally Day - School Kits will be put together;
October - A name will be drawn out of a
pumpkin and family "adopts" them and takes a
decorated pumpkin and some goodies;
November - Share Advent story and decorate
church.
- A director for the summer 2015 Bible School is
being sought.
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The theme for 2014/2015 comes from Psalms
17:8, "Keep me as the apple of your eye."
Children will play bells once a month.
Details of the September, October, November &
December intergenerational activities were
planned.
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Property: Trent reported that the air conditioning in
the Day Care area has been fixed; also that a fan on
the Fellowship Hall side of the air conditioning unit
is out and needs to be replaced.
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Finance: Eric reported the current balance in the
Endowment Fund.
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Worship:
Minutes for the July 28m Music &
Worship Committee included:
Old Business:
- Order of St. John & Order of Ruth - Nothing to
report.
Summer Joint Service - Scheduled for August 3rd
with the Methodist Church; Oasis will be
providing the music as they did last year. Karen
Roth placed signs at the Restaurant and the
Superette inviting the community (also possibly
placed at the Methodist Church and ours as well).
Lutherans will provide table service for those that
forget to bring theirs. Don Moses will do the
setup at the Park.
Discussion
about
Hymn
Singing
by
CongregationlUshers - Ushers are moving people
forward; still struggling with the offering pattern
the ushers are to follow (center to get plates and
go down center aisle; go down side aisles and
then back to the back center to wait for the
Offertory to bring the plates forward).
Piano Tuning - Neal Deniston has tuned the
pianos.
New Business:
- Assistant Ministers - Bruce Myers and Mike
Mock have both agreed to come back as assistant
ministers; Nikki will do the scheduling.
- New Lectors - Mike Mock, Bruce Myers, Audra
Deuble, Teresa Margraf and Jim Hitchings
(summer only) have agreed to be added to this
group.
- Window Candles - Bruce Myers has been
constructing sets of candle holders for the
sanctuary windows to be used with batteryoperated candles year-round (with the exception
of Christmas Eve when we will use the traditional
candles); Kris will put the candles back in the
holders on the north side of the sanctuary.
- Children's ChoirlBells - The children will be
ringing bells andlor singing once a month as was
requested by Kendra Holman; the Pastor will
decide where to put them in the service when
they sing/ring during a regular Sunday
choirlhandbell anthem.
It will need to be
somewhere other than during the offering for
those Sundays.
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EV8ngelism/Witness: Ray thanked Barb Ebersole
for making new church flyers on behalf of the
committee; he also reported that they are thinking
about doing something for trick-or-treat.
Day Care Board: Jon reported that the enrollment
is at 41; the next fundraiser will be the Football Pool
for the OSUlMichigan game; and that the
playground parts have now been replaced, but some
other issues have been found.
Call Committee:
Audra reported that the
Committee has had a second interview with a
potential candidate, but after that interview did not
feel the candidate was a good fit for our
congregation; we won't have additional names until
the middle/end of September. If anyone has
questions or concerns, please feel free to ask a
committee member about it/them.
Communications:
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A letter was received from Pastor Bliss regarding a
Stephen Ministry Workshop that will be held at his
church in Bucyrus on Saturday, September 20th•
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Religious Ed. Bus Monitors - Looking for new
people to help with this ministry (Trinity has this
responsibility for 2 months of the school year).
"Open Door" - Some discussion was given to
discontinuing our mailings since it is posted on our website and there would be copies available for
pickup in the Narthex. It was felt that we should
continue on as we have been doing for now.
Thank-You Suggestions;
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Bea Waaland - For serving as our Religious Ed
Monitor for several years
Sheryl Bumgardner - For all the things she does
Meeting was closed with prayer around the Altar.
Next Meeting; September 16th at 7:00 p.m.
Devotions: Bruce Myers
Submitted by:
Audra Deuble, Secretary
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Blessing!
Recent Thank
You Notes
Old Business:
Dear Trinity Family,
•
Thank you for the cards and well wishes we received
for our 50th Anniversary. The Altar Flowers were
beautiful.
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Good Hope Lutheran of Arlington will be
celebrating Reformation Sunday, along with the 25th
year anniversary of their pipe organ, on October 26,
2014. All are welcome to attend.
Joint gathering with North Baltimore & McComb
Lutheran Churches on September 21st, from 4-6pm,
here at Trinity - There will be intros, food, mixing
games, etc. Council Members were urged to attend.
Carpet Estimates - Tabled until next month.
Banking - Some thought has been given to possibly
moving our financial accounts to another institution,
but the current thinking of the Finance Committee is
to stay with Huntington.
New Business;
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New people are being sought to run for Council; if
anyone is interested, please see Kendra or Audra.
Current Noisy Offerings - Are going to the "Feed
Our Kids" program. It was suggested that the Noisy
Offerings for the next quarter go to a Miscellaneous
Council Fund.
Rally Day - Will be on September 7th and School
Kits will be put together.
The Evangelism
Committee will provide treats.
Mike & Nancy Curtis
Thank you so much for your time and energy in
preparing the dinner in Pat Rader's honor.
Pat Rader's Family
A big THANK YOU to Bea Waaland for being our
Religious Ed. volunteer for the past 9 years. To keep
this very important program going, Trinity is responsible
for supplying a bus monitorlhelper every Friday morning
for the months of November and March. That's only 7
Fridays total!! The duty entails helping Arcadia students
on and off the bus as they are transported over to our
Fellowship Hall for Bible Story Telling. If you are
interested in helping out in any way, please contact
Kendra Holman at 419-894-6539. It would be ideal if
we could get two or three volunteers to share in this.
Thank you!
We offer our congratulations
to Jenna & Travis Bohn who
were joined in marriage here
at Trinity on Saturday, August
9th• We pray that God will
bless their marriage with much
happiness.
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Coming Soon!
September
Congratulations to...
... Ridge & Leslie Lewis
on the birth of their baby
girl, Nora Lynn. Nora
was born on July 25th,
was 21 inches long and weighed 8 Ibs. 9 oz.
Grandparents are Brad & Karla Lewis and greatgrandparents are Gene & Nancy Lewis and Karl & Gert
Gingrich.
... Josh Herod & AUie Wesson on the birth of their
daughter, Dakota Lynn Herod, born on June 29th and
weighing 6 lbs. 14 oz. Janet & Cecil Herod and her inchurch grandparents and Bill & Sharon Craig and her
great-grandparents.
7th
Mark your calendars!
Will be packing School Kits
First day for Sunday School Classes
is September 14th
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Please mark your calendar for our Fall Bazaar on
Saturday, October 18th, and also our apple-dumpling
making date ... Tuesday, October
at 9 o'clock.
Helpers can bring your lunch if you want. Last year
we made 350 dumplings and we were fmished at
about 1 o'clock.
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Dorcas Bible Study
Dorcas Bible Study will be
held on Tuesday, September
2nd, with Le Jean Ford being
the leader and hostess at Trinity Lutheran Church at 9:30
a.m. We will be using the June lesson in "The Gather"
since we did not meet in the summertime. Then the next
three months we will use the lessons from July, August
and September books. Hope to see you there!
Sandy & Gary Franks
15703 Mahogany Trail
Findlay, OH 45840
Phone: 419-345-1036
Shauna & Trent Pessell
101 TR 254
Arcadia, OH 44804
Phone: 419-894-6183
... Audie & Carol McDonald
and Family on the death of
Audie's mother, Mary "Lucy" McDonald, who
passed away on July 26th•
... Max Rader and Family on the death of Pat Rader.
Pat passed away on July 28th•
... Linda Schwepe and Family on the death of her
husband, John, who passed away on August 16th• His
funeral was held here at Trinity on August zo".
!May tlie love of friendS comfort you;
5l1ay tlie love of qOdgive you peace.
Confirmation
Class
Confirmation Class will be starting in September.
Please contact the Church Office if any
7th grader or older is interested
in Confirmation.
Hope Bible
Volunteers Needed!
Area churches provide adult
supervision for students traveling
from Arcadia School to our church for Friday Religious
Education Classes. Trinity Lutheran is responsible for
the months of November and March. This could be
rotated by 2,3,4 or more willing people. Please contact
Kendra Holman if you are interested. Bea Waaland has
served in the past as our representative to this ministry.
Thanks for your dedication, Bea!
Study
Beginning Thursday, September 18, Hope
Circle will again be meeting the third Thursday
of every month at 7 o'clock at the church. We
will be reading and discussing Sensible Shoes A St0O' About the Spiritual Journey, by author
Sharon Garlough Brown.
This book can be bought or ordered through
the Christian Book Store in Findlay or bought on
line. This book promises to take you on an
incredible adventure in your relationship with the
Lord.
If you plan on joining in and/or have any
questions, please contact Chris Thornton at 419889-5758 or DThom [email protected].
In the last several years I have been collecting
pillowcases and assorted trims and giving them to Sheryl
Beeson, Jim and Pat Beeson's daughter-in-law, who
makes them into cute little dresses for mission. I think
she has made hundreds now, along with others who have
joined in this mission. She has shared this picture
(below) of some of them. I believe that colored and
print pillowcases make the really pretty dresses; if
anyone has these to donate, bring them on in.
Sheryl works for HATS and I drop stuff off to her
there. She has thanked me so many times for all our
help and I hope we can continue to supply her with
"goodies."
Sharon
is",
...Travis & Jenna Bohn on their marriage on August
The church was full of family and friends to share this
day with them .
...Everyone who helped make the combined outdoor
worship service such a successon August 3'd. I actually
managed to sneak in to the luncheon and pack up some
goodies for my pantry!
Hi to All,
Onions to ...
As a Christian, I count my blessings every day ...well ok,
most every day!
There are so many things to be
thankful for that I never run out of blessings.
I'm
...The no-show greeters on Sundays; your job is very
important.
blessed to be a church mouse. Yes, you read that right.
As the church mouse, I have many privileges. I don't
have far to go on Sunday mornings; I enjoy seeing all of
you on Sundays;and, if I'm lucky, I get to see you during
the week as well; and I get plenty to eat after fellowship
each week. We really do have good cooks here! I also
can count on the same blessings as you humans do,
such as watching a beautiful sunrise or sunset. I know
the early bird gets the worm, but who wants worms?
How can you ignore the beauty of a rainbow or the
fascination of the moon and stars that fill the night sky?
I think you get my point that a thankful heart makes for
a happier life. Yes, I do need to be reminded of this
occasionally, the same as all of you.
Latest news reports are that five terrorist cell groups
have been operating in many of our churches. They
have been identified as: Bin Sleepin, Bin Arguin, Bin
Fightin, Bin Complainin, and Bin Missin. Their leader,
Lucifer Bin Workin, trained these groups to destroy the
Body of Christ. The plan is to come into the church
disguised as Christians and to work within the church to
discourage, disrupt, and destroy.
However, there have been reports of a sixth group. A
tiny cell known by the name Bin Prayin is actually the
only effective counter-terrorism force in the church.
Unlike other terrorist cells, the Bin Prayin team does not
blend in with whoever and whatever comes along.
Bin Prayin does whatever is needed to uplift and
encourage the Body of Christ. We have noticed that the
Bin Prayin cell group has different characteristics than
the others. They have Bin Watchin, Bin Waitin, Bin
Fastin, and Bin Longin for their Master, JesusChrist, to
return.
Stop and give me a high-five in passing and may God
bless us all.
Love,
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RecipeNo.9
Potluck Potatoes
From Karla Giese
2 pounds shredded hash browns (completelythawed)
'i4 cup melted margarine
1 teaspoon salt
Y:z teaspoon pepper
'i4 cup diced onion
1 (1531.ounce)can condensed cream of mushroom soup
2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese
1 pint dairy sour cream
For topping:
2 cups lightly crushed French fried onion rings (seenote)
Y:z cup melted margarine
In a 3-quart oven-proof casserole, mix together hash
browns, margarine, salt, pepper, onion, soup, cheese and
sour cream.
For topping, mix together crushed French fried onion
rings and margarine. Put topping mixture on top of hash
brown mixture. Bake uncovered in .a preheated 350degree oven 45 minutes.
Yield: 6 to 8 servings
Note: You can substitute 2 cups crushed com flakes
for the French fried onion rings.
NO CHURCHIS EXEMPT! (However, you can spot them
if you bin lookin and bin goin.) Did you know love is a
fruit in season at all times and within the reach of every
hand?
Orchids to ...
Chocolate Frosting