Resurrection
Lutheran
Risen Son
October 2014
The Mission of Resurrection Lutheran Church is to promote Spiritual growth in Christ and service to all people.
Pastor Sue’s Message
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Ministries & Education
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Birthdays and
Anniversaries
2
Love INC
3
Worship Assistants
3
Change for Good
4
God’s Work; Our Hands
Book Group
4
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Care Corner
6
Out and About in God’s
World
7
Offering Progress Report
8
Sunday School Need
8
Food Pantry News
Person in the Pew
SPECIAL EVENTS
One Lutheran, One Jew,
One Hour
Tuesday Oct 2
KTOO 104.3
Southeast Cluster
October 17-19
Reformation Sunday
October 26
Visit from Bishop
November 22-23
By about the middle of August, the rumblings had begun in ELCA clergy
circles…do we still need to celebrate Reformation Sunday? If we do, HOW do we
celebrate it? Is it a big old party to celebrate how Lutherans get church right? Do
Lutherans get to do a victory lap---Lutherans 1, Catholics 0? Is “A Mighty Fortress
is Our God” blatant triumphalism or a cry of hope in God’s promise?
I love Reformation Sunday. I love it because it is a moment of history that
calls us into our future. It is not about old grievances and arguments, about who
was right and who was wrong. Reformation teaches us that the events of the past,
while they have indeed formed and shaped us, are of the past. We cannot change
them. We can only respond to them. How do we want to use those events that have
shaped and formed us to be God’s church today?
As a congregation, we are constantly re-forming. We are a different congregation each and every Sunday. Some move here, some move away. Some are
born, some die. Some travel, some visit. We are always being made new! So, it
seems especially appropriate to celebrate this Reformation Sunday by welcoming
new members. We’ll wear red, and celebrate the work of the Holy Spirit that leads,
guides, directs and empowers us. We’ll give full voice to “A Mighty Fortress,” a
hymn that breaks in to the chaos of our world with God’s fierce love and protection---not an invention of Martin Luther, but the confidence of Psalm 46—a psalm
that bids us to be still in the midst of trouble, in the midst of change, in the midst
of tumult and war---“Be still, and know that I am God.” Even as we sing with
faith and confidence, and the organ sounds, and bells ring---be still. Be changed.
Be made new.
Reformation Day is not about our past. It is about our future. Rejoice!
With joy,
Pastor Sue
REFORMATION SUNDAY
October 26 is Reformation Sunday. Wear red! We’ll also be welcoming new
members at that service, including Jared Campbell; Sonny and Sheryl Davis;
Maxine Yow; Chaya, Bailey and Ashlynn Israelson.
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October Ministries and Education
Sun—9:30 Worship with Communion
Sunday school after worship
Thursday—Book Group, October 16, 2-3pm, in
sun room
Monday—Adult Bible Study, 5:30pm
Thursday—Council, October 16, 6:30pm
Tuesday—Al-Anon from noon-1pm
Wednesday—Women’s Breakfast, 7am at the
Sandpiper. All women are invited to join in the
fellowship and Bible Study.
Saturday—Al-Anon from 10:30-noon
Third Sunday of the month is Food Pantry Sunday. Please bring food. Thank you for sharing!
Wednesday—Lutheran World Relief Quilters
meet from 9-3 to tie quilts, visit and eat lunch.
Wednesday—Bell Choir Rehearsal, 6:30-8pm
Fourth Sunday of the month Dan Kassner provides a sing along at the Pioneer Home at 6:00pm.
If you are interested in helping Dan please let the
church know.
Our prayer partner this month is Table of Grace, Bethel. Please keep them as well as
our bishops, Elizabeth Eaton of the ELCA; Shelley Wickstrom of the Alaska Synod;
and Terry Brandt of the Eastern North Dakota Synod in prayer. As always remember
RLC members and friends in prayer on their special days.
RLC October Birthdays and Anniversaries
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STEVEN PETERSON
11 TREVOR LARSEN
2
JACK CADIGAN
13 WILLIE LARSEN
5
MARGARET THORDERSON
15 FRANCES FIELD
5
JESSICA WRIGHT
15 GENEVIEVE SELVIG-BAKER
7
KELLY MAGEE
16 LUCY MERRELL
7
MARK NEYHART
19 CHRISTA HAGAN
8
BERNADETTE OSBORNE
26 SOPHIA OWEN
9
WENDY LARSEN
28 BETTE OLSON
9
JACOB MILLER
29 ADDISON FIELD
9
PETER NEYHART
29 KAREN MORGAN
10
KRISTIN CADIGAN MCADOO
31 ANGELA OWEN
10
CRAIG AND HOLLAND MCMULLEN
31
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HUGH WATTS
Confirmation schedule: 4:30-6:00 on October 2,9,16, and 30.
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OCTOBER 2014
Worship Assistants
Thank you to all who share their time and gifts to provide a rich worship service each Sunday. There are
many members who assist!
October 5
Worship Assistant: Randy Sutak
Reader of the Word: David Brabaw
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Power Point: Connie Olson
Altar Care: Marian Koelsch
October 12
Worship Assistant: Amanda Bay
Reader of the Word: Lorrie Garner
Power Point: Julie Neyhart
Altar Care: Kristin Wright
October 19
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Reader of the Word: Lucy Merrell
Power Point: Connie Olson
Altar Care: Mary Lou Peterson
October 26
Worship Assistant: Delores Graver
Reader of the Word: Delores Graver
Power Point: Julie Neyhart
Altar Care: Mary Lou Peterson
Love INC’s phone number: 780-4090
Our phone lines are open Mon. Wed. Fri. from 10am - 2pm
and Tues. evening from 7pm – 8:30pm. We thank God for the
way He meets the changing needs of this ministry through the
hands, gifts, time and service of HIS People! Thank You!
CURRENT NEEDS:
Furniture: Queen size box springs/bed frames, and dressers/chest of drawers
Kitchen: gently used silverware and pots/pans
Transitional Backpacks: Used adult size backpacks, fleece hoodies or sweatshirts in large sizes: XL, XXL
These backpacks are designed to assist those being released from jail by providing a few essential
items and resources to encourage a positive transition back into the community. We're working on
moving this ministry into a local church and need volunteers willing to work in this ministry to fill backpack orders. If you're interested in volunteering in this ministry, contact Marilyn 780-4090 ext.28 or email:
[email protected].
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Change for Good Update:
Check the directory board in the gathering area for a history of our
Change for Good projects!
In September we sent funds to Lutheran Disaster Relief to address the
ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Food Pantry News:
From September 1 through September 26, 296 families visited our food shelf,
collecting food for 1,069 people. Thank you for your continued support! Your
food donations help fill our shelves. Your monetary donations help RLC purchase
food from the Southeast Alaska Food Bank at 14 cents a pound and from Costco.
We thank God for his abundance! He has given us resources to help others put
food on their tables.
OCTOBER CHALLENGE
ONE LUTHERAN,
ONE JEW, ONE HOUR
Thursday, October 2, 7 pm
All who have ears, listen! Check out this radio forum
on KTOO 104.3 hosted by Pastor Sue and Rabbi Dov
Gartenberg.
Peter Neyhart will match up to 79 cans
of Spam donated to the food bank!!
GOD’S WORK, OUR HANDS
September 25-29
Thanks to all who made the trip to Wrangell to do God’s work with their
hands and the hands of people from Island of Faith and to all who were God’s hands here at home,
following David Brabaw’s lead in cleaning up the sanctuary, gathering area, downstairs and grounds.
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OCTOBER 2014
PERSON IN THE PEW
Hi, my name is Sunny Israelson. Although I have been a member of RLC for
twenty-five years, I have never written a “Person in the Pew” article. I was
not raised Lutheran, but rather Episcopalian. When I first came to Juneau I
attended Trinity Episcopal Church in downtown Juneau. I attended the Assembly of God here in Juneau for about twelve years. When we moved to
North Douglas I started looking for a church closer to home. I worked for
Alaska Airlines on Sundays and needed to be able to go to church with the
kids, get home, change into my uniform, and get to the airport by 12:30 P.M.
At the time, our youngest daughter Tekla was attending the RLC operated day care. I really liked the women
running the day care and decided to try RLC. It met the time-distance constraints, and I knew it was similar
to the Episcopal Liturgy, and Ted’s dad’s side of the family is Lutheran. They are very Norwegian.
Needless to say, we stayed. My children were all baptized and confirmed at RLC. They all played in the
children’s bell choir and two of them, Tara and Tyler, played in the adult bell choir. One of my best
memories is a Christmas Eve, (when I had family visiting) and Tara and Tyler played in the bell choir during
the midnight service. I was very proud. When we left the church after the service there were Northern
Lights in the sky.
I work on the RLC website all year, even when I am in Arizona for the winter. I love Pastor Sue’s Bible
Studies, and highly recommend anything she is teaching. I will miss these studies and her teaching.
However, I don’t just sit on my hands when I am gone. I have a church I attend there and work in that
church office every Thursday. They have many group Bible studies that meet in homes. I have already
signed up for a woman’s study of Galatians.
One thing you may not know about me is that my real name is Cheryl Lynn Israelson!
Sunny Israelson
Double Thanks to Loren Rasmussen!!
For providing a supply of
Boy Scout popcorn
sufficient to cover a year of
Popcorn in the Pew.
Thanks to Lucy
Merrell and Carrie
Joy Warren for their
work in coordinating the Cluster Rendezvous!
Housing, transportation and food are still
needed. If you can help, please contact Lucy or
Carrie Joy.
For taking photos to update
the directory board. October
photo dates are the 12th and
the 26th.
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We’re on the Web
www.rlcjuneau.com
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Popcorn in
the Pews!
October 25th
Children’s Feature at 4:30
Regular Feature at 6:30
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Southeast Cluster Rendezvous
@ RLC!
Bishop Shelley Wickstrom will open the
cluster sessions with a presentation on
Lutheran Identity on Friday, October 17
from 6:30-8 pm. Keith Mundy, Assistant
Director of Stewardship for the ELCA, has
been to 64 of the 65 synods of the ELCA--Juneau makes his journey complete! He will
present several sessions on Saturday on the
topic of stewardship. Sessions begin at 9:00
am, 10:45 am, 12:30 pm, and 2:00 pm. All
are invited to participate!
Book Group
The October meeting of the book
group will be on Thursday the 16th at
2pm in the sun room. This month’s
selection is One Summer: America,
1927 by Bill Bryson.
According to Neal Thompson's
review Bryson sets out to document the “most extraordinary summer” of 1927. One Summer offers a new look at a
transitional period in history, re-introducing us to such
characters as Charles Lindbergh, Babe Ruth, Al Capone,
Jack Dempsey, Al Jolson, Charles Ponzi, and Herbert Hoover. This is a book about the moment when important
things, for good or ill, began happening in the United
States.
You are welcome to join. Come read and discuss or just
come to listen!!
CARE CORNER
SE Cluster—Volunteers
Needed
Stay in Touch
Nancy Hixson, 800 F Street Apt. P4, Juneau, Alaska
99801.
RLC will be hosting the SE Cluster Fall
Rendezvous October 17-19. Volunteers are
needed.
Dan Squires, 5993 N. Street, Juneau, AK 99801
Nancy and Mike McMullen, P.O. Box 240587, Douglas, AK 99824-0587 .
Janet Routsala, Wildflower Court, 2000 Salmon Creek
Lane, Juneau AK 99801
Ready to help with food, housing or transportation? Then contact Carrie Joy Warren or Lucy
Merrell.
Ed Nygard and Emma Houston, Juneau Pioneers’
Home, 4675 Glacier Highway, Juneau AK 99801
Ted Merrell,3240 Fritz Cove Road, Juneau AK 99801
Elaine Vuille, PO Box 20345, Juneau AK 99802-0345
Brenda Krauss and Teddy, % Sharon May, 8039 43rd
Ave. NE, Seattle, WA 98115
Marge Schmeige, 1800 Evergreen Ave, Juneau, AK
99801-1424
Proof of the many talents of David Brabaw from projectionist in church to . . . yes, AAA
road assistance. (Priced better, too!) The tire,
which only appears flat on one side, is attached
to Carrie Joy Warren’s Wagon.
Pastor Sue will be in Anchorage October 20-23 for
Clergy Collegium presentations on stewardship and
boundaries training.
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OCTOBER 2014
OUT AND ABOUT IN GOD’S WORLD
The snow birds are leaving, the snowbirds are leaving!
Dot and Jim Wilson have already bailed out, taking their RV on a long and circuitous journey from Seattle to
Jim’s hometown of Jackman Maine. Now many of you are unaware of the thriving metropolis of Jackman,
located a rock throw from the Canadian Border. Last census the burgeoning population topped out at 862! If
anyone is interested in a winter vacation in Northern Maine, there are two outfits that rent cabins there –
probably good prices, but you’d have to provide your own snowshoes to access them.
Heading toward warmer climes is Sunny Israelson on 27 September. Bring your bikini, Sunny, as here it is
mid-September and current temp there is 99 degrees Fahrenheit! A bit larger than Jackman, Buckeye boasts
a population near double of Juneau, and is a scant 35 miles from Phoenix. Sunny plans to study about Galatians while there. That way when our RLC bible study group covers Galatians, Sunny will have all the answers.
Bob and Loretta Mosley are Texas bound. I don’t say down south, as Texans all identify as “Westerners” not
“Southerners.”
Liv and I, along with daughter Tanja bail out on 12 October, travelling first to Hingham (south of Boston) to
visit our shut-in sister-in-law. Thence Liv and daughter Kristin will fly to Russia on a buying trip, after
which Kristin flies home and Liv meets me at the little place in Stuart FL her uncle left her (about 20 miles
north of West Palm Beach). The only thing comparable to typical houses in West Palm Beach is that we also
have indoor plumbing. Have to brag- grand-daughter Adele (Hagevig) made 8th grade Honor Roll with 4.0
average despite the challenges of Algebra I.
Joy Baker recently left for Kodiak to attend a three day convention of the Pioneers. (I didn't think she was
old enough to qualify! Maybe she's a gate-crasher.)
From there she is off to Vancouver BC to board a ship westbound to Hula-land with a High School class reunion. (She says it is a 57 reunion - so whether it is 57th or 1957, the math is the same!)
After returning she will visit that frequent home-away-from-home of many RLC folk (Virginia Mason) for a
couple days of fun and games there, with a drive in her RV south to California to Shana’s place before coming home.
Have fun, Joy!
Allison Hagevig and Leah Neyhart were seen running in September middle school cross country meets, and
football fans saw Taylor Sutak on the gridiron for Juneau Douglas High School.
Please submit “stuff” for sharing to Jack Cadigan at [email protected]
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2014
CURRENT OFFERING
PROGRESS REPORT
RLC COUNCIL
Adam Garner, President
Karen Lawfer, Vice President
Amanda Bay, Secretary
Mike McMullen, Treasurer
Andrew Keeffe
Lucy Merrell
JUNE
NEEDED: $21,267
YTD: $112,831
RECEIVED: $21,924
YTD: $113,867
Bob Mosley
Connie Olson
Dan Squires
Kristin Cadigan McAdoo
JULY
Pastor Sue Bahleda
NEEDED: $17,052
YTD: $129,883
RECEIVED: $14,574
YTD: $128,441
PLEASE KEEP THEM IN YOUR
PRAYERS
Another Web Site
Challenge
AUGUST
Go to rlcjuneau.com and find the
answers to these questions:
NEEDED: $16,165
RECEIVED: $14,261
YTD: $146,048
What is the date for the upcoming
2015 Glacier Bible Camp?
YTD: $142,702
What scripture does our website
suggest you check if you have
“Had a Crummy Day?”
From what university did Mary
Mukii Ngumbi graduate?
To enter the drawing for a prize
(new prize source) send your answers to [email protected] no later
than Saturday, October 11.
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Needed for Sunday School
If you are traveling out of Juneau and are willing to shop for some
specialized legos, please contact Amanda Bay. She has funds, but is
unable to find the particular pieces she needs in town!.
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Resurrection Lutheran Church
740 West 10th Street
Juneau, AK 99801
Non Profit Organization
Us Postage Paid
Juneau, AK 99801
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Office Phone: (907)586-2380
RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED
We’re on the Web
www.rlcjuneau.com
Pastor: Pastor Suellen Bahleda
M-W 9-12, Th 1-5, Sat 9-12
Worship: Sunday 9:30
with Communion
Secretary: Penny Stevens
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Food Pantry M,W,F 1:30-3:30
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