Thank You For Serving  September 25, 2005

Accompanist:                                         Lay Assisting Minister:

 8:45    Cheryl Broostin                              8:45    Marilyn Nelson

11:00   Contemporary Worship Team         11:00   Chris Scherff

Greeters:                                               Lector:

 8:45    Bea Lea/Wayne Carlson                           Karen Larson

11:00   Tim/Alicia Blank                            Nursery:

Ushers:                                                  8:45     Dave/Peter Landrus

8:45                                                         11:00   Karen Larson

11:00                                                                   Karen Olson

Coffee Host:                                          Choir Director:

           Dave/Nellie Landrus                                 Lorna Schultz

Guest Preacher: Sarah Pennewell                     

Meals on Wheels drivers for September 29 are Susanne June/Fong Lee and Andy & Lillian Moris.

Serving Sunday Oct.2, 2005

Accompanist:                                         Lay Assisting Minister:

 8:45    Mary Ann Nelson                                    

11:00   Contemporary Worship Team                  

Greeters:                                               Lector:

 8:45    Karen Larson/Virginia Cahow                   Nellie Landrus

11:00   Bea Laubach                                 Communion Helpers:

Ushers:                                                  8:45     Dorri Olson

 8:45                                                                    Peter Landrus

11:00                                                                  Lorna Schultz

Nursery:                                                           Fong Lee

 8:45    Bob/Tami Kinney                           11:00   Sally Kline

11:00   Tony Houfek/Chanen Hanson                   Elise MacKenzie

Coffee Host:                                                     Jenna MacKenzie

           Helen Campeau                                       James MacKenzie

Choir Director: Lorna Schultz

ATTENDING AND GIVING

Attending last Sunday:                                                                      130

2005 Budgeted General Fund Income                                   $ 145,630.00

2005 Year-to-date Actual General Fund Income                   $ 132,066.42

Building Fund                                                                             $ 50.00

Growth Task Team                                                                   $ 120.00

Hurricane Katrina                                                                     $ 200.00

Worship Committee                                                                    $ 50.00

 

The Awesome Message

Text Box: You really can change the world if you care enough. Marian Wright Edelman

ANNOUNCEMENTS

September 25, 2005

 

Welcome to Worship

    We're delighted to worship with you today at Atonement!  Please stay for refreshments and fellowship after the service.  If you'd like to learn more about our congregation, that's the best place to start!  We also invite you to visit our web site at www.Deliver4Jesus.org, pick up a copy of our current newsletter at the guest book table, and be sure to get a copy of our Mission and Vision statements from the information desk.  God bless your worship today and your life everyday!           Pastor Tim

 

Text Box: Growth Plan Discussion Today! A forum will be held after both services to answer questions, hear comments and discuss the Growth Plan for Atonement Lutheran Church. Please join us!

Guest Pastor Today

   Pastor Tim is attending Pastor Kisten’s installation this morning at Trinity Lutheran Church in Lindstrom, MN. The sermon today will be brought to us by Sarah Pennewell, a 3rd year Master of Divinity student at Luther Seminary.

    Sarah grew up in northeastern Iowa (McGregor, IA) and has lived in Alaska for 5 ½ years.  She graduated from the University of Northern IA with a degree in therapeutic recreation and a major in general business concepts.  Sarah and her husband share their home with Homer, a 23 lb cat and Marco, a 6 lbs puppy.

 

Benevolence Survey

    On successive Sundays in September, the Charitable Giving Team asked each of you to fill out a form denoting your favorite charities (excluding Atonement itself).   We will use this information to formulate our Team donations to non-profits.

    If we missed any of you, please see Karen Ochu or Lindsey Fabian or Bonnie Anderson (Team members) or Bruce Jahnke (Council liaison) between Sunday services.  Or you may find blank copies of the survey in our Team mailbox; please fill out one of them and return it to our mailbox.

    Thank you to all who participated!  The Holy Spirit moves us in different ways.                                             The Charitable Giving Team

 

 

 

Events Rescheduled

²     “Group Life” Date Corrections: 

The Group Life sermon series which was scheduled for Sept 18- Oct 2 has been pushed back two weeks.   It now begins Oct 2 with two weeks of Pastor Tim's sermons on Group Life and culminates with the Group Life "Introduction" on Oct 16th.  The Introduction on the 16th will utilize various methods to depict Group Life at Atonement.  If you are part of a group please plan to support this event and if you are not part of a group yet don't miss this chance to find out more about what Group Life has to offer!!  Please refer to the October newsletter for additional details.

 

²     Hayride

All 3rd-6th Grade students are invited to join us on Saturday October 1st, as we head to Bunker Park Stables for a Hayride & Bonfire!!! Meeting at Atonement at 3:00 pm, leaving no later then 3:30 pm, returning somewhere around 6:30 pm.   Cost is $5

Any questions, please contact Erik Olson @ 651-636-6177, or email: doughboy71374@yahoo.com

 

²     Find You Fit Workshop

The Find Your Fid workshop for teens is being rescheduled and will be offered again in February. Watch the newsletter for more details.

 

Why Do They Act That Way? 

   Dr. David Walsh, a renowned psychologist, media critic, and adolescent brain researcher, is coming to our community for a FREE event.  He will be speaking on Tuesday, October 11th, 7:00 pm at St John the Baptist Catholic Church in New Brighton.  Dr. Walsh will address both the media's effects on our young people, and adolescent brain development, the subject of his new book, Why Do They Act That Way?  David Walsh is in demand nationally, and we are lucky to have booked him to help us better understand and guide our young people.  For more information refer to the poster behind the information desk or visit the website "http://www.mediafamily.com". 

 

Car Wash

    Faith Community Church will be holding a car wash at Atonement Lutheran Church on Saturday, October 1 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

 

 

 

Can You Help Feed Starving Children?

    On Tuesday, October 11, 2005 Atonement is participating in the Feed My Starving Children program.  We’ll assemble, at the organization’s warehouse in Brooklyn Park, nutritious meal packages for shipment overseas.  Some of these meals may be sent to Hurricane Katrina survivors along the Gulf shore.

    As many as 20 of us can go; members and guests are welcome!  We will be at their facility from 6:00-7:30 p.m.   ALL AGES may attend; it is a family event.  Please list your name by October 5 on the sign-up sheet on the kiosk.

    This is an extremely rewarding way to assist hungry children.   Please contact Tami Kinney at 651-633-3911 or Sue Johnson, Hunger Group Team Lead, at 763-786-2397 if you have any questions or if you want to come.  If you prefer to donate money instead of packaging meals for distribution, please write a check to Atonement and write “FMSC” in the memo line.  Thank you for caring!

    Feed My Starving Children (www.fmsc.org) has been reviewed by the Minnesota Charities Review Council and meets all their accountability standards. Atonement DELIVERS!                           The Hunger Group

 

Food Shelf Needs

   Many of you have generously donated to help victims of Hurricane Katrina.  Jesus asks us to care for the poor and the hungry.  Summer distribution has drained area food shelves right here in our own community.  The following items are needed at this time to help area families in need:

            Food Items                                                        Non-food Items

canned fruit (peaches, pears)                                         shampoo

canned corn and green beans                                         deodorant

spaghettio’s                                                                   toilet paper

canned chili                                                                   paper towels

ketchup                                                             diapers (larger sizes)

mustard                                                                        shaving cream/razors

jelly                                                                  bar soap

soups                                                    laundry and dish detergent

 

   Your donations are greatly appreciated.  One of the client’s at an area food shelf recently told me, “This food helps out so much.  Thank you.” 

                                                            Sue Johnson, Hunger Group

 

 

 

 

 

Cakes

    A beautiful cake is a special treat on one’s birthday.   Atonement assists in supplying the Anoka Regional Treatment Center with birthday cakes for its residents.  In September we made three cakes for the residents.  Fong Lee, Jan Zastrow, and Phyllis Kvitrud baked these homemade cakes; Roger Kvitrud delivered them.   Thank you kind members for thinking of others on their special day!

                                                                    The Charitable Giving Team

 

Floor Care

   The new floor has been installed up in the Education Area. They have been waxed and buffed, and already there are scratches on the new floor. Please try to be careful when moving anything across the floor. Carry when possible. Flooring is expensive and we need to keep them as long as we can.                                                             Thanks, Susanne June

P.S.  Please contact me about any concerns you have about upkeep.

 

You Are Invited

Project Linus Blanketeer Tea

Friday, September 30       1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Associated Sewing

690 N. Snelling Avenue,   St. Paul, MN 55104

RSVP  651-645-9449

Associated Sewing is celebrating National Sewing Month by honoring the thousands of blanketeers who have contributed blankets in the last 5 years.

 

Lay School of Theology Fall Schedule

    Lay school of Theology offers two late fall classes that members of Atonement should consider attending.  They are:

Genesis: Stories for Sunday Schools or Soap Operas?

November 7 - December 12   (no class Nov. 21st)

Mondays……Noon to 2 p.m.

“If you haven’t looked at these stories from an adult perspective join us as we delve into the  ‘soap opera’ that is the book of Genesis”.

Instructor - Mark Thronveit  -Professor of Old Testament

 

A Hospital for Sinners:  Luther on Marriage and Family

November 7 -  December 12  (no class Nov. 21st)

Mondays…..7 – 9 p.m.

Instructor - Hans Wiersma,   Ph. D. Reformation History

 

Fee per course is $60.00. Classes are held at Luther Seminary

See Catalogue on information desk or ask Wayne Carlson for more information. They are excellent classes.

HOLIDALE BOUTIQUE

BULLETIN #5

September 25, 2005

 

Countdown – 41 days to HOLIDALE

 

Workshop Schedule:

Wednesday, Sept. 28              9:00 am – 4:00 pm and 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Wednesday, Oct. 5                  9:00 am – 4:00 pm and 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Wednesday, Oct. 12                9:00 am – 4:00 pm and 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Potluck Lunch on Wednesday.

    A craft workshop will also be held at the same time as the Lefse workshop.

 

Lefse Workshop  Wednesday, September 28 9:00 Am To ?

    Lefse is a very popular item at HOLIDALE.  We are usually sold out in the first hour of our sale.  So this year we will have two lefse-making days.

    Please come to help if you are able.  Can’t come?  Please make potato mixture.

    In order to keep the lefse a consistent quality for the sale, please use the following recipe and we will finish mixing it at church.

 

        Boil 8-10 pounds of white potatoes in their skins until tender.

        Right after boiling you may want to remove the skins before

        putting them through a ricer, food processor, or food mill. 

 

For every four cups of hot riced potatoes, add ¼ cup melted

        butter or shortening and salt to taste.

 

    Chill overnight and bring to church where we will add the necessary flour and cream.  Please label the number of cups of potatoes per container.

    We need lots of potatoes.  We also need white dish towels, bath towels and flour.  Questions?  Call Carol Hoiby at 763-572-9169.

 

Wanted:

Carol Duoos will have a jelly-making workshop on Wednesday, October 19 beginning at 1:00 pm.  She needs the following supplies:

·         Pie filling –strawberry, raspberry, apricot, blueberry

·         Large packages of Jello – cherry, raspberry, strawberry, apricot, blueberry, peach

Donations should be clearly marked with the donor’s name, labeled for the Boutique and put in the Boutique room.

Pie workshops will be scheduled for October.  Supplies needed are:

Please label and put in the Boutique room.

 

Raffle

    We will have a raffle again this year.  We would like to be able to offer at least 10 items.  Theme baskets are popular.  Basket items needed to be listed so people know what is in them.  Please contact Dorri Olson about your donations.  If you said last year that you would make something, please reconfirm that.  Thanks to the following people for their contribution:

1.          Bea Lea – TV watcher’s basket

2.          Karen Ochu – Nativity picture

3.          Jan Wedin and Gwen Blomseth – Child’s rocker

4.          Jan Wedin and Gwen Blomseth – Older child’s chair

5.          Virginia Cahow – Beauty basket

6.          Susanne June – Italian basket

7.          Bea Laubach – to be named basket

 

Questions, comments, ideas

Please contact one of the Boutique Chairpersons.