CRUSADER CHRONICLE Volume 18, Issue 11 St. John’s Ev. Lutheran School – Wauwatosa November 17, 2016

St. John’s Mission Statement: We exist to prepare our children for a lifelong relationship with Christ, proclaim the gospel message, and provide excellence in education in order to equip students for life and eternity.

THIS WEEK AT ST. JOHN’S SCHOOL November 17 – December 1, 2016

11/17 Thu Piano w/Mrs. Bortulin

Handbells w/Mrs. Handeland

5:40pm BBall B Boys @ Mt. Olive Lutheran

11/18 Fr 12-3 Gr 1&2 to Betty Brinn

Band Lessons w/Mrs. Hohenstein

BBall B Boys Tourn @ Mt. Olive Lutheran

3-9pm Christmas Decorating

11/19 Sat BBall B Boys Tourn @ Mt. Olive Lutheran

3pm Boy Pioneers – Adventure Rock

5:30 Worship w/Communion

7:00 Worship in Chinese

11/20 Sun 8 & 10:30 Worship w/Communion

8 & 10:30 Junior Handbells

9:15 Sunday School & Bible Classes

BBall B Boys Tourn @ Mt. Olive Lutheran

11/21 Mon Piano w/Mrs. Horton ( all her students)

Band Lessons w/Mr. Peterson

11/22 Tue Guitar w/Mr. Krellwitz

6:30-8pm LGP

11/23 Wed NO SCHOOL

6:45pm Thanksgiving Eve Worship

Happy Birthday Mrs. Greenfield!

11/24 Thu NO SCHOOL

NO CHILDCARE

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

10:00am Worship

Happy Birthday Mrs. Stein!

11/25 Fr NO SCHOOL

NO CHILDCARE

11/26 Sat 5:30 Worship

7:00 Worship in Chinese

11/27 Sun 8:00 & 10:30 Worship

9:15 Sunday School & Bible Class

11/28 Mon Piano w/Mrs. Horton

11/29 Tue Piano w/Mrs. Horton

Guitar w/Mr. Krellwitz

11/30 Wed 8:15 Children’s Chapel

Piano w/ Mrs. Bortulin

Band Lessons w/ Mr. Peterson

Violin Lessons

3:30 & 6:45 Advent Worship, 4:30 Advent Meal 3:30 Jr. Handbells play

12/1 Th Handbells w/ Mrs. Handeland

Happy Thanksgiving No School Wednesday-Friday, November 23-25.

- From the Principal’s Desk I wanted to thank the families that participated in the Chick-Fil-A fundraiser. I enjoyed to opportunity to talk to you that evening. Thank you for your participation! Congratulations to our Girls’ A-team who brought home the 2nd Place trophy from the Star “Tip-Off” Basketball Tournament this past weekend. Our Crusader Boys’ A-Team took 1st Place! What a great way to start out the Crusader basketball season. Watch for the regular season games to begin in December. How are you and your family preparing for Thanksgiving? I encourage you to take time for an extra phrase in your daily prayers, for thanks for something special each day. Can you include your children in this special plan for prayer? Please give it a try. You might find a whole new idea for giving thanks through your child. Have you put Advent worship services on your calendar? On Wed. November 30th we start to build toward the celebration of Christmas with a service at 3:30 and 6:45. Again, this year, we will have light meals served between the services for a free will offering. Please plan to worship and enjoy the fellowship of these Wednesdays. Tomorrow, Friday, November 18th, from approx. 3-8pm, parents will meet to decorate the school for the Christmas season. Can you help? Many hands . . . Are you going to give gift cards for the holidays? Please don’t forget that you can support St. John’s and give those cards by going online at www.shopwithscrip.com or emailing your order to scrip@sjtosa.org. (Please see the article on the last page of this Chronicle for more details.) Your orders can be picked up here at school. Thanks for your help.

~Mr. Uecker~

Colors of Christmas Craft Fair Saturday, November 19th

9:00am – 3:00pm

Wisconsin Lutheran High School

Singing/Handbell Schedule November 20th: 8:00 & 10:30 (Jr. Handbells play) November 30th: 3:30 Advent Service (Jr. Handbells play) December 4th: Advent by Candlelight (various vocals/musicians) December 11th: 8am (K5 Handbells), 10:30am (K3 & K4) December 17th: 9:30am K3 & K4 Christmas Program December 18th: 8 & 10:30am (Jr. Coir-small group sings) December 21st: Grades 1&2 sing at Hawthorne Terrace (2:30pm) December 23rd: 9:15am Christmas Eve Practice at Wisco December 24th: 4pm K5-Gr. 8 Children’s Christmas Eve Service

Christmas Break Reminder No School Saturday, December 24th – Wednesday, January 4th. School resumes Thursday January 5th.

We are half way through November and our total

for our November envelope Lighthouse Youth

Center collection is $91.89 We have 2 more

Sundays in November + 4 in December to finish out

2016.

Our Food Pantry for December is the 7th and 8th

grade. This will be the first weekend in December.

Our Mission Tree offering started on Thursday.

The tree goes up by our mission bulletin board on

Friday. Contributions are starting to come in. We’ll

keep you posted on how that amount grows. May

God bless our mission efforts!

May we continue to let our light shine!

Book Drive WLC’s Breakfast Book Club is sponsoring a book drive thru November 20th. Donations of new/gently used books of all kinds (children’s, fiction, history…anything) will be donated to the Gingerbread House Gift Giving Program and local shelters. Donation boxes can be found at church and school.

Scripture Readings

The scripture readings for November 19th-20th services:

The First Lesson: Genesis 49:8-12 Psalm: Psalm 98

The Second Lesson: Colossians 1:13-20 The Gospel Lesson: Luke 23:35-43

Sermon theme: You will be with me in paradise

Usher Assistants SUNDAY SERVICES

8:00 AM 10:30 AM

November 20 William Eft Ian Ban

Nathanael Gaub Anthony Smith

November 27

Kaylee Zimmer GraceMarie Theesfeld

Lindsey Lampe Inga Ornburg

November 30 3:30 Advent Service

Ben Haakenson Joey Lindert

Jonah Rindfleisch Tony Jones

December 4

Kaylee Zimmer GraceMarie Theesfeld

Lindsey Lampe Inga Ornburg

Parents’ Preview The Parents’ Preview highlights an aspect of next week’s service: a liturgical song, a Psalm refrain, or a hymn stanza. Our hope and prayer is that parents will teach this portion of the service to their children at home during the week so that children can participate more fully in the worship service.

Parents’ Preview for November 20

Psalm 98 Refrain

Parents’ Preview for November 27

Gospel Acclamation This response is sung after the reading of the Gospel.

We praise our crucified and risen Lord whose words we

hear in the Gospel.

Please click the following link for the

most recent copy of

St. John’s News & Notes

Spiritwear Sale Are you looking for good Christmas Gift Ideas?

Need a Christmas gift idea? It has been requested that St. John's run a second Spirit Wear Sale. The sale is once again online and runs through Sunday, Dec. 11th until midnight. Items will be delivered to school on or before Dec. 21st. New items have been added since the last Spirit Wear Sale, please check the site out and support our school. You can shop at http://stjohns.on-timetees.com An email will be sent from school as soon as the items are received. Since we realize that many of the orders may include gifts, we will NOT send them home with students unless you ask us to do so. Any questions please feel free to contact Tracey Lampe at traceylampe93@gmail.com or 414-841-3282.

Crusader Athletics

Go to www.sjtosaathletics.org to view updated schedules for all Crusader sports (practices, games & tournaments). Volunteers are needed at upcoming home games. The volunteer sign-up link is available on the Crusader Athletic Website.

Crusader Basketball: Congratulations to the Girl’s A-Team, coached by Brent Siegmund and Greg Collyard, who took 2nd place in the girls division at the Star Tip-off Tournament. What a great way to start the season. Congratulations also to the Boy’s A-Team, coached by Mark Rindfleisch and Eric Ruh, for taking 1st place in the boys division at the Star Tip-off Tournament. The Boys B-Team starts their season at the Mount Olive Tournament November 17th-20th. First game at 5:40pm, Thursday, November 17th against St. Jacobi. Regular team play begins on Friday, December 2nd with games at St. Paul Franklin starting at 4:30pm (Girls’ A-Team and B1-Team, and boys’ B-Team).

Jr. Viking Athletic Programs Please click here for the latest on all of the Jr. Viking Athletic Programs Wisconsin Lutheran High School offers.

G-Squared Youth Basketball League Sponsored by Star of Bethlehem An opportunity for youth ages 5-8 to be taught the game of basketball through structured practice and competition by building a foundation of skills needed to use their God-given abilities to their fullest. Info is on the table outside the school office, or for more information or to register online go to: www.starofbethlehem.org/G2

School Christmas Decorating It is time to start thinking about Christmas. CES will again be organizing the decorating of the school for the Advent and Christmas season on Friday evening, November 18. Parents and teens are encouraged to come help. Teens may earn mission trip points by volunteering to decorate. To sign up online please follow these easy steps:

1. Click this link to see our online signup. http://signup.com/go/Ntw5nr

2. Review the options listed and choose the spot(s) you like.

3. Sign up! It's Easy - you will NOT need to register an account or keep a password on SignUp.com.

If you have any questions please contact:

Tracey Lampe tracey@brookfielddentistry.com (414) 841-3282, or

Jenny Lindert jenny.lindert@thomsonreuters.com (414) 236-9520

Thank you in advance for your help.

St. John’s CES Committee

Piano Lessons With the Christmas season just around the corner, be sure to take time to “stop and enjoy the music”. It’s such a beautiful time of year. All of my students should bring their piano books on Monday, as there are no piano

lessons on Tuesday. ~Mrs. Horton

I'm pleased with how so many students are progressing. Their practice time is evident and it makes it such a joy to teach them. Thank you for your encouragement! Many students came home this week with new Christmas songs to practice. Others will get theirs next week. Looking ahead, my students will not have lessons during the week of Thanksgiving.

~Mrs. Bortulin

Childcare News After a wonderfully warm Fall, we are finally starting to feel the chill in the air. As long as there is no snow on the ground we will go outside every day. Please make sure to dress your child appropriately for this. Also, please make sure all your child’s outer wear is labeled (mittens, jackets, hats etc). These things have a tendency to get lost and it seems everyone has identical items. Childcare will be CLOSED November 24th and 25th for the Thanksgiving holiday. Childcare will be open on November 23rd for those who have submitted a reservation.

Concessions at “Trainfest” --THANK YOU Thank you to the 28 great volunteers who helped with concessions this past weekend at Trainfest at State Fair Park: Michelle Crowder, Stephanie Goede, Mike George, Walter Groth, Pastor Leyrer, Lorna Leyrer, Chris Leyrer, Dana Leyrer, Bob Lindert, Kurt Handeland, Jake Jurney, Ginger Konkol, Dawn Lambrecht, Monica Lentz, Jes Mariscal, Jim Minor, Michelle Rhyner, Marsh Scheibe, JoAnn Schmidt, Jody Schmidt, Morgan Schmidt, Kay Starkey, Jessica Strautmann, Mike Swenson, Lisa Thompson, Scott Uecker, Ann Washburn and Chris Wetzel. We earned $ 2010.02 for the weekend. Great way to wrap up our 2016 Sportservice Volunteer Season. Next up… Concessions at World of Wheels, Feb. 24-26.

Recommendations for Distribution of 2016 SportService Funds due this week As we are getting close to wrapping up our 2016 season, we wanted to let you know that we once again had an awesome year, earning about $30,000 working concessions at Miller Park and State Fair Park events. At this time we are starting to compile a list of recommendations for distribution of the 2016 funds earned. Recommendations should be submitted via email to school@sjtosa.org, or joannschmidt@sbcglobal.net. Paper requests may be turned into the school office. All requests must include:

1) the name of the item or cause, 2) a detailed explanation of the item/cause and 3) the cost or amount to be designated.

After the recommendations are approved by the Exec Board, the 2016 volunteers will be voting on how the funds are distributed. Please contact JoAnn (414-217-7170) or Dawn (414-640-5902) if you have any questions.

2016 SportService Volunteer Party

Monday, December 12th

All 2016 SportService volunteers and their families are

invited to a pizza party Monday, December 12th 5:30pm in school commons as a special thank you. At this party, the 2016 volunteers will be voting on how the funds earned during 2016 will be distributed. Everyone who is interested in helping during the 2017 season is also invited to the party. We will be discussing the 2017 season, we have received the contract and it is important for us to get our contract in as soon as possible. Please rsvp with number attending as soon as possible. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact JoAnn joannschmidt@sbcglobal.net or Dawn purple_penguin1@yahoo.com

~JoAnn Schmidt and Dawn Lambrecht

Lutheran Girl Pioneers Girl Pioneers meet:

Tuesday, December 6th, 6:30-8pm

Monday, December 19th, caroling

St. John’s Lutheran Boy Pioneers will meet on

Saturday, November 19th 3pm Rock Climbing – Adventure Rock- Brookfield

Advent by Candlelight Sunday, December 4, 2016 Registration Now Open Registration for Advent by Candlelight is now open! Invite your female family members, friends, and neighbors for a Christ-centered preparation for the holiday season. The event will occur on Sunday, December 4 at 1:30 PM in the school gymnasium. There is no charge for this event, and space is limited, so sign-up today! Register online at www.sjtosa.org/ABCregistration, e-mail Julie Handeland at sjtosa.abc@gmail.com, or sign-up at the table in the narthex. If you have 4 or more guests, you are encouraged to host a table.

"Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have" (1 Peter 3:15). God has so much to say to you in his Word - are you looking for a new way to hear and study it? Join St. John's "By Scripture Alone" initiative to read through and discuss the entire Bible together in one year starting January 1, 2017. We'll be reading The Daily Bible, an engaging, chronologically arranged format of the NIV divided into 365 readings with helpful commentary to guide you through the amazing account of God's grace. Put what you learn at weekly worship and Bible study into the context of all of Scripture, and see if it doesn't change your life! Visit www.sjtosa.org/ByScriptureAlone for details and to sign up.

Living Nativity Friday – Sunday

December 2, 3 and 4 St. Paul’s Church - Muskego

Gift Cards Available -- through St. John’s Scrip Program With school in full swing, we are getting back into the swing of things around here too! We wanted to highlight one of our fundraising opportunities that is available year round. Scrip. Scrip are the gift cards sold here through school. School purchases the gift cards at a discounted rate and you in turn can buy these cards from us and use for your shopping, dining or gift giving, just as you would buy a gift card from any other store. For example: Starbucks (one of our most popular sellers!) offers a 7% rebate, you want a $20 gift card, school pays $18.60 for that $20 card, you pay $20 and that remaining $1.40 goes into our fundraiser account. It may not seem like much, but the more you buy, the more we collect! Scrip cards will be for sale after school Friday and Monday in the office. Stop by to see what we have on hand (most of which are listed on the next page). We are also able to print on demand (Scrip Now) gift cards...going to dinner this weekend we can print many restaurant cards including Applebee's (8%), Buffalo Wild Wings (8%), Chili's (11%), Maggiano's (11%), Olive Garden (9%), Outback Steakhouse (8%) ,Panera (9%), The Cheesecake Factory (5%) and many many more!!! The same is true for many stores including Gap/Old Navy (14%), Kohl's (4%), Target (2.5%), Walmart (2.5%), TJMAXX/Marshall's/Home Goods Store (7%), The Home Depot (4%), Lowe's (4%), even CVS (6%) and many more! “Kohls Cares for Kids” Gift Cards -- For those of you who shop at Kohls, please keep in mind that you can pay your Kohls Credit card bill with the Kohls Cares for Kids gift cards purchased here at school. This way you are supporting St. John’s each time you pay your bill or shop at Kohls. To learn more about Scrip visit their website at shopwithscrip.com. When signing up use code: C5FB311729461 to ensure you sign in through St. John's - Tosa. Scrip is a completely volunteer run program here at school, we are looking for some extra hands to help sell after school Monday and Friday and perhaps even at school events such as volleyball and basketball games and our other events throughout the year. If you are interested please email scrip@sjtosa.org or see Scott Uecker in the school office. Thank you for your support!

Stephanie Heffelfinger

NOTE: The following gift cards are available currently with 20-40% of the face value going to St. John’s. You may email orders of these cards to scrip@sjtosa.org. Any orders for these specials, received by the end of the day on Wednesday, will be available for pick-up on Friday. Boston Market ($25 cards – 20%), BUCA Italian Rest. ($25 cards – 25%), Chili’s ($25 cards -- 14% to St. John’s), Dickey’s Barbecue Pit ($20 cards – 20% to St. John’s), Fuddruckers ($25 – 20% to St. John’s), George Webb ($25 cards – 20% to St. John’s), Gigi’s Cupcakes ($10 cards – 40% to St. John’s), Krispy Kreme’s ($25 cards – 20%), Noodles & Company ($25 cards – 20%), Stir Crazy ($25 – 20%)

K3 News Woodland animals have continued to be our focus in K3. The children enjoyed playing with the forest habitat we made for our beautiful collection of woodland animals. Our woodland animal puppets and stuffed animals were added this week and were also popular. The children built homes for them with our blocks and used their imagination to come up with some silly stories! We enjoyed some great books, Boris Beaver, Sassafras, and Sammy Squirrel were a few. We made owls by tearing paper to look like feathers and hedgehogs with our handprint. Thanksgiving is another topic we have explored. We learned new action songs called "The Turkey Hop" and "Please Pass the Peas". The children love taking turns being the farmer who tries to catch a Thanksgiving turkey. Giggles abound as they try not to tip 'the peas' off the plate as it is passed. Our Bible lesson was "God Leads His People through the Red Sea". It was about how God led Moses and the Israelites out of Egypt and across the Red Sea in an amazing way. God watched over Moses and the Israelites and protected them when Pharaoh meant to harm them. God watches over us too and has the power to help us in any kind of trouble. It pleases our Lord when we call upon Him in troubling times of our life. When we do this, it shows we trust God and believe that he can help us. We can feel safe in God's almighty arms and thank and praise him for always taking care of us.

~Mrs. Henning

Current gift/scrip cards in stock: Aeropostale ($25) Kohl's ($10, $25, $50, $100)

AMC Theatres/Loews Cineplex ($10, $25) Krispy Kreme ($25)

Applebee's ($25) Kwik Trip ($25)

Bakers Square Restaurants & Bakery ($25) Little Caesars ($20)

Barnes & Noble ($10) Marcus Theatres ($25)

Bath & Body Works ($10, $25) Maurices ($20)

Bed Bath & Beyond ($25) Meijer ($10, $25, $50)

Bon-Ton/Boston Store ($25) Menards ($25)

Boston Market ($10, $25) Noodles & Company ($10, $25)

BP Gas Stations ($50) Panera's ($10, $25)

Brueggers Bagels ($10, $20) Papa John's Pizza ($10)

Buca ($25) Papa Murphy's Pizza ($10)

Buffalo Wild Wings ($10, $25) Payless ($20)

Build-A-Bear Workshop ($25) PF Chang's ($25)

Burger King ($10) Pizza Hut ($10)

Cheesecake Factory ($25) Pottery Barn ($25)

Chili's/Maggiano's ($25, $50) Qdoba ($25)

Chipotle Mexican Grill ($10) Red Lobster/Olive Garden ($25)

Claire's ($10) Red Robin ($25)

Cousins Subs ($10) Roundys/Pick & Save ($25, $50, $100) (IL and WI

only)

CVS ($25) Sears ($25)

Dave & Buster's ($25) Sendik's ($50)

Dickey's ($20) Stir Crazy ($25)

Domino's ($10) Speedway ($25)

Dunkin' Donuts ($10) Starbucks ($5, $10, $25)

Express ($25) Subway ($10)

Fuddrucker's ($25) T.J. Maxx/Marshalls/HomeGoods ($25)

GameStop ($25) Taco Bell ($10)

Gander Mountain ($25) Target ($10, $25)

Gap/Old Navy/Banana Republic ($25) TGI Fridays ($25)

Gigi's Cupcakes ($10) -- located at Hwy 100 & Center Toys R Us, Babies R Us ($20)

Home Depot ($25) The Children's Place ($25)

iTunes ($15, $25) Walgreens ($25)

Walmart/Sam's Club ($25)

Wendy's ($10)

Walmart/Sam's Club ($25)

Wendy's ($10)