October 2017

Rev. Kathleen Shuck

601 North Sandusky Avenue Upper Sandusky Ohio 43351 419-294-3544 Sunday Worship Time: 10 a.m.

SUN MON TUE WED THUR FRI SAT

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Choir sings!

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*AA- 7-9

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TWL – 5 p.m.

*WyCares Board Meeting 6 p.m.

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5

*NA-7

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*WyCares Elementary

11:50-2

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*AA- 7-9

10

TWL – 5 p.m.

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12

*NA-7

13

*WyCares Elementary

11:50-2

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15

Youth Sunday

Bells Ring!

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Ladies Night Out

6 p.m.

*AA-7-9

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TWL – 5pm

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*NA-7

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*WyCares Elementary

11:50-2

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*AA 7-9 24

TWL – 5pm

25 26

Halloween Parade 6:30

*NA – 7

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*WyCares Elementary

11:50-2

28 Trunk or

Treat 3-4:30

29 Reformation

Sunday

Lifetouch Picture Day 11:30-6:30

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Lifetouch Picture

Day 1-8

*AA- 7-9

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TWL – 5pm

Choir Practice 6 p.m.

WyCares High School each school day

from 7:30-8:45 in Cross Hall

Meeting Room

October Special Days

5- Scott Newell & Chad Stoneburner

6- Tom Martin, Mary Wright, Karen Rogers 12- Joyce Kuenzli & Jesse Weir

15- Nick Nieset 18- Linda Slater & Kloe Ealy

20- Robert Hall 21- Mark Kimmel & Jade Smith

24- Kristin Ealy 25- Jean Factor

26- Emerson Russell 28- Dorine Harbaugh & Roy Slater

29- Dan Biller 31- Nate McMillan

10- Kurt and Margie Kimmel

10- Andy and Kristin Ealy

29- Ronald and Helen Wright

If you or someone you know were inadvertently left off the special days list, please notify the office!

Greetings from Pr. Kathy

“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God – ” Ephesians 2:8

The end of this month, the church remembers the 500th anniversary of

Martin Luther nailing 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenburg, Germany. Through his study of Scripture, he became aware that

salvation is God’s doing, through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, not because of anything humans do. In posting his Theses, Luther

hoped to start a conversation and bring changes he thought were needed in the church. For the last 50 years or so, that conversation has been

happening, as Lutherans and Catholics talk together, recognizing what still divides us, and lifting up what unites us. It was a great privilege to attend

the Northwestern Ohio Joint Catholic-Lutheran Commemoration of the Reformation on September 10 in Findlay. There are still opportunities to

commemorate the 500th anniversary, including the “Reformation Crawl” on October 21 (see elsewhere in the newsletter for more information).

Also this month, a 6-week Bible Study on the book of Ephesians is offered. We will begin Wednesday, October 4. The Bible Study will meet at 1:30 pm or 6:00 pm in Cross Hall. Each session will cover the same material. I invite you

to join me as we study this letter that summarizes many of the teachings found in the letters of Paul.

As we begin the next 500 years of the church, may we continue to reach out with the love of God, made known to us in Jesus, giving life and salvation.

Peace, Pastor Kathy

There was no Council meeting for September. The next scheduled Council meeting

will be October 10th at 7 p.m.

Looking ahead to 2018, we will be having 6 seats for nomination this December! If

you are interested in joining in the council and would like to be on the ballot, please

notify one of the fine people below or the office!

2017 Council Members Amanda Rowlinson, Chad Stoneburner

Robby Lee, Linda Welker, Lisa Rife

Brenda Zeigler, Lynn Burks, Joyce Kuenzli, Mary Wright

OPPORTUNITIES TO SERVE

Please consider signing up for an Opportunity to Serve your Church! Our services depend on having our members help to usher, read and do various

jobs, ensuring all feel welcome and at home!

Ways to CONNECT

E-mail: firstevangelical@gmail.com

Phone: 419.294.3544

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/FELCUpperSandusky

Flowers October 1- Ronald & Helen Wright 8-Steve & Mindy Bowman 15- ___________________ 22- Linda Welker 29- Mary Wright November 5- __________________ 12-__________________ 19- Dillon & Hoelscher Families 26- Lynn Burks

Acolytes 1-Nicholas & MacKenzie

8-Ross & Nate 15- Reese & Kaylyn 22- MacKenzie & Eli

29- Ross & Jake

Ushers October- Stoneburner Magers Wines

November- Rowlinson Family

Scripture Readers 1st Mary Wright 8- Linda Welker

15- Ross, MacKenzie, Nicholas 22- _________

29- Lisa Rife

Church Family Do you live on a deserted street? In the country where no one

trick or treats? We welcome all those that want to be treaters to

help out at our Trunk or Treat this year! We would love to fill the

parking lot with cars, vans, trucks…to treat all of our participants

REALLY GOOD! If you are not busy October 28th from 3:30-4:45

please come and open up your trunk and hand out goodies!

Come early and party it up inside or sit by the fire until trunk or

treating part begins! See sign-up sheet in Cross Hall or contact

Laura Wines or Kristin Ealy if interested!

Christmas Family Fundraiser Event

Once again we will be raising money to go towards our

Christmas Family Fund by selling shirts and sweatshirts!

But wait, there is more!

This year we will be offering not only shirts, but hats and

bags TOO!

Here is a sample of what the logo will look like!

(hat logo will be without the picture)

Each year we “adopt” a family to give a Christmas to. We all

pitch in buying this and that on specific items, but we always like

to make sure we are getting them things that they NEED; meals,

gas cards, etc. Creating this fundraiser to fill the needs for more

families is our desire. We hope to adopt and help out many more

this year, with your help! We will be receiving a portion of the

sales amount of each item and banking it to use in December!

Christmas Family Fundraiser Event

We will have examples to show so you can see just what it is that

is being offered. But here is the list of items. An “order form” will

also be available!

Men’s Women’s and Children’s Tee Shirts

Men’s Women’s and Children’s Long Sleeve Tee Shirts

Women’s V-Neck Tee Shirt

Men’s, Women’s and Children’s Fleece Zipper Hoodie

Baby Onesies

Baseball Hat

Winter Beanie

Visor (for all you golfers)

Grocery Tote

Tote

Lightweight Cinch Back Pack

We will have 3 ordering deadlines leading up to Christmas.

These items will make great gifts!

October 15 November 12 December 3

You can place orders in person on Sundays, Message/e-mail the

office or leave the paper order forms (with payment) in the office

mail slot anytime!

Here at First Lutheran Evangelical- family is so important to us. We are all family here at First and we would like to turn the spotlight on one of our families each

month. It's a way for us all to draw closer to one another.

We will begin with our council members first. This month we are featuring

The Wright Family.

The Wright Family:

Helen and Ronald Wright have been members of First for many years. Helen was raised in the congregation and her husband joined in 1960 when they were married. The Wright family has blessed First with their time and talents for many years. Helen was active in teaching Sunday school and being the organist for many years. Ronald and Helen were members of the Everfaithful group. Ronald taught Sunday school, sang in the choir, and played dart ball in years past. They have

one daughter Mary who is currently serving on church council, teaching Sunday school, singing in the choir, and helping during the summer vacation bible school program. Both Mary and Helen were members of the Women of the ELCA. Mary would like to share that her favorite hymn is “Shine, Jesus Shine” and Helen’s favorite is “Jesus Loves Me”. A special memory for the entire Wright family is when Helen and Ronald were surprised with a cake for their 45th anniversary after church and had a lovely time with all of their church family.

Lifetouch Pictorial Directory

INFORMATION

First Evangelical has not had a pictorial directory

completed since 2009….things have certainly changed!

We will be having LIFETOUCH come in on October 29th

and 30th to take pictures of our Church Families. This is a

pretty simple plan to create a new directory that will be a

great tool not only for our existing church family but for

Pr. Kathy as well! She needs an updated version as she

still continues to meet and remember names and faces!

Online Scheduling is easiest for this endeavor. Kristin will

have scheduling available LIVE before and after church

on October 1st and October 8th. For those that have the

capability you can go onto the website yourself and

schedule a time! We will be able to schedule on Sunday

October 29 from 12-6:30 and on Monday October 30th

from 1 til 8 p.m. We were hoping that by offering a

Sunday time we could reach those that have a normally

hectic weekday schedule. Please sign up at a time that

best suits you and your family.

If you are unavailable both those scheduled times

LIFETOUCH does offer the availability of OUR members to

go to a nearby photo session that LIFETOUCH will be

doing and then they can be added to our directory

during editing.

Lifetouch Pictorial Directory

INFORMATION

As in years past LIFETOUCH allows photo sessions to be

made up of your entire household, add in multiple

households for your ENTIRE family…or even bring your

pet! The choice is yours.

There will be more information to come in the next few

weeks. Stay tuned.

To schedule yourself go to:

https://booknow-lifetouch.appointment-plus.com/y6sdjc98/

Or contact Kristin and she can schedule you.

Bishop Fall Gatherings From Synod website: by Brent Gnagey

Join Bishop Daniel for dessert, fellowship, worship, and learning at the Fall Gatherings! Gathering Info: This non-conference specific event will take place at five different congregations across Northwestern Ohio. Each gathering will begin at 6:30pm with a Taize service followed by the Bishop’s Bake Off. Bishop’s Bake Off Info: Each gathering has been given their own special flavor. Everyone is invited to bake their favorite recipe that fits the flavor theme or, if you’re more of an eater than a baker, vote on your favorite dessert! Because this is a non-conference specific event, we invite you to attend the gathering that best fits your culinary skills! Voting will be done by making monetary donations that will directly benefit the Discipleship Institute. The dessert with the largest amount of donations wins a prize selected by Bishop Beaudoin! Schedule: October 10: St. John’s Lutheran Church, Fremont (Lemon) October 12: St. Paul Lutheran Church, Upper Sandusky (Pumpkin) October 17: St. Stephen Lutheran Church, Hamler (Apple) October 19: Community of Christ Lutheran Church, Whitehouse (Chocolate) October 26: Zion Lutheran Church, Lafayette (Spice) We look forward to seeing you there!

To register for an evening please go to this website http://bit.ly/2xK9DIC Or call the synod office at: 419-423-3664

What is the Discipleship Institute? The Discipleship Institute will be a center of learning for our synod. The Institute will provide spiritual growth and learning opportunities, leadership and discipleship development, and will focus on raising up and training both lay and rostered leaders as life-long learners equipped for discipleship-making and ministry in the church. The Institute is still in the planning phase, and your support will provide a financial base for its launch.

NWOS Reformation 500 Crawl October 21, 2017

Travel to different locations throughout the Northwestern Ohio Synod to experience unique presentations celebrating 500 years of our Lutheran

heritage!

Learn more: Website: nwos500.org

Facebook: NWOS Reformation 500 Crawl

Southeast Conference Events:

Peace Lutheran Church, Galion Come and hear how Luther’s idea of the Priesthood of all Believers is

being lifted up through Diakonia, a school for lay leadership.

First Lutheran Church, Galion Jennifer Morlock, Region 6 Archivst, will have historical exhibits and present “Your Congregation’s Story, Our Lutheran Heritage: What to

Keep, How to Keep It, and How to Share It”.

Emanuel Lutheran Church, Marion Ann Thomas is a liturgical artist that will exhibit her banner designs

and share some tips.

These presentations are at 10am, 11:30am, & 1pm.

MAPS for the complete Reformation Crawl are available

in Cross Hall

Scripture Readings For October

October 1, 2017

Ezekiel 18:1-4, 25-32

The fairness of God’s way

Psalm 25:1-9

Remember, O Lord, your compassion and love. (Ps. 25:6)

Philippians 2:1-13

Christ humbled to the point of death on a cross

Matthew 21:23-32

A parable of doing God’s will

October 8, 2017

Isaiah 5:1-7

The song of the vineyard

Psalm 80:7-15

Look down from heaven, O God; behold and tend this vine. (Ps. 80:14, 15)

Philippians 3:4b-14

Nothing surpasses the value of knowing Christ

Matthew 21:33-46

The parable of the vineyard owner’s son

October 15, 2017

Isaiah 25:1-9

The feast of victory

Psalm 23

You prepare a table before me, and my cup is running over. (Ps. 23:5)

Philippians 4:1-9

Rejoice in the Lord always

Matthew 22:1-14

The parable of the unwelcome guest at the wedding feast

October 22, 2017

Isaiah 45:1-7

An earthly ruler as the instrument of God’s will

Psalm 96:1-9 [10-13]

Ascribe to the Lord honor and power. (Ps. 96:7)

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Thanksgiving for the church at Thessalonica

Matthew 22:15-22

A teaching on giving to the emperor and to God

October 29, 2017

Leviticus 19:1-2, 15-18

Holiness revealed in acts of justice

Psalm 1

Their delight is in the law of the Lord. (Ps. 1:2)

1 Thessalonians 2:1-8

The apostle’s tender care for the Thessalonians

Matthew 22:34-46

Two great commandments: love for God and neighbor

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