Celebrate the Wonder Apostle Presbyterian Church “We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experi- ence of being human.” ― Charles Eisen- stein Friends: HAPPY NEW YEAR!! As we start out the New Year, no doubt many of you are looking at changes being made— changes in the world, changes in your personal life, changes at church. Every January I propose to myself that I CHANGE just one thing—take more time to read---that I become a better cook— that I take a class in something that I consider to be OUTRAGEOUS—but in February I realize I am right back to where I was in December. CHANGE IS HARD. At Apostle, I think we really need to start realizing that things have already changed and we haven’t quite caught up. We are no longer a neighborhood congregation, most folks have to drive to church rather than walk. We no long- er are a congregation of more than 1,000 but rather about 188. We have to rejoice in the fact that we are STILL a congregation and quit living in what I call the “glory days”. Those days are not coming back anytime soon. We need to embrace the here and now and look to see where we can join God in His ever changing work. PARADIGM SHIFT is a term you hear a lot out in the world, especially the church world. Simply put, a paradigm (pronounced paradime) is your world view. We all look at the world around us in accordance with a certain paradigm. The paradigm we use depends on what we believe is reli- able and true. Think of a para- digm shift then as a change from one way of thinking to another. It's a revolu- tion, a transformation, a sort of meta- morphosis. It just does not happen, but rather it is driven by agents of change. We have CHANGED at Apostle. Because of the changes made, we need to re- think much of the work of the church. We might have a different way of calling committees together; we might have a different way of engaging folks in minis- try. That may not feel good to some of you who have served long and well for many years. But in today’s world, com- mittee work is MUCH different than it was in the “glory days!” As I tried to teach my children, there is always sev- eral ways to get to the same location. That doesn’t mean one way is better than the other—it just means it is DIF- FERENT. The way that one person runs a committee may very well be VERY dif- ferent than the way it has been done in the past. NOTHING is carved in stone so that if what we try doesn’t work, we can adjust and move on. What we simply CAN NOT DO is be comfortable just sit- ting and saying “We have never done it that way before!” and hold tight to those ideals that no longer serve us well. I learned a long time ago that WE HAVE NEVER DONE IT THAT WAY BEFORE is indeed the words of a dying church. Change is going to happen whether we embrace it or not. Why not look for a creative way to join in God’s change and enjoy the ride!!!?? You never know where God might surprise you!! See you in church, Cathy Special points of inter- Special points of inter- est: est: This newsletter is pub- lished monthly by Apostle Presbyterian Church . Newsletter deadline is the 3rd Monday of the month. Notify the church if you move, change your phone number or email address Pastor’s Message 1-2 Senior Moments 3 Read Bible in a year 3 Mission News 4-5 Music notes 6 Prayer & Praise 8 Birthdays 9 Inside this issue: A Message from our Pastor ACTS OF APOSTLE January 2013 ACTS OF APOSTLE
Plan ahead!!! After all, it wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark! Our all church picnic is planned for July 13,2013. I know how busy summer schedules get so mark this down NOW!!! More details to follow. Mark and I very much look forward to another ALL CHURCH PICNIC at our home!!!
Cathy
The Milwaukee Presbytery hosts a day of learning and fun for all Presbyterians every
year—the event is called DISCOVERY DAY.
This year, Discovery Day is Saturday February 23. It is VERY unique this year as it is a
two part program. We will begin at Southminister Presbyterian Church in Waukesha at 9 AM with our called Presbytery meeting. At 12:15 PM we will head to Carroll Universi-
ty, just down the road a bit for the remainder of Discovery Day. This year’s theme is SEEING GOD IN SURPRISING PLACES. There are some brochures in the church office,
you can also go to this link to view the event. You can also register for the event using this link, after the first of the year.
Last year we had about 10 folks from Apostle attend Discovery Day—wouldn’t it be great if this year we have 20????!!! If you have any questions, Cathy would LOVE to
hear them!!!
PLEASE NOTE
Linda’s Schedule at Apostle is:
Monday/Wednesday/Thursday 9 AM -2:30 PM
Cathy’s Schedule at Apostle is: Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday and Sunday
My 2013 contract calls for 30 hours per week again this year. I am almost always in town over-
night Tuesday and Wednesday night. HOWEVER, if you have an emergency this can all be
changed. Do not hesitate to call me 262-949-6750 at ANY time with a true emergency. Email
SENIOR MOMENTS Tuesday, January 8, 2013 - 11:45 a.m.
Apostle Fellowship Hall
Our program for this first meeting in 2013 is one many of us are concerned about.
THE ELECTION'S OVER: WHAT'S NEXT FOR HEALTH CARE REFORM?
Are you curious about how health care reform will affect you, your work and your community since the election? Come learn about the upcoming changes from the Affordable Care Act. Danielle Zirkel, Master of Social Work, a Health Care Outreach Specialist, will be our presenter.
We will have a planned potluck, so let us know what delicious dish you plan to bring.
One of the following will be happy to take your reservation by January 6, 2013
Vera Bernhardt......................................................414-543-0835
Jean Maercklein....................................................414-257-1162
Jane Pagel............................................................414-541-1375
It’s not too late to sign up to participate in the “The Year of the Bible” challenge for 2013. There
are three easy steps:
Pick up a participant’s book.
Complete a commitment card
Start reading!
Stop by the table in Fellowship Hall to look through the participant’s book and learn more about
the challenge.
Mark your calendars. WOW starts February 13th.
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Dear Family and Friends, December 3, 2012
During the past four months, the Anuak Bible has been picking up speed in its journey to the
printer, an encouraging contrast to earlier days. We are thankful for answers God is giving to
prayer.
In August 2010 the Bible Society of Ethiopia (BSE) gave our translation team the typeset first
proof copy of the Anuak Bible. In February 2012 we returned it to them, having marked over
1,000 corrections. We hoped the corrected proof copy would be returned to us in June or July; it
finally arrived as an emailed pdf copy the first week of August. Friends offered to print the pa-
per copy on their laser printer. After three days of steady printing, they gave us the 1,700 page
final proof copy. Desaleny and Ajulo, the team’s Anuak translators, checked the paper copy in
Addis Ababa, while Marie Lusted (Breezy) in Waxhaw, NC and the two of us in Greeley
checked the computer pdf copy. Using Skype, the whole team was able to discuss corrections.
The main one was to change “Anuak Bible” to “Anyuak Bible” on the Title Page. Desaleny and
Ajulo said this was necessary because Gambella Region’s government and schools now use
“Anyuak” instead of “Anuak”. It is also closer to “Anyuaa”, the Anyuaa’s name for themselves.
Only 20 corrections were needed and were submitted to BSE.
In November word came that the typesetters had made the corrections so that the Bible could
be approved for being published. Along with it came the BSE’s Project Form; for the 10,000 Bi-
bles requested, the printing and related expenses called for payment of $65,776. A BSE grant is
providing $20,000 for the printing and related expenses. The remaining $47,776 is being provid-
ed from contributions friends and churches have made to the Presbyterian Church, USA’s Extra
Commitment Opportunity (ECO) Anuak Bible Project, and from three PCUSA Foundation
grants. When this has been received by the United Bible Societies bank account in Britain, BSE
will give the order for printing the Bibles. They will have a brown vinyl cover and strong bind-
ing to prepare them for the hot dry seasons and humid rainy seasons of Gambella Region of
western Ethiopia and Jonglei State of South Sudan, the home areas of the Anyuak people. Most
of the copies will be for Gambella Region Anyuaks, but copies will also be going to South Su-
dan, Kenya, USA, Canada, and Australia.
We give thanks and rejoice that the Anyuak Bible is on the verge of being printed. There will be
additional expenses down the road, particularly provision for subsidizing the purchase price for
Anyuaks living in areas of very low income. We believe that purchases of the Bibles will call
soon for a second printing.
We are thankful for the many who have had a part in the Anyuak Bible’s reaching this point –
Anyuak translators and text reviewers, translation consultants and instructors, computer pro-
grammers and instructors, those who have been praying, and those who have given financial
support.
We will be leaving Greeley December 10, arriving in Addis Ababa December 12. We will be help-
ing prepare for the arrival, distribution and selling of the Bibles. We will be grateful for your
praying for us and those with whom we will be working in the days ahead.
Pray that the Bibles will be printed, arrive in Ethiopia and be available by May, before the
rainy season begins in Gambella Region and Jonglei State.
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Pray for Desaleny and Ajulo as we wind up our years of working together with them and Breezy in
translating the Anyuak Bible. Desaleny and Ajulo will be looking for new employment.
Pray for our working with BSE and Eastern Gambella Bethel Synod (EGBS) personnel in preparing
for the arrival, distribution and selling of the Bibles, and for EGBS leaders as they prepare for the
celebration of the arrival of the Bibles.
Pray for our talking with Synod leaders about Bible teaching.
Pray for Breezy. At present her back problem blocks her being able to return to Ethiopia. Pray that
improvement in her condition will open the way for her to return for the celebration.
Pray for our travel and health.
We trust that as the Anyuak Bible comes into the hands of Anyuaks, the voice of God will speak to
them as they read in it, opening to them salvation and life in Jesus Christ. Pray for this.
As we come into the Christmas season, we send our greetings, thankful for the humble birth of our
Lord and Savior, and the life He has opened to us.
Niles and Ann— Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
“Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all
we can ask or imagine, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever
and ever. Amen.” Ephesians 3:20-21
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PW Thank Offering Due to your generosity, Presbyterian Women received $676 for the Thank Offering re-ceived November 4th . Through your contributions, you help provide clean water, help alle-viate homelessness, provide educational and health care opportunities and lift up the lives of women and children in the United States and around the world! Thank you so much for your support!
Synod School, is an annual midsum-
mer ministry of the Synod of Lakes
and Prairies of the Presbyterian-
Church (USA)
July 22-27, 2012
Buena Vista University, Storm
Lake, Iowa
www.lakesandprairies.org/
school.html
Join us for a week of:
Worship for all ages, with spirited
music and singing:
Daily convocation on the theme
Classes for youth and adults of all
ages’
Bookstore and global fair-trade gift
shop
Sing-a-longs and nightly coffee-
houses with live music
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MUSIC NOTES
1-800-328-1880,ext 207
Synod School 2012 January 1, Read The Bible in a Year - You can still join in this challenge Youth Night - January 6 an evening of Fellowship and friends January 20th New Beginning sings at Faith Springs Presbyterian Church in Pewaukee January 27th Annual Congregational Meeting and Lunch Contribution Envelopes for 2013 will be in Mary Paull Chapel for pick up by WOW starts February 13th.
“UPCOMING EVENTS“
“NEW YEAR 2013”
The beauty of the season is almost behind us. But the beauty of the new
year is upon us.
As we look forward to praising God through music in this new year, may
we always be reminded how the sounds and words from each song reach
our hearts and minds so differently. The writers of our hymns and
anthems work wonders as they place the notes and harmonies in such a
magnificent order so as to make the words seem as though they are com-
ing right from the mouth of our Lord right into our hearts.
The many hours that went into preparing for our Cantata, music for the
Advent Season as well as our Christmas Eve service, was a joy and an in-
spiration to all those devoted singers and musicians involved.
My hope is that the music of 2013 reaches inside your soul and brings you
delight in knowing our Lord, the Savior born just a few days ago.
Blessings,
Carl
Greg Granrath
August 13, 1944 - December 10, 2012
“With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.” Ephesians 4:2-3
To Nan and son Greg and grandchildren and the rest of the Granrath
and Obrien Families in the passing of Greg Granrath and his brother Mike
Granrath.
Also to the Shotton family in the passing of Matthew’s step mother.
Our hearts are with all of our members who lost loved ones this past year.
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PLEASE PRAY FOR:
Rich & Marianne Carus as
Marianne is in Clement
Manor
Bob Reimer who had
shoulder surgery
Keith Ripley who is recov-
ering from a heart attack
Betty DeFrancisco who’s
health is failing
Drew Cushing who is suf-
fering from a brain abnor-
mality
Steve Alar who had hip
surgery
Margaret Downing, a
friend of Pastor Cathy
Corrine & Scott, friends of
Monica Rahn who have
cancer
Karen, Ginny T’s niece
who is back on chemo for
brain cancer
Bev Benatti, friend of
Elaine Curtis who is on
chemo
Jean Maercklein who fell &
is badly
Joan & Justin Van Able as
Justin recoups from aneu-
rysm surgery
Jeff, friend of the Haessly
family, who had many tu-
mors removed
Keske family as their moth-
er had hip surg after a fall
Carl & Linda Hoon who are
battling sinusitis & colds
CONTINUE PRAYERS FOR:
Suzanne Lewitzke,
Brooke Jensen who is slowly
improving from a concussion
Audrey & Karen Schicantek
Alice Solik who is at
Froedtert
Don Leaman in Colorado
Betty Weger who is in poor
health
Emmie, granddaughter of
the Losey family who had
surgery in Seattle
Lois , Laverne & Nancy
Anderson
Jason Letizia, Kathy
Estunds nephew who is
improving after an infec-
tion following his liver
transplant
Karen Cushing as she con-
tinues to have pain in her
foot
Statia Treece, Brenda
Thomas’s mother
Mildred Anderson,
Jeanne’s mother who is in
a nursing home since July
Rick Colter, Nancy
Borkowicz brother who
has cancer
Mary Collin’s who’s health
is improving
Paula, friend of Char-
maine Wargolet who had
eye surgery
PRAYER AND PRAISE SECTION CON’T
The Apostle Prayer Chain is responsible for ensuring that your prayer request is passed on and
lifted up in prayer.
If you have a prayer request, please contact Ginny Treviranus, at 414-543-2013 chairman of the
Prayer Chain. She will be happy to add your prayer request to the prayer chain.
Ginny requests the name and address of the person being added to the prayer chain so she can
send a note from the Prayer Chain, informing them that they are being prayed for.
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1-25 Dora Reimer
1-28 Katherine Russell
1-30 William Gardner
FEBRUARY
2-1 Laurie Sether
2-8 Michael Westphal
2-10 Allie Kaddatz
2-12 Dorothy Trimmel
2-13 Kari Keske
2-18 Wayne Schicantek
2-19 Bob Thompto
2-19 Brenda Wegner
2-20 Colten Cebuhar
2-21 Kevin Wegner
2-24 Isabella Camp
2-25 Benjamin Schicantek
2-28 Braydon Befus
JANUARY
1-2 Roy Bernhardt
1-2 Walter Schwartz
1-3 Phyllis Melzer
1-4 Alyssa Provencher
1-5 Hazel Meh
1-5 Barbara Nowicki
1-9 Nancy Borkowicz
1-9 Richard Jensen
1-12 Amanda Costello
1-19 Adelle Sanford
1-19 Elayne Stover
1-22 Robert Nowicki
1-24 Rudy Baumann
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SPECIAL JANUARY - FEBRUARY BIRTHDAY FRIENDS
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