I need to remember, too, that an ambassa-dor's job is to fully and accurately deliver the message of the one who sent him. For a Jesus-ambassador, that Mes-sage is clear: "Nothing except Jesus Christ and Him crucified" (1 Co-rinthians 2:2). That clear message has to be uncluttered by politics, church, religion, per-sonal hobby-horses, culture issues, or life-style attacks. It has to be all about just Jesus and His cross. This Message is so eternally important that it needs to be delivered, not in my churchy "Christianese," but in the non-religious lan-guage of the people I'm there to reach.

There is a risk in-volved. Just ask Jesus, the original and ulti-mate Ambassador of Heaven. He gave His life in exchange for mine. My fear of losing some-one for eternity must trump my fear of what-ever I may lose if I speak up for Jesus.

Pastor David Linkugel

This year as we re-membered the tragedy of September 11, 2001, the news headlines shouted another 9/11 tragedy – the deaths of American ambassador, Chris Stevens, and three of his staff. Killed – as they often say about po-lice officers or soldiers – in the line of duty. It sounds like the man we lost is the kind of per-son we want represent-ing our country. He was proficient in the lan-guage, out among the people, building rela-tionships, and taking risks so people can be free. He was an ambas-sador.

Do you realize that you are an ambassador also? Every one of us who belongs to Jesus is an ambassador. Paul wrote: "We are Christ's ambassadors" (2 Corin-thians 5:20). Current news is a vivid remind-er of exactly what that title means. An ambas-sador is appointed by the highest authority there is (in the case of Chris Stevens, the Presi-dent of the United States) to represent him in a specific place. Sometimes requiring risks and even sacrifice.

You and I have been assigned by the highest Authority in the uni-verse to represent Him wherever He places us. You and I are represent-ing Heaven. That means I must act like Jesus, and respond like Jesus, no matter what my cir-cumstances or treat-ment. There are no ex-cuses for losing my tem-per, being harsh, com-promising my integrity, acting selfish, flirting with sin, or being too busy for people who need me, because I rep-resent Jesus.

I can't stay clois-tered in the "embassy," i.e., the church. I have to do what Jesus did – go outside the walls to meet people where they are. Ambassadors suc-ceed or fail depending on how well they build relationships with the people where they're assigned. No true Jesus-ambassador can be con-tent just to hang out with those from their spiritual "country." We've got to be inten-tional, even passionate, about building authen-tic relationships with the people who need our Jesus.

Pastor’s Corner

October 2012

Upcoming Events

Oct. 7—LWML Sunday

Oct. 12-13— Art of

Marriage Event

Oct. 21—Hayride at

Camp Fontannelle

Oct. 28 — Reformation

Potluck

Inside this

issue:

Anniversaries and

Birthdays

2

“The Art of

Marriage” Event

4

Scrip 4

Youth Events 5

A Pledge and A Prom-

ise 6

Bearing Fruit for Jesus

7

October Calendar 8

Serving Us Today 9

Lifelines

Lord of Life

9 Vicki White

10 David Linkugel, Mark Rasmussen

11 Chad Weber

12 Katie Weander, Darrin DiNapoli

13 Justin Dyke

14 Scott Kurz, Carrie Bliemeister

15 Sandy Leimer

17 Alec Pickering 19 Madelaine Black

20 Kylie Drilling, Arletta Raschke

21 Justin Haack, Jerry Hummel

22 Sharyn Bauerkemper, Mary Blodgett

24 Lisa Frank

25 Kent Nelson

27 Frances Riege

28 Mason Ortmeier, John Mattson

31 Marsha Sanley

October Anniversaries 8 Matt and Stacy Evans

12 Bill and Bobbi Wegner

13 Justin and Trisha Haack

14 Mark and Monique Rasmussen

25 Craig and Cheri Bliemeister

29 Tim and Alice Weander

October Birthdays 1 Josh Cheatle, Linda Baker

2 Kim Hanson

5 Douglas Perrien,

Wesley Tabor

6 Mason Rasmussen, Pam Kurz,

Barrett Howe, David Kleider,

Marlo Rasmussen

8 Jeffrey Applebee

October Anniversaries and Birthdays

“The Power of a Simple Gift”

Pray!” We will give you detailed instructions how to pack a Christ-mas Child shoebox—it is fun, easy, and fairly inexpensive. Then we will ask you to pray, which also hap-pens to be fun, easy, and absolute-ly free! Please look and listen for more information about this terrific opportunity to share the good news of Christ’s birth with a child. Contact Lisa Frank or any member of the Evangelism Ministry Action Team for more information.

In October, Lord of Life will join with Samaritan’s Purse Ministry to demonstrate the power of a simple gift. Samaritan’s Purse has a goal of reaching out to children all over the world through Operation Christmas Child. This ministry effort has pro-vided over 93 million Christmas gifts to children since 1993! Our hope is that Lord of Life can help make the goal of 100 million lives touched since the beginning of this ministry.

We are asking you to “Pack and

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The Christian Outreach

Program of Elkhorn (COPE) is

in need of macaroni and

cheese, pancake mix, syrup,

jelly, peanut butter, hamburger

helper, tuna helper, boxed po-

tatoes, toilet paper, and facial

tissues. You can place your do-

nation in the bin in the entry.

Food for COPE

Each Sunday, the worship bulletin lists members of Lord of Life who are celebrating birthdays and wedding anni-versaries, five church families, and prayer requests. You can use these in your personal devotions during the week.

Please email Frances at Secretary@LordOfLife Elkhorn.org or call the church office (402) 289-3437 before Thursday to have your prayer request printed in the bulletin. We also ask for additional prayer requests during our worship.

Sunday, October 21st 1-6 p.m. Youth and Family Day

Corn Maize & Hayride & MORE!

$6.00 per Person Camp Fontanelle, Fontanelle, NE

Meet at Lord of Life at 12:25 p.m. and we will carpool

together to Fontanelle!

Pray For One Another

Blessed are the Peacemakers

Everyone has conflict in their lives. How do we deal with conflict in a way that serves God? On Sundays at 9:15 a.m. in the fellowship hall, Pastor’s study is learning how to apply the princi-ples of biblical peacemaking.

1. Understanding Conflict 2. Our Responses to Conflict 3. Glorify God 4. Get the Log Out of Your Eye 5. Gently Restore 6. Go and Be Reconciled

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holding you back? Please share your res-ervations with Nicole or Julie, and we will do our best to help clear up any confusion. Each youth needs to raise $1,400 for the trip. Three extra features of shopwithscrip.com include Presto Pay, where you can pay for your purchase with au-to debit from your bank account; Scrip Now!, instant printing of Scrip from your own home; and Reloading cards, adding funds to

Scrip is easy. Scrip costs you nothing extra. And using Scrip for your usual purchases and for gift-giving provides direct profits to our youth’s fundraising efforts for next summer’s National Youth Gathering in San Antonio. Plus, Shop-WithScrip.com allows you to place your order when it’s convenient for you, and not feel rushed to decide before you leave church on order days. To be honest, we were hoping for much greater participation. What is

existing cards. Anoth-er advantage of the online system – it tracks each of your orders and rebates for tax deductions at year end! Order dates are the 1

st and 3

rd Sundays of

the month, while large orders can be placed at any time. If you need cards between order dates, check out our large selection of gift cards at the tech booth after worship or in the office during the week. Our youth thank you in advance!

Scrip

Gift Card

Program

Making marriage work is a divinely inspired art form. The “Art of Marriage” videos weave together expert teaching, engaging stories, man-on-the-street interviews, humorous vignettes and much more to portray both the challenges and the beauty of God’s design. Participants will use an accompanying manual full of projects that help them live what they learn from these dynamic sessions:

Love Happens: God’s Purpose and Plan Love Fades: Overcoming isolation Love Dances: Fulfilling Our Responsibilities

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Love Interrupted: Communication and Conflict Love Sizzles: Experiencing Real inti-macy Love Always: leaving a Lasting Legacy

Lord of Life will host “The Art of Marriage” conference Friday, October 12 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. and Saturday October 13 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Sign up by the fellowship hall doors. There is a $35 fee.

October

order dates:

October 7 and

October 21.

HyVee Coupon Books!

Lord of Life Youth are selling coupon books for $5

each. All proceeds go toward the LCMS National

Youth Gathering.

The Youth are holding their Annual Silent Auction in November. They are looking for new items, gift baskets, or services that could be donated to the auction. If you have any items that you’d like to donate, please contact Nicole at 402-289-3437

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2013 LCMS National Youth Gathering

July 1-5 in San Antonio, Texas

LCMS NYG is a time to be with 25,000 other youth and adults who love Jesus and spend time

worshipping, serving, and having a great time together! Gathering is for 14 to (at time of gather-

ing) 19 years old youth. Registration of $100 is due Sunday, October 7th! Questions? Contact DCE

Nicole Tubandt.

Impact Youth 9:15 a.m. Sundays

Eddie and Tommy of the

Skit Guys will illustrate the

lesson and the youth will

DIG deep into Scripture to

see how God can and does

IMPACT their lives.

Impact youth will start going through the book “Not a Fan” on Wednesday nights. “Not a Fan” by Kyle Idleman

asks are you just a ‘fan’ of Jesus or

are you a ‘follower’ of Jesus? Are

you standing on the sidelines or

are you in the game?

Pass on a Legacy of Faith to Your Child… Faith Legacy is a 3 part series that meets for 1 hour each week for 3 weeks to help par-ents become the spiritual leaders of their chil-dren. All too often parents don’t feel comfort-able talking to their children about Jesus. It’s not that they don’t want too, they just don’t know how. Faith Legacy will help parents share Jesus with their child. The other ad-vantage of Faith Legacy is the parents get the experience of sharing with other parents whose children are the same age.

October is 4 and 5 year olds

Tuesday, October 9, 16, 23 from 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Do you need childcare during this time?

Please register by contacting Nicole at dceni-

cole@lord oflifeelkhorn.org or 402-289-3437.

Every year we ask all

confirmed members to set

goals for their faith and

discipleship. Those goals

focus on worship, personal

devotions, Bible study,

prayer, witnessing, service

to our Lord and financial

support of the ministry of

Lord of Life.

Please prayerfully con-

sider your recommitment

to Christ. Reaffirm and

recommit yourself to

make the Lord’s priorities

high on your list of priori-

ties. Complete the com-

mitment card and bring it

with you to worship on

Sunday, October 28. Dur-

ing our worship, we’ll place

our sealed commitments of

our time, talents, and

treasure on the altar, sym-

bolizing the giving of our-

selves to our Lord and Sav-

ior as Paul says in Romans

12:1 “Therefore, I urge

you, brothers, in view of

God’s mercy, to offer your

bodies as living sacrifices,

holy and pleasing to God –

this is your spiritual act of

worship.” Your commit-

ment card from last year is

returned to you so that

you can reflect on how you

have served your Savior

and where you can grow in

your service and disciple-

ship. To help with the

budget planning process,

please complete the anony-

mous financial giving por-

tion of the commitment

card and place it on the

altar.

A Pledge and A Promise

to attend this assuredly cute and heart-warming telling of the Christmas story in song and word. Parents: be watching for commitment letters to sign up your children to participate.

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This year we will return to a Christmas program presented by the children for the congregation. “Away in A Manger” will be pre-sented on Sunday, December 23, at 4:00pm. Make plans now

Everyone 7th grade and older is invited to participate in our seasonal Christmas choir. Depending on interest, we might sing for Thanksgiving Eve worship as well. We’ll meet for 4 or 5 rehearsals, but

I need ideas for preferred re-hearsal day/time. We hope you will be able to join us in wel-coming our newborn King! Please send me an email at Juliekmusic@lordoflifeelk horn.org to indicate

your interest in singing with the Christmas choir and your preferred re-hearsal day/time (e.g. Sundays at 1:00; Wednes-days at 6:00; Wednesdays at 8:00, etc.)

Seasonal Choir

Video Techs Needed for

10:30 Worship

Volunteers ages 7th grade and

older are needed to be trained as

media tech. You would only need

to commit to once a month or

less. Please speak to Julie for

more information.

We appreciate any help you can

provide in directing us to singers,

guitarists, and bass players for

Rejoice!, our worship team. Please

speak with any member of our team

if you are able to help.

Worship Team

Children’s Christmas Program

In the next couple of weeks, you

will hear a lot about bearing fruit be-

cause our stewardship theme for this

year is Bearing Fruit for Jesus.

Fruit trees are one of the many won-

ders of God’s creation. To see the

beauty of the tree and its fruit, to en-

joy its taste, and to realize that it all

came from a tiny seed is almost be-

yond our comprehension. An apple

seed is planted in the ground, and,

with water and sun as nourishment,

miraculously a seedling surfaces that

develops into a fruit tree. After a pe-

riod of time, the apple tree fulfills its

mission by bearing apples.

We, as Christians, are like that

apple tree. We, too, have been fed

and nourished by God so we can bear

fruit. “You did not choose Me, but I

chose you and appointed you to go and

bear fruit—fruit that will last” (John

15:16). Jesus tells us “I am the Vine;

you are the branches. If a man remains

in Me and I in him, he will bear much

fruit; apart from Me you can do noth-

ing” (John 15:5). The life and power of

any plant is found in its vine. The vine

uses the branches to produce its fruit.

The branch is simply a growth of the

vine, produced by it and appointed to

bear fruit. The branch exists only be-

cause the vine makes it possible.

Fruit characterizes the life of the

Christian steward. When we stay

firmly connected to Jesus, we are

told that we “will bear much fruit.”

Christ has given us the task of min-

istering to the needs of others and

spreading the Gospel. As we stay

connected to Him through His

Word and Sacraments, we discover

God’s perfect will for us, and we are

empowered to please Him by bear-

ing fruit (Colossians 1:9-10). God

has created us to bear fruit

(Ephesians 2:10), but only through

Christ is it possible for us to do so.

“Since we live by the Spirit,” Paul

exhorted, “let us keep in step with the

Spirit. Let us not become conceited,

provoking and envying each oth-

er” (Galatians 5:25-26). As children

of God, we have this fruit because

His Spirit lives in us, not as a result

of our own efforts. We do cease to

bear fruit when we give in to our

sinful natures, becoming, in Paul’s

words, “Conceited, provoking and en-

vying each other.” We are to “Have

nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of

darkness” (Ephesians 5:11), but are

to “Live as children of light (for the

fruit of the light consists in all goodness,

righteousness and truth) and find out

what pleases the Lord” (Ephesians 5:8

-10).

Go and bear fruit!

Is God calling you to SERVE in Children or Youth Ministry? Men and women are needed to assist with planning youth and

children’s activities and administrative tasks, such as calling

youth and parents, organizing details, and assisting with

events! Talk to Nicole or contact the church office if you’re

interested!

Bearing Fruit for Jesus

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I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me, and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me you can do noth-ing” (John 15:5)

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COUNT

OFFERING

10/7 Ohlmann

10/14 Cheatle

10/21 Black

10/28 Montz

Serving Us Today

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Elder

David Schauer

Ushers

10/7 Stacey Elliot

Wayne Smith

10/14 Tim Weander

Marlyn Netsch

10/21 Kurt Muhle

Allan Macklem

10/28 Dick McKibben

Del Wachsmann

Acolytes

10/7 Nathan Kurz

10/14 Connor Elliot

10/21 Bret Lange

10/28 Mason Ortmeier

Video Tech

10/7 Diane Linkugel

10/14 Connor Frank

10/21 Marlyn Netsch

10/28 Stacey Elliot

Audio Tech

10/7 Julie Koenemann

10/14 Julie Koenemann

10/21 Julie Koenemann

10/28 Julie Koenemann

8:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m.

Elder

Jay Lynch

Ushers

10/7 Kent Nelson

Jerry Ohlmann

10/14 Steve Black

Darrin Dinapoli

10/21 Steve Blodgett

Mary Blodgett

10/28 Dennis Kleider

Darin Kleider

Acolytes

10/7 Jayden Howe

10/14 Kaden Wegner

10/21 David Kleider

10/28 Jayden Howe

Video Tech

10/7 Susie Lynch

10/14 Steve Blodgett

10/21 Tracy Cox

10/28 Jason Shaneyfelt

Audio Tech

10/7 Rick Shaneyfelt

10/14 James Kovarik

10/21 Rick Tubandt

10/28 Rick Shaneyfelt

October

GREETERS

9/30, 10/7

8:00

10:30

McKibben

Cox

10/14, 10/21

8:00

10:30

Hanson

Nelson and Drilling

10/28, 11/6

8:00

10:30

McKown

Lynch

KIDS CHURCH

10/7 Cheyenne Petersen and Kara Petersen

10/14 Rita Ortmeier and Mason Ortmeier

10/21 Arletta Raschke and Kim Drilling

10/28 Cheyenne Petersen and Kara Petersen

ALTAR SERVICE

Diane Welliver

Bobbie Wegner

FELLOWSHIP

Cheri Bliemeister

Amanda Dinapoli

MUSIC

Collin Warren

Rejoice!

8:00

10:30

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details!