We welcome you as you join us in worship this morning! Please join us for

coffee, tea, and snacks in our Fellowship Café. We would enjoy meeting you and

learning how we can minister to your family. We kindly ask that you refrain from

bringing food or beverages into the Sanctuary. Thank you.

At St. Luke Lutheran Church, we use photographs and/or video to record our events and

ministry. These are used to help promote our ministry, and for archival purposes. We also

provide photographs to other publications for these purposes, such as on our website, or the

Press Enterprise. If you DO NOT want your or your child’s image used in this manner,

please contact the church office to make us aware of your wishes.

St. Luke Snapshot “Living in Faith...Linking Hearts and Hands”

Sunday, September 9, 2018

For the Week of September 9, 2018

Sunday, September 9: Pentecost 16

Worship Service: 8:00 am, 9:15 am, 10:30am

Bible Presentation: 8:00, 9:15, 10:30

Learning Hour, 9:15 am

Cooking class with Bac Ly, 1:00 (SH/K)

Youth Group, 5:00 pm (SY/SH)

Monday, September 10:

Christian Education Meeting: 5:30 pm (FF)

Cub Scouts: 6:30 pm (LV,PC,GK,AR,SH)

Tuesday, September 11:

Sawdust, 5:30pm

Bloomsburg Women Civic Meeting: 5:30pm (AR)

Wednesday, September 12:

P.E.O: 4:00pm (AR)

Mid-week Recharge: (SH,K,FF,GE,FG,SC,GG)

Teen’s Revenge Mystery Eating Contest: 5:00pm (SH) Potluck: 5:30pm (SH) Worship: 6:30pm Bible Studies: 7:30pm

Thursday, September 13:

Liturgical Bible Study, 5:30pm (GE,GG)

Quilters in Bloom: 6:00pm (SH)

Cub Scouts: 6:30pm (LV)

Fishing Creek Herb Guild: 6:30pm (AR/K)

Friday, September 14:

Girl Scouts: 6:00pm (AR)

Youth Group Lock-In: 6:00pm (entire church)

Saturday, September 15:

Youth Group Lock-in: 12:00-8:00am (entire church)

Tres Dias Men: 8:00am (SH/K)

Vietnamese Bible Study: 12:00pm (GE)

PNO: 5:00pm (TPN,SC,GG,FG)

Sunday, September 16: Pentecost 17

Worship Service: 8:00 am, 9:15 am, 10:30am

Learning Hour, 9:15 am

Private event: 5:00pm (SH/PV)

Snapshot Deadline is Wednesday, September 12 by 10:00am

Thank you for Serving in Ministry — 9/9/2018

Greeters: (8:00) Jan & George Harris (9:15) Carla McCaleb & Joe Bryan

(10:30) Heather & Paul Stanziale

Lector: (8:00) Bridget Mathias (9:15) Don Goetz (10:30) John Callahan

Ushers: (8:00) Ken Roush (9:15) Steve Kistler (10:30) TBA

Acolytes: (8:00) Lucas Utt (9:15) Emily Heise (10:30) Karlene Wiehe

Counters: (9/10/2018) G. Pletcher, J. Johnson, L. Miller, G. Rubery

9/16/2018

Ushers: (8:00) Ferne Dorn (9:15) TBD (10:30) Monica Shellenberger

Acolytes: (8:00) Wesley Fruit (9:15) Brady McNamara (10:30) Alexis Fox

Counters: (9/17/2018) M. Austin, J. Johnson, A. Patterson, K. Roush

Website: www.stlukesway.org Church Office: 570 784 5035 Email: stlukelc@ptd.net

Attendance for Sunday, September 2

8:00: 62 9:15: 46 10:30: 50

St. Luke Reading the Bible Together

First three adult classes are:

Holding Your Family Together; Family Faith and Practices at Home Book Study: The Road, The Rock, and the Rabbi

By Heart: Conversations with Martin Luther’s Small Catechism

LEARNING HOUR

RESUMES TODAY!

9:15am

Monday Proverbs 8:32-9:6 Hebrews 11:29-12:2 Tuesday Proverbs 11:1-31 Hebrews 12:3-13

Wednesday Proverbs 14:1-9 Matthew 17:14-21 Thursday Proverbs 15:1-17 Hebrews 11:17-22 Friday Proverbs 19:24-29 James 2:17-26 Saturday Proverbs 21:1-17 Matthew 21:23-32

Psalms for the week are 73:1-20; 19

Cooking Class with Bac Ly TODAY!

1:00pm - Social Hall

Bac Ly will be teaching us how to

make egg rolls.

TODAY during all three services

Bibles will be presented to those age three, in first grade and 1st year Confirmation

students.

Roof Fund current balance is $88,500

Youth Group Meetings resume tonight (Sept. 9)

5:00 PM

Prayer List for the Week of Sept 16, 2018

NOT AVAILABLE ONLINE

SEEKING ADULT SUPERVISOR FOR PARENT’S NIGHT OUT

An adult is needed to be present at the church during the once

a month Parent’s Night Out events to assist the babysitters

should any issues arise. If you are willing to commit to one of

these evenings (typically the third Saturday from 5:00pm-

9:00pm) please let Dorey Tabor know you are interested.

What about Thee?

Greetings, kindly friend. I am wondering, perchance dost thou parley in such manner as this? Art thou familiar in this manner of speech with thy fellow laborers or kindred? I think not. For that matter, I bet it took a few moments to decipher and translate those three sentences. Why? They are in English, aren’t they? So what is the problem? The problem is that those sentences are in archaic language, which has not been in common usage for more than 400 years. People just don’t speak that way anymore, except maybe at a medieval renaissance or a Shakespearean festival. It can sound very poetic, and often very charming, however, though understandable, it is cumbersome for us, and full of opportunities for confusion and error. So, what is my point? Since we do not speak or think this way, why do we so often use this archaic form when we communicate with God?

Think about it. How many times have you said “thee”, “thou”, “thy”, “thine” when praying? Many people, who are not fluent in old-English, insist on studying the Bible using a King James Bible. We sing songs in archaic English. In all of these circumstances, we stumble over unfamiliar words and syntax, and we do it because we somehow think of it as “the right way”. What makes it “the right way”? Because we have always done it that way. But, does that make it “right”?

Before I go further and cause someone conster-nation or emotional distress, let me say this: there is nothing wrong with praying with “thee” and “thou”, reading the King James Bible, or singing old hymns. If these things bless you, please keep doing them. I, too, appreciate the beauty in this poetic format, but I just don’t speak fluently in old-English.

Anyway, back to my point. What is the right language for you to use when you communicate with God? Whatever is the most meaningful for you. If that is common, modern English, great. If it is Spanish, Ole’! If it is German, wunderbar! God even reads sign and interprets artistic expression. The point is, God is fluent in the language that you are most comfortable using. He wants to hear from you in the manner that you can sincerely express yourself. This may be a song, a dialog, a letter, a sculpture, quiet meditation, a scream, a murmur, a whisper, a sob-- whatever is the real you. That is where He will meet you; how He will best hear you.

What is your language? Not to worry. God speaks it.

In Christian Love--

--Mike McCay

School Supplies Donations

This year we are collecting school supplies for Vanessa Hemmen's school. They can use any school supplies, but are especially in need of:

backpacks, composition notebooks, pencils, crayons, Elmer’s liquid glue, loose leaf paper, and scissors. Gently

used clothes (red, black or blue collared polo shirts and khaki or black pants are also appreciated).

There is a box in the Narthex to place donations.

September 12, 19 No Recharge on September 26

*5:00pm: Teen’s Revenge Mystery Eating Contest* *September 12 only*

October 3, 10, 17, 24 No Recharge on October 31

November 7, 14

EVERY WEEK: 5:30pm Potluck 6:30pm Worship

7:00pm Bible Studies

Childcare provided

Saturday, September 15, 2018 5:00pm-9:00pm

ONLY LIGHT SNACKS ARE PROVIDED

Please contact the church office to sign up for childcare. 570 784 5035