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PASTOR’S SUMMER

PROJECTS

CAMP MOOSEFEATHER FALLS VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL JUNE 19th—JUNE 23rd

MIDDLE SCHOOL DAY AT

SCHILTTERBAHN JUNE 28th

MIDNIGHT MADNESS

GARAGE SALE 11:59 PM FRIDAY, JULY 8th

LCMS NATIONAL YOUTH

GATHERING @ NEW ORLEANS JULY 16th—JULY 20th

PREPARING FOR FALL EDUCATIONAL YEAR

Sunday Morning Classes, Adult Instruction Classes 8th Grade Confirmation

Classes

VACATION TIME JUNE 7th—JUNE 16th

JULY 28th—AUG. 4th

2016

THE MONTHS OF JUNE/JULY PASTOR’S ARTICLE

Pastor Francis L. Schroeder Holy Cross Lutheran—Nederland

WHEN THE JOB IS REALLY, REALLY BIG

Pachyderm pedicures are not a luxury. They are a necessity. According to the Kansas City Star, if captive elephants don’t get regular foot care, they are prone to infection that can be fatal. However; clipping the toenails of such a large animal that can weigh as much as six tons can be risky. So one man had an idea. He developed an “elephant flipper” that can allow the keepers to restrain an elephant safely and turn it on its side. The device stands twelve feet tall, weighs more than fifteen tons, and costs over $100,000. Caring for people can also be risky business. St. Paul offers no ingenious device for helping those who are in danger of harming themselves and others. Instead, he reminds us that when it comes to caring for the minds and hearts of others, we cannot rely on human strength or ingenuity. What we really need is the wisdom of God to guide us and lead us to a better way, a better day, and a new beginning. Stay in the Word, stay with the Lord, and follow in His footsteps daily. May you all have a blessed June and July! Pastor Francis L. Schroeder

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IN OUR SUNDAY MORNING PRAYERS WE LIFT UP…...

June 5th Genesis Lutheran Church – Buchanan Dam, Texas Pastor Jan "Trey" Rienstra (Son of Holy Cross) June 12th St. Paul Lutheran Church - Jasper, Texas Faith Lutheran Church - Woodville, Texas Pastor Mark Follett June 19th Redeemer Lutheran Church - Beaumont, Texas Pastor Fred Kelm June 26th St. John Lutheran Church - Beaumont, Texas Pastor Doug Rathgeber July 3rd Hope Lutheran Church - Winnie, Texas Pastor Richard LeBlanc July 10th St. Paul Lutheran Church - Sheboygan, Wisconsin Pastor Alan Kretschmar (Son of Holy Cross) July 17th Trinity Lutheran Church - Port Arthur, Texas Pastor Tim Dinger & Pastor Mario Casillas July 24th Grace Lutheran Church - Orange, Texas Pastor Tom Haas July 31st St. Paul Lutheran Church - Groves, Texas Pastor Richard Turner

DID YOU KNOW THIS FOR JUNE & JULY?

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WORSHIP SERVICES FOR JUNE 2016 SUNDAY, JUNE 5th THE 3rd SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST Divine Service Setting One with Holy Communion with Installation of Officers, Elders, & Chairpersons 10:30 AM in the Church Sanctuary SUNDAY, JUNE 12th THE 4th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST Creative Worship Service with Children’s Message 10:30 AM in the Church Sanctuary SUNDAY, JUNE 19th THE 5th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST FATHER’S DAY Divine Service Setting One with Holy Communion with Installation of Vacation Bible School Staff 10:30 AM in the Church Sanctuary SUNDAY, JUNE 26th THE 6th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST Creative Worship Service with Children’s Message 10:30 AM in the Church Sanctuary SUNDAY, JULY 3rd THE 7th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND Creative Worship Service with Holy Communion 10:30 AM in the Church Sanctuary

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DID YOU KNOW THIS TOO ?

HOLY CROSS LUTHERAN NOW ON YOUR SMARTPHONE! All you need to do is type holycrosstexas and you will pull up the information for worship services, events for the week, registration forms, our newsletter, and a 30 minute video from Lutheran Media Ministries. For those on laptops you may go to www.holycrosstexas.org for our complete website OUR DAILY BREAD (June, July, & August) are available in the narthex. PORTALS OF PRAYERS (April, May, & June) are available in the narthex of the church. NEW OFFICERS, ELDERS, & BOARD CHAIRPERSONS for Holy Cross will be installed on Sunday, June 5th, during the 10:30 AM worship service. CIRCUIT PROFESSIONALS CONFERENCE WILL BE TAKING THE SUMMER OFF. They will resume in the Fall on the second Tuesday of every month at a different church in the circuit. We gather at 8:30 AM for coffee and refresh-ments, 9:00 AM for Opening Devotion, 9:15 AM for Bible Study, 10:30 AM for Topical Study, 11:15 AM for Circuit Business and Casuistry. The next Circuit Professionals Meeting will be held at Grace Lutheran Church in Orange on Tuesday, September 20th. HOLY CROSS HOMEBOUND MEMBERS receive on a weekly basis an CD of Holy Cross’ Sunday morning services and on a monthly basis a DVD from Lutheran Ministries Media. THE TEXAS DISTRICT LWML CONVENTION will be in Lubbock at the Overton Hotel and Convention Center from June 24th through June 26th. THE LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD NATIONAL CONVENTION will be in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 9th through July 14th. THE LCMS NATIONAL YOUTH GATHERING will be in New Orleans, Louisiana, July 16th through July 20th.

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Birthdays

2—Jerry Singleton James Teel Jeannine Walther 3—Beryle Woolbright 4—Rodger Beckcom Marvin Ermel Jennifer Jones 5—Kirk Cogswell Timothy Lavespere 7—Blake Ford 8—Haley Kaspar Kathryn Sturgis 10—Mia Miller Sawyer Mitcham 11—Austin Ronning Everett Wiley 12—Addison Ashby Amber Brown Don Gribnau 13—Addie Hollomon Nathan Metcalf Makayla Theriot 14—Cass Bryson Bobby Hovey Jr. Jan Rienstra Jody Swango Katelee Zampini 15—Sandra Erickson Laurenda Wolford 16—Dawson Adair Dawn Hardy 17—Jason Heatherly Paul Hempel Landon McCullough Kim Ronning Caleb Spinks Trent Vickers 19—Amber Borel LeeRoy Graeter Heather Perez 20—Brayden Hickman David Laurents Phyllis Love Millie Yanta

22—Leonard Durow Megan Lavespere Kyriah VanVuren Andre’ Wimer 23—Thad Kieschnick Luzie Kitchen Kylie Stump Tayler Trojcak 24—Cathy Borel Marla Kieschnick Megan Odom 25—Anders Delage Bronson Delage Kathy Wingate 26—Rodney Davis 27—Dedie Orta 28—Leah Lewis O. W. Withrow 29—Carla Derouen 30—Denise Shipley Justin Stewart

JUNE

Anniversaries

1-Kandace & Will Rash Chalen & Nathan Armstrong 5-Kassie & Joshua Riley Ruth & Walter Perryman Catherine & Gavin Bruney 6-Sandy & Francis Schroeder 7-Dawn & Ted Graeter Lisa & Steve Hartman 10-Moni & Brad Hopper Susie & Mitchell Koop 13-Gena & Doug Carter 15-Linda & Marty Lovelace Laurie & Scott Stevenson 19-Carlene & Larry Singleton 21-Shele & Keith Eason Brandy & Jarred Kotz 26-Beth & Russ DeVillier Marlene & Rudy Parma Anna & Mark Winstead 29-Layne & David Diltz

JULY Birthdays

1—Tommy Thompson Pam Vincent Teresa Wolfe 2—Isabelle Simmons 3—Bryson Borel Traci Durow Brad Perryman 6—Thomas McCall Sandy Schroeder 7—Reese Abshire Morgan Barron Jessica Brown Kaitlyn Collins Lyndsey Hartman 8—Pat Barrington Robin Barrington Nancy Beckcom Linda Tran 9—Babette Ford Aiden Fortune Brandon Lovelace 10—Remi Robison Annabeth Slagle Suzannah Smalley 11—Alec Bruney Amy Schulze 12—Janice Chesson Kaylor Heatherly Cooper Hollomon 13—Joshua Harris Todd Kieschnick Steven Swango Doug Teinert 14—Linda Byrd Melani Woodruff 15—Erica Toole 16—Gail Landry 17—Morgan Hicks Russell Melancon Marlene Parma Taylor Whalen 18—Tyler Gunter Kristin Runnels Cole Teltschik

19—Kensie Monk Trevor Singleton 22—Jessica Caswell Wade Kieschnick 23—Kassie Riley 25—Herb Wukasch 26—Blake Neeb 28—Aubry LeJune Kristin Nelson 29—Lois Kretschmar Abbey Schulze 30—Dana Dutschmann Michael Rose Aaron Stansbury Kayla Stewart Don Struckmeyer 31—Devin Landry

Anniversaries 1-Jeanette & Tommy Thompson 3-Ann & Milton Huebel 7-Christie & Vic Escobar 10-Melissa & Nathan Stansbury 14-Teresa & Peter Wolfe Donna & Dave Thornton 15-Sharla & Troy Scroggs 20-Brenda & Larry Bland 21-Sara & Grant Coffman 22-Tiffany & Jeremy Lavespere 23-Allison & Jerry Mitcham Renee’ & Bobert Runnels 24-Kathy & Dan Wingate Dolores & Douglas Hussey 25-Mickey & Thad Kieschnick 27-Judy & Norman Brodeur 28-Jodi & Stuart Kieschnick 30-Courtney & Dean Kaspar Joelle & Craig Dutschmann

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Lutheran Women

who are: In the Word, of the Word, walking with their

Lord! We have many

opportunities for the congregation to help us

News from our: Lutheran Women’s Missionary League

QUILTING CIRCLE: EVERY THURSDAY at 9am

in the Conference Rooms.

Everyone is welcome to come sew with us. We’re

still taking donations of material, blue jeans, or cash for supplies.

We appreciate each one of you for

supporting our efforts for this worthwhile mission project.

If you’re unable to quilt with the group you can work from home.

Call Rosie & she will get you set up #201-5710.

Sewing

Machines are available.

Thursday, June 16, at 2:30pm location TBA.

Stamps for Mission— doesn’t take vacation….please with all the graduation, wedding , and

other cards that come this time of year. Save those stamps! We save the trash dump some and put smiles on many faces in need.

A little stamp can do so much good. Check the bulletin board for more information on how you can continue to help.

One stamp is just as important as many—remember the “Widow’s Mite”.

Thank you so much, Sharon Teinert & Judy Alvarez

LWML Mission Project

Please bring your stamps to church no later than Sunday, June 12th, as we will be taking them to the

LWML Convention in June.

LWML Summer Activites

Tuesday, June 14, at 6pm in the Education Building Hostesses:

Member Development Committee will furnish drinks & table-ware. All gals of all ages are invited and asked to bring a snack, such as—popcorn, pretzels, finger

sandwiches, cookies, brownies, etc. Program:

“The Heavenly Banquet” Activity: Bunco Fun Night

The mission outreach project for June is to bring knitting yarn for the Booty Ritter Senior Center. Also, if you wish to send a “Thank Offering” to the convention, for the 75th Endowment

Fund bring it to the meeting. Guests are welcome to bring donations but not obligated.

Tuesday, July 12, at 6pm in the Education Building

Hostesses: Salad Supper Program:

Juliya Guidry—Guest Speaker, is from Russia and is the hairdresser at Summer Place. Pat Biar was a

patient there in February and found conversations with Juliya fascinating as she compared living conditions in Russia with

America! Thinking that Juliya’s story would be interesting as a program for LWML, Pat asked her if she would consider coming

to Holy Cross to share her story. She immediately said yes! Though we my be tempted to find fault with American (& true—it has it’s faults), we are extremely blessed to be citizens of the

USA! All are invited to come hear Juliya’s story and see if you don’t agree!

Activity: LWML’s mission outreach for July is bringing wieners & hot

dog buns for the Salvation Army. Guests are in no way obligat-ed to do so, but if you desire to help with this project, as always

your participation is greatly appreciated!

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to our 2016 Senior Graduates:

Jenny Brown, Gavin Erwin-Zumo, Morgan Hicks, Tatum Kieschnick,

Whitney Kieschnick, Olivia Shipley, Madison VanBrocklin, Trent Vickers.

Wolfe Boat Racing Update

Holy Cross is a sponsor for the Wolfe Racing Team. Owner Phillip Wolfe is a member of

St. Paul Lutheran Church & brother/brother-in-law to Peter & Teresa Wolfe.

In April, the team came in 2nd Place in the Baytown Race &

2nd Place in the Pt. Neches Riverfest race.

On June 18th they will head to Nashville, Tennessee to compete on the Cumberland River.

Please keep them in your prayers as they travel & race.

Deadline for August Newsletter

isFriday, July 22nd!

COME VISIT OUR CHURCH LIBRARY

in Education Building. Just sign the checkout card & leave it on the desk. Any questions, you can call Lynne Hollomon, Pam Vin-

cent, or Kathy Pinnt.

To: Holy Cross Memorial Fund

In memory of Betty Anderson

given by: Pat Biar

Lois Kretschmar Sharon & Nathan Anderson

Judy & Pat Sturgis Lisa & Art Richard

In memory of

Betty & Edwin Anderson given by:

The Harbour Family

In memory of Marion Hughes

given by: Judy & Pat Sturgis

Memorial ’s Continued

To: Holy Cross Youth Fund In memory of

Betty Anderson given by:

Ida Trojcak

To: Holy Cross VBS Fund

In memory of Marion Hughes

given by: Sharon & Doug Teinert

To: Holy Cross LWML

In memory of Betty Anderson

given by: The Kieschnick Family Ruth Anne & Walter

Perryman

To: Holy Cross LWML

In memory of Marion Hughes

given by: Ruth Anne & Walter

Perryman

to all our

dads on

Sunday,

June 19th.

Thanks for all you do—have a great day!

Have a

happy &

safe

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Middle School Youth to

Schlitterbahn Galveston Waterpark Tuesday, June 28

@8am-9pm Cost: $37.99 (12 years and up)

NON-REFUNDABLE and $31.99 (3-11 years) NON-REFUNDABLE

+ the cost of food

*This rate is for 15 people or more—so invite your friends!

DEADLINE TO SIGN UP / PAY Sunday, June 19 @12NOON

Holy Cross will provide water and drinks!

Carpool will leave Holy Cross at 8am SHARP

All Middle School Youth (those entering the 5th-8th Grade in the fall of 2016) and friends are encouraged to join us.

Please register online at www.holycrosstexas.org on our Youth Ministry

Page or contact DCE Kristy Witek. Spots held by payment only.

Adult counselors and adult drivers are needed. Please register online if you can serve in this way!

Midnight Madness Garage Sale Friday, July 8 @11:59pm to Saturday, July 9 @8am

Set-Up: Tues., July 5 & Wednesday, July 6 @ 6pm-9pm You may begin bringing items on Sunday, June 26.

Please MARK/PRICE all items (in $.25 increments) except clothing, toys, or shoes as they will be a set price.

*This is a fundraiser for the National Youth Gathering in 2016 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Families/Individuals who participate in this fundraiser will get a portion of the earnings

from this event—those who do not participate in this fundraiser will not.

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Camp Moosefeather Falls VBS will take

place on Sunday, June 19 through Thurs-

day, June 23 @ 6-7:30pm. 3 years old (potty trained) through the 5th Grade!

ALL ONLINE REGISTRATION

Super easy! Type in the info & DONE!

Go to www.holycrosstexas.org

To register! Click the VBS picture!

VBS HELPERS NEEDED!

We are forming our Vacation Bible School Team, so if you are willing to continue serving on our team or if you are interested in joining us for the first time, please contact DCE Kristy

Witek at dcekristy@sbcglobal.net. We are in need of Cabin Leaders, Cabin helpers, guitar-ists, babysitters (for staff children), dining hall helpers, decoration coordinator and decoration

team, registration team, Preschool Leaders, Preschool Helpers, Preschool Arts and Crafts Leader, Preschool Games Leader, and Family Fun Night Helpers.

Please contact DCE Kristy Witek if you can help!

Let’s Go Change The World

Each night our campers will be challenged to “change the world”

by donating “change” to a very special mission project.

We are still in prayer about our specific mission project!

“Let's Go CHANGE the World” through this project!

Can You Help?

Volunteers needed on Sunday, June 5, & Saturday, August 13. To promote community outreach for La Trinidad, the Hispanic

Mission housed at Trinity, Port Arthur & supported by the churches in Circuit 34, a Block Party is planned for August 13. Sign-up sheets to oversee various booths & activities will be available. Thrivent members from area congregations are encouraged to use one of their Action Team funding requests to

enable an event of this magnitude to occur. Come to Trinity on Sunday, June 5 @ 5pm where more details will be available & several computers

will be available to apply for your Thrivent Action Team funding right on the spot. Miko Thomas-Tisdale from the Houston office & others who have applied in the past will be there to

help with the process. Please bring your Thrivent member number with you. Snacks & desserts provided.

Non-Thrivent members are urged to attend also to be on hand to sign up for the area that you can best share the talents God has given to you. It looks to be an event filled with fun for you

& your families as well as the neighborhood guests that attend. June 5 is the official Thrivent Chapter meeting for the month with emphasis on the Block Party. For more information, call Eileen Schaefer at 722-0711 or Rosemarie Herring at 201-5710.

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