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November 10th, 2019 REMEMBRANCE DAY SUNDAY
******************************************************************************************** CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH
Church: 905-685-8294, Fax 905-685-7661, www.christlutheransc.ca Vacancy Pastor: Pastor John Makey (905-834-0516) [email protected]
Parish Assistant: Louise Gondosch (905-646-1939), [email protected] Business Manager: Karen McCumber, [email protected]
Secretary: Pat Kimpel, [email protected] SOUL Ministry: Heather Simons, Trinda Renson, Gillian Leaver
Church Office Hours: Tuesday to Friday—9 a.m. – 12 noon Facebook: www.facebook.com/ChristLutheranChurchSC
BULLETIN ANNOUNCEMENTS: Please send to [email protected]. Deadline for submission is Thursday at 9 a.m.
******************************************************************************************** TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
Prayer: O God our Father, we thank You for all Your goodness to us as a nation, and for the any occasions when You have guided and protected us. We thank You for Your Word, the Bible, which down the years has moulded the laws and thinking of our country. Above all, we thank and praise You for sending Your Son, Jesus Christ, to be our Saviour. Today, especially, we give thanks for those who died in the cause of freedom and justice, so that Your truth might continue to be known, and Your laws obeyed within our nation; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
9:00 a.m. – Sunday School (Please note: No Sunday School next Sunday, Nov. 17th
) 10:00 a.m. – Worship Service with Holy Communion (Musician: Susanne Anderson) Hymns: Here I am Lord, 578—Lord, While for all Mankind We Pray, (Blessed Be Your Name / The Summons), 637—Draw Near and Take the Body of the Lord, 752—Be Still My Soul, 761—When Peace, Like a River, 765—God Moves in a Mysterious Way, O Canada (verses 1&4)
WELCOME GUESTS & VISITORS: Welcome to Christ Lutheran Church! If this is your first time
with us please sign our Guest Registry in the back of the church by the double doors. If you are visiting and would like to receive the sacrament of Holy Communion please talk to the pastor before the service. May our gracious and loving Lord bless you as you worship Him.
WE THANK OUR ASSISTANTS FOR TODAY’S SERVICES: GREETER: Bronwyn Goodburn ELDERS: Chris Mason Garth Goodburn
GOD HAS CONTINUED TO BLESS US AS A CONGREGATION! And we thank Him for
Pastor Makey and his shepherding among us. Please continue to keep Pastor and Linda in your prayers.
FLOWERS have been placed on the altar this morning to the glory of God by James & Wendy
Hyatt; and by Glenn & Carole Pink on occasion of Carole’s Birthday.
DAILY SCRIPTURE MEDITATIONS: Monday: 1 Cor. 9: 24-27 Wed.: Rom. 14: 4-12 Friday: Luke 22: 31-38 Tuesday: 11 Tim. 2: 1-5 Thurs.:1 Cor. 9: 13-18 Saturday: 1 Cor. 7: 29-31
EVENTS THIS WEEK: Today: 7:00 p.m. – Fred Lodge Presentation by James Hyatt Monday: Remembrance Day
6:00 p.m. – Sewing For Haiti 7:00 p.m. - CONFIRMATION 7:30 p.m. – Choir Practice
Tuesday: 9:30 a.m. – Precious Moments 10:00 a.m. – Luther Manor Bible Study Wednesday: 10:00 a.m. – SOUL Bingo-Sing-a—long 7:00 p.m. – Church Council Thursday: 10:00 a.m. – SOUL Crafts Friday: 10:00 a.m. – MAD Friday (SOUL) 6:00 p.m. - Youth Jell-O Retreat at Trinity, Fisherville until Sunday Saturday: 10:00 a.m. – Knitting group Sunday: 2:30 p.m. – Youth return from Jell-O Retreat
November 10, 7:00 p.m. at Christ Lutheran
A presentation by James Hyatt:
“Fred Lodge’s Diaries: A Quiet Man’s Journey Through Hell”.
transcribed from the many journals James' uncle kept of his life and
times during the war and the horrors in Nazi prison camps.
The book is available from Wendy Hyatt or through Chapters-Indigo
and Amazon.ca. On Facebook, search “Fred Lodge’s Diaries.”
This should be a very interesting and informative event and you are
welcome to attend!
BAPTISM TODAY AT NOON: We are pleased to welcome into God’s family by Holy Baptism today at 12 p.m. Elijah Tristan Myers, son of Shawn Meyers and Amanda Burt. His Godparents are Oneil Davidson, Jelena Fagerlund and Stanic Smith. May God bless Elijah with a lifetime of rich blessing and protection!
SEWING FOR HAITI: every Monday at 6:00 in the Church basement. We need participants willing
to cut and trace patterns, as well as simple sewing. Bring your own machine or we have extras to use on site. If you aren't sure if you can help, come out and see for yourself. There are other small jobs to be done as well. Hope to have you join us!
Jello-on-a-Stick Youth Retreat November 15-17 at Trinity Lutheran Church (30 Erie
Avenue North, Fisherville). This retreat is for youth enrolled in confirmation classes, as well as for those already confirmed (up to Grade 12). Cost: $35. Please let Louise know by TODAY!. Our plan is to meet at the church at 6:00 p.m. & return to the church Sunday 2:30 p.m.
KNITTING CLASSES: Join us on Saturday mornings at 10:00 a.m. if you are interested in
joining a knitting group and/or learn how to knit, please call Fran Porteous at 905-382-6999.
BAZAAR NOTE: We are looking for arts and crafts for our Bazaar, any knitting, crocheting,
weaving, beading, jewelry, woodworking, stained glass, etc. We truly appreciate and are grateful for the many fantastic donations that you have made in the past and look forward to anything that you may have for this year’s Bazaar.
Bible Society: Niagara Branch will be holding a PROCLAMATION,a public reading of the scriptures.
on Sat. Nov. 16th, from 10:30 a.m. till 4:00 p.m. at the Heritage Christian Bookstore in Grantham Plaza, On Nov. 23rd from 10 a.m. till 3 p.m. there will be an "Open House" for the new Canadian Bible Society Resource Centre at 100 Queen's Plate Drive Etobicoke All are welcome to attend. For more information, contact Martin at 905-646-8271 or Kevin at 905-646-8062."
Last Sunday Attendance: (Nov. 3, 2019) 10 a.m.- 91; (’18-126)
Budget Weekly Need Last Sunday Year To Date + / (-)
Current: 261,041.00 5,020.02 2,177.65 165,125,41 (50,735.42) Missions 25,000.00 480.77 259.00 16,763.00 (3,910.08) Property Improvement (New figures not available) 148.00 5,713.00
FLOWERS: If you are interested in purchasing flowers to place on the altar for our Sunday Worship,
please sign up in the Narthex and be sure to add, if you would like it to be in memory or thankfulness of someone special.
THE CHRIST LUTHERAN FACEBOOK PAGE is in full swing with regular updates. Remember that
you are welcome to share posts and write comments. You can invite friends and family to attend events as well. When you indicate “Interested” or “Going” to any of our events, this action will notify some of your Facebook friends about our events, thus spreading the word! Each week posts from Lutheran Hour Ministries are now being added with devotions and information about Lutheran Ministries from abroad. Check out our Facebook page! A BIG thank-you to Lisa Gall for keeping our facebook page alive and in order—you do a fantastic job.
LUTHERAN HOUR MINISTRIES INFORMATION:
Lutheran Hour Ministries—all info.—www.lhmcanada.org LISTEN TO THE LUTHERAN HOUR, Sundays on CHAM 820 at 8:00 a.m. (Next Sunday, Nov.
17th, 2019) Speaker: Rev. Dr. Michael Zeigler -- Genesis series –“The Dawn Wall”
DISASTER UPDATE AND PRAYER FOR CALIFORNIA: We're getting reports from several of
our congregations in California that many of their members have already had to evacuate. Please pray with us: Dear gracious Father in heaven, You promise to walk with Your people through water and fire. As flames burn and threaten in California, we ask for Your mercy and protection. Provide for those who have lost or been forced from their homes. Be with the firefighters and workers who serve tirelessly and selflessly. For all those who face difficulties and fears as a result of the fires, let them find refuge and hope in Your Son, Jesus, the Savior of the whole world. Let all Your baptized people proclaim Christ and love others in His name in the midst of this and every situation. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
THE “POPPY”— THE FLOWER OF REMEMBRANCE
On Remembrance Day everyone wears a poppy, a reminder of the blood-red flower which grew in the fields where many men died. Much of the fighting was done in a place called “Flanders”. This was during the war of 1914—1918. Every Spring, the soldiers fighting in the trenches noticed the red flowers blooming on the battlegrounds. And as more and more of their friends were killed, the soldiers noticed that the poppies bloomed over the graves.
When the war was over and when the soldiers came home, they still thought of all their friends who were buried in Flanders. Each time they thought of the graves, they thought of the poppies which grew around the graves. Then the men who came back from the war decided that they would wear a poppy each year to show that they still remembered their friends. November 11th was the day on which the fighting stopped in 1918. The men who had been in the war picked that day each year to wear a poppy. Other people who had not been in the war, but who loved the soldiers who had been killed, also wanted to show that they remembered the dead. so they also wore a poppy. There were not enough real poppies to go around. Then some of the men who were wounded, and couldn’t work at other jobs, began to make poppies out of cloth. That is why today everybody wears a poppy which is not a real flower but which reminds us of the flowers which grew over the graves of the men who died. For many years after the first war, children stood with their parents on “Remembrance Day”. Everybody was silent, and everybody wore a poppy and they all thought hard about the men who were killed. By the time many of the children grew up, there was another war. They boys who were now young men went to war. Many of them went to the same places as the men they used to remember. In the fighting in those places, a lot of these young men died. When the second war was over, more people than ever wanted to wear a poppy; now there were more dead soldiers than ever to remember. There were also sailors and airmen. All of these people went to war to protect Canada. They went to war to protect the people who were in Canada then, and also the people who would be born in the future—people like us. They died so that you could enjoy all the good things in your life. They died so that your home would be safe, so that you would be given a chance of going to school and going to the church of your choice. They also died so that you could make friends with whomever you chose. So perhaps you didn’t know these men who died in war. But they knew you. They wanted you to live in peace.
Therefore, on Remembrance Day, when everyone wears a poppy and stands in silence it
is like a “Thank You” to all those who died for us.
Remembrance Day 2019
Christ Lutheran Church recalls and praises God for the willingness and the sacrifice of those who have served both God and country. The list of these people is on a plaque in the narthex area. Those in italics are still currently members.
George Berger John Nunnenmacher Edward Brunsch Edward Overholt Herbert Brunsch Stephen Harrison William Ebert Gustav Reimer Emil Erling Henry Rempel Ernest Erling Ernest Roepke Howard Fritsch Ernest Schappert Howard Henemader Philip Schappert Orval Jansen Carl W. Schwenker Lloyd McKean Gordon Skrydstrup Cyril Mitchell Walter Skrydstrup James O. Kaufman LeRoy Skrydstrup Percy Dagesse William Weaver Henry Windecker Edward Youngblut Fred Pappel Claire Gottinger Donald Frick Henry Fuchs Kenneth Primmer Stanley Thompson James Hyatt John Mewhinney Brandon Honey Bert Mitchell Dave Coghlan Frank Wickson WW1: Carl F. Schwenker Sr. Russ Mosher
Serving in the Axis forces: Erhard Olbeter Erich Klose
German Army WW1: George Schneikart
The Lord bless these individuals and their families as we remember them, their dedication and willingness to serve. Of those listed above, the first one listed, George Berger, died in action.
Thank you letter for our donations of “We Care Kits”.
Greetings, On behalf of Canadian Lutheran World Relief, thank you very much for your donation that recently arrived at our Winnipeg warehouse. Because of your support we are able to place essential aid into the hands of men, women and children around the world that desperately need your help. Together in 2018 we dispatched three containers of supplies to Mauritania, Liberia and Cameroon. These shipments benefited many children, and elderly. For families that have already lost so much a warm quilt or a carefully prepared We Care kit means a lot. We are happy to report that in 2018 the We Care program with your help shipped 13790 quilts and blankets and 7807 We Care kits. Together we were able to send 31,858 kg of aid, valued at over $303,784. We know that with your help we will be able to do so much more in 2019. The challenges facing the world’s poor are immense, but together we have the opportunity to make a positive change in the lives of those displaced by war, famine and natural disaster. Thank you very much for your continued support of CLWR and the /We Care Program/. Sincerely, Ian Mair, We Care Program Assistant Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR) 549 King Edward Street, Winnipeg, MB R3H 0N9
Saturday, November 23rd, 2019
We are currently collecting items for 2 areas – the Nearly New Table and the Children’s Area with toys, games and books. (children’s books only – no others please). We would appreciate items being brought in and placed in the small room off the Sunday School end of the Fellowship hall. Please note that these donations need to be of good quality & in good condition. Silent Auction – could you offer something for that? Please speak to Judy Mason as items go directly to her. Please note that for this area, we are looking for donations of new items and would appreciate knowing their value so Judy has an idea of where to start the minimum bid. (something you buy or make to donate; a gift that has never been used; for
anything else or other suggestions talk to Judy.) Donations for the remaining tables (crafts, baking & deli) should still please be brought in Friday, Nov. 22. New this year will be a record book for you to please record your name and donation. We are sorry to announce that we are not making meat pies this year. “Take out” from the kitchen will still be available.
LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS TO HELP with setting out, arranging, and pricing the
items for the Nearly New Tables and Children’s area, Thursday, Nov. 21 (afternoon and evening), Friday, Nov. 22 (all day). Please contact Carole Pink to let her know if you are available and willing to help..
Any youth (or older- no help turned away) who might be willing to help serve and wait on tables at the Bazaar? Speak to Marge Stark
Anyone willing to help with advertising? Getting it into papers, Cogeco, and online? Again, please speak to Carole.
Thank you so much for getting involved in whatever capacity you are able to help. This is a congregational event and we appreciate your donations, and service on the days leading up to and including Bazaar Day.
If you are willing to help in any way, please speak to Carole Pink.
OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD
SHOEBOX GIFT
Operation Christmas Child has become a Holiday tradition for many of us here at Christ Church. The love and care put into every shoebox gift has changed the
lives of children worldwide, and I think we can say it has changed us as well. Together, let’s continue to make these children an important part of our Christmas celebration
by extending Christ’s love and compassion.
HOW TO PACK YOUR SHOEBOX
1. Pick up a designated shoebox from the narthex.
2. Decide on the category and age. Girl/Boy 2-4; 5-9; 10-14 3. Fill the box, mark it and put an elastic around it. 4. Enclose a $10.00 cheque for shipping and put it in the offering basket and the congregation will send a combined donation - saving Samaritan's Purse money. 5. Drop the box off here at Christ Lutheran Church by Sunday, November 10th.
SUGGESTED GIFTS
Toys: slinky, yo-yo, kazoos, animals, stickers, dolls, balls, cars
School Supplies: pens, paper, stamps, markers, calculators,
pencil crayons & sharpener, colouring books
Hygiene Items: soap, toothbrush, comb, washcloth,
NO toothpaste or shampoo
Other: hard candy only, sunglasses, ball caps, socks,
watches, hairclips, T-shirts, small picture books, flashlights, batteries
Please DO NOT include: used items, war related items,
medicines, cosmetics, breakable items, perishable foods or liquids (shampoo, etc.), gum
Warm Feet for the Street” Kits
for “Out of the Cold”
The LWML/MARY MARTHA ladies are filling warm socks for
“Out of the Cold”
at their November 19th meeting. Any contributions would be most appreciated.
LARGE WARM SOCKS
Warm Gloves (adult size)
Toothpaste & Toothbrushes
Lip Balm
Hand Lotion
Shampoo (small)
Deodorant
Kleenex (little pkgs.)
Bandaides
Underwear (new)
Scarves
Portals of Prayer (or similar from any month or year)
Remember that everything needs to be small enough
to fit into the socks.
If you would like to help, but prefer for us to do the shopping, a donation of money would be terrific too.
Thank you for your participation and donations.
Contact: Wendy Hyatt
Operation Christmas Cheer
To share the joy of Christmas with those in our community
who are less fortunate than we are, the “Outreach Committee” is planning to distribute, again this year,
complete Christmas turkey dinner packages. We are asking for confidential referrals from our members. Last year we helped 25 families by making up 25 baskets.
We need your help by:
Providing us with confidential referrals which can be placed into a box located in our church narthex
Donating the funds required for the purchase of perishable and non-perishable food items which will be purchased just before the packages are distributed
Letting the Outreach Committee, Judy Mason—905-641-7546
Howard Bogusat—905-468-3566 know if you would be willing to help package baskets
Praying that this project is a success and that those who receive these gifts are touched by the joy and wonder of our Saviour’s birth and by His love for each one of us.
(please note that we are collecting “monetary donations”
ONLY for this project)
Thank You!
CHRISTMAS TREE
DECORATING
Saturday, November 30th at 4:00 p.m.
Adults will meet upstairs to trim the trees and decorate the Church. There will be entertainment and
activities for the children downstairs.
Afterwards, join us for supper!!
Lasagna, Coffee, tea and juice will be supplied.
Please see “sign-up” sheet in the narthex for other foods
& desserts needed!
***Sponsored by our Fellowship Committee***
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE !!!!!!!!
