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MUDDY CREEK LUTHERAN
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S pe c i a l po i n t s o f
i n t e r e s t :
Organ Dedication
CROP Walk
Family Fun Event at
SkyZone
Stockings for Soldiers
Collection and Volun-
teering
Visit to Alpaca Farm
Fall Clean-Up Day
Jesus ‘n Me Playgroup
Christmas Cantata
I ns i de t h i s i s s ue :
Upcoming Events 2
News and Notes 4
Birthdays 5
Worship Helpers 6
Miscellaneous 7
Calendar 8
O c t o be r 2 0 1 8
What is it about Lutherans and Music?
From the Pastors
A rich appreciation of music is built into the very DNA of Lutheranism (and therefore Protestantism). It all started be-cause Martin Luther was himself very musical. Luther personally composed 36 hymns, many of which appear in our hymnal (such as “A Mighty Fortress is our God”), and also composed about 30 chorales. To create his hymns, he often took melodies of folk music and popular tavern songs, transcribed and harmonized them, and then added Chris-tian lyrics. Luther believed strongly in congregational singing during worship in the liturgy, and he also helped create a hymnal.
So deep was Luther’s im-mersion in music that he developed a whole theology around it. He believed music was so central to spirituality that he often called music the “third sacrament”, after Baptism and Communion.
Because of Luther’s emphasis upon it, music quickly became engrained into Lu-theran worship. Most Lutheran churches had pipe organs, and church musicians composed music for services. One of these church musicians was Johann Se-bastian Bach of St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Germany. Bach composed such intricate, innovative and elegant baroque music to be performed as preludes, post-ludes and special music during worship. Many still regard Bach as the greatest composer who ever lived.
At Muddy Creek, we are blessed to be able to celebrate the recent completion of our pipe organ renovation project. Through many generous donations to the
Organ Fund over the years, we were able to embark in January of this year upon a full renovation of our pipe organ. This renovation includes, among other things, a new console, new wiring, incorporation of pipes and an ivory keyboard from the pipe organ at the former Salem Lutheran Church in Reamstown, restoration of many pipes from the original Gottfried
organ which had been in storage, and extensive inter-nal renovations to correct years of patch-work fixes that meant that the organ no longer had a unified, clear sound. It now does! The sound is now much fuller, muscular, richer, and clear-er, and the organ is itself
much more versatile.
The newly renovated organ became playable for the first time on September 16 of this year, and it will be dedicated at a special recital and dedication on Sun-day, November 11th at 3:00 p.m. We are pleased to announce that Margaret Marsch, a superb organist from our area, will perform on our organ at the dedica-tion.
Church music, of course, takes many forms and has many styles, from classical to contemporary. But, as Martin Luther strongly believed, all religious music in-spires the soul to faith as it touches a deep place inside of us. For music moves us in a way that few other things can.
May music continue to inspire all of us to a rich faith in our God, as our emo-tions, our bodies and our spirits are united through music into a God-given, lively and creative energizing of our spirits!
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Upcoming Events
Join Muddy Creek families and friends for 60 minutes of jump time on Friday, October 12, from 5:45-6:45 p.m., at Sky Zone, 1701 Hempstead Road, #102, in Lancaster. We will enjoy one hour of safe and fun trampoline bouncing, jumping, basketball and foam pits. Please sign up at www.skyzone/lancaster for the 5:45 p.m time slot on that day. Cost is $15 per jumper, with no charge for non-jumpers. Waivers and special jump socks re-quired. Arrive about 15 minutes early and meet in the lobby. Afterward, you are invited to go with the group to the nearby Isaac’s restaurant. Questions, contact Wendy Sheaffer at 717-305-8761, [email protected].
Help Needed Tie Prayers on to
Prayer Squares for Stockings for Sol-
diers
If you are able to help cut out and tie prayers on to prayer squares, please contact Judy Dengler (Muddy Creek member) at [email protected], 717-484-2082. So far, our Prayer Shawl Knitting Group has made 3,000 Prayer Squares to send to the Stockings for Soldiers project through the Keystone Military Families organization. If you can help, Judy will give you the materials, and you can tie them on at your leisure. The project will be completed at the end of October. Other churches have also become inspired by the project and are joining our effort. The squares will be dedicated in church on Oct. 28.
Pipe Organ Dedica-tion and Concert
Sun. November 11, 3:00 p.m.
We are delighted to announce the dedication of Mud-dy Creek’s newly renovated pipe organ! On Sunday, November 11 at 3 p.m. at the church, acclaimed local organist Margaret Marsch will perform a concert as we dedicate the organ. Marsch is the Sanctuary Or-ganist at Lancaster Church of the Brethren and is a member of the local American Guild of Organists. The nine month-long complete renovation of the pipe organ cost $153,000 and incorporates pipes from the former Salem Lutheran Church in Reamstown, rein-states stored pipes from the original Gottfried organ, and also features a new console. Come out and cele-brate!
Muddy Creek Church Family Fun
at Sky Zone!
Friday, October 12
Upcoming Events
Bulletin Folders Needed
If you can volunteer to help fold bulletins occasionally on a Thursday morning at the church office, please contact Linda Mohn at 717-336-2770 or [email protected].
Stockings for Soldiers Collection
Until Sunday, November 11
We are taking up a collection for the Stocking for Soldiers Program through the Keystone Military Families. Our Social Ministry Committee is sponsor-ing the collection. Items may be dropped off at the church until Nov. 11, or dropped off at any Blue Ridge Communications office until Nov. 16.
Items needed are Christmas stockings (12 to 20 inch-es), Power Bars, cereal bars, trail mix, granola bars, current releases of movies on DVD or music on CD, candy canes, ground or instant coffee, coffee cream-er and sugar packets, hot chocolate or hot cider, sun-flower seeds, nuts, individual snack packets of crack-ers, cookies and cheese/crackers, small plastic jars of peanut butter and jelly, small sewing kits, manicure kits, sunscreen and insect repellent, Chap Stick with sunscreen, Blistex, travel size of deodorant, small packages of aspirin or Tylenol or cold medicine, vit-amins, Odor Eaters for boots, Dr. Scholl’s foot pads, blister pads, small size of hand sanitizer, men’s and women’s socks (calf-high or boot, black or white), hand and foot warmers, thermal gloves, and glove liners.
Redner’s Sub Coupons ($5 each) are available from Peggy Leid (717-335-
3612) to benefit the Stockings for Soldiers program.
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Upcoming Events
Trip to Alpaca Farm
November 11, 12-4 p.m.
Since we are collecting money in Sunday School to buy alpacas for Heifer Project International (it costs $150 per alpaca and as of Sept. 23
we have already raised $81.65), we want to go see them in person! Join us and invite friends to come to the open house at Eastland Alpaca Farm, 2089 Risser Mill Road, Mount Joy on Sunday, Nov. 11, 12-4 p.m. to see and pet live alpacas, take wagon rides or barrel rides, feed alpacas, watch alpaca demonstra-tions, and see a stilt-walking balloon artist. We’ll meet at the farm. Free admission. You may bring along food or purchase it from the snack stand.
Invitation to Sing in
Christmas Cantata
This is your invitation to join the choir for the De-cember Christmas Cantata. Please join us for re-hearsals on Thursday evenings from 8:00 to 8:45 p.m. in the choir loft. We would love to have anyone sing with us, so please consider the invitation! Any ques-tions, see Greg Gehman.
Confirmation Gatherings
Learning, Fun, Fellowship, Service
Youth in grades 6—8 are invited to attend mid-week gatherings at the church. Friends always welcome.
This month’s Wednesday Gatherings:
October 3 (Scavenger Hunt), 6:30—8:00 p.m. October 17 - No class (cancelled this week)
Next Confirmation Parents’ Classes:
October 7th and November 4th
Jesus ‘n Me Parent/Child Group
Monthly Sunday Mornings, 9:00 am
0—4 year olds
Come join the fun in this interactive experience for parents and children (grandparents, or other adults are welcome with their little ones too!). We will meet on the third Sunday of the month in the nursery, in-stead of the regular Sunday School for this age group. Pastor Peter will lead everyone in simple songs, stories, activi-ties, parachute play, puppets, and more.
Next meeting: October 21
Theme: Jonah and the Whale
CROP WALK
Sunday, Oct. 21, 1:00 p.m.
Come out for our local CROP Walk to raise money for CROP World Hunger and local hunger ministries. The walk begins at St. John’s U.C.C. Church, 659 S. 4th St., Denver, on Sunday, Oct. 21 at 1:00 p.m., and we will take a large loop around the schools.
You may register online at www.crophungerwalk.org/denverpa, or get materials at the church. You are welcome to wear your green Muddy Creek T-shirt or if you need one, please let Pastor Peter know. Questions? Contact Pastor Peter
Fall Property Clean Up
Saturday November 17
8 a.m. to noon
Your help is needed to clean up the outside of our church property on Sat. November 17. No experi-ence is necessary and this is a great way for all ages to help keep our grounds in good shape. Join us any-time that morning. Children, youth and adults are all invited to come and help. Lunch will be served at noon. Please bring your own rake or leaf blower. Anyone who has a trailer, it would be greatly appre-ciated if you would be willing to bring it for hauling.
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News and Notes
Christian Education Committee
Sunday School began on Sept. 9. Thank you to the teachers serving our children and youth, and who were installed on that Sunday: Toddler and Preschool—Michelle Dimitris; K-4th—Michelle Walzl, Brandon Walzl Youth—Audrey Noll, Nancy Beck, Russell Beck; Adult—John Schutter, Pastor Peter, Attendance—Roger Noll, Music—Greg Gehman.
On Sunday, Sept. 9, many youth, children and adults came out to pack school supply bags which will be giv-en to the Lutheran World Relief Ingathering and sent to refugee children overseas. Fifty bags of school sup-plies were filled! The group also enjoyed pizza afterward. Thank you to Thrivent for underwriting some of the cost of this service project! Thank you as well to everyone from the congregation who so generously do-nated school supplies! We appreciate your wonderful support!
Special Congregational Meeting
On Sunday, Sept. 9, a Special Congregational Meeting was held to consider a proposal to replace the outside concrete steps which have been crumbling. The congregation voted affirmatively to take $4,860 from the Improvement Fund to hire Zeiset Concrete of Akron to replace the steps.
Church Council
The Church Council activated the Nominating Committee in advance of the Congregational Meeting in De-cember, which was re-scheduled to December 9, 2018 at 11:15 a.m.
Council and Committee Highlights
Thank you to the prayer shawl knitters for the work they put in to knitting the beautiful shawls. And to Hazel Fry for extra effort in getting the shawls to our family. Thank you to Pastor Peter and the congregation for the visits and prayers while Clyde was under hospice care. In Christian love, Bea Ebersole
We wish to thank all for the prayers, cards and prayer shawls we received during my recent hospital stay and recovery. Thanks so much! - Sara Frazer
Thank you for the prayer shawls we received after Allen Garner died. It means so much to be remembered by our friends and neighbors at this time in our lives. We can feel the love and healing as we wrap ourselves in your shawls. Thanks for thinking of us. - The Garner family
I would like to thank everyone for the cards, phone calls and prayers on the celebration of my birthday. It was so thoughtful and greatly appreciated. Again thank you so much. - Roma Oberholtzer
Congratulations to Marty Rauch, son of Brad and Doris
Rauch, who married Namita Biala on April 28. Namita
is a first year internal medicine resident at the Lower Bucks Hospital. Marty is in his final year in pursuit of a
PhD in inorganic chemistry at Princeton University.
They reside in Bristol.
Our sympathy to Bea Ebersole and the whole Ebersole
family at the death of Bea’s husband Clyde on Aug. 17.
We rejoice to welcome the Bentz family to Muddy
Creek! On Sept. 9, Geoff and Tonya Bentz joined as
new members, and their sons Tony Rowley and Kollin
Bentz, their daughter Gracie Bentz, and their nephew
Andrew Numbers were all baptized. Welcome!
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October Birthdays
Brenda & Friends Tours
October 6 – 8, 2018 – 3-Day Mystery Trip – Waiting List
October 13, 2018 – Tioga Central Railroad & PA Grand Canyon
October 19-22, 2018 – “Christmas in the Woods” & Northeast Ohio
October 27, 2018 – Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island from Liberty State Park in NJ
For more info contact Brenda at 336-6886, [email protected].
More info also on hallway table outside church office.
October 9 Shorty Weinhold, 82
21 West Church Street
Stevens, PA 17578
October 12 Donald Heister, 81
281 Kurtz Road
Ephrata, PA 17522
October 13 Marvin Sweigart, 81
295 Paradise Road
Denver, PA 17517
October 19 Kenneth Frazer, 88
Keystone Villas, Apt.105
100 N. State St.
Ephrata, PA 17522
October 26 Carl Schnader, 83
1257 Kramer Mill Road
Denver PA 17517
October 28 Bud Thunberg, 81
P.O. Box 237
Bowmansville, PA 17507
A Special Happy Birthday
to our
“Over-Eighty” Members!!
Lori Martin
Diane Grube
Frank Zimmerman
Megan Wummer
Kelby Weaver
Paige Walzl
Brianna Schweitzer
Terri Meckley
Nathan Bordner
Shorty Weinhold
Darlene Weidman
Celia Sgaramella
Phillip Leid
Donald Heister
Andrew Schnader
Marvin Sweigart
Paul Moyer
Rick Harding
Russell Beck
Katie Ueberroth
Jordan Rutt
Justin Martin
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Randl Roth
Cari Czarnecki
Marian Sgaramella
Gunner Geissel
Kenneth Frazer
Garry Wenrich
Courtney Zwally
Riley Beichner
Janet Frantz
Eric Becker
Amy Hough
Joe Sgaramella
George Nagle
Pastor Nancy
Shawn Bearinger
Madeline Beichner
Carl Schnader
Justin Blatt
Richard Ueberroth III
Jason Becker
Bud Thunberg
Ashley Kemper
Wm Craig Brossman
Angie Stuck
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Worship Helpers
Coffee Ministry
October
7 Still Needed
14 Still Needed
21 Millie Shober and Kathleen Ebling
28 Still Needed
Money Counters
October
7 Gail and Ted Bare
14 Jeanette and Mike Leid
21 Connie Harding, Diane Leed
28 Marie and Walter Buohl, John Schutter
November
4 Gloria Aseli, Brenda Berger, Audrey Noll
11 Jere and Joan Shimp
18 Ken and Sara Frazer, Carl Schenskie
25 Linda Gerhart, Hollie Kemper, Jim Weber
Bulletin Folders
October
4 Charles and Janet Frantz
11 Judy Dengler
18 Charmaine Wenrich
25 Kathleen Ebling
November
1 Marie and Walter Buohl 8 Pat Artz, Josephine Martin 15 Linda Berger, Nancy Beck 21 (Wed.) Brenda Hinden, Mickey Jones 29 Marian and Shorty Weinhold, Joyce Keith
Lay Readers
October
7 Brad Rauch
14 Will Meckley
21 Zinia Zwally
28 Dean Lutz
November
4 Will Wood
11 Hollie Kemper
18 Mike Leid
25 Brenda Berger
Greeters
November 4 Millie Shober
Ushers
Oct. 7 - Mike Leid, Connie Harding, Brad and Doris Rauch, Diet Aseli
Oct. 14, 21, 28 - Patti Weaver, Sid and Nancy Hurst, John Schutter, Jill Youndt
Nov. 4 - Jane Wenger, Julie Emrhein, Terri Meckley, Linda Gerhart, Craig Brossman
Nov. 11,18,25 - Walter Buohl, Roy Becker, Will Wood, Laura Vedder, Lilly Garrison, Brenda Shreiner
Altar Guild
October
7 Jane Wenger, Brenda Shreiner
14 Sid and Nancy Hurst
21 Connie Harding, Diane Leed
28 Gail and Ted Bare
November - Gail and Ted Bare
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Acolytes
October
7 Brandon Walzl
14 Zach Sheaffer
21 Lucas Killian
28 Sophia Dimitris
November
4 Grace Youndt
11 Paige Walzl
18 Cole Dimitris
25 Brandon Walzl
Worship Helpers
Worship Sunday School
Aug. 28 108
Sept. 2 85
Sept. 9 116 31
Sept. 16 109 31
Sept. 23 94 28
Attendance Report
NOVEMBER NEWSLETTER ARTICLE SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Oct. 14, 2018
Nursery
October
7 Judy Dengler
14 Michelle and Scott Dimitris
21 Michelle Walzl, Brenda Shreiner
28 Jill Youndt, Brandon Walzl
November
4 Michael and Wendy Sheaffer
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18 Michelle and Scott Dimitris
25 Michelle Walzl, Brenda Shreiner
October Office Hours
Admin. Asst.: Tues. & Thurs. 9:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Pastors: Tuesday 9:00 a.m.—11:00 am
Thursday 9:00 a.m.– 11:00 a.m.
Additional hours by appointment and at
various times throughout the week
For pastoral emergencies, call 717-598-5095
Upcoming Events
November 3 - Family Ministry Event to Eastland Alpaca Farm
November 4 - All Saints Sunday
November 15 - Community Meal at Trinity United Methodist Church, Denver
November 17 - Fall Outdoor Clean Up Day at Muddy Creek
November 21 - Community Thanksgiving Eve Ser-vice
December 2 - St. Nicholas Day in Sunday School
December 9 - Congregational Meeting
December 16 - Sunday School Christmas Program
December 23 - Choir Cantata Giving Report Received Actual Expenses
Thru August 2018 $117,752.59 $131,469.16
Communion Assistants
October 7 Sada Aungst
November 4 Courtney Zwally
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