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St Jacobi Lutheran Church Website: stjacobishohola.org 108 Glen Drive Email: [email protected] Shohola, PA 18458 Issue 11Volume 1 & 2 Jan/Feb 2019 570-559-7676 Editor: Grace Criscione Sunday Service 11 am Church School 10 am
A prayer for new beginnings In his book Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth (Fortress Press), Walter Brueggemann writes in an Epiphany poem:
... this is a time to be born. So we turn to you, God of our life God of all our years, God of our beginning.... We dare pray that you will do for us and among us and through us what is needful for our newness. Give us the power to be receptive, to take the newness you give .... There is a time to be born, and it is now. We sense the pangs and groans of your newness. Come here now in the name of Jesus. Amen. How fitting that the Epiphany season and the new year coincide! Epiphany reveals a new King, the beginning of his ministry, his new disciples, his first healings, his “new teaching — with authority” (Mark 1:27). We, too, experience newness, now and year-round. But newness can be tough. So we trust that God, who “[makes] all things new” while banishing “mourning and crying and pain” (Revelation 21:4-5), walks with us in this new year — and always.
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If you would like your Birthday, Anniversary or special date listed please contact Grace Criscione. Email:[email protected] or 845 856 8912
2018 / 2019 DATES TO REMEMBER:
December 24, 2018 – Christmas Eve Service at 5:00 p.m. Jan 13 church school starts
March 6- Ladies Aid Meeting @ 5:30pm
April 7- Soup & Cake Sale
Jan
14- Liselotte Hannemann 16- John Cooney 27- Nick Luca
SUNDAY SCHOOL NEWS:
Sunday School break is from December 16th and resume January 13th
WHAT IS HAPPENING:
Collections for seafarers are underway we are collecting Wool hats and cookies ( cookies can be fro-zen in Ziploc bags and brought to church all winter.
Also the ELCA World hunger banks are available for everyone and ready for donations at the church. Any Questions see Bruce before or after services.
Christmas Post Cards are being sent out please let us know if you don't get a card or if an address change is necessary. This endeavor was challenging due to address changes or postal office changes.
Please contact, Chris Protsko, if you would like to place a Poinsettia plant or a monetary donation for Christmas season at St Jacobi. phone 570-559-7676. Leave message or call Chris at 570-559-7354.
Please remember our local food pantries. Food donations are always welcomed, also toothpaste & toothbrushes, soaps, etc.
Feb
7 Jean Sandberg 18 Joseph Protsko 21 Hank Prigge 24 Mary Jo Kapulka 27 Wilma Brown
CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE -- 5 PM..
JOIN IN CELEBRATNG THE BIRTH OF OUR
SAVOIR!
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Helping our neighbors: Good Cheer Food Pantry Located in St. Luke’s Center (the lower level of St. Luke Pre-School) is open the First Sunday of each month from 10:30-11:30 AM. Thanks to all who donate their time, food and money...? It is truly appreciated. This is such a great service to our community! PLEASE NOTE: For further information please call 570- 226-3966. If your call is answered by an answering machine, please leave your name and a valid telephone number and a volunteer will call back.
Mission Support This year we are sponsoring Krystle Moraska-Madrussen who serves in Argentina/Uruguay. Krystle is the Young Adults in Global Mission Country Coordinator for young adult volunteers serving in Argentina & Uruguay. She works with the companion church, the IELU, to support the relationships they have with United States & Canada based groups. Her contact info: Camacua 282, 1406 DOF BuneonAires, Argentina or email: [email protected]
Operation Christmas Child Remember when shopping to pick up items for the shoe boxes. Thanks to Petra for chairing this great outreach.
Quilters: Remember that the Wednesday quilters (GOODWILL PIECE MAKERS) will meet Wednesdays at 9:00 a.m. @ St Jacobi’s social hall; they do quilts for the different charities, shelters and homeless in Pike County and surrounding areas. Anyone interested in joining them in this endeavor would be so welcome. You don’t have to be a quilter to help this group with their sewing. For information call Linda Moret: 570-559-7257 or Ingrid Vogel: 570-559-7206
Ladies Aid News: March 6,2019 meeting 5:30 pm.
April 7th- Soup & Cake Sale 12-2pm (right after church)
In the living hope of the resurrection the Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod, ELCA
announces the death of
The Rev. Eddie A. Nilsen
Born January 31, 1941
Died November 9, 2018
Pastor Eddie Anker Nilsen died on Friday, November 9, 2018. Following his ordination in 1971 by the American Lutheran Church, Pastor Nilsen served as pastor of Grafton Lutheran Church, Grafton, ND. From 1974 until 1976, he was pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, Cincinnati, OH. He then served St. Peter Lutheran Church, Edon, OH, from 1977 until 1983. From 1983 until 1977, he was the pastor of St. Mark Lutheran Church, Morristown, NJ.
In 1997, Pastor Nilsen came to the Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod to serve Shepherd of the Hills Parish in Dushore. From 2002 until his retirement in 2006, he then served the former Good News Parish in Shohola, Greeley, and Lackawaxen.
For several years he also served as a chaplain with the Civil Air Patrol.
Condolences may be sent to Pastor Nilsen’s wife, Randy, 212 Rowland Avenue, Greeley, PA 18425.
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Saying prayers for: Ashley Cobb Chris Protsko Pat Friedrich Brian Becker Katherine O’Toole Rev Paul Spohn Alfred Loeser Fran Nelson Barbara Scocossi Sandra Faro Mildred Flaherty Tom Wulforst Louise Scarpelli Lynn Salvati Tom Vogel & family Lottie Hof Joe Carver Keith Blaut Janice Iaccovino Peter Bob & Valerie Cocchi Bob Mead Alma L Brown Keller Hank Prigge Marion Finch Bud Ray Lisa & TQ Smith Bianca Aran Erin McCotter Family of Rev. Eddie Nilsen Paul Ludwig Donald Colburn Krischan Vogel Cheryl Jurgens E.B. Herling Shirley Kelly Mark Scaramastro Hank Prigge Roseann Prigge George Nieke Tessie Stover Marc DaVita Bruce Rajwasser Robert Breuer Greg Protsko Kathleen McKay Anna Marie Peterson Louise Kuhn Paula Schlichter Kyle Petersen Linda McKay Mike Hoey Ari Deutsch Jackie Mundy Mark Pellettiere Nick Pellettiere Rene Farrar Family of Wilma Brown Family of Alberta Erikson
PLEASE HELP KEEP THIS LIST CURRENT- Please contact, Grace Criscione, if you wish to add and/or remove a name on the prayer list. I can be reached at 845 856 8912, or email: [email protected] or [email protected]. Thank you in advance for your co-operation with keeping this list current.
Send Cards to our friends:
Lottie Hof, is recuperating in Milford Convalescent Home. Please send a get well card to her at: Milford Sr Care, 264 Rte. 6 &209, Milford, PA 18337 - She loves visitors.
Shine a little light into their lives by reaching out to them. If you know of others that would like to be I ncluded please contact: Dotty Luca 570-559-7489
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear friends at St. Jacobi. My heartfelt gratitude to all of you for the many cards, phone-calls, love and all your prayers you showered me with in the last few month, after I found out that I needed a second surgery for colon-rectal cancer. I started Chemo treatments a few weeks ago and they will go all the way to May, but I am very confident that I will beat this cancer and get finally rid of it. The love you all showed me certainly lifted my spirits and my positive outlook. Both are extremely important for healing and recovery. My thanks to all of you. May you have a wonderful blessed Christmas and New Year. With God's blessings, Ingrid Vogel.
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FALL-WINTER NEWSLETTER
From: Pastor Bob, Designated Pastor, St. Jacobi Evangelical Lutheran Church, Shohola, PA Jan-Feb, 2019
We Are His Followers Dear St. Jacobians and Friends, Invocation for Everyone: Almighty God, look upon my life and cause all darkness and doubt to vanish beneath your gaze. Fill my life and min-istry with your Holy Spirit so that I may this day be led into paths of fruitful service. Amen.
At this writing the New Year is still around the corner. Praise the Lord, our new front steps have been completed, thanks to the dedicated persistence of Joe Criscione and Dale Siemers. Great work, guys! The first Christmas Concert was a rousing and beautiful success, thanks largely to the women of the church who sang so beautifully, but more to the point, who accomplished all the behind-the-scenes work necessary for it to happen. We thank Joy Stebbins for her hard work and dedication to this annual event. God was good: for a while there we thought the unfinished steps would ace the concert, but our Lord, the weather, and all efforts prevailed! Thank you everyone who made this year’s concert possible. As I write this, we’re still praying for The German Concert next Sunday, December 16th as well. The Annual Congregational Meeting on November 18th went off splendidly thanks to the stalwart leadership of Nick Luca and our amazing Council. Thank you all! We are still in Advent, Christmastide remains before us, but we trust God’s faithfulness to bring many blessings to all, the people we serve in the community, and abroad. Praised to Thou, O Lord God, King of All Things! (A Hebrew prayer). Amen.
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If you need to get in touch with me, my contact info is:
Rev. Robert P. Mitchell 3132 Bear Road Bushkill,PA 18324-7833, Phone: 570-588-9690 Email: [email protected]
Lessons in wise faith
“The Magi teach us true faith,” said Martin Luther. Given the obstacles they encountered, we would understand if they had given up altogether! First, the travelers were “off the mark,” coming to Jerusalem to seek a newborn king in a “royal palace.” Then, directed to Bethlehem, the wise men found a sight “so utterly out of keeping with a king” — a poor young woman and child, in a “poor hut” — that one might expect them to head straight home. “But,” declares Luther, “with a great, strong and full faith they ... follow the word of the prophet and the witness of the star in all purity of heart,” bowing to worship and honor the Savior. —Based on Luther’s sermon for the Festival of the Epiphany (1522), Luther’s Works
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CONTACT - NICK LUCA. 570 559 7489.
CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE
5 PM.. JOIN IN CELEBRATNG THE BIRTH OF OUR
SAVOIR!
Anyone interested in telling us about yourself. Please submit a bio of yourself for this newsletter send by email to: Grace at: [email protected] or leave your bio in the NEWSLETTER BOX IN THE OFFICE (please let me know that you have left it in the Newsletter Box.) Phone # 845 856 8912. Thanks!
Thank you to everyone who helped make our Christmas Concert a success. Thanks to our choir director, Joy Stebbins for her patience and sharing her talent with us. We will be starting practice in Oct 2019. Please join us. All voices are welcomed.
Thanks to Pastor Nancy for her wonderful 12 days of Christmas- always so much fun.
The refreshments were so delicious!
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SEAFARERS MISSIONS: Evangelism Activities
Starting the middle of November. We will be collecting wool hats and cookies for the Seafarers. Wool is available and cookies can be brought to church in 1 gallon Ziploc bags or we have tins available. Will update later this fall.
The Sunday School will starting to collect for the Lutheran World Relief. We have banks available now just see Bruce or Anne. Other activities will be coming see us at church in November.
Any Questions see us in church or follow the church activities on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/St-Jacobi-Lutheran-Church-108054605943566/?ref=bookmarks
Approximately 40 hats for the Seafarers have been donated so far by several knitters, including 37 by a member of the Tuesday stitching group. Wool and instructions are available for anyone who wants to knit or crochet a hat.
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“OUR MISSION IS TO FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF JESUS,
BY SHARING THE GOSPEL AND SERVING, WITH LOVE, THE NEEDS OF ALL”
With your support we have reached out to your community:
Our Annual Christmas Concert, with area churches & local artists
Operation Christmas Child: # 122 boxes
Seafarers Mission:Cookies & knitted hats
Church School
Support 2 local food pantries
Palm Sunday Breakfast & food drive
German Christmas Service
Front steps repaired
Monthly Newsletter (mailed to 50 households & emailed to 45)
Quilters for their many quilts
donated to various people & organizations.
Annual outdoor service & picnic.
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JANUARY Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1
NEW YEARS DAY!
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11 am service
Epiphany
7 8 Quilters 9am
9 Quilters 9am
10 11
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13 10 am church school 11 am service
14 Lions club 7:30 pm
15 Quilters 9am
16 Quilters 9am
17 18 19
20 10 am church school
11 am service
21 22 Quilters 9am
23 Quilters 9am
24 25 26
27 10 am church school
11 am service
28 29
Quilters 9am
30 Quilters 9am
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Ladies Aid
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Lions club 7:30 pm
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Quilters 9am
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FEBRUARY 2019
