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Volume 33 Number 5
The Monthly Newsletter of Pilgrim
Lutheran Church 3901 First Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55409 (612) 825-5375
From the Desk of Pastor Pete
Our Future
On May 22, five of our young people at Pilgrim will give an answer to this question: ―Do you
intend to continue steadfast in this teaching (the teaching of the Word of God) and to endure all things,
even death, rather than fall away from it?‖
God willing, they’ll answer this way: ―I do, and I ask God to help me.‖
It’s quite a question, right? We’re asking these young people to be willing to suffer death, if necessary,
rather than give up the gospel of Jesus Christ. These young people will need our prayers and
encouragement in the days to come. Lots of things will happen to them, things that many of us have
already experienced: high school, college, jobs, marriage and so on. Our combined experience and
wisdom can be a great source of encouragement for these young people as they face new challenges in
life.
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May 2011
Table of Contents
Stewardship Verse Of The Month..........................Page 9 School News..……………….………..…………Page 11-12
Birthdays and Anniversaries...................................Page 3 Family Fun Time ………..…….………………..Page 13
Rummage Sale ………...........................................Page 4 Children’s Fun Time .……………….………….Page 14
Announcements/Prayers/Prayers............................Page 5-10 Church Calendar
Please, take the time to meet and talk with our young people at Pilgrim. You have a lot to offer them.
Let them know how glad you are to hear them make their vows on confirmation day. Offer to pray for
them. Tell them what your faith has meant to you over the years.
Just as you are a blessing to these young people, they are a blessing to you. Their young faith, their
optimism and energy serve as an encouragement to the church. Through them the Lord lets us know
that he intends for his church to have a future.
Young or old, the sacrifice of Christ on the cross and his triumphant resurrection unite as the body of
Christ. Each of us have different personalities, gifts and abilities, but Christ unites us into one body.
And as one body we live to glorify our Lord and Savior.
Don’t miss May 22—confirmation Sunday! Hear the testimonies of your young brothers and sisters in
Christ. Rejoice with them and rejoice that the Lord continues to bless his church.
The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one
body. So it is with Christ. For we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, slave or
free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
Paul (1 Corinthians 12:12-13)
CONFIRMATION
On May 22 we’ll celebrate the rite of confirmation at Pilgrim.
As usual, we’ll have events at both the 8:30 and 10:30 service. At 8:30 the confirmands will share their
testimonies: each of them will present a prepared answer to a question that they’ve been given.
At 10:30 the confirmands will present the Scripture verses that they’ve chosen for one another. In that
service we will also have the rite of confirmation in which the students promise to remain faithful to
their Lord and are formally received into the membership of our congregation.
Join us in celebrating God’s gifts to his church!
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May Birthdays
Curtis Geiselhart 1
Zandra Johnson 1
Thelma Friton 6
Marion Paulson 7
Darrell Sampson 7
Peg Heilman 8
Marge Rodmyre 8
Lue Rogers 9
Orville Delano 10
George Scott 11
Sara Sroga 13
John Martin 15
Richard Bullemer 16
Kendra Bonde/Sivanich 17
Mark Heilman 19
Carolyn Vaughan 22
Jacqueline Pruitt-Jones 23
Tina Norman 25
Kenneth Anderson 26
Carl Bloedel 26
Diane Hartwig 26
Jessica Holmgren 26
Angela Jennrich 26
Julian Loescher 29
David Menk 30
Jennifer Combs 30
Samuel Gostchock 31
Michael Heilman 31
Sharon Ledin 31
May Wedding Anniversary
Rick & Sandy Puterbaugh 1
Eric & Nicole Minea 6
Cynthia & Brian Sroga 17
Gerald & Diane Hartwig 19
Christopher & Connie Wasley 27
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Rummage Sale Help Needed
We are in the planning stage for the Annual Rummage sale being held June 9th – 11th In order to
move forward we need to get volunteers who can help with setup, posting of signs, breakdown, and
during the actual sale. (It has not yet been decided where the proceeds will be going, More
information on that later)
Once we get the volunteers lined up a notice will go out letting people know when items can be
brought in.
The setup part takes the longest so we need at least 15 or more volunteers those days. If you are able
to help please fill out the form below and return it to Zoe Herzig by May 1st. If you have any
questions please call me @ 763-360-6150.
Lords Blessings
Zoe Herzig
_________________________________________________________________
Please indicate below which days/time you would be able to volunteer and return to Zoe Herzig by
May 1st.
Setup days to include posting of signs – doors will be open 8:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. but feel
free to work past 6:00 p.m.
June 6th _________________________________________________Time:______To:_________
(Your name and phone number)
June 7th _________________________________________________Time:______To:________
(Your name and phone number)
June 8th ___________________________________________________Time:______To:________
(Your name and phone number)
Sale days – Sale starts at 8:00 – 5 p.m. Thursday-Friday, and 8:00-3:00 on Saturday
June 9th ________________________________________________Time_______To:________
(Your name and phone number)
June 10th_________________________________________________Time_______To:________
(Your name and phone number)
June 11th , during sale ______________________________________Time_______________
(Your name and phone number)
June 11th , after sale ______________________________________
(Your name and phone number)
Announcements/Prayers …
Electronic News Letter
Did you sign up for the electronic version of our monthly news letter but are not receiving it? If you
answered yes to this question please get in touch with me. It is due to the way you signed up so I
would like to get that fixed for you. Zoe Herzig 763-360-6150
LOST AND FOUND
Lost and found items are in a basket by the tracts in the narthex (1st Avenue entrance) of the church.
Call the church office at 612-825-5375 to inquire about lost and found items.
Lock doors and turn off lights
Pilgrim Church highly encourages the use of our facilities by groups: Pioneers, Ladies Guild, Bible
Study, etc. We ask for each group, upon leaving, to verify all lights are turned off and doors are
shut tight. Doors need to be checked by pulling on them as they may not lock unless forced shut.
Numerous times staff members have arrived to find the doors not locked and lights left on. Not
checking the doors puts our property in danger of vandalism, theft and a host of other issues.
Leaving lights on causes additional funds to be sent to Xcel Energy that could have been used to
spread the Gospel.
PRAY FOR OUR TROOPS
Please pray for the United States military and the following enlisted and/or deployed service men
and women: Paul Bandelin, Jacob and Errol Belanger, Thomas Bonde, Justin Brandt, Samuel
Hass, Brent Hassler, Jennifer James, Andrew Leyrer, Nicholas Neumann, Andrew Rolston,
Cory Williams, Isaac Wold, John Wolter, and John Zimmerman.
PRAYER REQUESTS FOR OUR MEMBERS
People to pray for (Please call the church office if you would like a name added to this list.) Mike Anderson, Ardelle Bloedel, Thomas Bonde, Mattie Dahl, Michael Dieter, Brian Florin, Elmer
Janisch, Joy Kilber, Jean Loescher, Rozetta Norman, and Pilgrim shut-ins.
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Announcements …
Job Transition Group
Come join the St. Michael’s Job Transition group. We are a networking group that offers assistance
and support with your job search. We meet at St. Michael's Lutheran Church in Bloomington (address:
9201 Normandale Blvd; 952-831-5276). Our next meeting will be on May 12th
at 6 pm. We will be
meeting only on the 2nd
Thursday of each month for now. If the schedule changes, we will make an
announcement in the Weekly Church Bulletin or next newsletter. You do not have to be a member of
St. Michael's or Pilgrim to join this networking group. The group is listed on www.Linkedin.com
under St. Michael's Networking Group. For more information, contact Geri at 612-822-2318 /
geiselhar[email protected] or Ruth Arves at 612-869-0393 / [email protected] .
Got Job Openings?
If your company or companies you know of have position opportunities for individuals in the following
areas, please contact either Ruth Arves or Geri Geiselhart so the positions can be posted on the St.
Michael’s Networking website. We have members looking for opportunities in these areas:
Human Resources Graphic Arts Computer Game Design
Accounting Customer Service Clerical
Graphic Motion Design Project Management Animal Care Assistant
Dental Assistant Data Entry Sales Management
Engineering Finance Sales Operations
Floral Design Floral Design Instructor Sales, General
Thank you in advance for your help and consideration
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Announcements
Come and join Dr. Scott Gostchock for a Bible study on ―Christian Stewardship.‖ This course will
be offered from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. every Wednesday beginning on April 27th
, 2011.
“Steward means manager; hence, Christian stewardship is my management of what God in heaven
has given to me on earth.” (Wolfgramm, 2001)
This course will be focused on every blessing we have been given. It will be an uplifting and
encouraging look at how awesome God is to each of us and what a blessing we are for each other!
Come and join in for the fun and learning to take place. Bring your Bible
We will meet at Pilgrim in the lower level.
We look forward to seeing you all there!
Camp croix news
www.facebook.com/RyanConlonMN
Clean up Weekends: May 6-7
Painting, cleaning, yard work, basic repair, and other jobs for ALL AGES
More details at [email protected]
Summer Camp 2011
Ages 9-15
Week 1 – July 3-9
Week 2 – July 10-16
Week 3 – July 17-23
Week 4 – July 24-30
http://www.campcroix.org/SummerCamp
Camper and Staff Applications
Campers – Ages 9-15
Staff – Ages 16+
www.campcroix.org
Staff needed for July 3-9 (Week 1)
Cooks, Nurse, Lifeguards (18 years or older), Craft Leader, Counselors
www.campcroix.org
WANTED: Old Camp Croix T-Shirts (logo in good condition)!
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Announcements
Be Informed - Get Involved - Become Excited
Please mark your calendars for our next Congregational Meeting!
Sunday, May 15th
- Fellowship Hall
Ratification of our Fiscal 2011-2012 Budget
PLEASE HELP RESTOCK FOOD SHELF
The food shelf is in need of cereal and fruit. Any other food items that are useful to families are
greatly appreciated! Thank you for your kindness and generosity! A generous man will himself
be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor. Proverbs 22:9
Laptops & Desktop Computers Needed
Dear fellow members and friends of Pilgrim:
Help keep your Pilgrim Computer Lab open by donating your old Laptop or Desktop computers
(please remember to include the power cord). I accept them in any condition or age, whether they
work or not. Please attach your name and address to your donations so we can email you your
receipt. Donations will be appraised by comparative value. Just leave the computers in the church
office or copy room (if office isn’t open) and I will pick them up. Cash donations are also and
always accepted too. Thanks for your help.
Joe Sorensen
Impact Japan in a Personal Way
Japanese university students will be coming to study at Bethel University for 3-4 weeks during late
summer. The St. Paul Intercultural Institute at Bethel is looking for believers to welcome them into
their homes. Japan is experiencing a crisis of historic proportions. Your kindness and hospitality
can have a great impact. By sharing your love and faith with your student, you'll plant a seed.
Hosting dates: 7/24 – 8/20 OR 8/2 – 8/23. Your student takes classes during the day and spends the
evenings with you. A stipend and transportation help is provided. For information contact Deb
Anderson at [email protected] or 763-522-5051. www.spii3.com
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Thank You …
We would like to thank everyone who helped us celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary coffee hour on
March 20th. We are truly blessed to have our Pilgrim friends and family to share our anniversary.
Carol and Mike Anderson
I want to express a special appreciation and thankfulness to the Pilgrim Pioneer girls for faithfully
preparing those beautiful bags of goodies to us shut-ins for every calendar event such as Christmas,
Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day and others and giving them to Pastor Leyrer to deliver them to us
when he comes to visit. May our dear Lord bless each of you girls real good. God loves you and so do
I! Luella Engelke
THANKYOU!~
Carl Bloedel for making the beautiful wood shelf for the laptop that we use in the chancel audio area
for worship services. In addition we thankyou for making the exquisite designed bases for the 2011 and
2012 Voss Awards, the latter 2012 award that will rest on Dr Gostchock's desk for the year!
It is a grateful Pilgrim Church that benefits from your many God-given talents that you bestow on us
so consistently! thanks goes to
Thank you to all the members who presented Easter plants for beautiful altar decorations and to those
persons who helped Michael get things in place --I am certain it was lovely. Sorry I wasn’t there
to share in the joyous celebration.
God's Blessings for all.....Thanks,Lila
Stewardship Verse of the Month for May
Spring is a time for optimism and high hopes. After a long, cold winter our world is becoming soft
and welcoming again. However, this month's verse must have been written in winter. Listen to its
negativity;
Ecclesiastes 5:10 Whoever loves money never has money enough: whoever loves
wealth is never satisfied with his income. This too is meaningless.
Solomon was surely at a low point in his life when he wrote these words. He calls so much of his
life "meaningless." We can argue this point as we will, but what he says is truly true. Can anyone ever
say he has money enough? Do you know anyone who is not trying to get more money? It is a trick of
the Devil to get us to chase wealth and neglect our spiritual condition. St. Paul told us last month that
this trick has worked for thousands of years. But not here at Pilgrim!! We have been studying all this
year what God says about money, and nothing that God says is meaningless.
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Ten Percent Tithe
Not sure how much to place in the offering plate each week? The below table may help you in making
that decision. A 10% annual tithe broken down to weekly giving amounts
Annual Income Tithe Weekly Contributions
$5,000 $500 $9.75
$10,000 $1,000 $19.50
$15,000 $1,500 $25.00
$20,000 $2,000 $38.75
$25,000 $2,500 $48.50
$50,000 $5,000 $97.00
$75,000 $7,500 $145.50
$100,000 $10,000 $194.00
Why Go To Church?
A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go
to church every Sunday... "I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard
something like=203,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I
think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all."
This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor.
It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:
"I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the
life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this... They all
nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these
meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would
be spiritually dead today!"
When you are DOWN to nothing... God is UP to something! Faith sees the invisible, believes the
incredible and receives the impossible! Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment!
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Pilgrim Luther School Spring Musical
Please join us as the Children at Pilgrim Lutheran School present their spring musical.
Treasury Island.
Wednesday May 11th
,
Times: 1:00 pm and 6:00 p.m.
Location : School Gym
Sunday May 15th
,
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Location : School Gym
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St. Croix Lutheran High School
New Art Camp!
SCLHS Art Department Chairman Mr. Lucas
Boehm will offer a hands-on art camp for boys
and girls entering grades 4, 5 and 6, Monday-
Friday, July 18-22, 1-3 pm.
Click here for registration form and details.
To request more information: Call the school
office at 651-455-1521
Enrollment registration for the 2011-2012
school year is still open. Please contact
Principal Richard Gibson if you are interested
in visiting the campus and/or registering -
651.455.1521 x120.
Ready for Golfing?
Mark your calendars for the St. Croix Classic
Golf Tournament scheduled for Monday,
August 8, 2011, at Oak Glen Golf Course in
Stillwater.
Spring Concert – June 3
St. Croix’s annual Spring Concert will be held
on Friday, June 3, at 7:00 p.m. This
performance is the culmination of a year’s work
by each of the presenting groups – Crusader
Band, Choir, Chorus, and Croixaliers. The
music chosen for this concert is a variety of
secular and patriotic numbers fitting the theme
―Made in the USA‖ and featuring Disney
music.
Memorial Day Event for the Public
St. Croix LHS Croixaliers and Band will once
again provide patriotic music for the Memorial
Day Event at Riverview Cemetery in West St.
Paul on Monday, May 30, at 10:00 a.m.
President Gene Pfeifer will lead the program as
Master of Ceremonies, and Mr. Casey Pufahl
will direct the band and Croixaliers.
Celebrate 40 years The Board of Regents and Faculty of St. Croix Lutheran High School are pleased to invite you to a
special service of praise and thanksgiving to recognize the 40th Anniversary in the public ministry of
Reverend Roderick Luebchow, Sunday, May 8, 2011, 3:00 p.m. in the St. Croix Chapel on the campus
of St. Croix Lutheran High School. Thirty-seven years of Pastor Luebchow’s service to the Lord have
been at St. Croix. Pastor Luebchow will be retiring from the public ministry at the end of the current
school year. He would be honored to have you attend this service and a reception to follow.
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CHILDRENS FUN TIME
The Last Supper
Across 5. Jesus said Judas would ____ Him 6. The name of this particular feast 8. ____ was the one who betrayed Jesus 11. What Jesus' blood symbolizes 12. What Mount did they go to later? Down 1. The room that they all met in for the feast 2. The type of song they sang after the meal was finished 3. What did the disciples drink out of at the feast 4. What the cup represented 5. This represented Jesus' broken body 7. Jesus shed his blood for our ____ 9. The name often referred to the twelve men 10. Number of disciples who ate at the last supper
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May 2011 Pilgrim Lutheran Church
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 Worship Services:
8:30—Traditional
9:00-10:00—Sunday School
9:45—Fellowship/Bible Study
10:30—Contemporary
6:00—S.O.N. Worship
2 3
Men’s Bible Study
6:30-7:30 a.m.
4
Ladies Guild
Noon
Bible Study
6 p.m.
5 6 7
Women’s Bible Study
9 a.m.
Touché Flemings
Banquet
(5 p.m. at Atlas Grill)
8 Communion Services:
8:30—Traditional
9:00-10:00—Sunday School
9:45—Fellowship/Bible Study
10:30—Contemporary
6:00—S.O.N. Worship
9
10
Men’s Bible Study
6:30-7:30 a.m.
11
Bible Study
6 p.m.
Spring Musical
1:00 & 6:00
12 13
.
14
15 Worship Services:
8:30—Traditional
9:00-10:00—Sunday School
9:45—Fellowship/Bible Study
10:30—School Concert
Lunch to Follow
1:00—Spring Musical
6:00—S.O.N. Worship
16 17
Men’s Bible Study
6:30-7:30 a.m.
18
Bible Study
6 p.m.
Girl Pioneer’s
Awards Night
6:30 p.m.
19
Band Recital
6:30 p.m. in Gym
20 21
Women’s Bible Study
9 a.m.
22 Confirmation
8:30—Traditional
9:00-10:00—Sunday School
9:45—Fellowship/Bible Study
10:30—Contemporary
6:00—S.O.N. Worship
23 24
Men’s Bible Study
6:30-7:30 a.m.
25
Awards and
Graduation Service
6:30 p.m.
26
Field Day
Last Day of School
Noon Dismissal
27 28
29 Communion Services:
8:30—Traditional
9:00-10:00—Sunday School
9:45—Fellowship/Bible Study
10:30—Contemporary
6:00—S.O.N. Worship
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