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IMMANUEL EV. LUTHERAN CHURCH

20 MONTEREY CIRCLE, LAKEWOOD NJ 08701 732-363-1599 OR FAX 732-364-3969

Office Staff: Rev. Karina Ramins, Interim Pastor Roxanne Rossano, Secretary

INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Coming up News ...………….. 2 Cleanup Day …..……………… 3 Nov. Calendar ………………...4 Serving in Nov. …...…………...4 Nov. Celebrations ……………..5 Pastor Con’t. ……..……………6 C.A.T. News …………..……….6 Nursery School ………………..7 Blessing of Animals …………..8 Info. …………………………….9 Jan. Wine & Cheese Event ...10 Thank You …………………...11 CROP Walk ………………….11 Poinsettia Order Form ……...11

It’s that time of year again. A letter from the stewardship committee containing an esti-mate of giving card was sent out this week. If you haven’t gotten it yet, watch for it in the mail. It’s time for us to plan financially for 2010, and time for all of us to decide how we will support the mission of Immanuel in this community, and the mission of the lar-ger church in the world. The cartoon above is cute, and hopefully you got a laugh out of it. But it’s interesting that even a cartoonist, who may or may not be a Christian, knows about the concept of tithing. Now you’re probably thinking, uh-oh, she’s going to tell us that we have to give 10% of our money to the church. Well, OK, we all should be giving 10% of our income to the church – it is the Biblical standard for giving back to God from the bounty that God has given us. There are two things I’d like you to think about as you consider your giving for 2010:

1. Good stewardship does not begin with tithing. It begins when we really, truly come to the realization that everything belongs to God. I know we hear that all the time, but consider what it means. Most of you slept in a house last night, and got up this morning and drove your car to work or school or church. Well that house and car do not belong to you. You might say, yes, that’s true, I just make the payments. But, the money we make the payments with doesn’t be- long to us either.

It’s hard to get this through our heads, isn’t it? The concept of “mine” is one of the first concepts we learn as a child. When we’re kids, everything we see and want becomes “mine." When we get older, the toys get more expensive, but that con-cept of “mine” remains. This step means throwing the concept of “mine” away. There is no “mine” there’s only God’s. Once we get that through our heads, good stewardship is only one step away.

2. The second step is recognizing that we have been given the privilege of using and caring for God’s things. Think about it this way: Suppose a friend goes out of town and says you can drive his car while he’s gone, you are supposed to take care of it. If you don’t, and you wreck the car out of carelessness, then you’re a bad caretaker.

cont. on pg. 6

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ANGEL TREE WILL BE UP ON DECEMBER 6TH

Lunch with Santa! Lunch with Santa! Lunch with Santa! Lunch with Santa! December 5, 2009

11:00AM

Children’s Lunch is Free

Adults $2 There will also be a Santa Store

for children to purchase family gifts.

Cost: $1 per item.

CHURCH DECORATING

TUESDAY DECEMBER 8 AT 7PM.

Join in the fun!

Hot Chocolate and Donuts will be served.

DECEMBER 22nd setting up the altar

With Poinsettias. Help needed for both.

November 26th & 27th December 24th & 25th

January 1st

Annual LCW Christmas DinnerAnnual LCW Christmas DinnerAnnual LCW Christmas DinnerAnnual LCW Christmas Dinner

Ladies of the church don’t be left out! Our Annual Christmas Dinner will be on

December 2, 2009December 2, 2009December 2, 2009December 2, 2009

At: Eagle Ridge Restaurant

Time: 6PM

Cost per person: $20.00

Surf & Turf Buffet

Please let us know if you are coming by

calling the office and letting Eva or Karin H.

know by November 22nd.

Hope to see you there!

Advent Dates

1st Sunday of Advent 11-29

2nd Sunday of Advent 12-6

3rd Sunday of Advent 12-13

4th Sunday of Advent 12-20

Up Coming Events forUp Coming Events forUp Coming Events forUp Coming Events for DecemberDecemberDecemberDecember

NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE ---- There will not be any C.A.T. Meetings

for the months of November & December. Meet-

ings will resume again in January of 2010. Look

for the date in the December newsletter. See

CAT article on page 6 for more details.

Check out the great stuff going on, don’t miss anything!

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FALL CLEAN UP DAY!

NOVEMBER 15, 2009 (immediately following the church service)

Judd Stanberry is looking for volunteers to help spruce up the

grounds around the church, nursery school and parsonage!

All hands are welcome and necessary to make the job easy

and to complete it in a timely fashion.

So please “all” hands - large and small - are welcome!

We will have refreshments as well to energize you!

Things to be completed:

Mow lawn

Clean off parking lot

Rake leaves

Clean gutters

Pick up trash

Move large pile of leaves and branches behind the nursery

school further back into the woods.

We will need some tools as well:

Rakes

Pitch forks

Blowers - electric or gas, hand held or backpack

Thank you, we look forward to a time of fellowship in sprucing

up God’s grounds.

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THOSE SERVING IN NOVEMBER 2009 Lay Date Assistants Ushers Altar Guild _ Acolytes __ Lectors Nov. 1 Karin Holldorf Janet Price Donna Palzer Daniel Palzer Kris Calabro

& The Gurley’s Donna Palzer

Nov. 8 Laura Mitchell Lana Hyer Donna Palzer Michael O’Donnell Heather Bulin

Eva LaBrozzi Donna Palzer

Nov. 15 Kris Calabro Janice Henry Donna Palzer Tyler Bulin Janice Henry

The Youth Group Donna Palzer

Nov. 22 David Curtis Manning & Lois Donna Palzer Tyler Brown Judd Stanberry

Voorhees Cherylann Gerhard

Nov. 29 Sven Mossberg Shirley & Howard Donna Palzer Brian Camp Laura Mitchell

Heim Donna Palzer

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 SS Fall Festival 10:00 AM IMMANUEL WOR-SHIP 12:00 PM Cristo 12:30 PM DeDios Worship 5:00 PM Spirit Filled Min. 7:00 PM Ballroom Dancing

2 7:00 PM FINANCE MTG.

3 7:30 PM De Dios

4 7:30 PM Cristo

5 7:30 PM Narcotics Anon.

6 8:00 AM Cristo-Fasting & Prayer 7:00 PM Cristo-Conference 7:00 PM Spirit-filled Min.

7 8:00 AM Cristo-Fasting & Prayer 5:30 PM Immanuel Worship Serv. 7:00 PM Cristo-Conference

8 10:00 AM IMMANUEL WOR-SHIP 12:00 PM Cristo 12:30 PM DeDios Worship 5:00 PM Spirit Filled Min.

9 10 7:30 PM De Dios

11 7:30 PM COUNCIL MTG. 7:30 PM Cristo

12 7:30 PM Narcotics Anon.

13 7:00 PM Spirit-filled Min. 8:00 PM Sons of Norway-Ed. Bldg.

14 5:30 PM Immanuel Worship Serv. 6:30 PM Evangel-ism-Wine & Cheese Event

15 10:00 AM IMMANUEL WOR-SHIP 12:00 PM Cristo 12:30 PM DeDios Worship 5:00 PM Spirit Filled Min.

16 17 7:30 PM De Dios

18 7:30 PM Cristo 7:30 PM LCW Mtg.

19 7:30 PM Narcotics Anon.

20 7:00 PM Spirit-filled Min.

21 5:30 PM Immanuel Worship Serv.

22 Fall Harvest Food Drive 10:00 AM IMMANUEL WOR-SHIP 12:00 PM Cristo 12:30 PM DeDios Worship 5:00 PM Spirit Filled Min.

23 24 7:30 PM De Dios

25 7:30 PM Cristo

7:30PM Thanksgiv-ing Eve Service

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HAPPY THANKS-GIVING 7:30 PM Narcotics Anon.

27 7:00 PM Spirit-filled Min.

28 5:30 PM Immanuel Worship Serv.

29 1st Sunday in Advent 10:00 AM IMMANUEL WOR-SHIP 12:00 PM Cristo 12:30 PM DeDios Worship 5:00 PM Spirit Filled Min.

30 7:00 PM SFM-Couples Mtg.

NOVEMBER 2009

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NOVEMBER CELEBRATIONS

November

“I-do’s”

Kristine & Michael Becker 04

John & Margaret Coppola 08

Jim & Lisa McLain 08

Matthew & Sue-Anne Lyons 09

Joseph & Viola Kentos 11

Colleen & John Simonetti 16

Andrew & Elizabeth Torre 18

Ben & Shannon Holt 21

MaryEllen Hansen 04

Kathleen Jorgensen 04

Harry Sullivan 04

Judy Nolan 05

Robert Camp 07

Michael Grecksch 07

Elizabeth Knipfelberg 10

David Novatin 10

Joseph Kentos 11

Michael Santoli 11

Charlotte Meyer 12

Dawn Egan 15

Arnie Hansen 16

Janet Price 17

Jeremy Barrow 19

Scott Conover 21

Colleen Simonetti 22

John Sudol 22

Kevin Berg 23

Tyler Brown 23

Shannon Holt 24

Chase Olejarz 25

Alexis Conover 26

Jonathan Riley 26

Nicholas Boyle 27

Stephanie Palzer 27

Dick Stahlhut 28

Sean Sullivan 30

BirthdaysBirthdaysBirthdaysBirthdays

Pastoral Acts in Pastoral Acts in Pastoral Acts in Pastoral Acts in

OctoberOctoberOctoberOctober

Weddings Walter Childs & Kristie Grogan

10-3-09

Baptisms George John Ibrahim

10-18-09

ALL SAINTS SUNDAY NOVEMBER 1st Elinor Hoenig

Charles Frank Sturm

Edward C. Fay

Penella E. Martin

Harriet M. Armstrong

Betty Jean Lane

James Goetchius

Norman C. Smith

Glenn S. Bleiweiss

David Finn

Catherine Everson

Bertha Saul

Dylan Liam Brower

Ann S. Finnerty

Robert E. Buttcher

Eugene Fideau

Timothy Simpson

Catherine Lacey

Adeline Federico

Robert Paring

Leo Vasmanis

Joseph Colosimo

Karen Sellers

Janet Santiago

Reinaldo Carde

Thank you note from: Rev. Doug Shipler

Rutgers Protestant Campus Ministry Immanuel Lutheran Church,

On behalf of the Rutgers Protestant Campus Ministry and Second Reformed Church I would like to thank you for the large print pew Bibles. These Bibles will make worship more enjoyable for our older and disabled folk

for years to come. May God bless your generosity with great joy!

In Christ, Rev. Doug Shipler

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C.A.T. IS MEETING AGAIN C.A.T. is meowing again after an enjoyable summer. This is Halloween, of course, so one would expect C.A.T. to be noisy. C.A.T. stands for Coffee and Talk, our discussion group that solves the problems of the world each month. We have a luxury, however. The problems are discussed in great detail with many references to the “good old days” when everyone was unaware of today’s difficulties and changes, much less about how to resolve them. Ah, solutions. There is our luxury. We trot home after pulling apart our problems – but with no agreed upon resolutions. These are left for our elected leaders, whom we will criticize a month later for not acting resolutely. Terrific, what insight! Hercule Poirot, the fictional detective created by Agatha Christie and an occasional TV who-done-it, tells his astonished group when he solves a murder that they should have “exercised their little grey cells.” C.A.T. offers this essential arm chair exercise together with coffee and tasty delights. How can you beat it? You can’t. Please join us on Wednesday, October 28th at 10:15 A.M in the meeting room at Church for another meeting of C.A.T. We look forward to having you with us. There will be no meetings in November and December during the Holiday Season. That will give us time to recharge for the January meeting, which will be noted in the December newsletter. M. W. V.

Con’t from pg. 1 So good or bad stewardship is a function of how we use and care for all the things that God lets us use. How DO we use our cars and houses and money and time? If we use them in ways that honor God, if we use them to support God’s work and do God’s will, then we are good stewards.

So now we come to tithing. Good stewardship comes first, and then tithing is an outgrowth of it. If I give you ten dollars to hold for me and I say that you can use it for whatever you need and then ask for one dol-lar back, it would be rude to say no. After all, I gave you ten and you still have nine. We are God’s creation. God made each of us out of the dust of the earth, and then placed us in a gar-den so we could live and grow. We have everything we need to do that, even though we so often think we don’t. And all of it is given to us by God. God lets us use his things. But the bottom line is that it all belongs to God. We are only caretakers of God’s possessions. As we all decide how we will support this congrega-tion next year, let’s keep God’s gracious care of us in mind, and give in thanks for what God has given us. Grace and peace

Pastor Karina

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IMMANUEL LUTHERAN NURSERY SCHOOL

We were very busy in the month of October. We practiced our "stop, drop and roll" for fire safety month,

picked pumpkins in our playground "pumpkin patch" and cele-brated Halloween with our annual parade!!

Our goal for November is to collect food for the pantry and

help others in our community.

We continue to register children for our programs and are happy to announce the start of a new program in January --

"Mommy and Me".

Kindly stop by our school or call Nancy Kaminski at 732-363-1735 or directorilns@verizon.net with any questions you may have. You may

also visit our website at www.ilnurseryschool.org.

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Blessing Of

the Animals!

Our first service for Blessing of the Animals by Pastor Karina was a huge success. So many animals came with their owners, no one was turned away.

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The Entertainment Books for 2010 are here! $30 each!

These make great gifts for Christmas for teachers, bosses, friends and relatives. They are also good

for birthdays and anniversaries.

Another Wine & Cheese Party is in the

forecast for January 9th. So mark

your calendars.

Stave off the winter blues with

fellowship and friends!

Here it is the:

Winter Gift Auction on February 6, 2010

at 4:30pm Admission for the event is $30.00. This

includes dinner and 5 tickets. Additional tickets may be purchased at the event.

So if you are looking for a fun time, you won’t want to miss this event.

Hope to see you there. Place: Immanuel Ev. Lutheran Church

Education Building 20 Monterey Circle, Lakewood NJ

Any questions call: Eva LaBrozzi 732-818-0981 Or church office at 732-363-1599

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Wine and Cheese

Fall Friendship Fund-

raiser At Immanuel Lutheran Church

Help support the Roof/Septic fund

Saturday, November 14th

7:00 PM in the Educational building Donation $10

I hope Mom (Karin) brings me home some goodies from the Wine & Cheese Party! Everything is always so delicious.

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Order Form for Red Poinsettias 6 1/2 “ pot with 5 & up blooms @ $9.00

Your Name:______________________________________________________________________________ Your phone #________________________ # of Plants ________________ Amount:___________________ I will / will not be taking home ___________________ (please indicate by circling one) In Memory of: _______________________________________________________________________________ In Memory of: _______________________________________________________________________________ In Honor of:_________________________________________________________________________________ In Honor of:_________________________________________________________________________________ (more than one name can fit on each line)

Please make checks payable to “Immanuel Lutheran Church.” Give orders to Church

office no later than December 13th.

Additional order forms will be in the Narthex in November. Place your order early to assure your loved ones name/s are in the bulletin. THANK YOU!

A big thank you goes out to John Bulin and the students in the sev-enth and eighth grade classes and high school class for helping clean up the “Angel Under His Wings” pantry. Thanks John for taking the 50 pound boxes to the dump.

A special thank you to the congrega-tion of Immanuel Evangelical Church for helping to make the CROP Walk a great success. The rain held off, but the temperature was a bit cold. We raised $576 towards the fight to end hunger.

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