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O Beautiful for Spacious Skies O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain: America! America! God shed his grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea. O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife, who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life: America! America! May God thy gold refine, till all success be nobleness, and ev’ry gain divine. O beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human tears: America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul I self-control, thy liberty in law. Katherine L. Bates

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From the Pastor

We’ve just completed the second quarter and I want to give you an update on the church’s finances at this time. Halfway through the year, during a pandemic when we’ve gone 17 weeks without in-person Sunday worship, we are ONLY 10% behind our giving budget. Do you know how incredible that is! I can’t tell you enough how much that encourages me. Last year at this time we were 14% behind and that was without a pandemic! Now, 10% be-hind is over $100K, so it’s significant, but we are cutting some expenses and making staffing decisions that will allow us to weather the shortfall. We also received a PPP loan which helped us through the first part of this quarter. When you give your offering, it’s a spiritual act of worship between you and God. Giving an offering is a way to show your love and grati-tude to God for all He is and all that He has done in your life. But there’s another thing that happens when you give your offering. You show your support to those of us who work at the church. Your offerings express that you are behind us, cheering us on and that you want the work we do to continue. Your offerings encourage us. Well, color us encouraged! Thank you so much for being generous during this crazy time. Thank you for giving based on faith and love rather than what you get in re-turn. Thank you to those of you who have giv-

en more or in advance because you knew others would experience hardship and be unable to give. Thank you for standing in for each other and being a community. In addition to supporting our ministry you are also supporting the Rekindle the Gift campaign to the tune of $1,468,492 received to date! We will be starting construction on that project this month and are excited to get moving. When all of this started, I didn’t really know what to expect. My mind naturally went to the worst-case scenario of dramatically reducing staff and benevolence. I’m so grateful to you for giving in a way that has led us to be remain ro-bust in our capacity to share the good news of the gospel. I pray we can continue in the months ahead. Thank you, thank you, thank you! -Pastor Travis Giving Through June 30 Budgeted- $994,704

­Difference- -$102,130

Received- $892,574

THE MESSY MIDDLE

JOB Brothers and sisters in Christ grace, peace and mer-cy to you from Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Do you remember the cartoon character of the devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other trying to persuade someone on what the next best step is? The one is usually making an argument to look out for yourself, do what it going to be easy, what you are going to benefit the most from, don’t worry about everyone else…and the other one is usually saying “come on you’re a good person, make the right choice, make space for everyone to enjoy the good, let’s do life in love for each other.” Sometimes we find ourselves in a situation where we have to make a choice that is going to affect everyone around us, so do we turn inward, or do we act in kindness and love for the whole of humanity? Today as we continue to navigate long-standing systemic racism perpetuated by complacency and privilege, and we live in the throws of a global pandemic that has no cure or vac-cine but has some solid practices for prevention, we find ourselves in a time of suffering that is different for us from that which we may have survived before.

Job is a whole book that is framed by his suffering. Really the whole story can often be told in the first two chapters and the last chapter or two, so if you’re looking for the abbreviated version, start there. We begin by learning that Job is “blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.” This is the way that the Lord described him too. Then one day the Lord was presented with heavenly beings and Satan showed up, too. Satan said that he had been milling about the earth, and the Lord asked him if had considered Job. Satan asked, “Does Job fear

God for nothing?” Satan suggests that if God did not provide everything for Job as he was accus-tomed, if suffering were brought on Job, he would surely turn on God. God told Satan that all Job had was now in his power. So, Satan went and destroyed Job’s property, and his children were killed in a storm. Job maintained his faith; he did not sin and called the Lord blessed. After this Satan again went to the Lord. The Lord again tells him that Job is blameless and upright, is one who fears God and turns away from evil. God says that Job persists in his integrity, ‘although you incited me against him, to destroy him for no reason.’ Satan answers with another challenge that,”Skin for skin! All that people have they will give to save their lives, but stretch out your hand now and touch his bone and his flesh and he will curse you to your face.” The Lord tells Satan, “He is in your power, only spare his life.” Satan sets about cursing Job with sores, yet Job remains faithful saying, “Shall we receive the good at the hand of God and not receive the bad?”

It’s not unfounded that Job would struggle in his suffering. In the coming chapters he would en-counter friends that had ideas of why, and sug-gestions on how to fix it, and plenty of blame to spread around. Throughout, Job maintains that he has done nothing wrong, that repentance is not the answer for he is without sin. And God is silent. Through that silence Job holds on to God. It’s not to say that it isn’t without complaining; I mean he is human right? He prays for relief, he expresses outbursts of joy that his redeemer lives, he maintains his integrity in the Lord and through all of Job’s responses to his suffering,

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JOB God does not condemn the doubt and despair that Job is living through. God is with him in his suffering, we may have a hard time seeing where God is, and it’s in that space where we can remember the first two chapter of Job and that it is the devil who tries to use our suffering to turn us away from God. Surely the devil knows that we are weak, that we are sinful, and that in these days of immediacy and getting the results we seek for things immediately; surely we are easy prey for Satan. He will swoop in and guide our suffering leading us to believe that we need to be for ourselves, that we need to put our-selves first even for the sake of health, justice and the peace of others. The devil skulks in in sneaky ways lead-ing people to believe that suffering comes to those who are not enough. God uses our suffering to turn us to God. Paradox is something that we live into all the time, par-ticularly in our faith. When we think of the times that our faith is at its strongest, many will recall it in times of suffering and sorrow, but this is also the time that many might say it is at its weakest. It’s a time of wandering in the wilderness and crying out to God, “Where are you?” In the midst of suffering Job cries out in anguish; today we cry out in anguish. We cry out for the crippling ef-fects that a pandemic has taken on our lives, our health and our economy; we cry out for the injustices and op-pression for our black and brown brothers and sisters that have lived on for years, and in all of our lament to-wards God, he does not condemn our doubt and despair. While Job had hard words for God in his suffering, he earned God’s praise in his faithfulness, while the pious friends with all the answers were soundly rebuked. As Job goes through all of this, suffering loss and physical pain, and friends that are offering to him what he needs to do to return to his previous privileged status, he con-tinues to lament and we can understand that as prayer. Prayer comes in many different ways. What I notice in these messy middle chapters of Job, where his friends are telling him how to fix things, it’s a lot of one-way conver-sation. These are friends that seem to have all the an-swers and are more than willing to tell Job what he needs to be doing and thinking and how to make good choices.

As I look at this in our context today it rings so true of how engagement with each other goes in our society to-day. Whatever malady we might be suffering, whatever views we might hold as truth, whatever injustices we are living in or contributing to, everyone seems to have the right answer for us. Job’s friends wanted him to repent. They chided him to do the right thing, to make right his wrongs. But that was not the answer the Job needed; he wasn’t in need of their advice on how to escape his suffer-ing, he wasn’t in need of all the right answers that they surely had. He could have used their prayers. We can be better to each other if we pray for one another and for guidance in how we can better understand one another and learn from one another. If his friends had prayed for him rather than shamed, ridiculed, and tried to correct him, they too might have gained God’s praise rather than rebuke. I think that Job would have liked Jesus. They were two men who certainly came from wildly different back-grounds but shared similar experiences particularly in the shame, ridicule, and rebuke they received in their faithful-ness. But Job who had riches to spare and family to cele-brate, and Jesus came from humble beginnings, no riches, and a rag-tag group of followers. These two men who came from such different places lived into common ground with their love for the Lord and for all things that the Lord himself loved. Jesus preached the beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount, and Job suffered in ways that Jesus could have been naming him as blessed: blessed are those who mourn, blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, blessed are the merciful, blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness. Job held fast to his faith in God and in that he earns God’s praise. In the struggles that we face and that others face we don’t usually know the whole story. Job’s friends were operating from what they believed to be true about why Job was suffering, but were viewing the situation from a limited perspective, their own, and were blind to the real struggle being waged in heaven, the struggle to deny Sa-tan when he seeps into the cracks of our lives and our stories.

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We must believe that while we may never understand the cause of our suffering or that of others, it is our response that shows our faith. So, what happens in this encounter between God and Job to so change Job? Job’s universe has just exploded! He has been challenged to think differently about everything in his life and see anew what is around him. Author Michael Chabon asserts that good children’s literature, in fact all good literature, should blow the minds of its readers wide open. I would go further and say that this is true of any transformative experience. It happens, says Chabon, “when something you feared but knew to be impossible turns out to be true; when the world turns out to be far vaster, far more marvelous or malevolent than you ever dreamed; when you get proof that everything is con-nected to everything else, that everything you know is wrong, that you are both the center of the universe and a tiny speck sailing off its nethermost edge.” This is what happened to Job. God turned the story in the end from Job’s suffering to his response, that Job would answer the Lord saying, “I know that you can do all things and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.” This was Job’s trans-formative experience! Suffering is going to be a part of who we are until God’s kingdom comes again, until we gain our heavenly home, for God has the final answer to suffering in the experience of Jesus on the cross. If we trust in Jesus, suffering is not God’s punishment. Jesus has suffered on the cross for all our sin! How we choose to live in that suffering makes a difference for us and for our brothers and sisters today. We can live into our faith and remember that Jesus has blessed the least of these, those who suffer, those who are persecuted. We can cry out as Job did and remember that God’s response was, “I am with you in all things.” When I read between the lines in that first verse from chapter 42, I hear Job saying that God can do all things, but I imagine that God is saying: “yes I can do all things and so can you who was made in my image, so go and do good things.” The final verse in the reading today is also Job, and it’s a confes-sion and repentance of all the ugly things that Job had said about the Lord in his suffering. Should we all be filled with repentance in the ugly things that we have said about God

and others in our suffering? Job was a man of righteous-ness and humility. His faith led him to a place of repent-ance and prayer. It’s time for us to look at our suffering and find that place of repentance for things done and undone and to offer prayer for things we do not even know we need to pray for. God rules this world and calls on us to do the work with him. In the final verses of this last chapter God takes up con-versation with the friends that had offered so much ad-vice to Job and finally Job’s fortunes are restored. Some believe that these final verses were an add-on at the end, that when all of Job’s fortunes are restored and a new family is given that it is the happy ending we are all look-ing for. This is so much like what we all want to do in the face of the tragedy, loss, and grief of those around us -- wrap it up and make it better. But is that the right thing to do? Or do we only need to do what Job’s friends repeat-edly failed to do throughout the book, to be present to Job in his time of grief, to listen to him, and to trust that what he said and experienced was true. For all their speaking about God, the "friends" never once in the book speak to God; they never once pray for their suffering friend. Job, on the other hand, moves from speaking only about God to speaking more and more di-rectly to God. The friends theologize; Job prays. The friends try to defend God; Job laments. He holds on to God with one hand and shakes his fist at God with the other. He stays in relationship with God, addressing God directly even from the depths of despair; and for this, he is commended by God in the end. And then “Job the suf-ferer” becomes “Job the mediator”. God commands Job’s three friends to offer sacrifices. And Job, still presumably covered with boils, offers prayers on their behalf. He for whom they never prayed now prays for them, and God accepts the prayer of his suffering servant, Job. We don't have the words of the prayer, but perhaps it begins, "Father, forgive them..." Amen. -Pastor Carrie

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A PLACE TO TALK An online community 10am on Thursday mornings via Zoom https://zoom.us/j/209040388 Or call in: 1-346-248-7799 Meeting code: 209040388# While we are not gathering at the church, we continue to try to find ways to bring people together. This is Thursday morning group is the online community of the “Growing Old Gracefully” group. It is led by Pastor Maertens, Pastor Anderson & Jan, and Dr. David Fenell. We invite you to grab a cup of coffee and join in this conversation. We know it isn’t quite the same as gathering around the coffee and cookies at church but you might be surprised how similar it is and how much you’ll enjoy that second cup of coffee in the morning with your church friends! If you have any ques-tions about the group or the technology to ac-cess it, please call Pastor Carrie at 703-587-5636 or drop her an email at carrie@flccs.net. Look forward to seeing you online!

BEING NOT DOING

Have you ever had a day like this? This morning I opened the refrigerator to get out the carton of blueberries to put on top of my yogurt. I didn't seal the top of the box tightly when I put them away the last time I used them. So, instead of the blueberries ending on top of the yogurt, then ended up all over the floor. I said to myself, "this is what life feels like right now. Everything I at-tempt, I foul-up." I feel like St. Paul, when he said in Romans 7:19, “I start out trying to do what is right but screw up in the end." ( Maertens' translation)

However, when I look at things in retrospect, I don't screw everything up, just some things. So, from where does all of this negative thinking come?

Maybe like you, we are feeling penned in by re-strictions. I talked with a friend of mine who said, “I am getting frustrated; it is affecting my mood. After all, how many closets can you clean? I think I have read more books and watched more TV in the last four months than in the pre-vious four years. I want to be out with my friends." I asked her, “How frustrated do you think you would be if you had to work from home, home school your kids, make supper, and clean the house?”

COVID-19 is hitting a lot of people very hard. People have lost their jobs, filed for bankruptcy, watched loved ones die, and witnessed families

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DOLL DOCTORS

Doll Doctors will meet the first Monday of every month in Fellowship Hall beginning July 6.

EVENING MEN’S GROUP This small group is meeting again on Thursday evenings from 7– 8:30 pm in Joseph’s Workshop. All are welcome!

disintegrate. When life strips us down to the essentials of just trying to survive, we discover our real character. Perhaps during this time, when we have become tired of finding things to keep ourselves busy or distract, we might find time to do some self-reflection.

In her book, The Gift of Years, Joan Chittister had some sage advice. In the chapter on “Meaning”, she wrote, "We are so busy making things happen that we have little time left to think about the value of what is happening. We think we are what we do and what we own, not what we are inside ourselves. So who are you when everything goes?

In Philippians 3, St. Paul wrestles with this very question and answers, "But whatever was gain to me, I count as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things as loss com-pared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ." The point of life is not doing; Paul thought the meaning of life was in his accomplishments: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless. However, in truly knowing Christ, he realized the meaning in life is who you are, what you do. That is being caring, be-ing interested, being honest, being truthful, being available, being spiritual, being involved

with the important things of life, of living. It is behaving like Jesus. Perhaps the positive reac-tion in spilling to blueberries was not "what a klutz," but cleaning up my mess.

-Pastor Maertens hhmaertens@msn.com

WOODCARVERS The Woodcarving group will meet Wednesday, July 8, from 7 - 9 pm in Joseph’s Workshop.

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PEEL HOUSE CLEARANCE We are getting close to beginning construction on the Peel House and rekindling the gift God has given to us in that building. There are sev-eral items that need to be removed from the house that we thought might be of value to someone. Before we list them on Facebook we want to give our members first dibs. We’d ask only that you consider making a donation to the Rekindle the Gift campaign and that you make arrangements to remove the items from the house yourself. All items will be given to the person who can remove them the quickest, so no dibs or saves. Here are some pictures of things you might be interested in. To make a claim, call the church, ask for Harry Mosco and schedule a time to collect the item you’d like.

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WHAT TO DO… IN CASE YOU DIDN’T GET THE SUNDAY SERVICE EMAIL If you don’t receive the email from the church for the Sunday service, the service is available on the First Lutheran website, flccs.net. There is a link on the main page titled Online Worship. Click on that link and the worship service will appear. Worship videos are posted on our website by 7 am on Sunday morning. They are also posted to our YouTube site on Saturday afternoon. Usually, after checking, we can see that emails are being sent to you. However, for some reason, the emails are being bounced back. Our advice is to figure out how to mark emails from flc@flccs.net safe for your Internet provider’s server. We do not drop anyone off our database list unless asked.

HOLY COMMUNION Communion will be held twice in July on the 15th and 29th at 9 am, 11 am, and 7 pm (note changes in time). You may sign up by emailing Marcia, on the Sunday Connection Card, the Communion sign-up on the website or by calling the church.

WAYFARER - “A person who goes on a jour-ney” A new support group is being formed at First Lutheran for women who have experienced the loss of their husband. Although each jour-ney is unique, there is a common thread that binds us together. Sharing our stories, fears, struggles and victories with those who under-stand can be uplifting. This group is for women who have gone through a recent loss as well as those who have been on their jour-ney for months or even years. If you would like to be part of this group, please contact Teri Swanner in the Senior Pastor’s Office at 719-632-8836 ext. 6045 or teri@flccs.net. Plans will be made based on the number of partic-ipants. Please respond by July 10. You will be contacted once a date, time and venue have been determined.

CONNECTION CARD Please remember to complete the Connection Card after you have watched the weekly church services. This information is recorded in the church records that you attended the service on a weekly basis!

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Middle school youth group is at 4 pm every Sunday https://zoom.us/j/180569595

High school youth group is at 5 pm every Sunday https://zoom.us/j/856667945

RAINBOW TRAIL AT HOME www.rtlcathome.org This summer is looking pretty different for most of the world and outdoor ministry is no exception. Rainbow Trail has moved at least the first four weeks of summer programming to an online format and all day camp/vacation Bible school programming. So, while this means they don’t have kids on-site yet, they are still doing a camp program that you can follow along with at home! They are also not sending out teams to do Vacation Bible School this summer. They are keeping staff onsite through-out the summer, to limit the possibility of exposure to the coronavirus. They are offering resources online for you at www.rtlcathome.org Check it out and find a way to incorporate a little camp into your week. What does this mean for VBS at First Lutheran? Well, right now it means we won’t be gathering for a whole week of activities together, but are planning to have a some fun days where we can gather out-side for a few hours for devotions, highs & lows and lots of fun (think games & water day!) Please keep an eye on the Ekklesia and the blog for announcements about some safe and distanced ways that we can gather together for fun in God’s great creation!

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SUNDAY ADULT SEMINAR "WHY ARE ALL THE BLACK KIDS SITTING TOGETHER IN THE CAFETERIA? AND OTHER CONVERSATIONS ABOUT RACE"

JULY 12TH - AUGUST 2ND ONLINE VIA ZOOM, 10:30 AM, SUNDAYS

It seems that every where we look right now there are conversations about race, policing, and protests. For the next four weeks, let's explore together common topics about race, the current events of today, where our faith and the ELCA affect our views of race, and finally steps to move forward. You are encouraged to pick up a copy of Why Are All the Black Kids Sit-ting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum, but it is not required. It is a great introduction to this topic and is a well-balanced book based on research rather than opinion. Let's tackle this difficult topic together as people of faith and followers of Jesus Christ. July 12 - "How did we get here?" A look at current events, important terms, and the ELCA's "Freed in Christ, Race and Ethnicity" Social Statement July 19 - "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" Understanding Iden-tity Development in Kids, Teens, and Adults July 26 - "What about Latinx and Other People of Color?" A Discussion on Race Relations in General in America August 2 - "How does one even become 'anti-racist'?" Signs of Hope and Steps to Move For-ward Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84364439242 Meeting ID: 843 6443 9242

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LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES ROCKY MOUNTAINS

2020 SCHOOL SUPPLY DRIVE • Provide a new backpack and school sup-

plies - OR- a gift card for foster and refugee children.

• Lists will be provided for the various grades (K-5 lists will include whiteboard and dry erase markers.)

• Drop-offs can be scheduled July 7-August 13 during the hours of 1:00-5:00 PM at our office. Please contact Christina to reserve your drop-off slot!

• PLEASE LABEL BACKPACKS WITH GRADE

• Contact Christina Berroa at 719-201-3019 or christina.berroa@lfsrm.org

Pre-K – 2nd Grade 1 New backpack 1 Pencil Case 1 Pack Pencils (sharpened or mechanical) 2 Spiral notebooks (wide ruled) 2 Pink Erasers 1 Pack Crayons 1 Package Dry Erase Markers 1 Pack Washable Markers 1 Pack Colored Pencils 2 Glue Sticks 4 Pocket Folders 1 Pair Children’s Scissors 1 Reusable Water Bottle (store inside backpack) 1 Pack Disinfectant Wipes 1 cloth mask 1 container of hand sanitizer 1 set of earbuds/headphones 1 small whiteboard

3rd – 5th Grade 1 New backpack 1 Pencil Case 1 Pack Pencils (sharpened or mechanical) 1 Pack Pens 2 Pink Erasers 1 Pack Washable Markers 1 Pack Colored Pencils 2 Glue Sticks 4 Pocket Folders 2 Spiral Notebooks (wide-ruled) 2 Composition Notebooks 1 Pair Scissors 1 Protractor 1 Compass 1 Arithmetic Calculator 1 Reusable Water Bottle (store inside backpack) 1 Planner 1 Pack Disinfectant wipes 1 cloth mask 1 container of hand sanitizer 1 set of earbuds/headphones 1 small white board 1 pack dry erase markers *Middle & High School Lists next week

Gift cards to Target/Walmart for students to pick out a new First Day of School outfit are always appreciated!

**If you are unable or uncomfortable gather-ing supplies this year, you have the option to Sponsor A Backpack! Just send in gift card to Walmart, Target, or Amazon and we will do the shopping for you! Pre-K through 5th grade cost about $60 to fill a bag, and Middle School and High School cost about $80.**

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PLEASE CONTINUE TO SEND IN YOUR OFFERINGS

Suspending worship might threaten the financial well-being of the congre-gation. We still have a large staff to pay as well as other bills. We want to continue to support those agencies that help those hardest hit dur-ing times like this. Please continue to support this ministry with your offerings. When you receive envelopes in the mail you’ll notice a larger white envelope. That is a post-age paid envelope you can use to mail in your offering. We also have the ability to receive of-ferings online at www.flccs.net. Just click on the “GIVE” tab and then “MAKE A DONATION” and follow those instructions. You can even set it up to draft automatically each month, which would really help the church during this time. Thank you for your faithfulness!

ONLINE WORSHIP TOGETHER!

We discovered a new way to worship together using Facebook Premiere. Each Sunday we will start the online worship video at 9:00 am on Facebook. This way we can enjoy it at the same time and the pastors can be in the chatroom with you to check in and share reflections. The video will also continue to be emailed to you at 7 am on Sundays for you to use at your conven-ience and also posted on the church website. But if you’re a Facebook user and want to join us at 9 am, you’re invited!

ZOOM STEP BY STEP

Step #1: Download Zoom. In your web browser, enter

the URL https://zoom.us/download Download “Zoom Client for Meetings”.

Step #2: Open Zoom. Double click on the Zoom icon on that

should appear on your desktop at the end of the download. It is a blue icon with a white video camera within.

Step #3: Join Meeting. Once you have opened the Zoom applica-

tion, find the icon that says “Join” and click it.

You will now be prompted to enter the “Zoom ID”. You can find this number attached to the back end of the URL you were sent on the invitation. For exam-ple, if your invitation has a code like https://zoom.us/j/209858456 you would enter the nine numbers that appear on the tail end of the link. https://zoom.us/j/209858456. This is the “meeting ID”.

Final Step: “Join with Audio”. Once you have successfully entered the

“Meeting ID” it will link you to the video chat. In the case that it asks you if you would like to “join with Audio”, select “YES”.

You should now be able to see everyone, and also hear everyone.

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group:

July 5 Andrew Anderson Jill Gjertson Brown Connor John July 6 Yoshiko Anspach Joe DeLuca Sylvia Harding Henri Ndaya Charlie Watkins William Wuestneck July 7 Drexel Biddle Laura Coupas Madeline Ellis Jeanine Evans Kaikoa Goff Dave Haberacker Brianna Johnson July 8 Sue Blumberg Cathy Holiday Kathleen Hospador Paul Rochette Ethan Springer Kathy Wyant

July 9 Pat Hardin Matthew Kellermann July 10 Fred Bachmeier Bill Bokelman Linda Branesky Blake Chafetz Evangeline Ndaya-King Sadie Panzer Linda Schierholz Barbara Stave Steve Steiner John Wicks July 11 Brenda McFillen

July 5 Joe & Jane Boehringer - 48 years Charlotte & Ronald Stecklein - 51 years Denny & Sandy Weber - 51 years

July 7 Kellie & Manuel Rodrigues - 8 years

July 8 Ralph & Lannita Cannon - 13 years Stephanie & Grant Whitney - 20 years July 9 Walt & Denise Aufderheide - 32 years

July 10 Andy & Eileen Ballas - 55 years Bob & Donna Benfield - 27 years Nicholas & Katie John - 10 years

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Our condolences and prayers surround the family of

LOUIS BURGAN

Izitta Burgan’s husband; Lottie Hering’s brother;

Karl’s brother-in-law; father of two; grandfather of one;

great-grandfather of two. The service will be in Fremont, Nebraska,

on July 18, 2020.

Cliff Allen Cheri Anderson Wanda Anderson Joyce Arneson Dean Arnold Jaclyn Arnold Vernevelyn Baty Fred Bachmeier & Family Bill John Braden Jerry Brunet Butch Leslie Crowley Frank Davey Sharon deHala Bill Duven The Ebert Family Eric Carol Foltz Kelsey Forbes Michael Foret Tom Gosch Andy Grasmick Lee Gross Cody Haines Jon Haring Eleanor Hjelmstad Jon Haring Cheryl Haver & Family Jutta Heberer Beverly Hodges Casey Jacobs Terry James Peter Jepson & Family Carol Johnson Josh Jones Carrie Kahl Diana Keys

Dick Larson John Link The Lougeay Family Neil Mahon Jay McCoy Anthony Miller Brandon Miller & Family Hannah & Jeremiah Miller Debra Mills Mark Mueller Patrick Murphy Carole Mutzebaugh The Arvin Nelson Family Arline Niles and Family Rhea Nordberg Sam Norton Bill Phipps Sr. Don Reed Don Reichert Aaron Rindahl Skip Robinson Louis Rosini Israel Roth Sylvia Sandner Roger Schomber Ron Scott Ruthann Sielken The Simon Family Cathy Stanley Lori Stevens Cliff Stoker Russ Stott Aaron Thorson The John Thorson Family Jim Underwood Christine Welch Tony White Greg & Carolyn Young Ben Zeeb

Please keep these members of First Lutheran, their family and friends, in your prayers this week.

PRAYER REQUESTS Please email any prayer requests to flc@flccs.net, or call the church office at 719.632.8836.

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The Sunrise Walkers (Carol Donachy, Judy Hagge, Judy Bondurant, Ruth Dutzi) Shelly, Pastor Carrie, and Kristi (youth intern) delivering a senior gift to Alex Anspach and Hannah Stokes.