Newsletter of the United Church of Primghar October, 2015- Volume 10

The other day, Duane and I were eavesdropping on the kids as they

played. Kezy declared, “I’m God, Tommy, you be the angel. So

now we need to get the mud together. Tommy, you get the

mud. Okay, and now, since I’m God, I need to breath into it, and it

becomes man.” Then Tommy yelled, “It is GOOD! Now let’s get the mud and make Pizza

Ranch, because it is good, too!”

Duane and I laughed, and we decided that Glenna has been doing a good job with teach-

ing the kids Sunday School in Archer, and I realized that the kids were going to be starting

WWW soon. All of our meetings are finally going to come together into something meaning-

ful and I look forward to hearing how the lessons are going to inspire more kids.

I am also really looking forward to celebrating Lord’s Acre. I have heard all sorts of

wonderful stories about it, and I am already working with the worship team for the service. It

should be a wonderful celebration!

This really will be a busy month, and I know that as the leaves begin to change a new

season is starting. We can use all the help we can get in trying to get prepared for the har-

vest. Matthew 9:37b says, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.” I encourage

everyone to try to take hold of some kind of opportunity to volunteer and allow the Spirit to

work through you in inspiring new disciples.

~Pastor Kris

COMING IN NOVEMBER!

Saturday

November 7th

Election Day

Tuesday November 3rd

Election Night

Soup Supper

5-7pm

51 days until the

Lords Harvest

How do you plan to

show you’re

Thankful?

Saturday

November 21st

Worship Bazaar

“Hanging of the Greens”

Sunday, November 29th,

1st Sunday in Advent

You’re Invited to... Archer’s Lord Acre

Saturday, October 31st

Worship at 10:00a.m.

Lunch at 11:30a.m.

Parade at 1:00 with auction to follow

UCW Meeting on the 14th

2:00 pm at Primghar

Care Center

Program: Myrna Hei-

mensen

Hostess:

Sheryl Wilson, Jane

McDowell, Marian Gin-

ger & Lucille Rook

Devotions:

Jean Davis

Evening Circle Meeting on the 27th,

7:00pm

Program:

Jane McDowell

Devotions:

Marian Ginger

Hostess:

Marian Ginger

Faith Circle Meeting on the 21st at

2:00pm

Hostess: Pat Jeffers

& Delores Ginger

Devotions: Lucille

Rook

October Ushers October Liturgist

4th Earl & Marilyn Newman & Leon Hunt 4th Bill Kersting

11th Mike & Shirley Jones & Fred Wittrock 11th Jan Gaudian

18th Mike & Shirley Jones & Fred Wittrock 18th Helen Lucas

25th Shirley Fernstrum & Don & Wanda Steffens 25th Jan Tjossem

OCTOBER

Nursery Worker

4th Shirley Jones

11th Barb Rohwer

18th

25th

OCTOBER

ACOLYTE

4th Hunter Irwin

11th Shelby Enger

18th Taryn Hintz

25th Matt Rohwer

Set your clocks

back Sunday,

November 1st

Lord’s Harvest Worship 10:00am

Bazaar & Baked Goods Following Worship

Lunch 11:00am to 12:45pm

Games for Children 11:00am to 1:00pm

Movie & Popcorn 1:00pm

Silent Auction ends at 1:00pm

Live Auction 1:15pm

Auction: Again we are having a silent auction as par t of the day.

The items that we would “live” auction would be items brought from

our talents, such items could be anything from providing a soup a

month, to a dinner hosting a number of guests with individuals able to

buy one plate, two plates, etc., to being willing to detail someone’s car,

anything that you could do for someone else. You, the person who

brings the items, will make the decision as to whether you want your

item to be on the “live” or silent auction.

Did you know?... Cleaning of the kitchen has begun.

Please help when you can. You will find a map showing

what has been cleaned. It should be on the North counter.

Let’s grab a friend and have some fun doing some Fall

cleaning!

Did you know?... WWW is starting October

7th! We are excited to start a new year. This

year we will have a new policy. For the safety

of our children, we are asking that the parents

“check-in” and “check-out” their children

when bringing them to WWW. We also need

contact information should we need to call a

parent in the event of an emergency. Trinity United Church of Christ have invited the

ladies to a Women’s Guest Day with Jill Miller.

This will be held on October 15th at 2:00 pm.

Details are on the bulletin board.

1

Pastor Kris

at Dist. Com-

mittee Mtg.

in Storm

Lake

2

Pastor Kris’

DAY OFF

3:00pm

Clergy serv-

ing Football

personnel

3

4 World

Communion

9:00am UCP

Worship—

Communion,

Teacher Dedica-

tion & 3rd

Grade Bible

Presentation

10:30am Archer

UMC—

Communion

5 Pastor Kris at

Professional

Interview in

Sutherland

6

7 1:30 pm Archer

UMW

WWW Begins!

5:45 Dinner

6:15 Classes

7:00 Worship

8

9 Pastor Kris’

DAY OFF

10

11

9:00am UCP

Worship

10:30am Archer

UMC

3:30 pm Joint

PPR Mtg @

Archer

7:00 pm Admin-

istrative Council

Mtg. UCP

12

13

14

In-Gathering

Kits are Due 2:00 pm UCW @

Primghar Care Center

WWW

5:45 Dinner

6:15 Classes

7:00 Worship

15 16 Pastor Kris’

Day Off

3:00pm

Clergy serving

Football per-

sonnel

17

Pastor Kris

@ UCC

Annual

Business

Mtg. in Des

Moines

18 9:00am UCP

Worship

10:30am Archer

UMC Worship

Archer Board

Mtg. after wor-

ship

19

6:30 pm

Volunteer

Training for

Love INC

20

21

2:00 pm Faith

Circle WWW

5:45 Dinner

6:15 Classes

7:00 Worship

22

23

Pastor Kris

Coaching—HCI

9:00am News-

letter Assembly

3:00pm

Clergy serving

Football per-

sonnel

24

9 am—3 pm

Boundary

Training @

Hartley

25 9:00am UCP

Worship

10:30am Archer

UMC– Worship

26

27

7:00pm Even-

ing Circle

28 WWW Schedule

same as above

29

30

Pastor Kris’

Day Off

31 Archer

Lord’s Acre

SUN MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT

OCTOBER

BIRTHDAYS &

ANNIVERSARIES

1 Bill Klink

2 Robert McCauley

4 Bud Johnson, Marvin Nelson,

Garry Sampson,

Vernon Wittrock,

Jill Eldridge

9 Rick Ginger

10 Ruth (Vern) Wittrock

11 Matt Rohwer

12 Hayes Monical

13 Ruth Proehl

17 Ellen Meerdink

18 Trace Tjossem, Darla DeBerg,

19 Jim Thompson, Dennis Lundquist

20 Ruth (Gordon) Wittrock,

Greg Fritzsche

23 Laura Wittrock

24 Kenneth Sampson,

Adam Wittrock

25 Mary Lou Wittrock

28 Brad McDowell

29 Ryan Morris

30 Loretta Edwards

31 Harriet Stevens,

Zoe Ann Roberts

Did you know?... All ingathering kits need

to be turned in at the table in the Fellowship

Hall by Wednesday, October 14th. At this

time we have:

3 health kits

3 sewing kits

29 school kits

30 layettes

If you are aware of someone in need of a pastoral call, please inform Pastor at the office, 957-4960 or her

cell 712-344-2846. She would rather hear from multiple sources than from no one at all. In these times of

privacy rights, hospitals and nursing homes may not divulge information relating to a resident or patient,

so it is very important that members and/or their families let the Pastor know of all needs for pastoral care.

WWW Dinner Hosts Needed! Consider hosting one of our WWW dinners. Dinner ingredients

can be charged to the WWW Food Fund at Bob & Scott’s . See the

sign up sheet the Fellowship Hall.

OCTOBER GREETERS

4th Cindy & Andrew Jansma

11th Kim Tewes, Jan Gaudian, & Shirley Fernstrum

18th Larry & Jean Dau

25th Jim & Joan Thompson

If you know of someone’s Birth-

day or Anniversary that should be

in the Newsletter please let the

Office know.

October 4th

3rd Grade Bible Presentation

&

Teacher Dedication

Did you know… Love INC classes have been held in our church for one

year! We are so thankful for all the volunteers that have made this possi-

ble. Are you interested in helping? A volunteer training will be held on

Monday, October 19th here at UCP beginning at 6:30 pm.