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School comes to an end and the youth of the community will be in full force outside or with their digi- tal gaming devices. Beginning June 4 th ,we will be participating in the school lunch program. Those household with qualifying incomes are eligible for their school students to participate in the govern- ment breakfast and lunch program available through the Public schools. As I stated on June 4 th through the beginning of August we will be a lunch site for school students under 18 years of age to have a healthy regulated lunch in our Fellowship Hall working with the Hernando Public School System. From 12:00 until 1:00 pm we will serve any and all children who come here for lunch. We are honored to be able to work with the school district and they are truly thrilled that we are participating. We are volunteering our facility as a safe place for lunch and hope many of you will find it in your hearts to help. If you can volunteer for one day that ’s great; if more that’s great too. Sharon Kostner, Rick Henry and myself have been trained by the school district as what needs to be done. We will need to train any volunteers about 20 minutes. If you can help out please let Sharon Kostner, Rick Henry or myself know of your desire to help. If we find an interest, we may keep the Fellowship hall opened for a longer period so that the “safe place” continues to give children an ability to be safe. Not every place in our community is safe, but here it will be safe. June will surely wiz past us like the rest of the year so far. The first Sunday in July will be our God and country service and we will have a family dinner following the service—not the usual hamburgers and hot dogs. (CHANGE). It has been suggested that we get back to a monthly family fellowship meal, to reacquaint ourselves with each other. It will be buffet style and a small fee will be asked as donation. As the church that is a family, having a family meal every or every other month might be a great starting point. Sure, some will say that’s great others will not be in favor, and we hope that it will gain a closer knit congregation, so it’s worth trying. I will attend the FL/GA district convention in June and will be able to report back what took place and the men who have been elected to the numerous positions in the district. I am not aware of any earth shattering things to vote on this triennium. God has nudged us in the direction of handing out food. Yes I said God, we have been hooked up with a food source we were not looking for and are becoming a part of the Tampa Bay area where we can purchase food in large amounts for 18 cents a pound. It reminded me of the joke of the drowned man who complained God did not save him. A canoe, row boat, motor boat and helicopter all refused now the man is dead. So God why did you not save him? HE DID. God has given us this push toward food for the poor and unless we want to say, we have no idea which type of missions we should be doing, God has dropped this in our lap. We will pursue this ministry, we will join with other churches to make sure as many people are helped as possible. Ive been praying for a sign, and the sign dropped in our lap. Im not the only one who sees this ministry. God is still working through the church and this time it’s our congregation. Let’s embrace all the ministries with love and compassion and do it for the love of God. Want to help more? Use the scrip card program the profits go toward the general fund we win and you get card to use for groceries, gas, restaurants, stores, many to choose from. Use Amazon to order products go and sign up for Amazon smiles you buy what you want and the church can get a percentage of the purchases of all the congregation. WOW><WOW= YIPPY. Lets all work to not simply be Christ Lutheran Church but to be Christ alive in this community living and loving so that ALL might be saved. Now that’s a “Church that is a family.” Blessings on your summer. Pastor Meseke June & July 2018 Newsletter The Church that Is A Family Rev. Paul Meseke – Pastor [email protected] Sharon Kostner – Church Secretary Phone: 352-796-8331 e-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.clcfla.org
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School comes to an end and the youth of the community will be in full force outside or with their digi-tal gaming devices. Beginning June 4th,we will be participating in the school lunch program. Those household with qualifying incomes are eligible for their school students to participate in the govern-ment breakfast and lunch program available through the Public schools. As I stated on June 4th through the beginning of August we will be a lunch site for school students under 18 years of age to have a healthy regulated lunch in our Fellowship Hall working with the Hernando Public School System. From 12:00 until 1:00 pm we will serve any and all children who come here for lunch. We are honored to be able to work with the school district and they are truly thrilled that we are participating. We are volunteering our facility as a safe place for lunch and hope many of you will find it in your hearts to help. If you can volunteer for one day that’s great; if more that’s great too. Sharon Kostner, Rick Henry and myself have been trained by the school district as what needs to be done. We will need to train any volunteers about 20 minutes. If you can help out please let Sharon Kostner, Rick Henry or myself know of your desire to help. If we find an interest, we may keep the Fellowship hall opened for a longer period so that the “safe place” continues to give children an ability to be safe. Not every place in our community is safe, but here it will be safe. June will surely wiz past us like the rest of the year so far. The first Sunday in July will be our God and country service and we will have a family dinner following the service—not the usual hamburgers and hot dogs. (CHANGE). It has been suggested that we get back to a monthly family fellowship meal, to reacquaint ourselves with each other. It will be buffet style and a small fee will be asked as donation. As the church that is a family, having a family meal every or every other month might be a great starting point. Sure, some will say that’s great others will not be in favor, and we hope that it will gain a closer knit congregation, so it’s worth trying. I will attend the FL/GA district convention in June and will be able to report back what took place and the men who have been elected to the numerous positions in the district. I am not aware of any earth shattering things to vote on this triennium. God has nudged us in the direction of handing out food. Yes I said God, we have been hooked up with a food source we were not looking for and are becoming a part of the Tampa Bay area where we can purchase food in large amounts for 18 cents a pound. It reminded me of the joke of the drowned man who complained God did not save him. A canoe, row boat, motor boat and helicopter all refused now the man is dead. So God why did you not save him? HE DID. God has given us this push toward food for the poor and unless we want to say, we have no idea which type of missions we should be doing, God has dropped this in our lap. We will pursue this ministry, we will join with other churches to make sure as many people are helped as possible. Ive been praying for a sign, and the sign dropped in our lap. Im not the only one who sees this ministry. God is still working through the church and this time it’s our congregation. Let’s embrace all the ministries with love and compassion and do it for the love of God. Want to help more? Use the scrip card program the profits go toward the general fund we win and you get card to use for groceries, gas, restaurants, stores, many to choose from. Use Amazon to order products go and sign up for Amazon smiles you buy what you want and the church can get a percentage of the purchases of all the congregation. WOW><WOW= YIPPY. Lets all work to not simply be Christ Lutheran Church but to be Christ alive in this community living and loving so that ALL might be saved. Now that’s a “Church that is a family.” Blessings on your summer. Pastor Meseke
June & July 2018 Newsletter
The Church that Is A Family
Rev. Paul Meseke – Pastor [email protected] Sharon Kostner – Church Secretary
Phone: 352-796-8331 e-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.clcfla.org
At HIS Service for June & July 2018
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Elders Acolytes Ushers Greeters Readers Sound
Room
June
3rd
Rick Bruner
Rick Henry
Melanie Knoll Phil Huntwork
Carol Huntwork
Janice Beamer
Kathy Colvin
Brad Colvin
Arlene Denner
Janet Kinzer Phil
Huntwork
June
10th
Rick Bruner
Rick Henry
Conor Knoll Karl Kinzer
Janet Kinzer
Glenn Lowe
Sharon Lowe
Robert Love
Mary Kamin
Jeanne
Schaefer
Tom Knoll
June
17th
Rick Bruner
Karl Kinzer
Kaylyn Hady David Benschneider
Angela Benschneider
Claudette Talvan
Inge Malone
Gerald Smith
Phyllis Smith
Betty Dunstan Brad Colvin
June
24th
Rick Bruner
Rick Henry
Grace Meseke Jeff Werner
Bruce Timm
Alan Halladay
Ed Possin
Ernie Ohff
Nell Ohff
Rick Henry Phil
Huntwork
July
1st
David
Benschneider
Rick Bruner
Melanie Knoll Phil Huntwork
Carol Huntwork
Janice Beamer
Kathy Colvin
Brad Colvin
Arlene Denner
Daryl Schaller Phil
Huntwork
July
8th
David
Benschneider
Daryl Schaller
Conor Knoll Karl Kinzer
Janet Kinzer
Glenn Lowe
Sharon Lowe
Robert Love
Carol Buenning
Alan Halladay Tom Knoll
July
15th
Rick Henry
Karl Kinzer
Grace Meseke David Benschneider
Angela Benschneider
Claudette Talvan
Inge Malone
Gerald Smith
Phyllis Smith
Janet Kinzer Brad Colvin
July
22nd
David
Benschneider
Rick Henry
Hayley Leschner Jeff Werner
Bruce Timm
Alan Halladay
Ed Possin
Ernie Ohff
Nell Ohff
Betty Dunstan Phil
Huntwork
July
29th
David
Benschneider
Rick Henry
Melanie Knoll Inge Malone
Claudette Talvan
Janice Beamer
Kathy Colvin
Tom
Reutenhauer
Ann
Reutenhauer
Jeanne
Schaefer
Phil
Huntwork
Coffee Duty: June—49er’s July– LWML Mary Martha August-Mission Board
Altar Guild: June-Rick & Jeanie Bruner July-Pam Gant
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Happy Birthday to:
06/01 Scott Baddeley
06/02 Debby Ellinghuysen
06/09 Arlene Denner
06/12 JoAnn Smoody
06/13 Rev. Gary Bomberger
06/13 Pearl Stippich
06/17 Leila Marshall
06/18 Barbara Passow
06/23 Maureen Cavallaro
06/23 Ove Janson
06/25 Jim Fyvie
06/27 Jack Finnegan
07/02 Rick Henry
07/03 Cody Gray
07/04 Mary Kamin
07/07 Marilyn Ainslie
07/07 Angela Benschneider
07/09 Shirley Schuknecht
07/10 Alida Janson
07/11 Harold Gebhardt
07/13 Carl Queen
07/15 Janice Beamer
07/17 Patricia Werner
07/24 Diane Gebhardt
07/26 Connie Dunn
07/26 Debra Shepard
Happy Anniversary to:
06/01 Joe & Jeanine Keating 50 years
06/14 Josh & Brooke Hady 21 years
06/16 Skip & Lois Erickson 56 years
06/21 Ove & Alida Janson 61 years
06/22 Ken & Gerry Fischer 44 years
06/22 Joe & Lorraine Heberlein 71 years
06/29 Dick & Kathy Henk 60 years
07/15 Harold & Diane Gebhardt 57 years
07/17 Gerald & Phyllis Smith 19 years
07/20 Alan & Tammy Young 38 years
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Game Night
Game Night is here at Christ Lutheran Church June 1st and July 6th and is on the 1st Friday night of each month @ 7 pm. Domino’s, Pinochle, or what would you like to play with others here at church? Come and enjoy a fun evening of fellowship.
Dartball Group Dartball will be here on Saturday June 9th and July 14th at 9am. No experience required. You will be shown how to throw a dart, and learn that “experience” players still have trouble getting on bases. Come and enjoy a fun morning in the Fellowship Hall and join the group afterwards for lunch.
LWML / Mary Martha The LWML/Mary Martha group will resume meeting in September.
49er’s
The 49er’s are meeting @ 5 pm on Friday June 15th and July 20th. Bring a dish to share and plan to enjoy an evening of fellowship in the Fellowship Hall.
The Happy Sew N’ Sews We have certainly been Blessed– A couple of fairly recent newspaper articles in our area have cause some folks to donate fabric, etc. to our group! So while we have concluded our regular season, we decided to meet once a month during June, July & August—So mark your calendar June 14th, July 12th, and Aug 16th 9-11 or so in the Fellowship Hall. Additionally an article on our group will be in Lutheran Life (the news magazine of the Florida Georgia District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod) this month and in the Thrivent Magazine in June. We will be adding a couple new projects and we’d like to get a little ahead of things before our regular season starts on Sept the 6th. If you’ll be in the area on any of these dates, you will help us to continue to be a Blessing!
The Mission Board "Mission of the Month" for the month of June is help support
the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church. A fire ignited and spread through the church causing millions of dollars in damage. The Victorian Gothic Church, one of the oldest in the city, was built in 1878. The church is recognized as a state and Milwaukee landmark. It's listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The preliminary damage estimate from the Milwaukee Fire Department was around $17 million.
Group
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We pray for our “Church that is a Family”:
Mim Dunkerley is on hospice care and staying at a residence. We pray for God’s will and Mim’s comfort. 6240 Bristol Lane SpringHill FL 34609 Shirley Schuknecht is in Oak Hill Hospital. We pray for her health and strength. Margaret Eustice is recovering from surgery removing her kidney. We pray for a quick recovery. 2323 Middleton St Brooksville FL 34601 Lois Erickson is struggling with her health. We pray for her health and God’s guidance to her doctors. 7116 Oxley Re Brooksville FL 34601 Lauretta Dorn fell and broke her leg. We pray for healing and a quick recovery. 20394 Lake Lindsey Booksville FL 34601 Nedra Guyette is having surgery in Maine for a removal of a cyst on her ovary. We pray for a successful surgery and quick recovery. 10 Twin Pond Ln. Topsham ME 04086 Fran Folsom is recovering at home from right knee surgery. We pray for her comfort and quick recovery. 11203 Blythville Rd Spring Hill FL 34608 Susan Fuller is recovering from surgery replacing her aortic valve via catheter inser-tion. We pray for a full recovery. 2 Cleome Ct Homosassa FL 34446 Linda Meseke recovering from a broken shoulder. We pray for healing and comfort. 10021 Weeks Drive Brooksville FL 34601 Carl Queen is recovering from surgery in Northbrook Health and Rehab Center. We pray for strength and healing. Joyce Thrives had a heart attack and had stent surgery clearing one blockage, but not able to clear another blockage. We pray for her health. c/o Donna Dorsey 13866 S.E. 46th Ave Summerfield, FL 34491
We pray for our relatives or friends serving our country:
Breanna Crouse (Granddaughter of Henrietta Rice) is a nurse in the army and is waiting for her de-
ployment orders. We pray for comfort.
We pray for family and friends of the congregation
JesseDunstan (son of Betty Dunstan) is home recuperating from vein surgery in his legs. Wepray for his
recovery and comfort.
Bob Farrell (brother-in-law of James Miller) is going through cancer treatments. We pray for his health
and comfort.
Ralph (Sambo)Croft (friend of Alan Young is going through a second round of chemo. We pray for
his health and comfort.
Patricia Christianson (Daughter-in-law of Garry & Shirley Welder) is going through heavy chemo treat-
ments since cancer has spread throughout her body. We pray for her health and strength.
Carol Dathe (Alan Krasemann’s sister) Had surgery for cancer. We pray for her health and recovery. Christine Lamphere (Sister of Fred Fuller) suffered a stroke resulting in partial paralysis. We pray for her
recovery.
We pray for family and friends of the congregation (con’t):
Leanne Agle (Friend of Betty Dunstan) is going blind. We pray that she can have her sight as ling as possible.
Yolanda Williams (Friend of Elina Davis’ son) needs two kidney transplants. We pray for her health as she
awaits for her surgery.
Chailah (Shala) ( Twenty one year old granddaughter of Henrietta Rice’s cousin) has meningitis bacterial that
cause her to loose vision in one eye. We pray for her health and recovery.
Teri Young (Sarah McGinnis’ sister) has bone density problems. We pray for her health and strength.
Jim Long (Sharon Lowe’s brother) had a cyst removed from his abdomen that test results came back cancer-
ous. We pray for his health and healing.
Ralph Croft (Friend of Alan & Tammy Young) has brain cancer. We pray for his recovery after having surgery.
Eloise Mitchell (Mother of Jaci Dible) Has health issues. We pray for her health.
John Digges (former member and elder) has high blood pressure causing kidney failure. He is prepared for
home dialysis. 217 Opal Ct. Martinsburg, WV 25404
Amanda Florio (Bert Florio’s niece) recovering from brain tumor surgery. We pray for her health.
Ethan Nodine (3 year old grandson of Dave and Angela Benschneider) will be having surgery on his foot. We
pray for a successful surgery and quick recovery and peace and comfort for his family.
Dawn Finkler (daughter of Ken Eustice) had a brain tumor removed and was told it was stage 3 cancer.
Dawn will be going through chemo and radiation. We pray for Your divine intervention and strengthening of
faith for the family.
Timothy Driscoll (Son of Pearl Stippich) Has been diagnosed with colon cancer we pray for proper treatment
and a quick recuperation
Trevor Clark (great grandson of Pearl Stippich) At 12 years of age he has been diagnosed with Juvenile Diabe-
tes. We pray for Your help throughout his life as he lives with diabetes.
La Ray Nagele (Friend of Fran Folsom) Has cancer in both of her breasts and is spreading. We pray for her
health and comfort.
Robert Hilton (son of Theresa Hilton) had a stroke. We pray for his health and a full recovery.
Jim Polsenberg (Kathy Colvin’s brother)Please pray for his strength, blessings and answers he needs regarding
his son’s death.
Larry Moore (Friend’s husband of Sandy Kaliscak) is going through stem cell therapy to fight returned cancer.
We pray for his health and comfort.
Pattie (Welder) Christensen (Daughter-in-law of Garry & Shirley Welder) was diagnosed with colon cancer. We
pray for her health and comfort.
Jodie Blanchard (Friend of Cody Gray) broke her right leg and left wrist. We pray for her healing.
Ross Snider (Friend of Tom Reutenauer) had surgery for hernia postponed due to Polymyalgia Rheutnatitus.
We pray for his comfort.
Ron M. (Friend of Sandy Kaliscak) is beginning treatments for stomach cancer. We pray for his health and
comfort.
Lissy Martinez-Monfort (friend of Bonnie Yungmann) has reoccurance of colon cancer. We pray for her
health along with comfort and peace.
Ryan Monaghan (Friend of Nell & Ernie Ohff) will be having a heart value replacement surgery. We pray for a
successful surgery.
Bob Karre (Brother-in-law of Ernie and Nell Ohff) has kidney cancer. We pray for healing, comfort and peace.
Ronald Ungs (Brother-in-law of Garry & Shirley Welder) was diagnosis with cancer. We pray for comfort and
healing.
Laura Hoff (friend of Kathleen Barnes) has recurring cancer and needs prayers. We pray for comfort and
health.
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