St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran

Church working together to build up

the

family of God on the rock of Christ

through Word and Sacrament

May 2018 Guide

St. Peter’s Ev. Lutheran Church & School P.O. Box 86 Helenville, WI 53137 RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED .

May Birthdays

End of School Year Dates!!

Friday, May 18th – 2 pm Softball Tournament

Sunday, May 20th – 8 am Examination

9 am Confirmation &

1st Communion

Wednesday, May 23rd – 3 pm Kindergarten Graduation

Thursday, May 24th – Last Day of School

11:30 am Early Release

8th Grade Graduation at 7 pm

Looking Ahead…

Wednesday, August 15th - School Registration 6 pm

Saturday, August 25th – 9 am Hawk Hustle

11 am Church Picnic

Tuesday, August 28th – School Starts for gr. 5K - 8

Friday, August 31st – No School

Monday, September 3rd – No School ~ LABOR DAY

Tuesday, September 4th – First Day of 4K

Nonprofit Org.

U.S. Postage PAID

Helenville, WI

Permit No. 3

2 – Daniel Ellifson Steve Roth Randy Reuhl 3 – Kristine Toth 7 – Frank Coleman Alex Vogel 8 – Ashton Schuette 10 – Debbie Wilkening 12 – Mary Earle Don Reese 13 – Barbara Schuld 15 – Vicki Lemke

16 – Linda Haberman 17 – Deanna Pfeifer Linda Weeden 18 – Megan Cummings Ricki Sukow 21 –Jacob Danielson 22 – Megan Stewart 25 – Elizabeth Lapp Mark Genz Brent White 28 – Hailey Thoma 29 – Michael Walsh 30 – Jessica Latsch

Have a wonderful May!!

SCRIP orders are due by Friday, May 18th.

Order forms are available in the school office and are sent out each month in the Guide.

Some of the Scrip cards in stock at school:

Bath & Body Works - $10 BP - $50 Chili’s/Over the Border - $25

Home Depot - $25 Kohl’s - $25 & $100 Kwik Trip - $25, $50 & $100

Little Caesar’s - $20 Nike - $25 Old Navy/Gap/Athleta/Banana Republic - $25

Papa Murphy’s - $10 Piggly Wiggly - $25 & $50 Shopko - $25

Subway - $10 The Children’s Place - $25 Under Armour - $25

You can use Kohl’s scrip to pay your Kohl’s charge card bill.

Pictures, Pictures, Pictures: We are still in need of a few photos for the yearbook

and end of year video. If you have pictures you are willing to share from any event this

year, please email them to kvogel619@yahoo.com or drop them off in the school office.

All pictures will be returned.

Softball Track

May 1st – HOME vs. Watertown Double Header May 5th at Jefferson

May 7th – AWAY vs. Waterloo @ Fireman’s Park May 12th at Fort Atkinson

May 9th – HOME vs. TSL

May 14th – AWAY at Columbus

4:30 vs. Pardeeville

5:30 vs. Columbus

May 18th – BLAC Tournament

Scholastic Book Fair will be May 2nd – May 4th.

Grand Persons Day will be Friday, May 4th. All are invited to Chapel at 8:20 am and

visit various classrooms & Day Care in the morning. Our special guests will be Jillian

and her live animal friends sharing their Wild About Animals program with us at 10 am.

Lunch will follow.

Can Drive will be Saturday, May 5th.

Cans may be dropped off behind school all week. Thanks!

Positions available in our Childcare Center

St Peter's Lutheran School is looking to hire a Christian Teacher for our Caterpillar (Birth

- 18 month) classroom, and Christian Teacher for our Butterfly (18 month - 3 year old) classroom within our Childcare Center. Both positions have flexible schedules and

provide 30 + hours a week. Interested candidates will need to minimally possess First Aid and CPR as well and SIDS and Shaken Baby training prior to beginning employment. Arrangements can be made to help applicants with these certifications.

Please contact Kelly Vogel at splhelenville@gmail.com or Jenny Statz at thestatzs@gmail.com

News from Twice is Nice Shop: Sales in May! All jeans will be $1.50/pr. through Saturday, May 5. Orange-tag items will 50%

off May 14-19. Look for some Mother’s Day gift ideas! We’re easy-to-find and open Mondays-

Saturdays from 9-5 PM: just a minute east on the Hwy 18 exit off the 26 bypass at 907 W. Racine

St., next to the Jefferson Piggly Wiggly. Come check out the new spring/summer inventory!

Volunteer: We continue to host regular work nights at Twice Is Nice on the 1st Tuesday and the 3rd

Monday of the month (for May: the 1st and 21st). The evening hours will run 5-8:30 p.m. Volunteers

can come as early as they are available that evening and stay as long as they’re able. No expertise

required.

Donate! "Stuff the Truck" at LL the Saturday of Fine Arts Fest was another success, even though

the nasty weather – thanks to all who helped by donating or loading/unloading! Keep bringing those

spring cleaning donations to the door behind the store from 9-4:30 any day we are open.

Questions? Call 920-674-6868, ask for the day manager. Items that cannot be accepted are TVs,

computer monitors and printers, appliances, console pianos/stereos/sewing machines, mattresses/box

springs, organs and paint.

ROCK RIVER AREA OWLS - The May meeting of our OWLS chapter will be held at 1:30 PM on the third Tuesday, May 15 at St Mark's Lutheran Church in Watertown. Our guest speaker, Rev. Joel Gaertner, will update us on "The Jesus Cares Ministry." Rev. Gaertner is its Vice President of Ministry and National Director. The Jesus Cares Ministries helps our congregations reach out to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, their families and communities. There will be refreshments. St. Mark's is served by Pastors Jensen (WW District President), Walther, Wells and Bachus, plus some part-time semi-retired pastors. Their Lutheran elementary school operates with a staff of 15. St Mark's Church has been in Watertown for 164 years since 1854 and is located near the downtown at 215 N. 6th Street. OWLS is an acronym for Organization of WELS Lutheran Seniors and ELS, namely, those who are retired and/or 50 years and older. We gather for fun, fellowship, service and spiritual growth. Come and bring a friend!

Confirmation

Examination, Confirmation and 1st Communion

will all be held on Sunday, May 20th.

8 am Examination (No Bible Class)

9am Confirmation and 1st Communion

This year’s Church Picnic will take place on Saturday, August 25th, following the Hawk Hustle. We will have an 11 am outdoor worship service down at school, which will be followed by a potluck. There will be a variety of activities after lunch. More information will be out soon!!

VBS 2018 – “Shipwrecked”

Join the fun this June with all the castaways on a tropical island. We need your help

as we plot a course for a great week! Mark your calendars for June 18th – 21st (1 pm –

3 pm). Sign-ups for youth leaders and needed donations will be at church in May.

May 2018

Open Your Eyes

“Open your eyes and look!” the mother urges her little son as he nearly stumbles over the tennis shoes

he claims he can’t find. Forty days after Easter, the Christian church celebrates the festival of Ascension.

We can rightly say that an Ascension Day message for us is “Open your eyes and look!”

The disciples had seen many things with their eyes. On this occasion they were “looking intently up

into the sky.” Jesus was physically leaving them to ascend into heaven. What did they see as Jesus

ascended? They couldn’t help but notice the nail prints that were in Jesus’ hands. One last time they see

his arms raised in blessing over them, those same arms once stretched out on the cross in payment for

their sins. With necks stretched heavenward, they watched until “a cloud hid him from their sight” (Acts

1:9).

“Open your eyes and look!” What an important and wonderful reminder for present day disciples of

Jesus! Sometimes it is easy to lose focus and miss the picture – in much the same way that children (and

adults) can’t seem to find an object right before their eyes.

There is the matter of sin’s payment, for example. My sins can give me alarm. At times a foul deed

from the past gives my conscience a sharp jab in the ribs. When that happens, I need to open my eyes and

look at my ascending Savior. How I need to see him going up with those nail-pierced hands out in

blessing. Those hands remind me why he came to earth in the first place – to bleed and die in full payment

for my sins. Now as he ascends, they remind that it’s done. Sin has been paid for and heaven’s door is

braced eternally open.

There is also the matter of the world in which I have to live. I open up the morning papers and I can

almost predict the headlines. They speak of turbulent times in the Middle East, scandals, murders,

companies closing and merging and the layoffs that accompany such events. I’m almost afraid to live in

this world. My head swims when I think of raising my children in it. That’s when I need to open my eyes

and look at my ascending Savior.

Jesus is not in retirement in heaven! He is busy ruling over all things for his church (Ephesians 1:22).

The angels tell his disciples of all ages, “He will come back.”

That is all the more reason to “open my eyes and look!”

Pastor Mark Swanson

Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 13th

As Mother’s Day 2018 approaches it reminds us at Alpha Life Resource

Center of the importance Mothers play in the development of their

children. We minister to those expecting as well as those with children of

all ages. Some of our clients are facing difficult life situations because of

poor choices in relationships, need of a job or education, or are just in need

of basic baby/child supplies such as clothing, food, emergency diapers and

wipes. To the community we seek to make the witness in various ways that

life IS God’s creation and life IS important.

This year we are offering a special way to honor mothers, and at the same

time support the Center and its mission. This Mother’s Day we will send a

card to the special honoree acknowledging the mom and the donor. A

memoriam may also be made in memory of a mom, grandmother, sister or

that special person who “was like a mom.” In memory names will be

included in our next newsletter, Breath of Life, due out this summer.

Please make requests by May 1st.

Please send card to:

Name: ______________________ Given By:______________________

Address: ____________________ Address: _______________________

____________________________ ______________________________

Name: ______________________ Given By:______________________

Address: ____________________ Address: _______________________

____________________________ ______________________________

Please accept my donation in memory of:

Name: ______________________ Given By:______________________

Address: ____________________ Address: _______________________

____________________________ ______________________________

Donation Enclose: $________________

Return by May 1st, 2018 to:

Alpha Life Resource Center 313 E. Main St. Watertown, WI 53094

Father’s Day is Sunday, June 17th

Also, as we look toward Father’s Day it reminds us of the importance of

leadership and guidance a father has within the family unit. At Alpha Life

Resource Center, we are a ministry that uses family, pregnancy, baby,

children, mothers and fathers as bridges to talk about the most important

thing in the world: salvation through Jesus Christ. With each contact we

have at the Alpha Center we show love to others as we have come to know

it through Christ.

Alpha Life Resource Center is offering a special way to not only honor

fathers, but also support the Center. This Father's Day we will send a card

to the special honoree acknowledging appreciation of him and, at the same

time, the donation is given in support of the Center. A memoriam may also

be made in memory of a dad, grandfather or that special person who "was

like a dad." The name of the loved one will be listed in the next issue of our

newsletter.

Please make requests by June 4th.

Please send card to:

Name: ______________________ Given By:______________________

Address: ____________________ Address: _______________________

____________________________ ______________________________

Name: ______________________ Given By:______________________

Address: ____________________ Address: _______________________

____________________________ ______________________________

Please accept my donation in memory of:

Name: ______________________ Given By:______________________

Address: ____________________ Address: _______________________

____________________________ ______________________________

Donation Enclose: $________________

Return by June 4th, 2018 to:

Alpha Life Resource Center 313 E. Main St. Watertown, WI 53094