November 2013 CLC CrossWord

NOVEMBER 2013

Christ Lutheran Church • Highlands Ranch, CO • Gathering † Gifting † Sending

Lutheran Family ServicesTHANKSGIVING BASKETS

Many of our refugee clients who come from African and South East Asian countries are unfamiliar with a “traditional” American Thanksgiving meal but wouldlove and appreciate the opportunity to have a celebra-tory meal.

CLC is also accepting donations of money and will do the shopping for you. Please put a check in the o�er-ing plate and mark it “Thanksgiving baskets” or place your check in the envelopes provided for the baskets in the Narthex.

Thrivent Financial has generously agreed to make a $400 donation for the Thanksgiving bags. Please take one of the blue bags in the narthex and �ll it with some or all of these items, along with the gift card, and return it to the Narthex by Sunday, November 25, 2013 for delivery to LFS that week.

If you have questions or need assistance, contact Debby in the church o�ce 303-791-0803.

In recognition of their preferenceswe have created this alternative list:

Rice - Jasmine or Basmati

Dried Beans: Kidney or Black

Regular Spaghetti Noodles

Cans of Pasta Sauce

Corn meal

Green or black tea bags

Salt

Sugar

Olive/Canola/Vegetable Oil(plastic bottles only please)

$25 Gift Cardfor Meat and Fresh Items

Pastor Tom’s MessageSTAFF:Rev. Tom Shelly, Sr. Pastor

[email protected]. DJ Dent, Associate Pastor

[email protected] Kinsella

Dir. Outreach/[email protected]

Gary KnutsonDir. of Youth & [email protected]

Deb MorgansDir. of Preschool

[email protected] Behnke

Administrative [email protected]

Sallie BurnsFinancial [email protected] Holcombe

Dir. of [email protected]

Nicholas KoltayAdministrative Assistant

[email protected] Mallery

Principal PianistLarry Scalfari

PianistBarbara Pierson

Dir. Nursery [email protected]

Meliha & Predrag VajzovicCustodians

CHURCH COUNCIL:Ken [email protected] Bergstrom

[email protected] Bauer

[email protected] Boyer

[email protected] Waggoner

[email protected] Beulke

[email protected] Hafner

[email protected] Sumner

[email protected] Ringkob

[email protected] Riley

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All articles, photos and notices for the next issueof CrossWord are due by the 15th of the month.

Send to [email protected]. Editor reserves theright to edit for content and space.

ThanksGiving Thanksgiving! For the past several months we have had di�erent emphasis of focus. In September it was our Ministry and Mission, culminating in Youth Sunday. In October it has been our Oktoberfest event, St. Francis Blessing of the Animals, 1st Bible presentation, Reformation and Halloween. Late October also began our Stewardship campaign, “Excel in the Grace of Giving!”

Now comes November whose obvious overarching theme is “Thanks-Giving!”

Of course the �rst thing that comes to mind is the traditional meal of the harvest of the abundant creation; the gathering of family and friends around this feast table; and �nally fall and football colors! But ThanksGiving as a monthly emphasis goes much deeper.

The month of November will see the wrap up of our Stewardship which hopefully will continue to be a year round – way of discipleship and stewardship of life. This year thanks to our Military Ministry Team we will take a week to thank veterans with a special guest for Adult University, a display of military memorabilia and another concert with Michel Peterson to bene�t the military programs of Project Sanctuary and Centus Counseling. We will have a Tuesday Evening ThanksGiving service the week of ThanksGiving and our annual Pie Social in the Fellowship Hall. Chicks with Sticks will be selling scarfs once again this year, this month.

And then, guess what happens? Advent and the beginning of the Holy Day celebration of Christmas in December. But the details for that are meant for another newsletter!

PS Daylight Savings ends the weekend of November 2-3.

+ Many Blessings + See You in Worship + Pastor Tom

Pastor DJ’s Message

Operation Christmas Child brings joy and hope to children in desperate situations worldwide through gift-�lled shoe boxes. You can pack a shoe box �lled with small toys and other gifts, along with $7 per box to cover shipping and other project costs. For your convenience, consider giving online at www.samaritanpurse.org by clicking on the EZ Give Donation button.

The boxes need to be at the church by Sun., Nov. 25th so we can deliver them to Mission Hills community church. Brochures with the tags for boy or girl and instructions on how to prepare your box will be in the Narthex.

Being that it is the time of the year that clouds become more frequent, I have noticed the change in attitude in myself and others on the less-sunny days. I think Midwesterners are a bit more conditioned for days like that, but after adapting to the sunniness of Colorado, a few days without direct sunlight can get to you.

Apart from what can chemically happen when you don’t get sun, I’d like to encourage us in what can happen to our souls when the sun is not out as well. With that in mind I’m going to encourage and attempt an exercise to feed us during the prolonged grayness.

Since it’s thanksgiving time, make a list of everything you are thankful for. Here is my stream of consciousness and in no particular order(although I’m sure to get brownie points for how this came out):

Wife, kids, parents, the rest of my family, zombies, church, God, Jesus, Will Farrell, bicycles, the smell of fresh bread, the smell of rain, soft and warm blankets, spaghetti, doctors, engineers, cars, insulation, video games, an abundance of food, furniture foam, television, Douglas Adams, health, hospitals…

Alright, so that wasn’t everything but I think the point was made.

I have hidden in my o�ce a cardboard box labeled “Pandora’s Box.” In it, I placed all the cards from the day of my ordination which means it is full of encouragement and hope. If you’re not familiar with the tale of Pandora, essentially she was the �rst human and out of curiosity opened the box containing all of the evils of the world. They all escaped before she could close the lid and only hope was left inside. This box is saved for the days when the rest of the world is weighing so heavy that I need respite.

So, too, I encourage you to make your own list but be sure to add something to it each day. Even in the face of metaphorical clouds you should see it sooth your soul.

God’s Peace,Pastor DJ

Operation Christmas Child

Happy BirthdayChris Hegele 1-NovMona Housman 1-NovTim Radtke 1-NovKatie Stanek 1-NovSusan Boggs 2-NovVincent Gullia 2-NovMatthew Montini 2-NovJessie Sloan 2-NovSkylar Vernell 2-NovPamela Wolken 2-NovKristen Behnke 3-NovMike Cartwright 3-NovRebecca Rockwell 3-NovMichele Butler 4-NovLarry Jewett 4-NovLandon Patz 4-NovBarbara Triebel 4-NovMarc Viergutz 4-NovKristen DeBeer 5-NovHaley Kolseth 5-NovMaria Lauer 5-NovBrendan McCulloch 5-NovMadeline Pontius 5-NovDebbie Tronrud 5-NovDodie Van Dewerker 5-NovCheryl Adamson 6-NovBen Lepper 6-Nov

Katie D'Agostino 7-NovDeanna Evens 7-NovTroy Nedved 7-NovRyan Tesch 7-NovDianne Yoss 7-NovJames Be�el 8-NovWyatt Sumner 8-NovEmily Triebel 8-NovJoanne Holter 9-NovRon Rickard 9-NovLillian Swenson 9-NovDave Avra 10-NovKristi Boettcher 10-NovChris Morales 10-NovTommy Skelton 10-NovKiana Adamson 11-NovSusan Bellipanni 11-NovSophia Dorr 11-NovAmy Lee 11-NovTyler Pontius 11-NovPaul E. Schauer 11-NovJulie Seter 11-NovJackson Yvars 11-NovElizabeth Beem 12-NovScott Gereaux 12-NovHanne Schauer 12-NovMitch Veeder 12-Nov

Catherine Green 13-NovMolly Stevens 13-NovCheryl Tiedgen 3-NovCaeley Valenti 13-NovLaura Van Steyn 13-NovAndrew Brown 14-NovKate Fix 14-NovNathan Grant 14-NovPamela Liley 14-NovLindsay Morgans 14-NovMark Rocha 14-NovChris Schaeberle 14-NovBarb Wisler 14-NovJustin Dilges 15-NovJaelyn Garcia 15-NovJim Peterson 15-NovMike Edmunds 16-NovDelores Forge 16-NovMichelle Hegre 16-NovOlivia May 16-NovJonathan May 16-NovScott Morton 16-NovRyan Reichelderfer 16-NovSteve Hoemann 17-NovAlison Jones 17-NovAddison Martin 17-NovChristopher Schauer 17-Nov

Kim Stark 17-NovAaron Waggoner 17-NovChris Yvars 17-NovAmy Cameron 18-NovLinda Coe 18-NovJack DeBeer 18-NovAndrea Ridenour 18-NovRhiannah Baca 19-NovJustin Bigelow 19-NovCarter Cingrani 19-NovDiana Heutmaker 19-NovJulie Romney 19-NovKaren Meyer 20-NovSamantha Morgans 20-NovMike Sullivan 20-NovKathleen Wagner 20-NovTaylor Christensen 21-NovDennis Gray 21-NovBryan Harant 21-NovEvan Hunchar 21-NovAmanda Stark 21-NovGreg Whitney 21-NovAllie Clowes 22-NovBruce Dorr 22-NovClaudia Fix 22-NovChristine Kleen 23-NovLinda Schneider 23-Nov

Kelsey Veeder 23-NovMargaret Williams 23-NovKathy Bates 24-NovRyan Haller 24-NovMichelle McClurg 24-NovCamille Thoennes 24-NovJodi Childs 25-NovZachary Fellows 25-NovMarissa McCullor 25-NovJeani Ringkob 25-NovTom Aalto 26-NovJanet Herman 26-NovSteph Cembalisty 27-NovPeter Marxhausen 27-NovPhilip Voelker 27-NovTed Burg 28-NovDeb Morgans 28-NovGrace Dent 29-NovVance Meyer 29-NovTony Archuleta 30-NovRussell Friedenthal 30-NovAyden Garcia 30-NovChristi Johnson 30-NovIrma Johnson 30-NovAndrew Kirk 30-Nov

A time to be thankful enjoying friends and family!

PIE SOCIALThe Sr. high is having our annual Pie social to raise funds for world hunger and the Marion soup kitchen in Colorado Springs. James Dixon who works at the Marion soup kitchen goes to homeless camp’s and feeds and clothes kids who have not chosen to be homeless, but are there because of their parents. James has been a vital part of our Con�rmation retreats in Colorado Springs, showing our youth what homelessness is all about. Come and grab a piece of Pie and bid on a Pie for your Thanksgiving table, God’s Peace and let’s end World Hunger.

From the Preschool

As the holiday season approaches, we are reminded that we need to take time to tell God how thankful we are for the amazing things he provides to us every day! Our preschool is amazing and we are so thankful for our families, the congregation, the teaching sta� and all those who pray and support us every day. Our Chapel theme this month is, “Jesus Feeds the 5000.” We will also enjoy our storyteller. This month, our dads can come to school with their child and play in their classroom for a few hours. We will also host our annual Thanksgiving Feast for families the week before Thanksgiving just to give a taste of the wonderful holiday meal we share! We continue to count our blessings and wish everyone a healthy holiday season! - Ms. Deb and Ms. Blair

All kids ages 4-12 at CLC are invited to participate in our annual Children’s Christmas Musical! Our musical this year is called “The First Christmas,” and has lots of songs and speaking parts of all sizes. We will rehearse for the musical during our regular kid’s choir rehearsal times, and when we get closer to our performance in worshipon December 15th, we will combine rehearsals on Saturday mornings.

Please contact Linda Holcombe, Director of Music, if you have questions or need information: [email protected] or call 303-791-0803. We hope you can join us!

Help Outreach Uganda’s Beaders Own a HomeFor the past six years, many CLC members have signi�cantly helped Outreach Uganda and the Ugandan beaders by purchasing the women’s brightly colored necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and �ber crafts. The Ugandan beaders’ handicraft has served as recognition for their plight, and allowed them to eat at least two meals per day, buy needed medicines, send more of their children to school and even start or expand businesses. But Outreach Uganda is working to help them do even more: acquire land, because overcoming pov-erty includes land ownership.

During the 20-year war in Uganda’s northern region, many families were forced out of their homes--losing loved ones, ancestral lands, and any hope of having their own home or earning an income. Now, after identifying available land and collectively saving their money, the Jinja beaders have begun the acquisition of property where they can build a self-sustaining community.

These women and children live in crowded slums with no running water or electricity, cramped one-room rented dwellings, and many illnesses. These slum areas are also very dangerous. The women fear to leave their children alone there at any time of day let alone the night. In the last year, we have had one instance of a severe beating and another instance of a disappearance of a child of two of our beader families. Poisonings are also quite common. With your help to make the �nal needed payment, Outreach Uganda hopes to complete the land purchase so �fty Ugandan women and their families will be able to move out of the slums forever. This opportunity will transform their lives.

To help complete the land purchase by the January deadline ($13,000 out of $100,000 is still needed), the Jinja bead-ers are o�ering beaded Christmas ornaments. If you are interested in purchasing ornaments, or can provide a forum for their sale (such as your school or workplace), or would like to make a contribution, please contact Carol Davis at [email protected] or call her at 303/683-8450. Change lives. Overcome poverty together.

Children’s Christmas Musical:Calling All Singers & Actors Ages 4-12!

Rehearsals will be during Joy Choir and Jubilation Choir at the following times:

Joy Choir (Ages 4-7): Wednesdays @ 4:30-5pm Beginning November 6th

Jubilation Choir (Ages 8-12):Sundays @ 12:15pm Beginning November 3rd

We have reloadable King Soopers Scrip cards in stock! If you do your grocery shopping at King Soopers, please consider purchasing one of these reloadable $25 cards. It can be reloaded for any amount when you shop. CLC receives $300+ every month when we have $5,000 in reloads. This is an easy way to support CLC and our many programs. Thanks for your support!

SCRIP UPDATE

Shepherds’ groups are dinner groups of 8 people who meet four times in each other’s homes between Novem-ber and April. Each time the group meets, the host provides the main dish, and the others in the group bring an appetizer, salad, or dessert. This is a great way to get to know other people, both members and visitors of CLC, on a more intimate basis.

Adult only and family groups are available. Deadline to sign up is November 24th so please sign the response sheet.

Worship Projection Operators Needed for 5pm & 8am Services!

Beginning in Advent on the weekend of November 30th-December 1st, CLC will be expanding our worship projections to include the 5pm Saturday evening and 8am Sunday morning services. We are excited about this transition away from using printed bulletins, as this gives our worship life enhancements through the use of tech-nology, and we will also save a lot of trees!

In order to be ready to have projections at all of our worship services starting with Advent, we will need several more projection operators to help at speci�cally 5pm Saturday and 8am Sunday worship. Training will be provided at the following times: Tuesday, November 19th at 6:30pm or “on the job” training with one of our current projectionists at the 9:30 or 11am services. If these times don’t work for you but you are interested in becoming a projection operator, please contact Linda Holcombe to arrange a time: [email protected], or call 303-791-0803.

Semi Annual Meeting Saturday, November 9th

6:00The order of business will be to approve the budget and receive statistical information. We will have a good old fashioned Lutheran potluck. Please bring a main dish, salad, side dish or dessert to share. We are also asking for donations of wine or beer. Please sign the response sheet indicating what you can bring. Join us for food, fellowship and fun with a little bit of business!

JOIN A SHEPHERDS’DINNER GROUP

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY8TH GRADE RETREAT8:30am Preschool9:00am Rejoice Circle5:30pm Parents Night Out

SR. HIGH GATHERING8:30am Preschool9:00am Rejoice Circle

8TH GRADE RETREAT9:00am Chicks w/Sticks9:00am Superdad Saturday5:00pm Worship/CC

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DAYLIGHT SAVINGS8TH GRADE RETREATALL SAINT'S DAY8:00am Worship/CC8:30am Bonfils Blood Drive9:30am Worship/SS10:45am Safeguarding God's Children Class11:00am Worship/CC11:00am Jubilation Choir7:00pm AA Meeting

6:30am Men's Breakfast Group8:30am Preschool9:30am Bible Study7:00pm Boy Scouts7:00pm Personnel Meeting

8:30am Preschool11:00am Chapel11:15am Staff Mtg.2:00pm Chapel4:30pm Jr. Brownie troop5:00pm Crossroads Band/ Praise Team Rehearsal7:00pm BLAZE7:00pm MOPS set-up

8:30am Preschool10:00am MOPS Meeting11:00am Chapel1:00pm Revisit Christmas planning mtg.2:00pm Chapel4:30pm Joy Choir Rehearsal5:30pm Carillon Ringers6:30pm Confirmation Music7:00pm Confirmation Learning Event

8:30am Preschool10:00am MOPS Steering10:15am Storyteller2:00pm Storyteller4:30pm Joy Choir Rehearsal5:30pm Carillon Ringers7:00pm Confirmation Small Group

8:30am Preschool5:00pm Surprise party6:00pm Cub Scout Den Mtg.7:00pm Celebration Choir rehearsal

8:30am Preschool 6:00pm Eagle Court of Honor7:00pm Cub Scout Leader Mtg7:00pm Celebration Choir rehearsal

8:30am Preschool 12:00pm OWLS Luncheon5:30pm Parent's Night Out

Fall Scarf sale- Chicks w/Sticks8:00am Healthy Marriage Class5:00pm Worship/CC5:00pm BAPTISM - Schopfer6:15pm Semi-Annual Mtg.

Thanksgiving Baskets7:00am General Maintenance5:00pm Worship/CC

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Fall Scarf sale- Chicks w/Sticks8:00am Worship/CC8:00am CLC Military Ministry9:30 Worship/SS11:00am Worship/CC12:15pm Jubilation Choir5:00pm Dynamite Youth7:00pm AA Meeting

6:30am Men's Breakfast Group8:30am Preschool9:30am Mission Quilters9:30am Bible Study6:00pm Boy Scouts Venture7:00pm Boy Scouts7:00pm Legacy & Endowment Meeting

8:30am Preschool10:15am Storyteller11:15am Staff Mtg.2:00pm Storyteller5:00pm Crossroads Band/ Praise Team Rehearsal7:00pm BLAZE7:00pm Council Mtg.

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SR. HIGH GATHERINGFall Scarf sale-Chick w/Sticks8:00am Worship/CC9:30 Worship/SS11:00am Worship/CC11:00am Jubilation Choir12:15pm Jubilation Choir7:00pm AA Meeting

6:30am Men's Breakfast Group8:30am Preschool9:00am Thanksgiving Feasts9:30am Bible Study4:30pm Brownie Troop7:00pm Boy Scouts

8:30am Preschool9:00am Thanksgiving Feasts11:15am Staff Mtg.1:00pm Visiting Nurse Assoc.5:00pm Crossroads Band/ Praise Team Rehearsal7:00pm BLAZE8:00pm MOPS set-up

9:00am MOPS Mtg4:30pm Joy Choir Rehearsal5:30pm Carillon Ringers6:30pm Confirmation Music7:00pm Confirmation Learning Event

Thanksgiving Baskets8:30am Preschool7:00pm CLC Military Ministry7:00pm Celebration Choir rehearsal

Pie Social after service8:30am Preschool11:15am Staff Mtg.5:00pm Crossroads Band/ Praise Team Rehearsal7:00pm BLAZE

NO CONFIRMATION4:30pm Joy Choir Rehearsal

THANKSGIVING DAYOFFICE CLOSED

OFFICE CLOSED 5:00pm Worship/CC5:00pm BAPTISM - Vorthmann

Thanksgiving Baskets8:30am Preschool

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8:00am Worship/CC9:30 Worship/SS9:30am BAPTISM - Rand11:00am Worship/CC12:15pm 1st Communion Class11:00am Jubilation Choir7:00pm AA Meeting

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SR. HIGH GATHERINGFall Scarf sale-Chick w/Sticks5:00pm Worship/CC6:00pm Michael Peterson Concert

Bonfils Blood DriveWe are holding another blood drive in memory of Hank Smith.

Sunday November 3rd from 8:30am to 12:30pmWe will be passing around a sign-up sheet the 2 weeks prior to the drive during all services.

Dates to Remember!Sunday, November 10thMilitary Ministry Memorabilia Display in Sonrise Room

Sunday, November 10th 9:30 a.m.Military Ministry presents Julie Schrockfor Adult University in Fellowship Hall“Missing Max – Finding Hope After My Marine Son’s Death

Saturday, November 16th 7 p.m. Military Ministry presents Michael Peterson Concert(Pre-Concert Reception in the Fellowship Hall 6 p.m.)

Tuesday, November 26th 6:30 p.m.“ThanksGiving Thanksgiving Service”Annual Pie Social in the Fellowship Hall followingservice.

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There’s a place for you!Outreach MinistriesFair Trade Co�ee ProjectELCA World HungerThe Gathering PlaceGrant Avenue Street ReachHabitat for HumanityHarrington ElementaryLutheran Family ServicesAdult Mission TripsOutreach UgandaUrban Peak(MOPS) Mothers of Preschoolers

MusicCelebration Choir Crossroads Worship BandCon�rmation ChoirJubilation ChoirJoy ChoirCarillon Ringers

Preschool

Followers of Jesus Christ

Caring ConnectionIndividual Care TeamCon�dential Prayer TreeCard MinistryNew-Mother MinistryPrayer Shawl KnittersChefs for ChristPastoral Care and CounselingChicks with SticksMission Quilters

Youth & Family MinistriesSunday SchoolDynamite Youth Group (4th, 5th, 6th graders)Blaze (High School Youth)Sr. High Mission TripCon�rmation (7th & 8th graders)First Communion classesFirst Bible classesBaptism classesFamily Nights

November 2013 CLC CrossWord

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