St. Paul Lutheran Church is called to be an Inviting, Christ Centered Spiritually Grow-

ing and Community Serving Church where we are led by love

to implement Jesus’ teachings.

Staff:

Pastor: Rev. Lucy Wynard

Secretary: Carol MacKechnie

Custodian: Chet Organ

Music/Choir Director: David Frank

Sunday Worship Schedule:

8:00 a.m. Worship Service with Holy Communion

9:00 a.m. Coffee & Fellowship

9:30 a.m. Believer’s Club Sunday School (Sept. – May)

10:30 a.m. Worship Service with Holy Communion

12:00 p.m. San Jose Worship Service

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St. Paul Lutheran Church Council Members President: Chet Organ

V.P., Property & Personnel: Judy Markee

Secretary & Staff Support: Lisa Petersen

Treasurer: Glenda Liptow

Financial Secretary: Katie Hassenfelt

Worship & Music: Sharyn Pann

Youth Ministry: Jen Murry

Parish Education: Linda McManigle

Church in Society Dave Knutson

Bible Studies

for Women of the Church

Each Wednesday, 12:00 Menu

4 Shirley’s Chunky Hamburger Soup

11 Scalloped Potatoes & Ham

18 Chef’s Choice

25 Chili

Ruth Circle

Monday, September 9, 1:00 pm Gathering Rm.

Sarah Circle

Wednesday, September 11, 10:00 am Gathering

CARITAS

Have you remembered Caritas in your weekly shopping trips?

St. Paul is responsible for supplying the personal care section, which includes deodorant, toothpaste, toiletries, etc.

DONATION NEEDS LIST

Non Perishable Food Items Clothing: Infant Clothing up to 4T

Personal Products: Bar Soap, Deodorant, Feminine Hygiene Products,

DIAPERS - Newborn to size 6, Baby Wipes

You can place your items in the little red wagon near the elevator.

Thank you for all of your donations.

1

Joyce Elwood’s Baptism

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Karen Moe’s Birthday

Lauren Gurholt’s Baptism

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John & JoAnn Petersons’s Anniversary

Kathy Pohl’s Birthday

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Ellen Barrett’s Birthday

Robert Heck’s Baptism

8

Zach & Sara Fillbach’s

Anniversary

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Leroy Cruse’s Birthday

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Devin Martalock’s Baptism

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Megan Real’s Baptism

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Jewell Furman’s Birthday

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Joan McManigle’s Birthday

Lou Paschke’s Birthday

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Colin Carlson’s Birthday

Marion Wong’s Birthday

20

Adeline Flower’s Baptism

21

Roy & Linda Cruse’s

Anniversary

Tammy Pedrick’s Birthday

22

Henry & Sharyn Pann’s Annivesary

23

Beverly Scoville’s Birthday

Marilyn Harris’s Birthday

24

Merlin Kramer’s Birthday

25

Donna Kepler’s Baptism

Nancy Appleby’s Birthday

26

Dan & Michelle Carlson’s

Anniversary

Karen Saudargas’s Baptism

Kelsi Mueller’s Birthday

Ralph Carlson’s Baptism

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29 John & Holly

Gessner’s Anniversary

Judy Engle’s Birthday

Mary Olson’s Baptism

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Pat Baker’s Baptism

Council Person

Assisting Minister

Reader Ushers Communion Team

Power Point Operator

Coffee Hour Hosts

Altar Guild

September 1

Lisa Petersen Jean Neitzel Cathy Oswald Neitzel Team Zach Fillbach Scholarship Committee

Judy & Dave Markee

Briscoe Team

Jen Murry Hayden Murry Pohl Team

September 8

Sharyn Pann Dave Knutson Rachel Wilson Harris Team Jan Knutson Youth Group Judy & Dave Markee

Liptow Team

Linda McManigle

Xander Murry Ueland Team

September 15

Glenda Liptow Chet Organ Jane Carr Liptow Team Ken Harris Property Committee

Judy & Dave Markee

Neitzel Team

Chet Organ Hayden Murry Pohl Team

September 22

Dave Knutson Hayden Murry Sharyn Pann Leppla Team Zach Fillbach Soup Lunch Judy & Dave Markee

Briscoe Team

Judy Markee Xander Murry Ueland Team

September 29

Chet Organ Martin Scott Henry Pann Neitzel Team Jan Knutson Lutherdale Quilt Project

Judy & Dave Markee

Liptow Team

Katie Hassenfelt

Hayden Murry Pohl Team

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8:00 Worship

9:15 Coffee Hour

10:30 Worship

12:00 San Jose Worship

9 9 - 12

Basket Guild Fellowship Hall

1:00 Ruth Circle

6:30 Council Meeting

7:00 Boy Scouts

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11 10:00

Sarah Circle 12:00

Soup Lunch & Lydia’s Closet

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6:00 Choir Practice

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15 Rally Sunday

God’s Work Our Hands 8:00 Worship

9:15 Coffee Hour 9:15 Coffee w/Council

10:30 Worship 12:00 San Jose Worship

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7:00 Boy Scouts

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Sarah Circle

12:00 Soup Lunch

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8:00 Men’s Breakfast Group

6:00 Choir Practice

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22 8:00 Worship

9:15 Coffee Hour

Reception for Jewell Furman

10:30 Worship

12:00 San Jose Worship

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7:00 Boy Scouts

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12:00 OWLS

6:00 Choir Practice

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Council Retreat

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8:00 & 10:30 Healing Services

9:15 Coffee Hour

12:00 San Jose Worship

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6:00 Music & Worship

& Worship Planning Meeting

REMINDER: We welcome

submissions to the Newsletter by the 20th of

the month.

Treasurer Report — July 2019

Income Category Amount Summary Amount Regular Beginning Balance

Special Services Income

Youth Available Funds Miscellaneous Expenses

Carpet Cleaning Correction

S & T Ending Balance 1100.02 San Jose

Mission Outreach Spending Plan/Mo. 15627.00

General Fund 0.00 Over/Under Mo. -15627.00

Over/Under Year -12785.42 San Jose

Soup Lunch

Total Income 0.00

Roof Fund-Beg. Bal. 11477.98

Call Comm.-Beg. Bal 126.56 -Dispersment 0.00 -Deposit 0.00 -Deposit 0.00 - Disbursement 0.00 -Ending Bal. 11477.98 -Ending Balance 126.56

Organ Fund-Beg.Bal 714.80 Sound Sys.-Beg. Bal. 1100.00 -Deposit 0.00 -Deposit: Member 0.00 -Ending Bal. 714.80 -Deposit: Dinner 0.00

-Ending Balance 1100.00

Designated Monthly Benevolence Out-

reach The Mission Outreach for the month of September is

BELOIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER

12:00 September 26

MEETING & POTLUCK The program will be presented by Pastors

Lucy and Dan Wynard. They will be speaking about the

Foster Care System, including their personal experiences

as foster parents.

Please bring a dish to pass.

Come for good food and fellowship. All are welcome.

Memorial Committee St. Paul has once, again, been blessed by generous friends

and families. The Carpet Fund has received memorials in

memory of the following people: Karen Farney, Vivian

Fillbach, Darlene Ingrassia, Ron Josh, Lynn Oswald, Lou

Paschke, Bill Rodermel, Geri Schultz, and Ron Upward.

THANK YOU TO ALL.

WHAT MATTERS - Stay Connected To Synod Happenings,

News, & Events! Grow in your faith and leadership! Stay connect-

ed to exciting events and stories of our faith in

action in our synod! To sign up for synod news,

please email Assistant to the Bishop for Synodical

Life, Deacon Vicki Hanrahan at vickih@scsw-

elca.org to be added to “What Matters.”

Jewell Furman Reception

Jewell Furman will be celebrating her 95th birthday on September 17th.

There will be a reception in her honor on Sunday, September 22nd be-

tween the first and second services. There will be refreshments and Jewell

would like to see her St. Paul friends, especially since she will be moving

down to Southern Illinois to live with her daughter and son-in-law. Please

attend to wish her Happy Birthday and say good bye.

Help Wanted! We are in need of volunteers to use their gifts & skills in the following areas: * PowerPoint operators (especially at the 8am service) * Care Team members (visit the sick or homebound & take commun-ion to them) * Altar Guild members (set up/clean up communion & change the paraments as needed) * Children's Sermon team (lead Kidz Time during worship periodical-ly) If you're interested in hearing more details about these or any other volunteer roles, please speak with Pastor Lucy! You can email her at pastor@stpaulbeloit.org.

* If you’re interested in cantoring the liturgy or offering special music during the service, please let David Frank know.

* Choir rehearsals resume Thursday, September 5th at 6 pm. New-comers welcomed enthusiastically.

Adult & Student Confirmation Information Meeting Sunday, September 22nd, 9:30am in Michael Chapel Come and learn about our program plans for the year and help us determine the best time to meet. This year we'll be focusing on learn-ing about the New Testament. If you cannot make the meeting but

have a young adult in their early-mid teens who might be interested in participating, please let Pr. Lucy know so that we can try to ac-commodate schedules as much as possible. Thrivent Grants - there's $$$ on the table! Calling all Thrivent (Lutheran Brotherhood) members: we've created a list of the regular annual activities here at St. Paul which would qualify for a $250 Thrivent Action Team grant. Please look over the list (on the table outside the sanctuary) and sign your name next to those activities most spark your interest in supporting. Then we know who to contact in advance of events about applying for grants! There are folks here at church or in the Beloit Thrivent of-fice who are available to help in the application process - it should only take a few minutes each time. Adult Faith Formation Opportunities We're looking to do several short-term groups over the course of this year focused on adult faith formation. These will be 4-8 week bible studies, book groups, video + discussion groups... there are a multi-tude of possibilities! If you're confirmed member of the congregation looking for opportunities to grow in your faith & connect with others in our community, look for the interest sheet on the sign-up table outside the sanctuary and let us know what your interests are & what works in your schedule.

F o r Y o u r I n f o r m a t i o n

God's Work, Our Hands - Rally Sunday! September 15th

8:00 am - Traditional ELW Worship in English 9:15 am - Believers' Club Kick-Off: God +Us

AND God's Work, Our Hands - Serving Together

10:30 am - Joint, Bilingual Worship

Join us September 15th as we celebrate serving and worshiping alongside our siblings from Parroquia San José. Believers' Club this year will be focused on the theme of God + Us - focusing on the ways in which God gives every one of us gifts to share God's love in the world. God + Us is another way of saying God's Work is done through each of us - every one, togeth-er spreading the Good News. So, come kick off a new program year, serve, worship, fellowship and celebrate together!

We Need Your Support

We have encountered a "summer slump" in our weekly

giving. This is a trend virtually every church faces & St.

Paul is no exception. We’ve also had slightly higher ex-

penses in the summer for a variety of reasons - and the

end result is our income and expenses just don't line up at

the moment. We need your help! The electric and water

bills may not seem like "mission" - but those general fund

expenses enable us to do all the mission we do here at St.

Paul. And we do a lot! So we're asking you to give a little

extra in the coming weeks.

HERE ARE A COUPLE OF WAYS YOU CAN HELP:

1) By the beginning of September we'll have a "Bill

Board" posted - literally we'll be putting copies of our cur-

rent bills up on the board. In addition to your regular giv-

ing, consider taking a bill and "paying it" this month.

You can do that by returning the attached envelope with

the amount of the bill, made out to St. Paul. (We'll actually

pay the bill on your behalf.)

2) On God's Work, Our Hands / Rally Sunday - Sep-

tember 15th - consider doubling your giving for the

week. If not double, can you give some extra? We do

God's Work, Our Hands in many ways and one is by fi-

nancially supporting the ongoing ministry at St. Paul.

We are a generous congregation & I want to be clear - I

am not concerned that we're on the brink of financial dis-

aster or even that our mission will be seriously impacted.

This is just a "family" update to let you know that right now

we need a little extra and invite you to participate. I know

that together we can continue and expand the vital

ministry St. Paul is doing in our corner of Beloit!

Sign up for a Diakonia class Did you know you don't have to sign up for the whole Diakonia

program to take a class? You can simply take classes as you're

interested! This fall St. John's Lutheran in Evansville will host

an Introduction to the New Testament class that lasts 5 Satur-

days: September 14th-October 12th, 9 am - noon. To get on

the class list send a quick email to scswdiakonia@gmail.com.

Act quickly! For more information contact Ken Harris or Pr. Lu-

cy, or go to the Synod website: www.scsw-elca.org.

Message on behalf of Rev. Viviane Thomas-Breitfeld

August 12, 2019

Dear Siblings in Christ,

I wish you grace and peace in the name of our Lord and Sav-

ior.

I write to inform you that I have resigned as your bishop. It has

been an honor to have served you. I thank you for the love,

the kindness and support shown to me during my ministry

among you. I am grateful for the ways my ministry has been

accepted. If there is any way I have sinned against you, I ask

your forgiveness. As I leave, I carry with me all that I have

learned here. I continue to believe that we are beloved com-

munity, church together in the ministry God has placed be-

fore each of us.

As I move on to new ministry opportunities, I will be returning

to my beloved East Coast. I wish you well, praying you will

continue to move toward beloved community, walking to-

gether in Christ. Soli Dei Gloria!

Blessings and Peace,

Rev. Viviane Thomas-Breitfeld Rev. Viviane Thomas-Breitfeld

“We are beloved community. We are blessed to be a blessing.”

Some Punny Questions

1. Who was the smallest person in the Bible? Knee high miah!

2. What car did the wise men drive to see Jesus?

Honda Accord. The Bible says the wise men all came in one accord.

3. Why couldn’t Jonah trust the ocean?

Because he knew there was something fishy about it.

4. Who was the most business-savvy woman in the Bible?

Pharaoh’s daughter, who went down to the bank of the Nile and pulled

out a little prophet.

5. What kind of person was Boaz before he got married?

Ruthless!

6. Where is the first tennis match mentioned in the Bible?

When Joseph served in Pharaoh’s court.

7. Who was the greatest comedian in the Bible?

Samson. He brought the house down.

8. Which servant of God was the worst lawbreaker in the Bible?

Moses. He broke all 10 commandments at once.

9. How does Moses start his morning?

Hebrews a pot of coffee!

10. At what time of day was Adam created?

A little before Eve.

11. Who is the greatest babysitter mentioned in the Bible?

David. He rocked Goliath to sleep.

12. Did Eve ever have a date with Adam?

No, just an apple.

13. What’s the difference between Jesus and pizza?

Jesus can’t be topped.

14. Why did Samson try to avoid arguing with Delilah?

He didn’t want to split hairs.

15. Need an ark?

I noah guy.

EVER WONDER Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?

Why is ‘abbreviated’ such a long word?

Why is it that Doctors call what they do ‘practice’?

Why is it that lemon juice is made with artificial flavor, and dish-

washing liquid made with real lemons.

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

Why is the time of the slowest traffic called rush hour?

Why didn’t Noah swat those two mosquitos?

You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes?

Why don’t they make the whole plane out of that stuff?!

Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?

If flying is so safe why do they call the airport the terminal?

MESSAGE FROM PASTOR LUCY — Last month, at our triennial Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lu-theran Church in America, the ELCA declared itself a “sanctuary church body”… what does that mean?!

At its most basic, becoming a sanctuary denom-ination means the ELCA is publicly declaring that walking alongside immigrants and refu-gees is a vital expression of our faith. And in our particular context, in 2019, in the United States, it means an acknowledgment that our country’s systems regarding immigration, asy-lum and refugees are broken – and we seek to provide concrete help to those who are most vulnerable and experiencing the sharp edges of these broken systems.

But there are some things it does NOT mean, and I want to be clear about those:

• It does NOT mean that St. Paul Lutheran Church, Beloit, or even the South-Central Synod of Wisconsin is bound to any specific actions. The structure of our church is such that the Churchwide expression cannot compel or commit any individual congregation, synod, agency or institu-tion to particular beliefs or actions.

• It does NOT call for civil disobedience or illegal action. It does acknowledge that being a sanctuary church will look different in differ-ent contexts and must be discerned within those local contexts.

So what DOES it mean? Why make a such a public, and provocative, state-ment, if there’s not really any particular binding action behind it?!

• It DOES obligate the ELCA’s Church Council to study the question of

what being a sanctuary church means and to present a report at the next Churchwide Assembly in 2022. We should also expect from the Churchwide organization more resources, information and suggestions to guide us as a congregation in discerning our own answers to the question.

• It DOES invite us as St. Paul to our own study and practice of what coming along-side immigrants and refugees means for us. Rather than brush the Churchwide deci-sion aside as non-binding or too political, we have an opportunity to deepen our own conversation, understanding and practices of hospitality as a congregation.

I invite you to join me in thinking deeply and faithfully about what Jesus invites US to – now, in this place, as our particular congregation –in regards to our migrant neighbors. People of faith will differ on what living out the call to love our neighbor looks like – but we also know that, however we hammer out that conversation, we are called to the express the radical love & welcome of Jesus, and together we can continue to do that here at St. Paul.

Thank you for being a congregation that engages so faithfully and com-passionately in the work of the gospel!

P.S. want to learn more? I would LOVE to have coffee, listen to your ques-tions & concerns, and share some of the resources I’ve come across

Please remember our family and friends in prayer… Todd Hunter (friend of Chet Organ), Marilyn Folts, Jewell Furman, Roger Baker, Nicole Ra-vim & Katherine Connell (daughters of Mary & Larry Mortimer), Jeanette Rochester, Bishop Viviane Thomas-Breitfeld, Xander Meade (Pastor Lucy’s nephew), Kathy Schneider (Melanie Schneider’s mother), Judy Engle & Karen Moe, Maxine Rasmussen, Robert Heck, Ray & Judelle Murphy, Cyndi Martalock, Ralph & Edith Carlson, John Wellington Ford (great grandson of Jewell Furman), Lori Sciame, Michelle Crane (daughter of Ray & Judelle Murphy), Vi Guetschow, Lucille Stowers (Denise Organ’s mother), Kelly Mikkelsen (Friend of Gloria Wackershauser), Duane & Bonnie Hirschfield (friends of Karl & Anne Schilling),

Cyndi Mulholland (niece of Marge Kline), Thomas Ueland (son of Jackie Ueland),Reece Gat-liff (grandson of Jackie Ueland), John Vasgird (grandson of Beth Rodermel), Marge Kline, Merlin Kenitzer, Anthony & Thomas MacKechnie (nephews of Carol MacKechnie), Robert Schuler (friend of Judelle Murphy), Amber Valdez (daughter of Ray and Judelle Murphy),

Leroy Cruse, Joyce Buske, and those affected by the violence in our nation.

Friends and Family in the Military: Nolan Shepherd, Anaka Scoville, Wesley Felton (grandson of Jeanette Rochester), Kyle Resch (grandson of Marge Kline) & Fiancée Kim Schoenfeld, Marc Hulburt (son of Tom Hulbert), David and Adam Flowers (grandsons of

Bob & Addie Flowers), and Matthew Kolden (grandson of Pat & Roger Baker).

The immigrant who re-sides with you shall be as a citizen among you; you shall love the immi-grant as yourself, for you were immigrants in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. – Leviticus 19:34