February 2012

 

Peace Council Peace Lutheran Church

Derek Getz, Chair PO Box 214 Barrett, MN MN 56311 320-528-2445 [email protected] Linda Buchite 701 2nd Street

February 2012

 

Barrett, MN MN 56311 320-528-2555 [email protected]  Tom Perry PO Box 159

FEBRUARY SUNDAY SCHOOL NEWS

Barrett,, MN 556311 Barrett 6311 320-528-2342  [email protected]  T.RP@Live .com  Terry Volker

We will be wrapping up our Queen Esther Rotation on February 5 th  and decorating Valentine cupcakes on February 12th to be delivered to the Barrett Care Center and Rolling Hills R Residence. esidence.

17239 US Hwy 59 Barrett, MN MN 56311 320-528-2424 [email protected] Patricia Schack 20815 180th Ave Barrett, MN MN 56311 218-685-5478 [email protected] Diane Puchalski 22785 Co Rd 21 Barrett, MN 56311 320-528-6208  [email protected]  puc@runest one.net Craig Schroeder 23877 Co Rd 21 Elbow Lake, MN 56531 218-685-6277 [email protected]  Jennifer McLaughlin McLaughlin 11254 Co Rd 2 Barrett, MN MN 56311 320-986-2139 [email protected]

 Youth Representative Representative Koel Seifert

Our Last Supper Rotation begins February 19 th and continues th

through March 11 . Our Community Service Project to be held on March 18th will be delivering muffins to the Group Home and homebound. If you know someone who would like a visit from our Sunday School please let us know and we’ll put them on our list. list.   Our Worship Servers for February 26 th are Ryleigh and Alliah Johnson and Kode and Kore Seifert. Our last Rotation of the year will be Fru Fruit it of the Spirit March 25th  through April 22nd). There will be no Sunday School on Easter Sunday, April 8th. The Sunday School students will once again hand out palm leaves on Palm Sunday, April 1 st. We always welcome visitors in our classrooms. If you didn’t get a chance to attend our Open House, feel free to stop by any Sunday for a visit. If you have suggestions suggestions or conc concerns erns don’t hesitate to cal calll or email. email.   Joyce Hanson, Director Peace Sunday School Home phone: 320-528-2354; Cell: 320-304-0727) Email address: baskets @runestone @runestone.net .net

 

 Today  Today and everyday everyday,, Lutheran World World Relief Quilts and Kits are given to families throughout the w world, orld, a helping hand, a sign of comfort and hope for the future. The requests are on the rise. rise. Quilts and K Kits its are urgently needed!!!!!  WELCA and the Quilters have decided to create a way you you can help. This is an optional  project. Our plan for the LWR Kit Project is as follows: f ollows: personal care, fabric, school and baby care kits.  You  You can form your own groups; who and how many is your choice. Choose any of the 4 kits to put together. together. Make as many or few as you w want. ant.  These kits will be delivered along with the quilts to Osakis in October. The lists and instructions are on the following pages.

Pens and pencils, a toothbrush, a quilt … ordinary items we take for granted become become treasures in the hands of their recip recipients. ients. The items yyou ou send will be cherished and used by people who take nothing for granted, for whom even a simple bar of new soap is special.

 Your gifts of time and resources toward making LWR Quilts and Kits are  Your beautiful expressions of God’s lo love ve and grace to those in greatest need.  Thank you for your partnership partners hip in putting tthem hem together

 

 

 

February 2012 Sun

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2:10pm Release Time 3:30-5:30pm Confirmation

 Men’s Breakfast  Breakfast   6:30am

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12:00pm WELCA 2:10pm Release Time 3:30pm-5:30pm

 Men’s Breakfast  Breakfast   6:30am

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14 Valentine’s Day   15 9:00am  Ever-Blessed  Quilters

9:00am  Ever-Blessed  Quilters

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9:15am  No School 9:40am Men’s Choir 10:30am Worship

7th – 8th 8th Grade Retreat @ Peace

Release Time 3:30pm-5:30pm Confirmation 6:30pm Lent Worship

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Sunday School 9:15am 10:30am Worship

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Sunday School 9:15am 10:30am Worship

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 Ash Wednesday

2:10pm Release Time 3:30pm-5:30pm Confirmation 5 :30 :30 pm Lent Supper 6:30pm Worship

 Men’s Breakfast  Breakfast   6:30am

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Serving in February Servers

Ushers

2/5 Wayne & Betty DeClercq

2/5 Wayne & Betty DeClercq

Mike & Jennifer McLaughlin McLaugh lin

2/12 Ron & Kay Johnson Doug Ostenson 2/19 Ron & Gaylene Hanson

Mike & Jennifer McLaughlin 2/12 Ron & Kay Johnson Doug Ostenson 2/19 Ron & Gaylene Hanson

 Jeff & Cheri Lang Lang

 Jeff & Cheri La Lang ng

2/26 Chad & Gwen Rollofson

2/26 Chad & Gwen Rollofson

Ron & Patricia Schack Readers

Ron & Patricia Schack Work Group # 2 Leaders

Altar Guild

Sharolyn & Jim Johnson

Karen Ellis

Kay & Ron Johnson

Pat Ronhovde R onhovde

2/5 Jennifer McLaughlin 2/12 Kathy Dahl

 YOUTH WORSHIP WORSHIP LEADERSHIP LEADERSHIP 2/5 Daryn Gisi

2/19 Tim Buchite

2/12 Mary Ann Thompson 2/19 Daryn Gisi

2/26 Ardis Paulson

2/26 Abby Oberg

RELEASE TIME VOLUNTEERS If you are unable to be a helper on your Sunday, please call one of your work group leaders and he or she will help  you find a replacement.

2/1 Sandy Perry 2/8 Deanne Frarck 2/15 Sara Getz 2/22 Pat Ronhovde 2/29 Jan Vipond

Thank you.  

Stewardship Steward ship of the Good News Therefor e, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside Therefore, every weight and the th e sin that clings so closely,*  and let us run with perseverance the race that *   is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the sake of   the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right right hand of the throne of God. (He (Hebrews brews 12: 12:1-2) 1-2)

 As we prepare for another new season, the season season of Lent, I have been struggling on ho how w to approach this time treasured season with new eyes of of faith, so that I can deepen in that faith. Lent is a time racked with traditions; “giving up” vices, “adding” new virtues, Midweek season ason to Church services, even $2 filet-o-fish sandwiches. Somehow I feel like I “know” this se  well to let God further make and mold me through through it. That being said, I found an article  written by a Pastor Pastor at a Prison, which just might help help me see Lent in a more helpful way this  year: “Prison is always Lent; the barbed wi wire re is reminiscent of a crown of thorns, the armed towers the cross. Everything surrounding surr ounding a man in prison reminds him how m much uch he has screwed up and how much much control the state has over any gi given ven man. A man realizes how little he has control over his environment in prison; he is told when to eat, sleep, go to the bathroom, whether he can have medical attentio attention, n, where he can go of course, and if under death penalty when to stop breathing. The prison context always lifts up faith and forgiveness from any text we read, regardless o off the season. It’s that trust thing again. Faith is always a risk risk and requires trust, and of course my guys ha have ve broken trust left and right in their lives lives as well as being on the receiving end of a lot of broken promises. Through forgiveness they can begin again to build trust with others, knowing God has forgiven them and trusts them when society will not.”  

 What if this year L Lent ent becomes a place where we can truly hear that message of forgiveness, through “any text we read”? What if we try to push off all those broken promises w we e have made and start fresh with the Prom Promise ise that God is here for u us? s? What if this lent we forgive, once for all, those who have sinned against us, so that their sin no longer holds us back?  What if we look to JJesus esus this Lent, the perfecter of our faith, and lay aside every every weight and the sin that clings so closely closely,, in order that we can run the race that is set set before us? I don’t know the answers to those questions, and I acknowledge that these things are much more complicated that they may seem, but I would lo love ve to begin to find the answers with you, this Lent. ~Matthew Rose, Pastor

 

Peace Church Council Minutes December 14, 2011 Meeting called to order by Derek Getz Members Present: Derek Getz, Patricia Schack, Diane Puchalski, Tom Perry, Kim Lang, Sandy Kashmark, Nancy Waugh and Pr. Matthew Rose Members Absent: Alayna McLaughlin, Craig Schroeder Schroeder and Jennifer McLaughlin McLaughlin Secretary’s Report: Motion to approve Diane, 2nd Nancy.  Treasurer’s Report: Motion to approve Kim, 2nd Diane.

 The council decided to give Sandy Perry an increase in wages. The council then budgeted for an increase in wages.  We need to have a separate breakdown of the Thrivent funds for the budget for the annual meeting. Motion was made by Kim, 2nd Tom. Pastor’s Report: Pastor Matthew got out and visited everyone. There currently are 19 kids at Release time. Pastor Matthew is going going to change his schedule a little little bit. Call the office to find out the new hours. hours. He wants the council to do a review of him in the next 6 months.

Old Business:  The council decided to designate the fourth Sunday to give the coffee coffee money to the Sunday school, without having the Sunday school families serve.  The Council appointed Chuck Olson, Jeff Dreier, and Dick Puchalski to audit the Church books.  They are to coordinate with Sandy Kashmark. The audit committee will hold a 3 year term.  Anyone that is drawing a salary sala ry is covered under the workmen’s Comp Insuran Insurance. ce.

 The signs for the church are up on highway 55. New Business:  A motion to approve the revisions to the constitution was made by Kim, Nancy 2nd.  The annual meeting will be held the 4th Sunday in January (1/22/12). A potluck lunch will be served after the meeting. The council will set up and clean up.  The small vacuum needs to be replaced. Diane will ask the Altar Guild to replace it.  The Sunday school teachers will have a meeting set for the beginning of the year to discuss the future of the program.  We have decided not to purchase the dumpster and will go with the new garbage service. Motion to adjourn was made by Kim, 2nd Tom. Patricia Schack, Secretary

 

Lent 2012 Questions God Asks Us Our Lenten Series this year is centered around the Questions that God Asks Us, and is based off a book by the same name written by Trevor Hudson. As we try to lay aside all that holds us back, the Sin that clings so closely to each and every one of us, we are called to listen to the short, but anything but simple, questions that God asked our ancestors in the faith, and now ask us. God has a way of stripping back all all of

LUTHER CREST HAPPENINGS

February 17th & 18th 7-9 Grade Winter Youth Retreat

February 14th  A Valentine’s Valentine’s Day event for

Couples

our excuses, and breaking through all of our walls with the truth that comes in the asking of the Questions God Asks Us. February 22 – Ash Wednesday “What Are You Doing Here?”   February 29 –  “Where “Where Are You?”   March 7 – “What  “What Is Your Name?”   March 14 – “What  “What Is That That In Your Hand?”   March 21 – “What  “What Are You Looking Looking For?”   March 28 – “Who  “Who Do You Say Say That I Am?”   April 5 – Maundy Thursday “Do You Understand What I Have Done For You?” (with First Communion)  

April 6 – Good Friday April 8– Easter During Lent we will be having supper at 5:30pm followed by worship at 6:30pm. (N0 Supper Supper Ash Wednesday)  We will have a sign up sheet on the kitchen counter at church for volunteers to furnish soup and bread and serve.

 April 27th-April 29th God Spa  Women’s  W omen’s Retreat 

For more information about any of the retreats, retreats, yo you u can call their staff staff at 320-84 320-846-2431 6-2431 or send an email to [email protected] or check out the bulletin board out by Pastor Matthew’s office.   Summer 2012 Middle Midd le of the Whee Wheell  Where do we find HOPE in a BROKEN WORLD? The 2012 Summer Theme, Theme, “Middl “Middle e of the  Wheel,” will focus on this question. Through our daily themes,  we will learn to keep Christ, who is our hope through uncertainty and fear, and our light in the darkness, as the center our lives. Luther Crest Bible Camp 2012 Summer Schedule is posted on the bulletin board by Pastor Matthew’s office. Check it out and talk with Pastor Matthew if  you have have any questions.

 

PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH PO Box 206 Barrett MN 56311

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Rev. Matthew Rose, Pastor [email protected] cell phone: phone: 218-770-847 218-770-84700 Office: 320-528-2536 320-528-2536 email: [email protected]

Lent 2012  Ash Wednesday Wednesday,, Feb Februar ruaryy 22nd, 6:30pm Worship (NO SUPPER) Februar Feb ruaryy 29th, Lent Supper 5:30pm 5:30pm,, Wo Worship rship 6:30pm March 7th, Lent Supper 5:30pm,Worship 6:30pm March 14th, Lent Supper 5:30pm, Worship 6:30pm March 21st, Lent Supper 5:30pm, Worship 6:30pm March 28th, Lent Supper 5:30pm, Worship 6:30pm  April 5th, Maundy Thursday, Thursday, W Worship orship at 6:30pm  April 6th, Good Friday, Friday, Worship at 6:30pm  April 8th, Easter, Worship Worship at 10:30am