Peace Council

Nancy Waugh, Chairperson 805 Spruce Ave Barrett, MN 56311 320-528-2282 nhwaugh@runestone.net Tom Gardner PO Box 188 Barrett, MN 56311 320-528-6278 tgardgmc@runestone.net Tom Perry PO Box 159 Barrett, MN 56311 320-528-2342 T.RP@Live.com Terry Volker 17239 US Hwy 59 Barrett, MN 56311 320-528-2424 volkercrr@gmail.com Jan Vipond PO Box 188 Barrett, MN 56311 320-528-2421 djvipers@runestone.net Diane Puchalski 22785 Co Rd 21 Barrett, MN 56311 320-528-6208 puc@runestone.net Craig Schroeder 23877 Co Rd 21 Elbow Lake, MN 56531 218-685-6277 craig.schroeder@starbank.net Jennifer McLaughlin 11254 Co Rd 2 Barrett, MN 56311 320-986-2139 mikenjen@runestone.net Youth Representative Andy Thompson

Peace Lutheran Church

SEPTEMBER 2013
SEPTEMBER SUNDAY SCHOOL NEWS

HELP WANTED! HELP WANTED! HELP WANTED! HELP WANTED! HELP!

Our Sunday School is in need of teachers we need your help desperately!! Were looking for 2 teachers in our Cooking room, 2 teachers in our Games room and 1 teacher in our Movie room. Wow, were really in trouble! Our teachers share a position and will only have to teach 3 Sundays during the fall-winter session and 6 during the winter-spring sessions. The rotations are quite simple and consist of reading the lesson, doing a game, a craft, or snack or watching a movie clip, and then a few wrap questions and a prayer. No previous experience is needed and we have substitutes if you need one. Please consider this worthwhile adventure even for one Sunday - it really is a rewarding experience. We will be starting off our year at our Fall Festival on Sunday, September 8 th at 9:15 am at Powers Park. Our lesson will be Jesus Blesses the Children. Well hear the story, sing some songs, do a craft project, play a game, and eat a snack. Then well usher for church services at 10:30 am which will include Teacher Installation. I hope everyone tries their best to attend! On Sunday, September 15th, our 2nd Graders will be receiving their Bibles during church and well begin our Battle of Jericho rotation in Sunday School. At the end of this rotation, well be doing a community service project and singing in church. If you know someone who is from the age of 3 to 7th grade, please invite them to join our Sunday School. They need not be a member and if they need transportation, we will provide it. If you can help in anyway, please call Joyce at 320-528-2354 (home) or 320304-0727 (cell) or email (baskets@runestone. net). Thank you so much!

Joyce Hanson, Director

September 2013
Peace Lutheran Church Council Meeting July 14, 2013 10:30 a.m. Call Meeting to OrderAbsent: Andy

Devotional TimePastor MatthewChurch

Secretarys ReportApproved Treasurers ReportTom G Motion to approve, 2nd Jan. MCU Pastors Report Fast paced month with mission trip, wedding and 2 funerals. Some technical difficulties at wedding. Possible tube amp. Got through the wedding okay with temporary fix, but needs assessment. Discussion of future speakers for choir and view for video. Still working out kinks. Motion by Jan that if speakers need repair to proceed in contacting repair person. Second by Craig. MCU. VBS added service rotation into curriculum. Continuing Ed and vacation coming up as noted and approved last meeting. Old Business Mystery Mission ReportTrip to Duluth area went very well. Very positive compliments again from community members about our youth. They were hard workers. Air ConditionersRepair being taken care of via insurance. 2nd Air Conditioner Compressor yet to be done. Payment to come out of building fund. Congregation will be asked for special support for this project. Kip Peterson MemorialDiscussed family requests and preferences for use. New Business TreesTrees at South end of church by basement entrance need to be removed due to rot. Discussion of ideas for designing road view of our church. AdjournMotion by Matt, 2nd by Tom G Closing PrayerLords Prayer

Jennifer McLaughlin, Secretary

September 2013
Perk up! with Pastor

We hear in Psalm 38, O taste and see that the Lord is good, and we invite you to start off your week on just that note! Perk up! with Pastor, our newest ministry for adults of all ages will be gathering at 7am on Monday mornings at the Barrett Inn and Caf for a holy meal in the presence of your church family, to hear and pray for all of the places we find God in our lives and community, and to dive deeper into the biblical story. Since Perk up! with Pastor is something new for us all, it only makes sense to share the hopes we have in bringing this Adult Ministry to our community. A holy meal. Many a joke has begun with a group of Lutherans gathering around a table for a Potluck or Lutefisk or Meatballs (all with Jell-O salad of course), but in a very real way gathering around a table to share a meal cuts to the very core of who we are, not just as Lutherans, but as faithful Christians. As Jesus traveled throughout the Gospels we hear of him gathering with groups, both large and small, breaking bread and sharing the good news. Jesus is found celebrating the meal with a wedding in Cana, presiding over a prayer as first 3000, then 5000 people ate on the hillside, having his feet washed by Mary before sitting down with her family to dine, sharing a Last Supper with his disciples prior to his arrest and crucifixion, and having a meal of fish over the fire after his resurrection. As Christians, claiming these stories as Truth, we have the audacity to believe that the One True God, who created the world and everything in it, uses one of the most basic aspects of life, namely eating, as a means to offer us grace and hope. As we live in a time where food has become fast, and gathering around a family dinner table has become less common, I do think we need to reclaim that time as the holy space it truly can be. For at least the first week we will plan to order our own breakfasts, but as the weeks move forward we may choose to order as a group, we discern what is best for us as a group. Praying with an active God. A ritual I have found very life giving within groups has been a time of guided sharing. God is choosing to speak to us through the the lives of individuals in the Bible, because there is a fundamental part of us designed to share and experience story, both ours and the stories of others. The format that we will be using to share our stories is that of Roses and Thorns. On the most simplistic side this is the High and Low you have experienced in the previous week, but at its core, and over time, experience has shown me that we truly will begin to see God acting in both our Roses and Thorns. Im ashamed to have to acknowledge this, but it is important to note that this is not a time of gossip or to catch up on or share someone elses life, its instead a time for you to share what is going on in YOUR life. It is important that we allow this time to remain holy, and as such we ask that things shared within this time, remain within the group, unless specific permission is given to do otherwise. Our time of Roses and Thorns will conclude with a time of prayer in which everyone will be given the opportunity to pray for someone elses Rose or Thorn and have their own Rose or Thorn prayed for. This acknowledgement that God is an active part of why we gather and shares with us in our Roses and Thorns, is a powerful reminder of Gods presence in our time together. Interacting with our ancestors in faith. Our final piece of our mornings together will be spent interacting with the Great Cloud of Witnesses we hear of through the Bible. This will not be a time where I as Expert tell you what you should understand about God through the stories we read, but instead will be a time in which after a (hopefully) brief background to the story is given, we will read together the bible and ask questions of it. The only questions that I will answer, are those of the simple fact based variety. The Big questions of faith, I will encourage us all to speak to, and then work to answer for ourselves. Im looking forward to this holy time with you, and as always all friends are encouraged to join us!

September 2013
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

9:30am Worship

2pm WELCA at Barrett Care Center

10am Faithful Folders

9:15am SS 10:30am Worship Fall Festival @ Powers Park

12pm Pizza @ Peace

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6pm Council

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10am Faithful Folders

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9:15am SS 9:30am 7th Grade Sunday School 10:30am Worship

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7am Perk Up! with Pastor

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9am Ever-Blessed Quilters

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9am Ever-Blessed Quilters

6:00pm All Family Confirmation

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10am Faithful Folders

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9:15am SS 10:30am Worship

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7am Perk Up! with Pastor

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2:00pm Release Time 3:30pm Confirmation

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10am Faithful Folders

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9:15am SS 10:30am Worship

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7am Perk Up! with Pastor

Serving in September
Servers

Sept. 1 Karen & Wendell Steffen Kathy Dahl Sept. 8 Fall Festival Sept. 15 Bea & Dayle DeFrance Jason Puchalski Sept. 22 Joan & Tom Gardner Jennifer Combs Sept. 29 Kim & Todd Lang Mindy & Chad Moritz

Ushers Sept. 1 Karen & Wendell Steffen Kathy Dahl Sept. 8 Fall Festival Sept. 15 Bea & Dayle DeFrance Jason Puchalski Sept. 22 Joan & Tom Gardner Jennifer Combs Sept. 29 Kim & Todd Lang Mindy & Chad Moritz

Readers 9/1 9/8 Kathy Dahl Alveda Rhude

Work Group #3 Lee & Pat Ronhovde Bob & Joan Roe

ALTAR GUILD Kim Lang Sara Getz

9/15 Tom Gardner 9/22 Ardis Paulson 9/29 Jennifer McLaughlin

Youth Worship Leadership

To Be Announced. watch the weekly bulletin for the schedule. Sign up will be the first week of class. ********************************* Confirmation starts September 18th. Release Time on September 25th.

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. Thank you.

Stewardship of the Good News

Change. Thats right, your Pastor started his newsletter with what has somehow become one of the

dirtiest words in the Lutheran Vocabulary, change. I think our hesitancy with change is it evokes
emotional memories in us of times we have tried things and failed, an undue guilt assuming that what we are doing isnt good enough, and all the times where things have changed without any conversation or explanation of why? All that being said as Christians, we profess at the deepest level we are looking

for a New Day. We acknowledge that even though Jesus as ALREADY redeemed all of creation, we still
live in a NOT YET time where there is Sin, Pain, and Death all around us. Brothers and Sisters in Christ, we are not in a time of Change, we are instead in a time where the God of All is making us a New Creation and using us to help make everything new. In 2013, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) celebrates our 25th anniversary under the theme, Always being made new. It comes from 2 Corinthians 5:17, If anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! Sometimes its hard to see the new, hard to feel like new, hard to show whats new in our faith. For those who grew up going to church, oftentimes faith just feels like part of life: of course I believe, I always have. Its hard to feel like God is doing something new in and through us. And yet, each day is new, not because the sun rose in the sky, but because God has acted in Christ to provide a new way of being. The death and resurrection of Christ frees us to let go of guilt from the past and move forward in Christ, completely made new. There are many new things that you will see moving onto our calendar, and hopefully becoming part of our shared life together as we move into our fall programing. Several are highlighted throughout this newsletter, but its important to also remember all of those ministries that you are already doing in your life as you work out your faith every day. We work every day to live Gods new way: we love our neighbors, set aside pride, find forgiveness, offer a hand to someone in need, talk to God, volunteer at service organizations, bite our tongues, and think about our situations in relationship to who God is and how God works. By doing these things and many others, we are making our community a better place. When we work together to do these things, then we are being Gods church in the world. Pastor Matthew

PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH PO Box 206 Barrett MN 56311

Rev. Matthew Rose, Pastor revmatthew@runestone.net cell phone: 218-770-8470

Office: 320-528-2536 email: Office@PeaceBarrett.org

PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH FALL FESTIVAL

Please join us for our Fall Festival beginning with an outdoor Church Service at Powers Park bring your lawn chair.

A picnic and desserts & ice cream will be provided.

Date: Sunday, September 8th Time: Beginning at 10:30 am Bring your family, your friends, and your neighbors!!!