10-02-2011 Announcements

IN OUR DAILY PRAYERS this week we pray for Myrna Huber and Wayne Pfeiffer (both in cancer treatment). We also ask that you would pray for our shut-in and nursing home members, our inactive members and those individuals in our congregation who are going through family difficulties as well as at least two people in your lives who don’t know Christ. In addition, as a reminder from last week, please pray for God’s will to be done and for wisdom to be given to the voters’ assembly of St. John Lutheran Church in Chester when they meet next Sunday to vote on whether or not to permanently close that church.

FALL LEAF RAKING – The youth group has begun taking names for leaves to be raked this Fall. They will only rake each yard once. When the time comes that you wish to have your leaves raked, please contact: Karen or Bob Pidde at 925-7062, Kaitlyn Stern at 610-5397, Stefanie Ruml at 760-3855 or Elizabeth Starner at 760-3988.

THE BAZAAR COMMITTEE is still busy accepting food donations for the November 3rd event which will run from 10:30 a.m.to 7:00 p.m. We will again have the Country Store, Stitchery/Crafts Booth and the Lunch Counter. For the Lunch Counter we still need salads, pie, pickles, crackers and coffee. We also need workers for the day and evening shifts; please call Garnet Stern (925-7298), Mildred Siekmann (925-7050) or Sharon Pfeiffer (925-7604) if you are willing to bring food or are able to work. Thank you.

LADIES AID will meet on October 6th at 7 p.m. for a regular business meeting. Pastor will be leading us in Bible study; we will be studying Session 3 in the Life of Jesus Teachings booklet. Our hostess for the evening will be Phyllis Knittel. All ladies of the congregation are encouraged to come to our Bible study and meeting. Julianne Huber is in charge of the Altar flowers for October.

LWML will meet on Thursday Oct. 13th at 7:00 p.m. for a regular business meeting. We will discuss the Fall Rally which will be held here on Oct. 22nd. More information is posted on the bulletin board.
THANK YOU to everyone for your cards, phone calls and especially your prayers during my recent surgery. May God bless you all. (s) Ray Schultz

DID YOU KNOW that LWML Sunday is traditionally held on the 1st Sunday in October in recognition of the outreach and fellowship efforts of the organization? Founding of the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League actually goes back more than a century and a half. Beginning in the 1850s, women of the LC-MS started local auxiliaries to meet the needs of people – mending clothes for seminarians, equipping hospitals, establishing schools, developing convalescent and retirement homes, assisting orphanages and residences for people with disabilities, gathering clothing, furniture and food for indigents and funding mission endeavors at home and overseas. Not until the 1920s, however, did members of the congregational societies begin to coordinate their efforts by uniting in state and regional leagues. Oklahoma (in 1928) was the first to do this. Official approval was granted a decade later for a national LC-MS women’s entity.

FALL PASTORS’ CONFERENCE – The SD District Fall Pastors’ Conference will be held in Rapid City Oct. 3rd thru the 6th. In case of pastoral emergency you may contact any of our elders for assistance or you may call the Pastor at (605) 999-5591.

DONATE YOUR OLD EYEGLASSES to those in need! Please gather all of your old eyeglasses that are taking up space in your various cabinets and drawers, and bring them to church. We will send them to Orphan Grain Train where they, in turn, will send them on to those in need at eyeglass clinics in poor countries. For the next 3 weeks look for the donation box in the Fellowship Hall. For more info please contact Pastor.

THE LUTHERAN HOUR – Oct. 9, 2011 – Rev. Seltz’ sermon theme, based on Phil. 4:4-9, will be “Put Christ’s Joy to Work in Your Life.” Joy is a fruit of the Holy Spirit -- a result of God’s action on our behalf and the blessing of a faith relationship with the One who redeemed and reconciled us to Himself. The Lutheran Hour is broadcast every Sunday morning at 8:30 on 105.9 FM (KMIT) and at 9:30 on 570 AM (WNAX)

MAIN STREET LIVING – Oct. 9, 2011 – Kid’s Crossing uses drama to illustrate the healing of the 10 lepers. The featured speaker is Rev. Karl Gregory from Bethseda Lutheran Church in Marion and First English Lutheran Church in Parker. The sermon theme is “What is More Powerful Than the Word of God?” Main Street Living may be seen each Sunday morning at 10:00 on KDLT-NBC Sioux Falls.